Current announcements

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued updated guidance as a follow-up to OMB Memo M-25-13, clarifying that not all federal grants are subject to the temporary pause. Additionally, late in the afternoon on January 28, 2025, a federal judge temporarily blocked part of the Trump administration’s plans to freeze all federal aid.  The short-term pause issued by U.S. District Judge, Loren L. AliKhan, prevents the administration from carrying through with its plans to freeze funding for “open awards” already…

The Office of the Vice President for Research has published a new NAU policy, Participation in Foreign Talent Recruitment Programs (FTRP). The policy was created to meet the requirements of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (Subtitle D Research Security, Sections 10631, 10632 and 10638 of the U.S. Public Law 117-167), which requires Covered Individuals (senior/key personnel) to disclose participation in FTRPs and certify prior to proposal submission that they are not party to a Malign FTRP. To learn…

Beginning May 20, 2024, in accordance with Section 10623 of the CHIPS and Science Act, each individual identified as a senior/key person on an NSF grant will be required to certify prior to proposal submission and annually thereafter for the duration of the award that they are not a party to a malign foreign talent recruitment program. Senior/key persons will be required to make this certification in both the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support forms and upload…

NIH updates New data requirements for foreign subawards effective January 1, 2024 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued Notice NOT-OD-23-182 and NOT-OD-23-133, updating requirements for consortium/subaward agreements to ensure that pass-through entities and auditors have access to a foreign subrecipient's data and records at an agreed upon frequency, but no less than once per year, in alignment with the timing requirements for Research Performance Progress Report submission. By access to, it is understood that such access may be entirely…

The Arizona Auditor General recently published the 2022 financial report for Northern Arizona University. For more information, visit azauditor.gov.