Archives: Announcements

Published May 15, 2023 The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs is pleased to announce the awardees of the 2023 W. M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellowship: The W. M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellowship provides one year of funding to Washington University postdocs within their first two years of postdoctoral training in biomedical sciences and molecular medicine. The Fellowship recognizes […]

Published May 8, 2023 The Washington University Libraries is delighted to announce that the WashU Research Data (WURD) repository is live and accepting dataset deposits. What is WURD?WURD is a formal research data repository that supports research data sharing by providing: Who can use WURD?All Washington University faculty, students, staff, and other authorized University affiliates can use […]

Published May 3, 2023 As part of year end preparations, Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) will be running RPT6998 (WU-SPA Award Audit Billed to Date vs Actuals) for awards that expired on or before December 31, 2022. SPA will be sending a list of funds to each Cost Center. This report will reflect total billed to […]

Published April 26, 2023 Dear Colleagues, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that maintaining confidentiality throughout the peer review process is essential to allow for the candid exchange of scientific opinions and evaluations. NIH and NSF have multiple safeguards in place to protect the integrity of and to maintain confidentiality in […]

Published April 18, 2023 Effective May 3, 2023, RMS will be updated to require the completion of the other support information and abstract sections. This new requirement is being implemented to assist the Department Administrators with the development of Federal Other Support / Current & Pending Support pages and to better position WashU for research […]

Published April 13, 2023 The Atlassian Cloud Migration project is under way. The first group, IT-related Confluence spaces and Jira projects, has already been successfully migrated to the Atlassian Cloud. Business-related and RIS spaces and projects will migrate from June 15 through June 18, 2023.  The project team has begun meeting with space and project […]

Published April 12, 2023 To meet your research data needs as well as federal funder requirements, the University Libraries will soon launch the new WashU Research Data repository. During the transition from the current technology to our new technology, please be aware that all dataset submissions will be paused for a brief period as the new platform […]

Published April 3, 2023 Epic has created a research screening questionnaire that can be used in conjunction with the current MyChart recruitment functionality. MyChart research screening questionnaires can help study teams determine eligibility by collecting information from the patient that cannot easily be found in the medical record. Once a MyChart research screening questionnaire is […]

Published March 27, 2023 The Office of Change Management, in conjunction with Accounting Services, has created a new spend category for Student/Post Doc Applicant Travel (SC957). The link below provides details on this matter. Please communicate this information with the appropriate faculty and staff in your academic unit.

Published March 21, 2023 As noted in the March 2023 Research Administrator Forum, Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) is updating policy documents to better reflect Workday and RMS functionality.  Accordingly, the updated Off-Campus Policy and Procedures are now available on the SPA website. Please contact Joe Gindhart at jgindhart@wustl.edu if you have any questions about this material.