Our database is unique to the Office of Research Administration and
includes both pre- and post-award records.  Each proposal submitted
has its own record.  If the same proposal is submitted to let's say
three sponsors, three records are created (and would be counted as
three applications submitted).  If more than one sponsor supported a
project, we would establish separate grant accounts to keep the funds
segregated and deal with different rebudgeting policies.

Catharine Crea
Office of Research Administration
New York Medical College
(914) 993-4480
xxxxxx@nymc.edu

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Is anyone having difficulty with recording multiple sponsors on your
database? Our database is part of a University-wide system (very
inflexible).  A sponsor is entered only once, at the proposal stage.
Only one sponsor can be entered.  We are running into a problem with
dual sponsorship.  We also have a problem when the proposal goes to
one sponsor but is funded by a different agency.

For example, a proposal is submitted to a jointly sponsored NSF/EPA
program.  Because of our limited database capability and because we
sent the proposal to NSF, we record NSF as sponsor at the proposal
stage.  This proposal is awarded, however, not with NSF funds but
with EPA funds.  How would your database handle this situation?

Changes to our database are hard to achieve as they are made by an
overtaxed computing office.

Has anyone been able to solve this problem?

Ellen D. Rogers
Office of Research
312 Main Building
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana  46556
E-Mail:  xxxxxx@nd.edu
Voice:  219-631-7432
Fax:    219-631-6630