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S.V. Subramanian Leading New India Policy Insights Initiative

February 28, 2022
Faculty Associate S.V. Subramanian, professor of population health and geography at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is leading a new partnership between India Policy Insights (IPI), his flagship project at the Geographic Insights Lab, and the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI), the official policy design and innovation think tank for the Government for India. India Policy Insights is a collaborative initiative created to support precision public health policy in India by providing a comprehensive online geo-visual data platform of policy-relevant population health... Read more about S.V. Subramanian Leading New India Policy Insights Initiative
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Oreskes and Co-Authors Dispute Premise in EPA-related Supreme Court Case

February 28, 2022
In an opinion piece in The Boston Globe, DHS Prof. Naomi Oreskes and Harvard graduate student co-authors Colleen Lanier-Christensen, Hannah Conway, and Ashton Macfarlane dismiss the idea that writers of the 1970 Clean Air Act never intended the then newly conceived Environmental Protection Agency would have regulatory purview over issues of climate change. Read more about Oreskes and Co-Authors Dispute Premise in EPA-related Supreme Court Case

NIH Notice of Policy Change to Align with OS Requirements

February 28, 2022
NIH recently announced an update to the Special Council Review (SCR) policy to align with updated Other Support disclosure requirements. Effective with the FY 2022 May/June Council round, Advisory Council members will continue to provide additional consideration of new and renewal applications from well-supported investigators who currently receive $2 million or more in total costs,... Read more about NIH Notice of Policy Change to Align with OS Requirements

Use New SAM UEI in NSF System

February 28, 2022
Effective February 28, 2022, the National Science Foundation (NSF) began using the new System for Award Management (SAM) issued Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) in Research.gov and FastLane. This update was made in accordance with the government-wide transition by April 4, 2022, away from the use of the Dun & Bradstreet issued Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number and toward the new SAM UEI as the primary means of entity identification for Federal awards.

Upcoming Changes to GMAS Award Logged Notification

February 28, 2022

When an award notice is logged in GMAS, an automatic notification email is sent from GMAS to the PI and administrative team (dept & SPA). While minor, we would like to highlight 2 upcoming changes to the notification email:

  • Adding to Reminders: “Department Action Required: All must be complete prior to action memo”
  • Adding to Reminders: “For additional information on Approvals in GMAS, please use ...
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