Managing Your Research

A Principal Investigator Handbook for Sponsored Research

Contents

• Getting Started
  • Where to go for assistance
  • Frequently used acronyms
  • Before proposals may be submitted
  • Steps in obtaining sponsored projects funding (flow chart)
  • Proposal commitments
    
    
• 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
  • DMS
  • Thayer School
  • Tuck School
    
    
• Appendix
  • Arts & Sciences Faculty handbook—sponsored research
  • Budget justification samples- simple
  • Budget justification samples - complex
  • Conflict of Interest disclosure form
  • Conflict of Interest policy
  • Conflict of Interest policy - Human Subjects Research
  • Contact list - OSP
  • Copyright Ownership policy
  • Dartmouth Travel policies
  • Data Retention policy
  • Glossary of terms
  • IACUC forms
  • In-Kind Contribution form
  • Institutional profile
  • Invention disclosure form
  • IRB/CPHS forms
  • Letter of Intent to Establish a Subcontract Agreement template
  • Patent policy
  • PI Eligibility policy
  • Pre-award spending request form
  • Routing Form copy
  • Technology Transfer Office