Research Policies

Cost Accounting Standards (CAS)

• Administrative Costs
• Cost Sharing, Policy and Procedure
• Cost Transfer Policy
• Unallowable Costs

Financial and Budgetary Policies

• Additional Faculty Compensation
• Additional Compensation Charged to Sponsored Grants and Contracts - Andrew Mangels, Controller - May 2, 2006 Memo
• College and University Rate Agreement
• Compensation for Certain Additional Professional Services
• Determination of On and Off Campus Indirect Cost Rates on Grants and Contracts
• Development and Administration of Grants, Contracts and Cooperative Agreements for Sponsored Programs
• Exclusion of Equipment Fabrication Costs from the Modified Total Direct Cost Base
• Indirect Cost Rate Agreement
• On and Off Campus Indirect Cost Rates
• Over-Expenditure Policy

Health and Safety Policies

• Biohazardous Materials in Research and Instruction Policy
• Controlled Substances
• Human Body Fluid Precautions Policy
• Human Subjects Policy
• Policy on Environmental Health & Safety

Investigator, Ethics, and Attribution Policies

• Conflict of Interest NSF/NIH Policy (UMass Amherst)
• Conflict of Interest Relating to Intellectual Property and Commercial Ventures
• Disclosure of Research Results
• Draft Policy on Access to and Retention of Research Data
• Faculty Consulting and Outside Activities (including disclosure form)
• Intellectual Property Policy (For Faculty and Graduate Student Employees)
• Joint Authorship
• New Policies Concerning Research Faculty
• Postdoctoral Scholars and Postdoctoral Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Principal Investigator/Co-Investigator
• Procedures for Dealing with Charges of Misconduct in Research and Scholarly Activity
• Removal of Principal Investigators (See: MSP Bargaining Union Contract, pages 34-35)
• Whistleblowing Policy

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