Setting Up an Award

Created: July 2023 Effective: August 2023 Revised: June 2024 Responsible Office: Office for Sponsored Programs Overview The National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides childcare cost support to recipients of full-time National Research Service Award...

A notice of award, also referred to as a notice, NOGA, NoA, contract, grant, agreement, or award letter, is a notification from a sponsor indicating that a proposal has been funded. Notices of award are typically received by OSP, although occasionally a...

Information Management is the process of reviewing the financial terms and conditions of each award and setting up the schedule of financial deliverables in GMAS throughout the award period. The accurate and timely scheduling of information management...

The sponsored budget is the budget of record for the sponsored award. The General Ledger stores budgets in standard fiscal year format, even for awards that span multiple years. A sponsored budget must be set up and entered in the General Ledger for each...

An At-risk Account is a project account that allows the PI to initiate spending on a sponsored fund before the University receives and/or accepts an award. Such expenditures incurred are made at the department’s risk and require a back-up account string...

Upon receiving the first sponsor notice for a project, the OSP Awards Management and Operations Team will initiate award set up in GMAS. This includes the creation of accounts (or removing existing accounts from “at-risk” status). Once the changes have...

To ensure compliance with federal regulations and university policies, certain activities within a sponsored project require the University’s review and formal approval before submitting a proposal, setting up an award in GMAS, and throughout the award’s...