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A grant is formally known as this type of agreement.

What is an Assistance Agreement?

100

This term refers to the time frame during which project activities are conducted and costs are allowable under a federal award.

What is the period of performance?

100

Another name for 2 CFR 200.

What is the Uniform Guidance?

100

The federal agency working to understand and predict changes in climate.

What is the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)?

100

These are the words represented by the acronym IACUC.

What is the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee?

200

NSF indicates this is the typical time it takes to decide on funding a grant proposal.

What is 6-9 months?

200

This federal regulation defines requirements for how to handle subawards.

What is 2 CFR 200.332?

200

These are required during the closeout of what type of award: final financial report, progress report, invention statement, property reports, and resolution of unliquidated obligations.

What is a federal grant?

200

The website that supports NASA research efforts.

What is NSPIRES?

200

This is the point in time at which an investigator must receive IACUC approval for proposed animal activities and procedures.

What is before any use of the animals for the project begins?

300

This metric expresses the amount of time personnel devote to a project.

What are person months?

300

Photocopying, postage, and office supplies are typically categorized under this type of budget cost.

What are direct costs?

300

A non-federal entity that receives a subaward from a pass-through entity to carry out part of a federal grant.

What is a sub-recipient?

300

Plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification define this.

What is research misconduct as defined by the Public Health Service?

300

The federal fiscal year ends on this date.

What is September 30th?

400

Unless otherwise noted, this is the standard deadline in days for technical reports after project ends.

What is 90 to 120 days?

400

This term describes effort promised in the proposal or award documentation.

What is committed effort or level of effort?

400

Foreign travel is not automatically unallowable but must be justified and approved in this document.

What is the proposal?

400

Entertainment, travel on non-US carriers, memberships, proposal writing costs, and alcohol are examples of these.

What are common unallowable costs?

400

This process ensures participants fully understand risks, benefits, and their rights before agreeing to participate in research.

What is informed consent?

500

This term describes a living individual about whom an investigator obtains data via intervention, interaction, or identifiable private information.

What is a human research subject?

500

Salary increases during the project period must be included in what document and who must approve.

What is they must be included in the budget and the sponsor must approve?

500

A subaward or subcontract is a specific type of this agreement.

What is a Third-Party or Pass-Through Agreement?

500

Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets fall under this category.

What are types of intellectual property?

500

A key responsibility of a pass-through entity is reviewing these sub awardee documents and following up on findings.

What are subrecipient audit reports?