This is one where I'd pick up the phone and call the sponsor, and get their
feedback!
But don't promise to do what you cannot accomplish!
Chuck

At 02:26 PM 8/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Situation posed to me by a colleague --  I promised to pose the question and
>pass on any advice.   This is a new one for me.
>
>Institution has recently received a grant and the project isn't even yet
>underway.   PI has resigned and is not immediately going to an institution
>that's eligible to receive the grant, but hopes to be within the next year.
>Institution is not sure whether it can implement the project with current
>faculty but may be hiring faculty this coming year who would be interested.
>Can institution request a "Change of PI" to a senior administrator (place
>holder) while "exploring options for implementing the grant" ... thus
>keeping open the possibility of transferring to original PI or appointing a
>PI who wants to implement project.
>
>Thanks, as always.
>
>Frances Vinal Farnsworth
>Coordinator of Sponsored Research
>MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
>Munford House
>Middlebury, VT 05753
>Tel:  802-443-5889
>Fax: 802-443-2081
>Email:  xxxxxx@middlebury.edu
>http://www.middlebury.edu/~grants/
>
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