Submission Rules and System Use
PI and Contact Information
Proposal Summary Page Fields
Sponsor, Budget & Investigator Data
Supporting Documents and Post-Submission Routing
100

This submission feature is intentionally not used when preparing National Science Foundation proposals.

What is the Grants.gov submission feature?

100

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?

100

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?

100

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?

100

Rather than uploading separate files, this single compressed file is submitted under Supporting Documents.

What is one ZIP file containing all final documents?

200

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?

200

This proposal contact's surname must include a hyphen to be entered correctly.

Who is Molly Alexander-Steele?

200

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?

200

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?

200

This is the required approval sequence before institutional review is complete.

What is PI, Chair, Dean, and Molly or Travis (not both)?

300

When submitting a grant through the ASU system foundation, this person is the last approver.

Who is Nicole Frey?

300

This shared mailbox, rather than an individual's email address, serves as the official proposal contact.

What is research@astate.edu?

300

Within Project Administration, this is the only field that receives a response.

What is "Who is responsible for this research?"

300

These effort-related fields are intentionally left blank under Investigator Data.

What are the first budget period effort fields?

300

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?

400

When reviewing the PI’s contact information on the SF424 and on the budget forms, always ensure that this prefix is entered when it applies.

What is “Dr.”?

400

When entering a 9-digit zip code for an address, this determines the last four digits.

What is the number of the street or PO Box address?

400

Within the cost sharing section of budget data, these fields must receive a response.

What is mandatory committed and voluntary committed?

400

This Investigator Data dropdown is deliberately left unanswered.

What is the Status of PI dropdown?

400

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?

500

For Grants.gov submissions, this is always the answer to “Is application subject to review by state executive order 12372 process?”

What is “program is not covered by E.O. 12372”?

500

The physical address of where research is conducted, which is different on every proposal, is entered in this section.

What is the RR performance site?

500

Within the compliance data section, these fields must receive a response.

What is animal subjects, human subjects, and biosafety fields? All of them!

500

Every binary question in the Investigator Data section receives this same response.

What is No?

500

To finalize a Cayuse proposal record, the proposal coordinator should ensure that this is seen through to completion.

What is the approval queue?