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  OFFICE MEMO          NSF Electronic Award Notices           Date:5/5/94
We have been getting Yale's awards via e-mail for almost a year and the system
(now!) works very well.  In the beginning, a few notices went astray (to be
lost forever on the information highway), but NSF seems to have worked out the
bugs and we haven't missed an award in months.  As a safeguard, they have
recently added one service:  once a week a list is sent to the institution
listing all the awards that were sent in the previous week.  This serves as a
great double-check.  You must designate one address per institution to which
all awards will be sent (which means that I must forward any awards for faculty
in our Medical School to the Med School Grants Office).  This works pretty well
until the designated e-mail recipient goes on vacation and forgets to give
his/her password to a colleague!  We like the system very much--saves at least
a week in transmittal time.  Unfortunately, here at Yale, it doesn't save us
much paper, since we must still make photocopies and send hardcopy around!
Sally Tremaine, Yale University