WELCOME to Institutional Support!

WHAT'S NEW?

Sharon Cauthen, Manager of Faculty Sponsored Research Grants, will be on short-term disability effective Tuesday, January 20, for an indefinite period of time.  Sharon will not be available via e-mail or voice mail while on disability. 

The Institutional Support staff will collectively assume Sharon’s responsibilities in her absence.  Please feel free to contact Abigail Feder-Kane ( afederkane@barnard.edu, 4-1894), Sarbani Hazra (shazra@barnard.edu, 1-0438) or Rhonda Zangwill (rzangwill@barnard.edu, 4-6147) for assistance in all aspects of securing sponsored research funding, including identifying funding sources, developing budgets, reviewing and editing proposals, interpreting funder guidelines, securing institutional approvals and signatures, and drafting and executing subcontracts.

• NEW Fulbright Early Career Awards: http://www.iie.org/cies/us_scholars/us_awards/Early_Career_Awards.htm#EarlyCareerAwards
  
  
• NEH's New Chair: http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=6580&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
  
  
• NEW NIH - ARRA Opportunity: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-007.html
  
  
• The recently signed economic stimulus bill might provide you funding with a quick turnaround, so please contact your program officer at your earliest convenience regarding potential relevant funding opportunities under the stimulus! Please visit our special page on this.
  
  
• New NSF TRAVEL Policy
  
  
• Federal Salary Cap for 2009 is $196,700 or $147,525 for a 9 month appointment:
  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-037.html
  
  
• Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists: http://www.nyas.org/about/blavatnikawards.asp
  
  
• The Research Corporation invites applications for the Cottrell College Science Award: http://www.rescorp.org/
  
  
• The Center for Liberal Arts and Society (CLAS) at Franklin & Marshall College and the Phi Beta Kappa Society announce the Inaugural Symposium for Emerging Scholars March 5-7, 2009. For more information please visit: http://www.fandm.edu/x19281.xml
  
  
• Our new indirect cost rate is 69.2%.
  
  
• Federal Salary Cap for 2009 is $196,700 or $147,525 for a 9 month appointment:
  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-037.html
  
  
• There is a new NIH policy regarding mandatory manuscript sharing policy as of April 7, 2008. For more information on this please see their website:  National Institutes of Health Public Access or contact the us for more details (x4-7705).
  
  
• For 2008, the standard mileage rate for the cost of operating your car for business use is 50.5 cents per mile. This car expense and other mCge rates are explained in Publication 463, Travel, Entertainment, Gift, and Car Expenses.