Any of a number of accounts containing revenues generated through the license of intellectual property and distributed in accordance with the licensor’s (typically UGARF) Intellectual Property Policy to inventor/creators, their departments, and their research programs.
UGA has created a matrix listing the primary tasks undertaken during the course of executing a sponsored project and assigning those tasks or responsibilities to specific individuals (i.e., to the PI, to the department, to SPA, to C&G, etc.).
Used to record amounts received for payment of delivery of goods or services, reimbursement of expenses, or contributions.
UGA and UGARF return 20% of each sponsored project’s reimbursed F&A costs. Typically, F&A returns are made to the budgetary unit managing the award, but these funds are returned in accordance with PI/co-PI instructions provided on the SPA Proposal Transmittal Form at the time of proposal submission.
Rejected proposals can either be abandoned or resubmitted. PIs are urged to consider resubmitting unfunded proposals, if the reviewers’ comments indicate that the proposal can be reworked, or improved and strengthened in some meaningful way that will render it competitive. At UGA, resubmissions of unfunded proposals are considered new proposals, and a new proposal record (separate from the old unfunded proposal record) is created in the University mainframe.
Resubmissions and sponsor requests for amended budgets are not the same. Sponsors will frequently request an amended budget when the intent is to fund your proposal but not at the budget level requested.
A University account whose funds are restricted by specific terms and conditions established by the donor or sponsor. Sponsored programs accounts at UGA are restricted for the purposes and the time established by the sponsor and cannot be spent in ways not consistent with sponsor dictates.
In general terms, responsible conduct in research is simply good citizenship applied to professional life. More specifically, RCR is reflected by honesty, accuracy, efficiency, and objectivity on the part of researchers across all disciplines in all they do. RCR education typically covers 9 topics: use of animals in research, use of humans in research, scientific misconduct, conflicts of interest, data management and data sharing, peer review, mentoring, authorship, and collaborations.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) requires that all applicants for National Research Service Award (NSRA) fellowships include in their proposal specific educational plans regarding RCR. The National Science Foundation (NSF) requires that all undergraduate and graduate students, and all postdocs employed on NSF awards receive RCR education.
A living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains: (1) data through intervention or interaction with the individual or (2) identifiable private information.
Any unexpended funds remaining in a restricted account at the end of a project period. The account must be a fixed price account, and not a cost reimbursable one.
