Tip of the Week

Friday, September 8, 2023

Requesting Modifications to Award Agreements

All requests to modify award agreements funded by non-federal sponsors should be routed through the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) in PERIS™ MyFunding prior to the...

Friday, September 1, 2023

Prevent Delays in Processing Sponsored Project Actions for Departing Investigators

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) has been seeing increasing delays in processing outgoing grant transfers and other time-sensitive action items that arise when a faculty member departs the...

Friday, August 25, 2023

Submit an Indirect Cost Waiver Request Early

Before using an indirect cost (F&A) rate that is less than the University’s IDC rate and ...

Friday, July 21, 2023

Updated Banking Information for Sponsored Projects

In June 2023, Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) announced changes to the...

Friday, July 7, 2023

Pitt Research Navigator

The Pitt Research Navigator is available to provide personalized customer service to help you more easily connect to the Pitt resources, services, and offices needed to move your research forward...

Friday, June 30, 2023

What is a Limited Submission Opportunity?

Limited Submissions are opportunities where a funding agency only accepts a certain number of applications from an institution. In these situations, Pitt is responsible for overseeing an internal...

Friday, June 23, 2023

Alert OSP to Submit Items in Sponsor Systems

Many sponsors have their own web portals to directly submit proposals, reports, updates, and requests. When the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is required to approve or submit a request in a...

Friday, May 26, 2023

Import Control Review

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) works closely with the Office of Trade Compliance (OTC) when processing requests for Pitt to receive (import) biological materials...

Friday, May 19, 2023

Office of Sponsored Programs Internal Proposal Deadline

As a reminder, complete and final proposals, including the PI Certification, are to be received by OSP in...

Friday, May 12, 2023

PI Effort on Sponsored Awards

In accordance with Pitt Policy RI 09 Sponsored Projects – Effort Reporting/Certification, Principal...

Friday, May 5, 2023

Processing Bulk Agreement Requests

Projects with many collaborating sites can often require many separate but similar agreements for each partner (ex: Data Use Agreements or outgoing subawards) to be issued and executed at the same...

Friday, April 21, 2023

MyFunding Award Modifications to Increase or Decrease Budget

Award Modification Requests (AMRs) in PERIS™ MyFunding to increase or decrease the sponsor’s authorized budget amount must be approved in MyFunding before an entry in the...

Friday, April 14, 2023

Using Pivot to search for funding opportunities

The University of Pittsburgh subscribes to Pivot, a comprehensive database of funding opportunities. Pivot is accessible to the campus community through the...

Friday, April 7, 2023