Managing Your Research
A Principal Investigator Handbook for Sponsored Research
June 2009
Download copy of P.I. Handbook (pdf)
Contents
- Getting Started
- The Submission Process
- Before contacting OSP
- What to look for
- Boiler-plate language
- The Proposal Routing Form
- PI considerations:
- Notification and recommended lead times
- Personnel
- Institutional assurances
- Administrative
- Fiscal
- Electronic submissions
- OSP proposal services
- The Conflict of Interest disclosure
- Budgetary Considerations
- Cost types—direct and indirect
- Budget justifications
- Cost-sharing or matching
- Obtaining cost share approval
- Negotiations
- Site visits
- Follow-up on Pending Human/Animal Approvals
- Award Management
- Award types
- Award processing
- Pre-award spending
- Post-award requirements
- PI close out responsibilities
- The Regulatory Environment for Federal Awards
- Relevant regulations affecting Dartmouth
- What do I need to know about federal regulations?
- Division Specifics
- Appendix
A special thanks to Frank Lemire at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for kindly sharing his copy of the Faculty notebook that his office created and he presented at a National Council of University Research Administrators meeting. We adapted his notebook to our own version.
