Submission Rules and System Use
This submission feature is intentionally not used when preparing National Science Foundation proposals.
What is the Grants.gov submission feature?
Every first-time principal investigator must have these two system requirements before being added to a proposal.
What are an internal affiliation and the PI eRA role?
These six administrative fields—and no others—are completed in the upper portion of the proposal summary page.
What are proposal status, sponsor deadline, submission method, submission type, submission date, and submitted by?
Whenever one of these organizations already exists in Cayuse, this action should be taken instead of creating a new sponsor record.
What is selecting the sponsor from the dropdown menu?
Rather than uploading separate files, this single compressed file is submitted under Supporting Documents.
What is one ZIP file containing all final documents?
When Grants.gov is bypassed, this is the only portion of the proposal completed, while the RR forms remain untouched.
What is the proposal summary section?
This proposal contact's surname must include a hyphen to be entered correctly.
Who is Molly Alexander-Steele?
Beyond the header information, only these six proposal summary sections receive entries.
What are investigator data, sponsor data, project data, project administration, compliance data, and budget data?
In the mandatory match section, this field identifies the budget category providing the match—not the individual or department contributing it.
What is the source field?
This is the required approval sequence before institutional review is complete.
What is PI, Chair, Dean, and Molly or Travis (not both)?
This shared mailbox, rather than an individual's email address, serves as the official proposal contact.
What is research@astate.edu?
Within Project Administration, this is the only field that receives a response.
What is "Who is responsible for this research?"
These effort-related fields are intentionally left blank under Investigator Data.
What are the first budget period effort fields?
Immediately after a proposal has been submitted, these two records must be updated.
What are the proposal status in Cayuse and the proposal notice form?
This Investigator Data dropdown is deliberately left unanswered.
What is the Status of PI dropdown?
When a proposal's outcome changes after submission, this action must be taken again to keep institutional records accurate.
What is updating the proposal status to reflect the award or declination?
Every binary question in the Investigator Data section receives this same response.
What is No?