EXPENDITURES ALLOWED

EXPENDITURES NOT ALLOWED

PERSONNEL

• Salary/fringe support for grad or ugrad research assistants; partial support for post-doc and civil service personnel.  See the Personnel Grid for details on the maximum allotment of $29,141. Note that this maximum is PER GRANT APPLICATION, not per year.
• Non-U of M personnel, e.g. consultants, honoraria, artistic commissions (may not exceed $3000 or 20% of total GIA project cost, whichever is smaller)
• Research Subject payments

• Faculty or visiting faculty salary support
• Regular, full-time civil service salary support (exception category 7)
• Support for personnel to edit or index publication material or to word process manuscripts or proposals
• Subcontracts

OPPERATING SUPPLIES AND SERVICES

• General operating supplies and services for this project, includes computer supplies and software, if clearly necessary for the project.

• Computer time charges for U of M computer use
• U of M computer time application fee
• Books, subscriptions, reprints, publication costs
• Utilities (e.g. phone lines)

TRAVEL

• Transportation and/or per diem expenses to a) gather data or use resources otherwise not available, or b) work with other colleagues on research of mutual interest.  (Most scholarly meetings, conferences and short courses intended primarily to report on research are not appropriate.)  Rates and other travel information can be found at http://travel.umn.edu/. Rates should be reduced proportionately for longer visits in one locale, when it should be possible to make more economical arrangements.

• Travel to sabbatical and single semester leave sites from Minnesota and return.  Travel and per diem expenses for single semester leave and sabbatical sites to another site (“side trips”) for strictly research purposes may be considered.
• Travel expenses associated with professional meetings, conferences, and short courses
• Fees and expenses associated with conferences

EQUIPMENT OR RENTS AND LEASES

• Minor or major equipment, including computer equipment, if specifically needed for the purpose of the proposed project (e.g. extensive data analysis, modeling, simulations, etc.)  Note that acquisition of most computer hardware and peripherals is considered a collegiate and/or departmental responsibility.
• Cat. 2 requests must include a 30-50% match.  Non/Cat. 2 requests of capital equipment may be required to provide cost sharing.

• Laptop computers, when these can be borrowed form the college or rented from University Computer Services
• Computers to be used for general word processing purposes or when any other departmental computer could be used
• Small, general-purpose items
• Furniture
• Maintenance contracts
• Charges to connect to a network