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<p class="MsoNormal"><img width="1025" height="189" style="width:10.677in;height:1.9687in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D4D7D3.0B4FAFB0" alt="A picture containing object, clock
Description automatically generated"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The PERIS™ team is excited to announce the launch of <b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Award Activations</span></b> in the MyFunding module. MyFunding has been updated to provide a wide variety of new resources and functionality to the
research community for all federal, non-federal, corporate and foundation awards.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>New Functionality</b>:<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Prepare, review and route <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://electronicresearch.pitt.edu/wp-content/uploads/Create-New-Award-3-5.pdf">new awards</a></span>, including the ability to complete the budget, incorporate sponsor terms and conditions, and
establish deliverables<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Create and route <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://electronicresearch.pitt.edu/wp-content/uploads/Creating-a-Continuation-Proposal.pdf">continuations</a></span> to the Office of Research<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Submit <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://electronicresearch.pitt.edu/training/quick-guides/">award modification requests</a></span> for existing awards, including, but not limited to, no-cost extensions (NCEs), change of principal investigator (PI),
and requests for carryover <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Electronic smartform to collect information for Corporate Research Agreements and to replace the paper Corporate Research Agreement Submission Form
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Request <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://electronicresearch.pitt.edu/wp-content/uploads/Requesting-an-Advance-Account-3-5-19.pdf">Advance Accounts</a></span> (previously known as Early Account Requests) for a funding proposal or after the submission
of a progress report<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://electronicresearch.pitt.edu/wp-content/uploads/Requesting-a-Subaccount.pdf">Request subaccounts</a></span> for an existing award<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Integration with Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The MyFunding module has also been integrated with SPA’s accounting system, Research and Proposal Accounting (RPA). MyFunding sends award details electronically to RPA and receives account numbers into MyFunding from RPA. When account numbers
are received by MyFunding, the Principal Investigator (PI), department administrator, and all award editors on the main award receive a notification with the account number(s) included.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">InfoEd Conversion<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Active Projects<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As part of this launch, active projects have been converted from InfoEd into MyFunding. Each converted active project record in MyFunding has a specific prefix along with the InfoEd award number (I#) for easy identification of converted
records. The specific prefix for converted awards is “<b>CNVA” </b>followed by the project I#. For example, CNVA0010745.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Closed Projects<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The next conversion of InfoEd data into MyFunding is scheduled for the week of March 11<sup>th</sup>, so that all projects closed on or after July 1, 2017 are converted from InfoEd into MyFunding. This conversion will occur on Friday,
March 15<sup>th</sup> and will be completed by March 17, 2019. The closed projects will be presented in the same format in MyFunding as active converted projects. For example, CNVA0010745.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If a record is missing from MyFunding or falls outside of the above conversion, please contact the PERIS™ team at
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="mailto:peristeam@pitt.edu">peristeam@pitt.edu</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">New Quick Guides and Updated Glossary<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">New Quick Guides for award activations and an updated glossary to incorporating terminology associated with award activations have been released. To access the Quick Guides, please click
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://electronicresearch.pitt.edu/training/quick-guides/">here</a></span>. To access the glossary, please click
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://electronicresearch.pitt.edu/glossary-of-terms/">here</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Additional Training Sessions and Contact Information<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you have not already participated in training for award activations, additional training sessions are being planned. Please stay tuned for more information.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you need assistance with any of the new MyFunding functionalities and/or InfoEd converted records, please contact the PERIS™ team at
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="mailto:peristeam@pitt.edu">peristeam@pitt.edu</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We value your feedback. If you have suggestions for future enhancements to the MyFunding module, please submit these suggestions via our
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://stage.electronicresearch.pitt.edu/contact-us/">suggestions form</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%">To sign-up for the PERIS ™ Listserv, please click
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/peris-listserv">here</a></span>.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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