Salary Caps

Some sponsors put caps on the amount of salary that can be recovered from sponsored research. Effective December 23, 2011, a salary cap was applied to all DHHS agencies. The following are links to PSU policy, DHHS policy, and NSF policy for salary caps.

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The Office of Sponsored Programs provides central coordination and oversight of all research awards that come into Penn State.
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Proposals & Awards News: Penn State Hershey awarded $3.9M grant to research Parkinson's disease
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Statistics

The Science and Engineering (S&E) Research Expenditure Rankings for FY11 were released November 2012. This report identifies Penn State's rankings in S&E research fields and subfields. This data is based on an expenditure survey conducted each year by the National Science Foundation. Survey data from prior years can be found here.

The Annual Report of Research Activity charts sources of research funding, research expenditures, and the research activity of the interdisciplinary and technology transfer units.