GMAS cost sharing enhancements will be available on Monday, April 27.

In preparation, the GMAS team & the Cost Sharing Committee have been hosting the traditional “Roadshows” over the past few weeks.  However, for this release they were presented via Zoom.  

We have made a Zoom recording of the...

In the GMAS release scheduled for December 14^th, an enhanced “Edit interfaculty involvement” screen will be available from all requests. The enhanced screen includes the same functionality as the old screen, but also includes some exciting enhancements.

1. More than one interfaculty department and PI can be added from one screen 

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I am so happy to be participating in the GMAS blog’s first guest speaker series. For my first blog, I wanted to answer a question that gets asked a lot. Why is “Discipline” mandatory in GMAS, and how specific do I need to be (can I choose “Other”)?

The quick answer is, the discipline is mandatory because it is a CRITICAL piece of data that is used in reporting. This data is mainly used for the Higher Education Research and Development Survey (HERD) run by NSF, which is the primary source of information on R&D expenditures at U.S. colleges and universities. This is an annual...

When adding team members to a research team, sometimes it is appropriate to add a placeholder for a position where the individual who will fill the role has yet to be determined (TBD).  There is a right and wrong way to capture a TBD team member on the research team. The impacts to adding a TBD team member the wrong way can lead to incorrect data and security issues.

The right way
After choosing <Add team member> when viewing the research team, the letters “TBD” default into the full name field. Leaving this text alone (not performing  the Lookup function) and...