Grant Matters

 

Effort Reporting and Effort Certification

• Required reading for all faculty, staff, and students who receive salary funding from grants
• Maximum effort that can be charged during summer
• Support for effort while writing grant proposals

 

Responsible Conduct of Research

• Crucial information for all who participate in research
• Training required of postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, undergraduates

 

How to Read Monthly Financial Reports

• How to download monthly financial reports from eDog and easily make sense of them  
• Essential reading for all faculty who are principal investigators or co-investigators on grants

 

Writing and Submitting Grant Proposals

• Links to information one needs to know before starting a proposal

 

Office of Sponsored Programs

• A wealth of information for developing and submitting proposals and managing awards
• Internal review procedures and timeline
• Internal forms required for submitting proposals and managing grants
• Indirect Cost (F&A) rates, fringe benefit rates, NIH salary cap information
• Institutional type, name, mailing address, TIN number DUNS number, and other items required on most grant proposals
• Links to Coeus, Coeus Lite, and Coeus Business Objects Universe
• Links to PEER
• Links to eRA and all Federal funding agencies, Grants.gov

 

Office of Contract and Research Administration

• Information about administration of research contracts, subcontracts, and awards
• Export Compliance Issues

 

Office of Contract and Grants Accounting

• Vanderbilt policies and procedures, Federal requirements
• Fringe benefit rates, Facility and Administrative cost rates
• NIH salary cap
• FAQs concerning what costs are allowable / not allowable on Federal grants
• Record retention policy
• Links to VU administrative offices
• Links to Federal grant agencies and Federal policies

 

Research at VU

• Useful links to Vanderbilt-specific opportunities and policies
• Internal funding opportunities
• Limited submission opportunities
• Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program (VUSRP)
• Policies concerning interns and observers
• Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
• Institutional Review Board (IRB)

 

Postdoctoral Scholars

• Information for Postdoctoral Scholars
• Listing of Current Opportunities for postdoctoral training

 

Grant Opportunities in Humanities and Social Sciences

• Listing of fellowship and grant opportunities, primarily for faculty and students in the Humanities and Social Sciences