Tim
Hold your ground.  NIH will not accept the total salary.  We have been
told that we had to use the University base.

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"Atkinson, Timothy N" wrote:
>
> How do you manage VA/University appointments on NIH grants? We have been
> holding our ground saying, "you can't recover any of the VA salary so you
> must use the University salary as the base X percent effort for computing
> your request from NIH on the grant."
>
> But, of course, the department says their losing money and they want to use
> VA + University salary as base X percent effort when computing the request.
> (How are they losing money?)
>
> We do not think this is acceptable based on NIH regulations. Do you know
> something we do not know about this? Are we being too harsh? Is there any
> other way to manage this other than the NIH regulations? Are we
> misinterpreting?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim Atkinson
>
> Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
> University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
> Biomedical Research Center, Room B102
> 4th and Elm Streets
> Little Rock, AR 72205
> Phone: 501-686-8845
> Cell: 501-837-5348
> Fax: 501-686-8359
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