UC Merced
The name of UCM's mascot
What is Rufus?
Funding awarded to institutions to support the costs of conducting a specific research project, typically covering expenses like salaries, equipment, supplies, travel, and other necessary elements to complete the study.
What is a grant?
COI
What is Conflict of Interest?
Name the three factors for allowability
What are Reasonable, Allocable, Consistent?
An independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.
What is the National Science Foundation?
Year UC Merced was founded
What is 2005?
Grant that provides funding for individual researchers to support their training or career development.
What is a Fellowship?
AMR
What is Award Modification Request?
This budget category requires each item within it be at least $________ and have a useful life of more than ______ year(s).
What is $5,000 and one year?
The primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.
What is the National Institute of Health (NIH)?
UC Merced is the _____th campus founded in the UC System?
What is the tenth?
A quantified portion of the costs on an Award that are not paid by the sponsor, but instead are paid by a department, school, or third party outside of UCM.
What is Cost Share?
AOR
What is Authorized Organizational Representative?
You must retain records related to federal grants for this number of years after the final financial report is submitted.
What is 3 years?
An executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, energy-related research, and energy conservation.
What is the Department of Energy (DOE)?
The name of the building we're in right now.
A type of agreement used when a federal agency expects to have substantial involvement in carrying out the project or program.
What is a cooperative agreement?
RPPR
What is a Research Performance Progress Report
This is the number of days allowed for closeout of a federal award under Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200.343).
What is 120 days?
An independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
What is NASA?
How many Chancellors has UC Merced had?
What is 4?
What is technically 5, if you count the interim, Nathan Brostrum?
What is gift funding?
IACUC
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
This type of audit is required for entities that expend $750,000 or more in federal funds annually.
What is the Single Audit?
Headquartered in Oakland, this sponsor oversees a broad grantmaking portfolio of over $100 million a year to support research that is critical to California, the nation and the world.
What is the University of California Office of the President (UCOP)