August 2024

Sangwoo Ahn, PhD, RN

Welcome Dr. Ahn to the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing! Dr. Ahn joins us from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and will join our Hershey Office. His research is primarily on physical activity in people with dementia.

Please give him a warm welcome to the College of Nursing. Email Dr. Ahn

Disclosure of Foreign Support

NIH issued an important notice effective May 25, 2021 (NOT‐OD‐21‐073), updating their expectations for disclosure of Other Support. In addition to disclosing all research activity administered through Penn State, Senior/Key Personnel are also expected to disclose all resources made available to a researcher in support of and/or related to all of their research endeavors, regardless of whether or not they have monetary value and regardless of whether they are based at Penn State or received external to Penn State.

Please see the article where a University of Maryland researcher failed to disclose foreign support and the checklist of what you should disclose.

Annual Effort Confirmation

Effort Certification season is upon us. This is an important and vital step in Research Administration where we need to comply with federal policy. It can also be very confusing. The CNR is here to help you. The memo sent to us from Matt Beissel, the Director for Research Accounting is available for you.

Labor Distribution (LD) is an allocation of payroll costs to or from a sponsored award.

Effort Certification is the process of certifying total year to date expenditures associated with the grant are consistent with University policies and other reporting requirements. The Principal Investigator and the Budget Administrator both certify the results. Certification happens at the end of each fiscal year or 30 days after the close of the Period of Performance during the fiscal year.

What we need from you:

The Effort Certifications will be sent to you via SIMBA after August 9^th. We will contact you as to when your effort certification is available for you to review and approve. All approvals need to be through the system by September 30. 

CNR Library

When you have questions, we have answers. We have SharePoint files located in the CNR Library, including the following. If you do not have access to this library, please let us know: jmh297@psu.edu

• CNR Contacts
• FAQ - This is a live document for your use. We will keep this up to date with questions you have.
• Proposal support documents
• Previous Research Faculty Meeting notes
• Stay tuned for more resources!

To help manage your external award finances, please look into the myResearch Portal. For those of you with internal funding, you may need to coordinate with the finance office in the college that has that funding account. Feel free to reach out to the CNR with additional questions you may have.

Center for Nursing Research Office provides an organized infrastructure designed to support graduate research faculty and their interdisciplinary teams throughout the various stages of their projects, from preparing proposals and obtaining funding to disseminating results in peer-reviewed journals and at national and international conferences. If you have any questions use the resource list below.