Postdoctoral Appointee Minimum Compensation for FY2024

Published February 14, 2023 The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs is pleased to announce that, starting FY2024, Washington University in St. Louis will establish the postdoctoral appointee minimum compensation (salary or stipend) based on the NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Year 1 stipend amount. Approved by the Vice Chancellor for Research, this measure acknowledges the outstanding accomplishments and highly […]

Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) Winter Update

Published February 13, 2023 Lab Safety Awareness Week: February 13 – 17 The Campus Safety, Health and Environmental Management Association’s (CSHEMA) Lab Safety Awareness Week is an event held each February that recognizes the successes of laboratory health and safety programs and offers information and ideas on how to keep faculty, staff and students safe. […]

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Data Management and Sharing Policy

Published February 10, 2023 The NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy went into effect for applications due beginning January 25, 2023.  Please visit the NIH FAQs for up-to-date information from NIH. NIH provided sample Data Management and Sharing Plans (DMSPs).  These sample DMSPs are provided for educational purposes to assist applicants with developing Plans but are […]

NSF Updates for Biographical Sketches and Current and Pending (Other) Support

Published January 24, 2023 NSF implemented revised versions of the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support formats for consistency with the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 23-1). The requirement to use the revised formats is effective for proposals submitted or due on or after January 30, 2023. These revised versions include the following enhancements: Current and […]

NIH Salary Cap for FFY2023

Published January 23, 2023 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has increased the Salary Cap to $212,100 (Executive Level II). This new cap rate has an effective date of January 1, 2023, and it applies to competing and non-competing awards. Find the full text for this notice NOT-OD-23-056 here. Effective January 24, 2023, Workday will apply the […]

Revised NIH Grants Policy Statement

Published January 6, 2023 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released an updated version of their Grants Policy Statement (GPS) via NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-23-045. The revised GPS (dated December 2022) applies to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning on or after October 1, 2022. This new GPS supersedes, in its entirety, […]

SF424 (R&R) Application Form Instructions (FORMS-H)

Published January 4, 2023 As previously announced, 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. The WashU Research Management System (RMS) has been updated to accommodate System To System (S2S) applications to NIH using FORMS-H, in addition to FORMS-G. Below is a […]

Effort Certification Cycle

Published December 16, 2022 The third effort reporting cycle in Workday will be starting soon, and it will cover the period of July 1, 2022 – December 31, 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 […]

RMS Upgrade – System Downtime & Notable Changes

Published December 5, 2022 As previously announced, the Research Management System (RMS) upgrade will begin on Monday, December 19, 2022. This is a weekday and RMS be offline for the entire day.  RMS will not be accessible beginning at 6 a.m. on Monday, ​December 19, 2022. All RMS activity required for applications due between December 16-19 […]

Fall Research Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) Update

Published December 1, 2022 Let’s “fall” into some safety updates and reminders! Training Content – You Asked and We ListenedContent for both the Initial Laboratory Safety Training and Lab Safety Refresher are now posted on our training landing page. Simply click the “EHS – Laboratory Safety Training” dropdown, then click the icon next to the name […]