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The person responsible for overseeing a funded research project.
Who is the Principal Investigator (PI)?
The term for costs covering health insurance, retirement, and similar staff benefits.
What are fringes?
The maximum amount that can be spent on an A-State purchasing card for a single purchase.
What is $2,500?
The expected weekly time commitment for graduate research assistants on a funded project.
What is 20 hours per week?
These expenses are real, necessary, and incurred for research support—but not directly assigned.
What are Indirect Costs?
The maximum amount of effort a faculty member can dedicate to a single sponsored project.
What is 100%?
The summer fringe rate for faculty at A-State.
What is 18%?
An instrument for a research project sells for $16,000. It falls under this category for budget calculation.
What is capital equipment?
Graduate students funded by a federal training grant often receive this type of compensation.
What is a stipend?
Three elements for which indirect costs are not calculated?
What are tuition, capital equipment, and participant support?
The number of months of summer salary a faculty member may charge to a grant.
What is 3?
A-State fringe rate for students and part-time non-student employees.
What is 0.005%?
The unit cost minimum to be considered equipment.
What is $5,000?
These students are typically paid as hourly workers on a funded grant project.
Who are undergraduate students?
The document negotiated with the federal government that defines IDC rates.
What is a Rate Agreement?
The two ways to pay compensation for employees on a grant.
What are salary and hourly wage?
The A-State fringe rate for 12-month staff.
What is 33%?
The typical minimum length of time an instrument should be used to be considered capital equipment.
What is 2 years?
The portion of the student tuition that is budgeted on proposals for research assistants.
What is the in-state tuition rate?
At A-State the proportion of indirect costs that go back to the college of the PI.
What is 39%?
When a faculty member is funded by multiple grants for the summer term this must be documented.
What is effort?
The difference in fringe rates during the academic year between 9-month and 12-month faculty.
What is 1%?
A researcher needs 75 temperature meters each costing $100. This is the category in the budget where the $7,500 will be placed.
What are supplies?
The term for institutional payments made to cover tuition for graduate students on assistantships.
What is tuition remission or a tuition waiver?
A university applies a 50% IDC rate to MTDC. The grant’s modified total direct cost is $120,000. This is the amount of earned IDC by the end of the grant funding.
How much is $60,000 in IDC?