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GENERAL RESEARCH ADMIN
200

F&A

What is Facilities an Administrative Costs?

200

Within the JIT process for NIH, this is the minimum required document for all senior/key personnel

What is Other Support?

200

These three words are a catch-all for the expectations of grant expenses. We hope you are ABLE to name them

What is Reasonable, Allowable and Allocable?

200

One of the biggest televised Thanksgiving events is this spectacle in New York City, complete with floats and performances

What is Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

200

Huron's Chicago office is located on this presidential street

What is Van Buren St?

200

Name five of the awarding institutes within the NIH

What is

National Cancer Institute
National Eye Institute
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institute on Aging
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institute of Nursing Research
National Library of Medicine

400

AOR

What is Authorized Organizational Representative?

400

This number is the difference when you subtract the number of allowable sentences in the Project Narrative from the number of allowable lines of text in the Project Abstract

What is 27?

400

Most NIH "R" awards are designated as this acronym for simplifying the requirements of the non-competing application and financial reporting processes

What is SNAP?

400

This president was the first to issue a Presidential Proclamation for Thanksgiving's date in 1863, two years before the end of the Civil War

What is Abraham Lincoln?

400

Huron stock is traded on the NASDAQ exchange with this market identifier

What is HURN?

400

Name three divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services

ACF: Administration for Children and Families
ACL: Administration for Community Living
ASPR: Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response
AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
ATSDR: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
CDC
CMS: Centers for Medicare and Disease Control
FDA
HRSA
NIH

600

IACUC

What is Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee?

600

NIH Public Access Policy requires that the Bibliography include these reference numbers for all cited references that the PI authored resultant of NIH support

What is PMCID numbers?
600

A shared service provider and a leader in processing grant payments for the federal government. Offers awarding agency and grant recipients with cash management services, centralized payment services, personal grant accounting support, and Financial Reporting Support

What is Payment Management Service (PMS)?

600

Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell was inspired by the "Four Freedoms" State of the Union Speech by this 1941 president

What is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

600

Name five industries Huron serves across the public and private sector

What is?

Education
Energy and Utilities
Financial Services
Healthcare
Industrials & Manufacturing
Life Sciences
Public Sector
Other(Miscellaneous) 

600

The letter in the activity code of an NIH grant designates a career award

What is K?

800

FFATA

What is Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act?

800

This document is used to highlight an individual's qualifications for a specific role in a proposed project 

What is Biosketch?

800

The process by which the funding agency determines that all applicable administrative and programmatic requirements in accordance with the award terms and conditions have been completed/met. This is done at the termination of the award

What is Close Out?

800

To mark the year of their arrival, the Pilgrims carved this year into a boulder near their landing site. We now know it as Plymouth Rock

What is 1620?

800

Name four Huron Values

What is 

Collaboration

Excellence

Humility

Impact

Inclusion

Integrity

Intellectual Curiosity

800

Founded in 1959, this non-profit professional society is dedicated to advancing the profession of research administration through education and professional development programs, the sharing of knowledge and experiences, and the fostering of a diverse, collegial, and respected global community. With over 7,500 members from over 1,100 colleges, universities, teaching hospitals, and research institutes in 40 countries

What is The National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA)?

1000

ASSIST

What is Application Submission System & Interface for Submission Tracking?

1000

Costs incurred for a common or joint purpose benefitting more than one cost objective, and not readily assignable to the cost objectives.” Such costs are not directly allocable to one specific project because the indirect costs support multiple projects

What is Indirect Costs?

1000

Unobligated, unspent cash balances remaining in a fixed-price sponsored project cost center at the conclusion of an award

What is Residual Funds?

1000

One of the origin stories of Thanksgiving is the shared harvest feast with the Pilgrims of Plymouth and this Indigenous confederation, which consisted of up to 24 tribes

What is Wampanoag?

1000

Name five areas of focus Huron takes part in to build a more sustainable and  equitable future for all

What is 

Good Health and Well-Being

Quality Education

Gender Equality

Decent Work and Economic Growth

Climate Action


1000

Formed in 1993, this independent non-profit organization certifies that an individual, through experience and testing, has the fundamental knowledge necessary to be a professional research or sponsored programs administrator

What is The Research Administrators Certification Council (RACC)?