RUTH L. KIRSCHSTEN NRSA BUDGETARY LEVELS EFFECTIVE FY 2025
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA)
Stipends, Tuition/Fees and Other Budgetary Levels Effective for Fiscal Year
2025
Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-105
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-105.html
Purpose
This Notice supersedes
NOT-OD-24-104 and establishes stipend levels for fiscal year (FY) 2025
Kirschstein-NRSA awards for undergraduate, predoctoral, and postdoctoral
trainees and fellows, as shown in the tables below which reflects the Full-Year
Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (Public Law 119-4), signed
into law on March 15, 2025. The Training Related Expenses and Institutional
Allowances for predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees and fellows remain
unchanged from the prior budget year. The Tuition and Fees for all educational
levels remain unchanged from the prior budget year. Guidance on Fiscal
Operations for FY 2025 will be posted on the NIH Funding Strategies webpage.
The budgetary categories
described in this Notice apply only to Kirschstein-NRSA awards made with FY
2025 funds. All FY 2025 awards previously issued using NOT-OD-24-104 will be
revised to adjust funding to the FY 2025 levels. Appointments to institutional
training grants that have already been awarded in FY 2025 must be amended to
reflect the FY 2025 stipend levels once the training grant award has been
adjusted by the NIH. Amended appointments must be submitted through xTrain in
the eRA Commons. Retroactive adjustments or supplementation of stipends or
other budgetary categories with Kirschstein-NRSA funds for an award made prior
to October 1, 2024, are not permitted.
Please refer to the
full notice linked here for details related to the Stipends, Tuition and Fees and
other Training Related Expenses.
Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of
Sponsored Programs.
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CS3 Summer Faculty Writing Group
Camaraderie and Creativity
Tuesdays, 12-3pm | beginning June 3 | Public Policy, Room 451*
Wednsdays, 11am - 2pm | beginning May 28 | Public Policy, Room 451
*Please note that on June 17 & 24 we will meet in PUP 438.
Join us on Tuesdays or Wednesdays throughout the summer months for a faculty writing group. Faculty from all disciplines are welcome! Our theme this summer is camaraderie and creativity, emphasizing our shared commitment to fostering a community of friendship, accountability, and the pursuit of new research agendas.
At the start of each writing session we will share our session goals, provide updates on work in progress, and then write in silence for the remainder of our time. Upon completion of the session we will share our successes, challenges, and detours from the session, and then set our agenda for the upcoming week. Snacks will be provided! Occasionally we will also plan a lunch in Catonsville just prior to the group meeting to celebrate our ongoing work.
UMBC's Office of Sponsored Programs
has started enforcing their proposal deadlines, which may result in *late* proposals
being declined.
To avoid that scenario, please
continue to follow the internal CAHSS Pre-Award Deadlines below:
10 business days before the
sponsor’s due date – The proposed budget must include all
detailed accurate costs in accordance with the sponsor’s funding guidelines.
7 business days before the sponsor’s
due date – All final proposal documents are due
to CARAT for routing. This includes
all documents required from subawardees.
5 business days before the sponsor’s due date – the CAHSS
Dean’s Office must receive the grant documents routed through Kuali.
3 business days before the sponsor’s due date (OSP ready to
submit deadline) - OSP must receive the grant documents routed
through Kuali. All grant documents should be in a finalized state and
ready for review by OSP.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out
to CARAT or OSP with any questions you have.
See full "Routing
Procedure" attached to this post.
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IACUC Protocol Training Update/Overview
Training update/overview approved by the IACUC:
In order to conduct research with animals or working with animals in a teaching
setting, all staff and students must complete the required general training, and
attend a facility orientation (if applicable) in accordance with the UMBC IACUC
Guideline on Training Requirements for Protocol Personnel. Additionally, all staff
and students conducting research with animals must be listed on an approved
IACUC protocol.
To access the courses, first create a free account with CITI, affiliate with the
University of Maryland Baltimore County as part of the account set-up, then
select the course(s) you wish to complete. For more information on how to
navigate the CITI website, please refer to the UMBC ORPC Website.
Requirements for Principal Investigator, Trainees and Research Staff:
1) CITI Training: CITI Training may be waived if an individual provides
training documentation from similar online training programs such as
AALAS Learning Library.
A) Working with the IACUC
B) Animal Biosafety
C) All applicable species-specific modules
- Working With Amphibians in Research Setting
- Working with Mice in Research Setting
- Working with Rats in Research Setting
- Wildlife Research: If working with wild animal
- Working With Zebrafish (Danio rerio) in Research Setting
- Other applicable modules
D)
Post-Procedure Care of Mice and Rats in Research: If performing Surgical procedures
E) Reducing Pain and Distress in Laboratory Mice and Rats: If performing procedures which could cause pain and/or distress in rodents
2) Hands on or Didactic provided by AV or Designated Trainer:
Animal User Training and Orientation: All new users (staff or
students) of laboratory animals (e.g., mice, rats, fish, birds and reptiles in
laboratory setting) and the animal facilities must attend a mandatory facility
orientation and tour. Facility orientation sessions are offered on an as needed
information. This can be substituted for CITI refresher training (Working with IACUC) is required every three years. All new Principal Investigators (PIs) and
research staff, must take this training.
Topics to be covered include:
- Training Requirements
- Housing and Animal Care
- Following Standard Operating procedures
- Humane and Experimental Endpoints
- Resources and Technical Capabilities
- Personal protective equipment and common hazards
- Facility Access
- Animal Welfare Concern Reporting
Bio-methodology for Rodents (Rodent Handling and Restraint as well
as blood collection, injection and euthanasia): This training requited for all
animal users perform hands on activities work with rodents. Requirement
waived if prior work experience or demonstrates proficiency. Please
session.
Aseptic Surgical Technique: Required if performing Surgical
procedures. Requirement waived if prior work experience or demonstrates
schedule a training session.
3) Protocol-specific training provided by the PI or Designee: The PI is
responsible for ensuring that all personnel listed on her/his protocol(s) are
appropriately trained and qualified, and for documenting that training and
qualifications. Training of research personnel by the PI must be documented and records must be available upon request. Examples of required training include:
- Reviewing the animal protocol(s) and any amendments to the protocol thoroughly with the research staff.
- Reviews the IACUC Guidelines or protocol-specific SOP’s that are embedded within the protocol(s).
- Provides hands-on training for any techniques or procedures that not covered by training provided by the Attending Veterinarian.
Co-Director, Gerontology Doctoral Program
"Socioeconomic Characteristics, Financial Literacy and Financial Behaviors in the Middle-aged and Older Adult Population in the United States: An Initial Analysis of the 2023 Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies Data"
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health
Director, Sociology Undergraduate Program
"Mapping Mobility Networks to Examine Drug Market Activity and Overdose Risk in Baltimore"
Visit our website for more information on their research projects.
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Dresher Center Summer 2025 Fellows
This summer, four UMBC faculty members were awarded summer fellowships from the Dresher Center.
Keegan Cook Finberg, Assistant Professor in English, will research and write an essay for peer-review, “Utopian Resistance and Imperial Steinian Form in Harryette Mullen’s Trimmings and S*PeRM**K*T,” to be published in The Edinburgh Companion to Women's Experimental Literature since 1900. The essay examines two books of poetry by African American poet Haryette Mullen, which thematize neoliberal forms of racialized commodification and marketization of gender in the 1990s.
Emily Yoon, Assistant Professor in English, will work to revise her book proposal and refine two chapters to serve as writing samples to submit to academic presses. Her book project, Little Intimacies: Ecologies of Race, Migration, and Relation in Minority Literatures, takes a comparative approach to investigate how the environments in which global migrations occur inform how minoritized characters experience and understand race and relation.
Kyung-Eun Yoon, Assistant Professor in Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication, will work to advance her project, "K-Pop and Memes in Protest Discourse: Identity and Collective Membership in the 2024-2025 South Korean Impeachment Protests," which examines the dynamic protest culture surrounding the 2024-2025 South Korean impeachment protests, focusing on how younger generations integrated K-pop culture and memes into their activism.
Natalie Groom, Affiliate Artist of Clarinet in Music, will research, study, engrave, and publish a
Trio for clarinet, horn, and bassoon that was written by music history pioneer Pauline Oliveros (1932—2016). Some brief records indicate the
Trio was written in 1955, but no records indicate that the work was published or performed.
Please join us in congratulating these fellows!
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Wed, 28 May 2025 13:13:48 -0400
IMPORTANT NIH UPDATE
Updated NIH Processes for No-Cost Extensions
Updated NIH Processes
for No-Cost Extensions
Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-110
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-110.html
Purpose:
This notice alerts the extramural community that NIH has
temporarily disabled the No-Cost
Extension functionality in eRA Commons. The Director of NIH has directed
NIH staff to review all existing grants and cooperative agreements to ensure
that NIH awards do not fund off-mission activities or projects. Therefore,
temporarily disabling the NCE functionality in eRA Commons will allow NIH staff
to review and assess all NCE requests to confirm that the activities proposed
during the extension align with the NIH mission and agency priorities.
At this time, all requests for NCEs must be submitted as a
prior approval request in eRA Commons, for NIH review and approval. Requests
for activities that do not align with the NIH mission and agency priorities
will not be approved.
Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of
Sponsored Programs.
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Dresher Center Summer Writing Group
Are you interested in joining our Dresher Center Summer Writing Group? Please complete this Google Form to help us to help us determine the format and focus of the group?
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IMPORTANT NIH UPDATE
NCE FUNCTIONALITY TEMPORARILY DISABLED
Updated NIH Processes for No-Cost Extensions
Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-110
Purpose
This notice alerts the extramural
community that NIH has temporarily disabled the No-Cost Extension functionality
in eRA Commons. The Director of NIH has directed NIH staff to review all
existing grants and cooperative agreements to ensure that NIH awards do not
fund off-mission activities or projects. Therefore, temporarily disabling the
NCE functionality in eRA Commons will allow NIH staff to review and assess all
NCE requests to confirm that the activities proposed during the extension align
with the NIH mission and agency priorities.
At this time, all requests for
NCEs must be submitted as a prior approval request in eRA Commons, for NIH
review and approval. Requests for activities that do not align with the NIH
mission and agency priorities will not be approved.
Please refer to the
full notice linked above for further details.
Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of
Sponsored Programs.
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Wed, 07 May 2025 12:58:19 -0400
UMBC Gap Guidance on NSF Facilities and Administration Policy
Dear Colleagues,
On Friday, May 2, The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new 15 percent Facility & Administrative (F&A) Cost Recovery policy for implementation today, Monday May 5, 2025. This new policy does not impact existing or continuations of existing awards. However, it does impact new awards for already submitted, and to-be-submitted, proposals.
As you may know, UMBC’s current F&A Cost Recovery rates are approved by the federal government (HHS is our Cognizant Federal Agency for our federally-negotiated F&A Rate Agreement across all agencies) after a comprehensive process that includes an audit and review of actual expenditures, as well as an extensive negotiation. The application of the federally approved F&A rates allows UMBC to recover the actual costs required to complete the proposed work in support of our research and creative achievement community.
This new NSF policy has no basis on UMBC’s actual costs. Acceptance of any rate that does not cover UMBC’s costs represents an unsustainable cost burden on UMBC. UMBC has been advised that any proposal submitted to or any approved award accepted from NSF at the 15% F&A rate may represent legal acceptance of this capped rate for all of our federal contracts and grants.
UMBC anticipates that, as with other agencies who have attempted similar policies, a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) will be placed on this NSF F&A policy. However, there may be a gap between such a TRO and an award issuance or proposal submission.
Therefore, at this time, UMBC will only submit proposals to and accept awards from NSF utilizing our federally negotiated and approved F&A Cost Recovery rates. Please understand that there is a valid concern that proposals submitted with an F&A Rate above the 15% cap may be returned to the institution without review. We will not be able to accept any NSF awards with a 15% F&A cap at this time.
While we appreciate the potential negative impact this decision may have on members in our research and creative achievement community, we hope this gap guidance will become moot once a TRO has been issued.
To learn more about F&A at UMBC, please see the UMBC F&A Rate Information page.
Sincerely,
Dean A. Drake
Associate Vice President for Research and Creative Achievement
