News & Announcements

We are excited to announce the first International Activities Forum for Administrative Staff on February 13. The forum will cover the following key topics: Introduction by Richard Lester, Elevated Risk, China Report Implementation, MISTI Support and Services. 

In response to feedback and requests received, the RAS Subaward Team is pleased to provide information regarding updates and process improvements. 

NIH has updated its Foreign Subaward Agreement Policy. Effective January 2, 2024, records and data requirements do not require the prime awardee to collect and maintain records and data.

Please join us for an information session on international travel, where we have enlisted MIT experts to speak and answer your questions on a range of topics related to traveling abroad. 

In October 2023, two information sessions were held to support administrators in navigating the transition to the new approach to under-recovery. The sessions comprised a presentation on the changes followed by a question-and-answer session.

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.

From VPF: MIT has awarded a contract for packaged gas services to Linde Gas and Equipment, effective July 1, 2023.

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