Show Me The Money
The financial system at Northeastern University
What is Banner?
The formal name of the department that focuses on the translation of University innovations into tangible solutions through licenses, spinouts and collaborations.
What is the Center for Research Innovation?
Its one in which the IRB does not have to approve the research.
What is an institution that is not engaged in human research?
A type of agreement that provides funding for a project to reimburse appropriate project costs.
What is a Cost-Reimbursable Agreement?
This may be submitted at least ten calendar days before the end of an NSF grant.
What is the time frame within which to notify NSF of a Grantee-Approved No-Cost Extension?
The standard deadline following a project end for submitting a final Federal Financial Report
What is 90 days?
Protecting inventions, accelerating early research, commercializing technologies, and supporting ventures.
What is CRI’s Mission?
The formal name of the entity that follows/ensures the basic ethical principles of respect for persons, beneficence, and justice as set forth in the Belmont Report.
What is the Institutional Review Board?
The agreement that is put in place which allows for commercialization of Northeastern technology by industry.
What is a license agreement?
John Templeton, Andrew Mellon, Lounsbery, Eli Lilly are all examples of…
What is a Foundation?
The form completed for any journal voucher that reallocates expenditures onto sponsored projects (Fund 500XXX)
What is the Cost Transfer form?
The web-based tool used to report federally funded inventions to the government.
What is iEdison?
Children/minors, Incarcerated/institutionalized, and pregnant women...
What are populations with special protections under IRB?
An agreement between Northeastern and a collaborating researcher’s institution which outlines guidelines for jointly developed intellectual property.
What is an IIA?
(Inter-Institutional Agreement)
$203,700
What is the 2022 Executive Level II / DHHS Salary Cap?
The electronic method of payment that is used by Federal agencies (e.g. HHS, NSF) for requesting reimbursement of expenditures
What is LOC?
(Letter of Credit)
A CRI program that provides funding to Northeastern research labs to accelerate technology through prototyping and validation.
What is the Spark Fund?
Two conditions under which it is acceptable to break participant confidentiality.
What are child abuse or neglect and danger to self or others?
An agreement required when a University faculty member is going to provide or receive research material to or from organizations outside of the University.
What is an MTA?
(Material Transfer Agreement)
Aside from the PD(s)/PI(s), these people should also be listed in Section D – Participants of the RPPR.
Who are the people who have worked at least one month per year on the project during the reporting period?
The four characteristics of a cost to help determine if it can be charged directly to an award
What are allowable, allocable, reasonable, and consistent?
A start-up company formed by a Northeastern PI or student which licenses university technology.
What is a spinout?
This person(s) can gather consent documents for a research study.
Who is any approved member of a research team, including doc students?
An agreement between the University and an external entity that governs the terms by which data derived from research is shared with that external entity, especially where personal identifiable data is subject to legal privacy laws and regulations.
What is a DUA?
(Data Use Agreement)
Each party shall be responsible for these 2 possible activities of its employees, officers, or directors, to the extent allowed by law.
What are negligent acts and omissions?