Grants & Contracts Accounting

Grants & Contracts Accounting (G&C) is responsible for the post award administration of sponsored awards.

G&C works closely with departmental business offices, business support staff, and faculty members to ensure financial compliance and proper accounting of externally sponsored funds. G&C's responsibilities include award setup, financial reporting, cost transfer reviews, cash management (including Letter of Credit (LOC) draws, non LOC sponsor invoicing, sponsor payments, accounts receivable), financial analysis, audits, reviews, and award closeouts. G&C also manages prior approval requests including but not limited to No Cost Extensions, Relinquishment/Award Transfer, Change of PI, and Carry Forward from one budget period into the next within a project period.

Research Administration News

Uniform Guidance Update

2 CFR 200.431 Compensation- fringe benefits. Section (b)(3)(i) has been revised and no longer allows Leave payments to be charged to sponsored awards. The provision reads as follows: When a recipient or subrecipient uses the cash basis of accounting, the cost of leave is recognized in the period that the leave is taken and paid […]

NIH Policy Update

On 7/17/2025, NIH released Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications NOT-OD-25-132. This new policy is effective for all applications submitted on or after September 25, 2025: NIH will not consider applications that are either substantially developed by AI, or contain sections substantially developed by AI. If the detection of AI is identified post award, […]

Research and Sponsored Program Development (RSPD) has added seven Novelution training videos and four proposal preparation videos to our website. These resources are designed to assist with navigating the Novelution system and addressing common questions. If you need further assistance, the RSPD team is here to help.

An Important Message from the National Science Foundation

Dear Colleagues, The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing this correspondence to inform organizations, and Authorized Organizational Representatives, of a new annual certification requirement for Principal Investigators (PIs) and co-Principal Investigators (co-PIs) regarding Malign Foreign Talent Recruitment Programs (MFTRP). Starting on June 7, 2025, in accordance with the NSF Proposal and Award Policies and […]

Please be aware that a recent update to the Novelution system has changed the functionality regarding adding new sponsors. Only RSPD staff will be able to add new sponsors into the system for proposals. If you are creating a proposal and need to have a sponsor added in the system, please contact the Proposal Intake […]