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100

Minimum effort required for PIs

What is 0.12 calendar months?

100
The number of days prior to the sponsor due date that a proposal is due to ORA.
What is 5 days?
100

A category of expenses in SAP. 

What is a GL Account? 

100

The submit a request process in MRH where you can request ORA completes documents like JIT, Prior Approval, etc.

What is an Admin Action Request?

100

Status of SPS proposal when it is waiting on ORA approval.

What is PCA (Pending Central Approval)? 

200

Central School of Medicine Research Administration Office

What is the Office of Research Administration?

200

The document that routes to the PI during the closeout process that discloses the ending balance and provides confirmation from the PI. 

What is the PI Attestation? 

200

One of the technical reports required by NIH at closeout. 

What is the Final RPPR or FIS?

200

A document that discloses a snapshot in time of a faculty member's active and pending projects. Also discloses in kind support and overlap. 

What is Other Support? 

200

The distribution of effort between University, Private Diagnostic Clinic and the VA. 

What is TPE (Total Professional Effort)? 

300

NIH Budgets $250k or less, budgeted in $25k increments. 

What are modular budgets?

300

The process of requesting approval from a sponsor for certain activities (ex: reduction of effort greater than 25%, change in scope, addition of foreign component).

What is prior approval?

300

Indirect cost base used for all non-federal sponsors not using the full 61% IDC rate. 

What is TDC?

300
The process that determines whether someone has the ability to be PI. 

What is PI Eligibility?

300

The MRH process to communicate the initiation of a proposal.

What is the Intent to Submit? 

400

Indirect cost base used with federal sponsors. Excludes F&A on equipment, patient care (examples).

What is MTDC?
400

The process of assessing tuition payments for graduate students on sponsored projects. 

What is Tuition Remission?

400

When two or more projects have similar aims, budgets, or effort supporting the proposal. 

What is overlap? 

400

The type of code (acronym) that sponsored research projects use in SAP. 

What is a WBSE? 

400

The dashboard research administrators can use to look up Other Support information. 

What is MyResearchHome?
500

The proposal status in SPS where the faculty member is able to release their proposal in Grants.duke.

What is Awaiting Submission? 

500
The process of requesting a subaward be drafted through MRH. 

What is the subrecipient initiation request? 

500

Fund code specific information listed in SAP such as GM1/GM2 or F&A rate.

What is master data? 

500

This is how often someone provides financial reports to their faculty members. 

What is monthly? 

500
The monthly process of reconciling a sample of expenses in SAP. 

What is FAM?