Archives: Announcements

Published July 6, 2020 To faculty, staff and trainees on the Danforth campus involved in laboratory-based research*, Schools on the Danforth Campus will be authorized to transition from the orange level to the yellow for laboratory-based research as early as July 8, 2020. Schools, departments, and individual labs should delay transition until all requirements are […]

Published July 1, 2020 Dear Colleagues, We have updated the guidance for undergraduate students working in research labs during the Yellow Level. Experienced undergraduate students that have worked in a PI’s lab for at least two months pre-COVID, are now allowed to return to that same PI’s lab during the Yellow-Level phase. PIs are not […]

Published June 26, 2020 Dear School of Medicine Faculty, Staff, and Trainees, As we work to ramp up our laboratory based research, we have sought your input on this process. On June 9th, the OVCR launched a Laboratory Research Ramp-up Survey to get feedback on experiences with the transition from Red Level to Orange Level. […]

Published June 26, 2020 As a follow-up to the announcement sent by Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) on Wednesday, June 24th, regarding fringes for furloughed employees, the message below was sent by Human Resources to the Payroll Users Group on Thursday, June 25th: Dear Payroll Users Group Members, We have discovered fringes for employees on furlough […]

Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) has been informed that several departments have noticed fringe benefits for furloughed workers have been posted to their department’s plain (12-3###-1200) account, and not the existing funding sources for that employee. SPA suggests that you review the distribution of fringe costs for your furloughed workers to verify the correct sourcing. Payroll […]

Published June 23, 2020 The last day of the fiscal year is Tuesday 6/30. Please see the year-end closing schedule for important dates/deadlines for FY20 and FY21 document processing. FY20 Payroll Cost Transfers (PCTs) need to be submitted to Payroll by July 2nd, by 5:00 p.m. to be keyed as an FY20 transaction. Journals and […]

Published June 22, 2020 Dear Washington University Faculty, staff, and trainees, As you know, in response to the COVID 19 pandemic, University leadership has communicated when research and scholarship activities could be done remotely, they should be done remotely. For many scholars and researchers this has included office-based research and scholarship in the humanities, the […]

Published June 16, 2020 The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has recently established a Research Development Office (RDO). The RDO’s mission is to guide faculty in the pursuit for research funding, increase institutional competitiveness, and foster collaboration. The RDO will support faculty in the development of collaborative research center proposals and in forming […]

Published June 15, 2020 Dear Danforth Faculty, staff and trainees, I would like to encourage you to complete our brief anonymous survey to obtain feedback on your experience with the laboratory research ramp-up process. We realize that our original deadline of June 16th, was too early for you to effectively evaluate the research ramp-up process. […]

Published June 10, 2020 Dear WashU research community, The murder of George Floyd two weeks ago in Minneapolis is reverberating around the world. The scenarios playing out all over the country are all too familiar to those of us who were in St. Louis six years ago as we witnessed the death of Michael Brown […]