MIT will celebrate an extended winter break from Monday December 25, 2023 through the New Year with offices reopening on Tuesday January 2, 2024. MIT Research Administration Services (RAS) has set deadlines for proposals with sponsor due dates during this period and immediately thereafter.
Beginning at 9pm this evening, Friday, Oct 27, 2023, the Kuali Coeus (KC) system will be offline as we will be performing some data cleanup by incorporating a new proposal type labeled “Deactivated-Do Not Use.” This work is expected to take 2 hours to complete, and no action is needed on your part.
Starting in fiscal year 2024, the Institute is committing central resources to fund the under-recovery of facilities and administrative (F&A) costs on research grants each year.
MIT is one of the largest recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the country. Applications for 2024 are due October 16-20. See what resources are available to assist MIT students who are applying to this prestigious program.
The RAS Subaward team introduced the new Subrecipient Letter of Intent/Commitment form during the April RAP Session. This form will aid in review at proposal time and minimize administrative burden at both proposal and award time.
ffective January 30, 2023, PAPPG 23-1 introduced a new requirement from Chapter II.E.9, Safe and Inclusive Working Environments for Off-Campus or Off-Site Research, which requires the AOR to certify that an organization has a plan in place for safe and inclusive research for any proposal that proposes to conduct off-campus or off-site research.
Effective March 27, 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) made system enhancements to the Project Reports module in Research.gov to enable the auto-population of dataset metadata submitted to the NSF Public Access Repository (NSF-PAR) into NSF in-progress (i.e., unsubmitted) project reports