Archives: Announcements

Published September 19, 2022 I want to express my sincere admiration and appreciation for the tireless efforts and exceptional accomplishments of the postdoctoral trainees at Washington University in St. Louis. September 19 – 23 is National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW), and I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the contributions our postdoctoral trainees […]

Menu Changes The appearance and function of RMS menus will changed on September 13, 2022. The new menus no longer require hovering over a menu item, but instead provide a menu of clickable stationary buttons within each module. This change will improve the user experience for faculty and DAs by avoiding the need for precise […]

Published September 9, 2022 The NIH will provide a childcare allowance for graduate students and post-doctorates funded through the National Research Service Award (NRSA) program on institutional research training awards (T32, TL1, TU2 and T90), see NIH Notice NOT-OD-21-177.  Accordingly, Sponsored Projects Accounting, in conjunction with Human Resources, have developed the attached guidance document and related form. A […]

Published August 31, 2022 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced changes to grant applications forms and application guide instructions for due dates on or after January 25, 2023. NIH’s Forms-G application package is being replaced by the new FORMS-H application package, effective for deadlines on or after January 25, 2023. Accordingly, we will be working […]

Published August 10, 2022 Grants.gov has a planned production system outage from Friday, September 23, 2022, at 12:01 a.m. (ET) to Thursday, September 29, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. (ET) (see Grants.gov calendar). Grants.gov will use this time to migrate their services to the Cloud. Grants.gov will be unavailable to users during this extended period. National Institutes […]

Published August 10, 2022 The NIH announced the following on August 5, 2022. The purpose of this notice is to inform the extramural research community of implementation details for the NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing (DMS Policy) affecting grant and cooperative agreement applications submitted for receipt dates on or after January 25, 2023. The specific […]

Published August 4, 2022 With Workday replacing the functionality of our legacy systems, the Legacy Retirement Program was created to decommission AIS, HRMS and WebFocus as these legacy systems are running on aging hardware with operating systems no longer supported by Microsoft. In addition, the costs of maintaining the legacy systems were too prohibitive to […]

Published July 18, 2022 Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) would like to notify the research community regarding the retirement of the old/legacy ePARS effort reporting system. The ePARS system went read only on March 31, 2022. WashU IT is currently working on converting the previous ten years of effort cards (back to FY2012) into PDFs so they […]

Published July 11, 2022 The second effort reporting cycle in Workday will be starting soon, and it will cover the period of January 1, 2022 – June 30, 2022, for all faculty and staff that have a portion of their salary funded by Sponsored Projects. Noted below is the current schedule and description of that […]

Published July 6, 2022 myIRB now offers users the option of using a preferred first name when reviewing or updating their profile.  If selected, the preferred first name will display in myIRB rather than the person’s legal first name. For further details, visit the myIRB FAQs on the Human Research Protection Office webpage and refer […]