Hi Carolyn:
To answer your first question, the
individual that works 20 hours a week (50% effort) for the entire 12-month
calendar year would be calculated as a 6 person months individual. Attached is
a handy person month’s conversion chart that I downloaded from a NIH
website. It’s quite handy and allows for you to calculate people that only
work 3, 6, 9, 10, and 12 months of the year!
Best,
Stormy
Grants and Contracts Officer
Research Administration
Huntsman Cancer Institute, Room 5146
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From: Research
Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Carolyn Elliott-Farino
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006
12:12 PM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] NIH proposals,
letters of support
Hi everyone. I'd
love advice on three separate issues:
1. On NIH
proposals, if someone works 20 hours a week 12 months a year, and they
plan to spend all that time on a grant, would that be 6 person months (since
they're only half time to start with), or 12 person months? If 12 is the
answer, what happens if you're listed at more than 12 months in the Commons
because you're on another grant at another institution?
2. Do you include
undergrads as key personnel for NIH? I would tend not to, but on the R424
there's a pulldown menu for key personnel and it includes undergrads. This has
one of our faculty wondering whether to include undergrads as key personnel.
3. This one is
not NIH related. Do you include letters of support from senators,
congresspeople, etc., with proposals submitted to federal agencies? If so,
under what circumstances? My reaction would be no, at least not for
competitions that are peer reviewed, but perhaps there are occasions where such
letters are appropriate (and what would those be???)?
Thanks a bunch.
Carolyn
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