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07/12/2019

The PERIS™ team has prepared a Quick Guide on ‘How to Submit an Interim or Final Progress Report’. To view the Quick Guide, click here. To access all of the Quick Guides, click here.

06/05/2019

MyFunding receives a feed from a HSConnect database, allowing the most recent annual COI disclosure date to prepopulate for each individual named in a proposal.

05/30/2019

Account activation is a two-step process. The first step is completed by the Office of Research, and the second step is completed by Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA).

05/22/2019

Please find below important information from the PERIS™ team. The topics of this communication include: • Withdrawn/Not Funded Proposals in MyFunding • Upcoming Topic Specific Training Sessions Withdrawn/Not Funded Proposals in MyFunding

05/09/2019

Please click here for the MyFunding Tip of the Week, “How do I request an amendment/modification to an award in MyFunding?” As a reminder, the PERIS™ team will be hosting the below topic specific training sessions.

05/07/2019

The PERIS™ Team will be conducting topic-specific trainings for research administrators throughout the Spring and Summer. No registration is required to attend.

04/18/2019

Only individuals listed as “Award Editors” on an award record in MyFunding have the ability to provide others access to the award recor

04/11/2019

All award-related documents should be uploaded using the “Upload Award Documents” activity in the MyFunding award workspace (as shown below).

04/03/2019

Active projects and projects that closed on or after July 1, 2017 have been converted from InfoEd into MyFunding. Each converted project record in MyFunding has a specific prefix along with the InfoEd award number (I#) for easy identification.

03/27/2019

The PERIS™ Team and Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) teamed up to develop the listing of subcodes (cost categories) in MyFunding.

02/13/2019

As a reminder, a modular budget must be structured in a specific way in the MyFunding module in order to ensure that the modular budget is properly displayed in a grant application.

02/06/2019

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) allow members of peer review committees and advisory groups to submit under its continuous submission policy (

01/24/2019

The MyFunding module of the PERIS™ portal allows users to search for and apply to funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) from a wide variety of federal sponsors.

01/11/2019

The PERIS™ team has a dedicated email, peristeam@pitt.edu, which is continuously monitored during normal business hours by the entire PERIS™ team.