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  2. Research
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  4. Research Policies and Procedures

Research Policies and Procedures

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

Revised Dec. 2013: College of Arts and Science guidelines for spending faculty research funds