Research Handbook Updates through 10/07/03

Revised 10/07/03

Added Section 4.13 Small Business Subcontracting Plans

Revised 9/16/03

Updated Section 5.4.5 Over Expenditures and Disallowance.

Revised 7/22/03

Update Section 5.1.3 Contracts, changed the percentage of twenty-five percent to fifty percent.  Residual funds should normally not exceed 50% of the total value of the fixed price contract.

Revised 7/16/03

Updated Section 4.8 Working with Industry, added Non-Disclosure Agreement Guidelines

Revised 6/04/03

Updated Section 7.3 Biosafety, changed r-DNA Biosafety to Institutional Biosafety Committee and updated outdated links.

Revised 3/26/03

Updated Section 2.1 Conflict of Interest with new procedures and Updated forms in Section 9.

Revised 1/30/03

General update and revisions to Introduction, Guiding Principles and Section 1 Research at the University of Utah.

Revised 1/17/03

Section 7.1 was revised to update the IRB information including the new FWA number which replaces the MPA Number.

Revised 6/28/02

Section 4.4 was revised to update the approved F&A rates and clarify the off-campus F&A rate usage.

Revised 6/25/02

Section 1.1 was revised to add responsibilities of the Chairs and Deans, also a few minor word changes in the rest of the section

Revised 5/31/02

Section 5.3 was revised to reflect new Preliminary form

Section 9.1 Chartfield/Change Form was replaced with new Preliminary form

Revised 3/12/01

Note: The Table of Contents and Index have been changed as needed to reflect added sections or references.

3/12/01

Addition of the University Teaching Grants in Section 3.1 University Intramural Support for Research and updating of the Technology Commercialization Project (formally the Technology Innovation Grants)

2/23/01

Update of Appendix 15.1 Policies and Procedures/Policy Statement - Cost Sharing Requirements.

Updated with new wording in two of the note in the text.

Update of Section 5.3.1 Project Information Sheet

New Project Information Sheet added

Update of Section 4.4.2 Institutional F&A Waivers 

Wording on waiver for a Sponsors F&A Rate added.

Update of Section 7.1 Institutional Review Board for Research with Human Subjects (IRB)

2/8/01

Updated with current information.

Addition of Section 5.3.3 Research Project Flow Chart

2/6/01

Section added to show the financial flow during a research project.

Addition of Section 5.6.5.c Transfer of Property

11/1/00

Procedure for Requesting a Transfer of Equipment to a Unit Outside the University of Utah: Grant/Contract Related

Update of Section 9.  Research Forms and Instructions

11/28/00

The following changes have been made to Section 9:

Addition of the following forms:
     Chartfield/Project Change Form
     Deposit Definition Checklist Form
     Guest Lecturer/Performer Agreement
     Interdepartmental/Intercollegial F&A Distribution Agreement

The forms have been reordered in alphabetical order.

Explanation of each form along with the required signatures has been added. 

Links to instructions for each of the forms if available.

Additions to Acronyms and Glossary

PAN - Personnel Action Notification
PAR - Personnel Activity Report

Typographical Corrections

Section 8.6, last bulleted sentence under Basic Considerations: Should have been 25% (not 20%) 11/30/00