Cost of Doing Research
Form Follows Function
Some Folks to Know
Rules of the Game
Being Resourceful
100

Costs that can be identified with a particular sponsored project, an instructional activity, or any other institutional activity, or that can be directly assigned to such activities relatively easily with a high degree of accuracy.

What are direct costs?

100

This disclosure is required annually to document potential conflicts.

What is the Conflict of Interest in Research form?

100

This committee that must review protocols before either IRB or IACUC can proceed with their review.

What is the Compliance Office?

100

A grant that allows only one or a small number of applications per institution.

What is a Limited Submission Grant?

100

The financial management module for sponsored projects.

What is Banner?

200

The Circular the defines the cost principles.

What is the Uniform Guidance?

200

This guiding document, completed by the PI and prior to grant/contract submission which serves as the institutional authorization form for any proposed sponsored project.

What is the Cayuse record?

200

Many individuals do not want to approach this "chief justice" office. 

What is the Office of the General Counsel?

200

Requests a correction (or redistribution) of salary previously charged.

What is the reallocation form?

200

The electronic grant submission software used by IIT for NIH, AHRQ and CDC applications.

What is Cayuse?

300

The circular that defines research with human subjects?

What is 45 CFR 46?

300

A request for more time, not money, to finish the research, as in, an extension of time to a project period and/or budget period to complete the work of the grant under that period.

What is a no-cost extension request?

300

This soft metal is commonly used to make cookware, electrical wiring and sometimes barks.

Who is Copper (Arielle's dog)?

300

This monitoring is required to be performed twice, first by OSRP and then again by GCA.  

What is subrecipient monitoring?

300

This guide provides most of the rules for both pre- and post-award and regulations of submitting proposals for this Foundation. 

What is the NSF PAPPG - National Science Foundation The Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide 

400

The limitation of salary on DHHS awards.

What is the DHHS Salary Cap?

400

This is generated when part of the project will be utilized by another organization as part of the current award. 

What is a Subaward/Consulting agreement?

400

The lawyer, the baker and the research administrator.

Who is Robert?

400

Financials Due 90 Days after the end of the project year.

What is the Final Financial Report (FFR) or Final Invoice?

400

Eureka! The PI found it!

What is an invention disclosure form?

500

How we handle costs that benefit a project, but are not paid by the university.

What is cost sharing?

500

This form is utilized to correct non-salary expenses that were previously charged to a fund

What is the cost transfer form?

500

A foreign student has been accepted into Illinois Tech is "coming to the States.  They have probably had contact with this office, prior to their arrival. 

What is the International Office?

500

This form is required by the sponsor at the end of the grant project to patentable discoveries.

What is the Final Invention Statement?

500

Its not an actual medal, but a tool on funding to our University. 

What is NIH "REporter" or the NSF Award Search Tool?