OFFICE OF RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION
The University of Miami is a rapidly growing research-intensive institution.  The Associate Vice President for Research and the Vice President for Finance & Treasury work closely to ensure that the research community receives professional, customer-oriented administrative support and that our extramural sponsors are assured research funds are managed appropriately.

The Office of Research Administration serves the Coral Gables, Miller School of Medicine and Rosenstiel Marine School communities by providing:

• Funding Opportunity Identification;
• Budget Development Pricing Assistance;
• Medicare Coverage Analysis and Billing Compliance;
• Develop, Approve and Submission of Proposals;
• Contract/subcontract development, negotiation and execution;
• Award Receipt, Negotiation and Acceptance;
• Sponsored account opening and budget distribution;
• Sponsor, Regulatory and Expenditure Compliance;
• Financial and Effort Reporting;
• Billing and Collecting;
• Account Reconciliation and Closeout;
• Research Administration Training; and
• Liaison with University of Miami hospitals, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Institutional Review Boards, Partners, and Medical Fiscal Intermediaries.

SIGNATURE APPROVAL ROUTING FOR RESEARCH DOCUMENTS
Click here to view the signature approval routing for research documents.

ALERT! - FOR ALL ARRA RECIPIENTS
The Office of Management and Budget, National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation have sent out guidances and revised ARRA General Terms and Conditions to ensure ARRA projects are completed by September 30, 2013.  We have highlighted the key issues for your consideration:

• Principal Investigators and Departmental Administrators should review all ARRA awards and assess progress/spending to date.  All ARRA projects should be accelerated, as warranted, to ensure ARRA projects are completed and funds expended by their current end date.  ARRA awards should be monitored closely on a monthly basis enabling you to make adjustments as needed to ensure work is completed in a timely fashion.;
• If you have any ARRA awards which are anticipated to continue beyond September 30, 2013, a no cost extension request must be submitted to the Office of Research Administration on or before May 15, 2012 as we are required to submit requests to our sponsors on or before June 1, 2012.  We want to ensure all requests are submitted in a timely fashion.  No cost extensions extending the award end date beyond September 30, 2013 will require written sponsor approval and will only be granted if:
• The project is long-term, by design, and acceleration would compromise core programmatic goals;
• The project must undergo complex, environmental review that cannot be completed within this timeframe;
• Contractual commitments, between the awardee and vendors/subrecipients, legally prevent adjusting the timeline for spending;
• Special Circumstances exist where acceleration may cause unnecessary harm or unreasonable risk to vertebrate animals or human subjects involved in the research (such as ongoing clinical trials).

If you have any questions or concerns in regards to the above, please contact the Office of Research Administration at 305-243-6232 and speak with Jill Tincher.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING SALARY CAP CHANGES:
The National Institutes of Health has released NIH NOT-OD-12-035 providing information regarding the salary limitation for NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards and development contract awards.  We provide the notice (via the above hyperlink) in its entirety for your review.  The key components include:

• Executive Level II Salary Cap is $179,700;
• Executive Level II Salary Cap applies to all new, competing, non-competing and supplemental awards with an initial issue date of 12/23/11 or later;
• If a competing award was issued on or after 12/23/11 reflecting Executive Level I, the NIH IC will revise the award lowering the salary limit to correspond with Executive Level II;
• If a non-competing award was issued on or after 12/23/11 reflecting Executive Level I, NIH will not revise the award AND grantees may rebudget the funds awarded in excess of the new salary limit;
• For all competing and non-competing awards issued prior to 12/23/11, Executive Level I Salary Cap ($199,700) applies;
• The salary limitation does not apply to consultants;
• The salary limitation DOES apply to subawards/subcontracts
Due to the complexity of these changes, we will discuss the implications at the upcoming UM ORA Quarterly Meetings:
• Tuesday, February 7th, 9 - 1030am at the Flipse Building, Conference Room 502;
• Tuesday, February 7th, 12 - 130pm at the Mailman Center, 8th Floor Auditorium.

Please register to attend one of these meetings through ULEARN.  If you have any questions, please contact the Office of Research Education & Training at 305-243-5092 or at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

CONTACT US:

1400 NW 10 Avenue, 10th Floor
Pre Award 305-243-6232
Post Award 305-243-4494
Clinical Research 305-243-7704

1551 Brescia Avenue
Pre Award 305-284-4541
Post Award 305-284-3223

4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
305-421-4084

LINKS TO UM RESOURCES:
UResearch
Research Proposal Lifecycle
UM Rates & Information
Clinical Research
Education & Training
Research Administration Policies
Research Forms

LINKS TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES:
National Institute of Health (NIH)
NIH Office of Extramural Research (NIH OER)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
NOAA (Acquisition & Grants Office)
NASA (Research Opportunities)

OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST:
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circulars
CFDA – Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Federal Grants (Grants.gov)
Library of Congress
Federal Information Network (Fed World)
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)
Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP)
National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA)
Community of Science