Guidance on Salary Limitation for Grants and Cooperative Agreements FY 2025

Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-085

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-085.html

Purpose:

This Notice provides information regarding the salary limitation for NIH grant, cooperative agreement, and extramural research and development contract awards.

Since 1990, Congress has legislatively mandated a limitation on salary for individuals under NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards (referred to here as a grant).

As a reminder, effective October 1, 2024, this mandate applies to both direct salaries (individuals working directly on NIH projects) and indirect salaries (executive salaries in various uncapped cost pools). The mandate appears in the annual appropriation act that provides authority for NIH to incur obligations for a given Fiscal Year (FY). HHS/NIH has not received an FY 2025 appropriation and is operating under a Continuing Resolution, the “Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (Public Law 119-4)”, that applies the terms and conditions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 restricts the amount of salary to Executive Level II of the Federal Executive pay scale. The Office of Personnel Management recently released new salary levels for the Executive Pay Scale. Effective January 1, 2025, the salary limitation for Executive Level II is $225,700.

For active awards, including awards that have been issued in FY 2025 (continuation and new) that were restricted to Executive Level II, if adequate funds are available, and if the salary cap increase is consistent with the institutional base salary, recipients may rebudget funds to accommodate the current Executive Level II salary level. Recipients may not draw down funds, whether direct or indirect costs, to pay salaries above the salary rate limitation, and recipients must have established policies and procedures that are consistently applied regardless of the source of funds.

Please refer to the full notice linked above for further details.

Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs.

NIH Operates Under a Continuing Resolution

Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-084

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-084.html

Purpose:

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including National Institutes of Health (NIH), operates under the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (Public Law 119-4) signed by President Trump on March 15, 2025. This Act (CR) continues government operations through September 30, 2025, at the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 enacted level, with no reduction.

Consistent with NIH practices during FYs 2006 - 2024, NIH Institutes and/or Centers may, at their discretion, issue non-competing research grant awards at a level below that indicated on the most recent Notice of Award. All legislative mandates that were in effect in FY 2024 (see NOT-OD-24-110) remain in effect under this CR, as well as the salary limitation set at Executive Level II of the Federal Pay Scale (see NOT-OD-24-057) and the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award predoctoral and postdoctoral stipend levels and tuition/fees as described in NOT-OD-24-104.

Please refer to the full notice linked above for further details.

Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs.

Registration for the Catholic University of America's summer courses in ancient Greek and Latin is now open.

Catholic University offer a full menu of live online intensive courses in ancient Greek and Latin, from the elementary through the advanced levels. 

Tuition is $570/credit hour, and sections are small to guarantee close interaction and support. Each course carries either 3 or 6 credit hours and is charged accordingly.

Additional information is available on our Summer Program website (https://greek-latin.catholic.edu/academics/summer/index.html) and in the attached flyer, which includes the full schedule, with dates. 

Vunnathi Ankem | Conceptualizing Intimate Partner Abuse Through the Lens of Intracultural Dialogue Amongst South Asian Students | Psychology | Christopher Murphy

POSTER PRESENTATION | UC BALLROOM | 10:00-11:00 | POSTER 10

Tyler Brown | Building Empathy and Awareness through Cultural Sensitivity Training: Insights from an Interactive Approach | Kerri Evans

ORAL PRESENTATION | UC BALLROOM LOUNGE | 10:00-10:15

• Ryan Calheira | Emotional Distress and Cognitive Performance: The Impact of Depression and Stress on Accuracy and Workload
  Sarah Conklin
  Morning Poster Session I | 10 – 11 a.m. | Poster #21
• Ryan Calheira | Perceived Socioeconomic Status, Cognitive Performance, and Physiologic Workload in Adults From Baltimore
  Sarah Conklin
  Morning Poster Session I | 10 – 11 a.m. | Poster #47
• Ryan Calheira | Mind-Body Fitness: Unique Biotypes and Their Association With Anxiety and Depression
  Sarah Conklin
  Afternoon Session I | 1 – 2 p.m. | Poster #49
• Ryan Calheira | The Connection Between Perceived Stress and Mind-Body Fitness in Community Adults
  Sarah Conklin
  Morning Poster Session I | 10 – 11 a.m. | Poster #58
• Ryan Calheira | Frequency of Mindfulness and Contemplative Practices Covary With Unique Mind-Body Fitness Biotypes
  Sarah Conklin
  Afternoon Session I | 1 – 2 p.m. | Poster #55

Ada Glaser | Goals and Motivations of Baltimore Early Intervention Providers | INDS | Brandon Burkholder

ORAL PRESENTATION | UC 310 | 1:40-1:55

Nardos Kebede | The Generational Evolution of Cultural Identity and Its Impacts on Integration | Political Science | Brigid Starkey

ORAL PRESENTATION | UC BALLROOM LOUNGE | 11:20-11:35

Hira Khan | Comparing Caregiver Strain in Children with Anxiety or ADHD Using an Internalizing/Externalizing Framework | Public Health | Marcos Grados

POSTER PRESENTATION | UC BALLROOM | 1:00-2:00 | POSTER 50

Oluwaseun Kintunde | Evaluating the Function Of Set6 In Proteostasis | Biological Sciences |

Erin Green

POSTER PRESENTATION | UC BALLROOM | 10:00-11:00 | POSTER 6

• Devanshi Mistry | The Effect of Polycrisis on Democracy in Ancient, Interwar, and Contemporary Italy
  Carolyn Forestiere
  Afternoon Session I | 1 – 2 p.m. | Poster #36

Nehal Naqvi | Evaluating POLI 301 as a Gateway Course for Upper-Level Political Science Electives | Political Science | Ian Anson

POSTER PRESENTATION | UC BALLROOM | 2:30-3:30 | POSTER 5

POSTER PRESENTATION | UC BALLROOM | 11:00-12:00 | POSTER 14

Suzi Agyako-Wiredu | Dendronized Gold Nanorattles Loaded With Doxorubicin as a Drug Delivery Platform | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Marie-Christine Daniel

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 10:00-11:00 | Poster 4

Jumana Al-Anesi | Gold Nanoparticle-Based Colorimetric Test for Lead Sensing in Tap Water | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Marie-Christine Daniel

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 10:00-11:00 | Poster 6

Ethan Denny | The Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species Through Microwave Irradiation of Metasurface Microplates. | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Christopher Geddes

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 10:00-11:00 | Poster 36

Darryn Greene | Biophysical Characterization of Metallated And Inhibitor-Bound Escherichia Coli NDM-1 | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Aaron Smith

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 1:00-2:00 | Poster 33

Aeon Kaplowitz | Exploring Linker Functionalization in Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks For Curcumin Encapsulation and Release | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Lisa Kelly

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 1:00-2:00 | Poster 47

Gabriel Kengni Jr | Optimizing Capping Techniques For Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Michael Summers

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 10:00-11:00 | Poster 56

Maisa Khan | Visualizing Nucleotidase Localizations In Mouse Tissues Using MALDI Mass Spectrometry Imaging | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Herana Seneviratne

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 10:00-11:00 | Poster 57

Haneul Kim | Amplifying Plasmonic Current Using Gold Colloids | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Christopher Geddes

Oral Presentation | UC 204 | 3:00-3:15

Megan Nguyen | Crystallization And Structural Determination Of 3’ Cap-Independent Translation Enhancer from Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Deepak Koirala

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 2:30-3:30 | Poster 8

Paisley Nowell | Functionalizing Gold Nanoparticles With Gadolinium Chelated Dendrons | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Marie-Christine Daniel

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 2:30-3:30 | Poster 9

Johnathan Ragazzo, Dayna Garner | Detection and Quantification of Carboxylic Acids in Complex Solutions | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Lisa Kelly

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 2:30-3:30 | Poster 17

Anderson Rivas | Understanding Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity Using Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Herana Kamal Seneviratne

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 11:00-12:00 | Poster 20

Aliyyah Roberson | Novel Dual-mode Fluorescence and Phosphorescence Probes For Ratiometric in Vivo Oxygen Sensing | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Marcin Ptaszek

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 2:30-3:30 | Poster 20

Ariana Rodriguez | Investigating The Interaction Between HIV-1 RRE S1A, Rev, And Gag: Binding Mechanisms at the Purine-Rich Bulge | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Michael Summers

Poster Presentation | UC Ballroom | 2:30-3:30 | Poster 21

Ida Dierker | Taking Back the Piano | Music | Lisa Cella

Piano Performance | UC Ballroom Lounge | 1:40-2:15

Lilli Malone | The Salem Witch Trials: A Case Study for Cultural

Disaster | History| Amy Froide

Oral Presentation | UC 310 | 11:40-11:55

Mike Mentley | RDS-1, Reef, and Sarmat: Russia’s Ядерное (Nuclear) Weapons Then and Now | Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication | Vira Zhdanovych

ORAL PRESENTATION | UC 310 | 3:20-3:35

Petra Janka | Hungarian Folklore Motifs Study | Visual Arts | Ann Sofie Clemmensen

POSTER PRESENTATION | UC BALLROOM | 10:00-11:00 | POSTER 53

Rachel Tyler | Artistic Growth: A Study into the Cultural Expsoure and the Discovery of New Levels of Creativity and Expression | Ann Sofie Clemmensen 

ORAL PRESENTATION | UC BALLROOM LOUNGE | 9:20-9:35