Dear Colleagues,
 
Although your department may not be using Buy-to-Pay at this time, please see the attached addendum to the Procurement Policy to be aware of temporary changes to procedure.
 
While grants and cooperative agreements require a debarment form at purchases of $25K or more, contracts have a threshold of $35K. The $35K threshold cannot be coded into Buy-to-Pay during rollout, so purchasers will need to manually check the funding instrument type to ensure the proper backup is included with the purchase. Remember:...

Spinosaurus has a giant tail fin! And, it used it to swim! Long awaited paper published today in Nature describes new fossil material that shows the tail of the large-bodied theropod Spinosaurus was dorsoventrally expanded into a paddle-like appendage. Working in collaboration with Nizar Ibrahim - spinosaur extraordinaire - Stephanie and MCZ colleague George Lauder use biorobotics to show that the tail of Spinosaurus could produce forward thrust more similar to modern aquatic tetrapods (e.g. crocodiles and salamanders) than other dinosaurs....