Latest OSP Communications

November 17, 2023

NIH Policy on Foreign Subrecipients

Effective January 1, 2024, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require award recipients to address the following in subaward agreements with foreign subrecipients:

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September 29, 2023

Registration Now Open for OSP Fall Virtual Workshops

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will be offering the following Faculty and Staff Development Program (FSDP) workshops this Fall through the...

September 20, 2023

New Process for Requesting Outgoing Subawards

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will begin transitioning away from utilizing the Contraxx Subaward System to using our existing MyRA System for requesting and processing outgoing subawards...

July 31, 2023

MyFunding Upgrade Completed

MyFunding is available for all users as of today, Monday, July 31 at 8:30am. 

  • New and updated user guides are available...
July 28, 2023

Upcoming NCURA workshops

The...

July 14, 2023

Registration Now Open: Workshop for Basic Biomedical Researchers on 8/16/23

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will be participating in the upcoming Office of Research Protections (ORP) Workshop for Basic Biomedical Researchers on August 16,...

June 12, 2023

New Departmental Research Administrators – Join OSP in a Departmental Research Administrator Virtual Coffee Break

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) would like to invite new departmental research administrators to join us for a  Departmental Research Administrator Coffee Break. This is an opportunity to...

June 7, 2023

Important Details about the MyFunding Downtime July 21-30

As a reminder, the MyFunding upgrade will take place from Friday, July 21 at...

June 1, 2023

Outstanding NIH Proposals Due 6/5/23

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) PERIS™ MyFunding system is reporting that a high volume of proposals for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) June 5 deadline have not yet been routed to...

May 31, 2023

FY24 F&A and Fringe Benefit Rate

The University of Pittsburgh’s actual FY2024 Facilities & Administrative (F&A) cost and fringe benefit rates have been released:
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May 4, 2023

ALERT: CHANGED: Scheduled Extended MyFunding Downtime 7/21/23-7/30/23

REVISED: In response to user feedback and to minimize the impact on known deadlines as much as possible, the MyFunding upgrade has CHANGED.

The...

April 26, 2023

ALERT: Scheduled Extended MyFunding Downtime 6/6/2023 - 6/12/2023

The PERISTM team is excited to announce that PERIS™ MyFunding is being upgraded and therefore will be down and unavailable from Tuesday, June 6th at...

March 31, 2023

Registration Now Open for OSP Spring Virtual Workshops

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will be offering the following Faculty and Staff Development Program (FSDP) workshops this Spring through the...

February 24, 2023

REMINDER: Changes to the OSP Activation Process

Please be reminded of the upcoming changes to award activation and budget modification request processes going into effect on Wednesday March 1, 2023.

Department administrators should...

February 22, 2023

New - Controlled Unclassified Information Questions in MyFunding and MyRA

The Federal government is able to designate certain information as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Although CUI is not classified, the Federal government requires careful safeguarding...