Grant Submissions

Submitting Grant Proposals through Columbia Engineering

For questions or assistance with preparing your budget, RASCAL, or proposal, please contact Rumana Ashraf, Manager of Grants & Contracts, at ra2384@columbia.edu or 212-851-9564; or Tony Schmitt, SEAS Grants and Contracts Manager, at as4183@columbia.edu or 212-854-8492.

For a list of specific support services offered by the Grants Managers, please click here.

Helpful Links:

• Sample Budget Form (excel format). Please choose the worksheet that corresponds to the project location and the originating sponsor.
• Columbia Research Homepage: provides a university-wide resource for research; New, July 2017
• SPA Institutional Information page; provides current fringe rates, ICR, DUNS number, etc.
• PI Eligibility
• Columbia Libraries/Information Services Webpage; provides Data Management Plan requirements, templates, and samples.
• Freelance illustrators/graphic designers who have worked on projects for SEAS
• Columbia IRB Website
• Columbia University's RASCAL - Research and Compliance Administration System
• InfoEd Welcome to the InfoEd eRA Portal for Electronic Grants administration (for NIH submissions, it is recommended that Adobe forms be used as opposed to InfoEd for the time being due to system glitches)
• NSF FastLane
• NSF Grant Proposal Guidelines
• NIH PHS398 and SF424 Instructions
• Grants.gov

Finding Funding:

• Columbia Research Find Funding Page:  One-stop resource for finding links to federal agencies, non-federal funding, internal funding programs, private foundations, and a variety of other funding resources.
• SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network): This is an extremely useful component of InfoEd, by which users can search both governmental and private funding opportunities.
  • Searches can be specified by grant type, research areas, scientific keywords and other paramaters.
  • To login with your uni and password, please go to: https://www.infoed.columbia.edu/ and click "SPIN" in the left hand corner.
  • You may then use the "search" menu to conduct basic, keyword, or advanced searches. You may save your searches and receive daily or weekly email updates.
  • Simple instructions maybe be found on the 1-page SPIN Quick Start Guide.

Helpful Information:

• Columbia Engineering's 9-month GRA tuition rate charged to grants: $23,106 ($2567.33 monthly) effective 9/1/18-5/31/19. This is the rate used for govt grants with 62% IC and for industry grants with at least 35% IC (it represents 1/2 the full tuition rate of $46,212)
• On-Campus Indirect Cost rate for Gov't grants:  62% (effective 7/1/18)
• Off-Campus Indirect Cost Rate for Gov't grants: 26%
• Indirect Cost Rate for all Industry/Non-Gov't grants: 35%
• Fringe Benefit Rate for Faculty/Staff:  30.3% govt (effective 7/1/17); 30.5% non-government  (effective 7/1/18; previously 29.75%)
• Fringe Benefit Rate for hourly student employees (non-GRA): 8.15% for both government and non-government grants. Fringe is charged only for summer months
• Minimum GRA stipend rate: $39,133 per year ($3,261/mo), effective July 1, 2018
• For Post-docs and Officers of Research, please see salary guidelines
• Morningside DUNS: 049179401
• EIN: 135598093
• NIH Salary Cap: $189,600 (effective 1/7/18)
• NIH GRA Stipend + Tuition Cap: $47,484