Due to a change in our retirement plan, temporary (non-student) employees become eligible for 11% contribution into the retirement program if they: --are initially hired on or after January 1, 2009, andRead More

Beginning October 1, 2008, the Old Dominion University Research Foundation will start charging a fee for replacing payroll checks. The fee for this service is $25.00 per check. This fee will be charged for the following conditions:Read More

Principal Investigators are required to notify the Research Foundation Human Resources Department of pending termination of all Regular Status employees and Postdoctoral Associates prior to the employees last day of service.Read More

The NIH recently announced its new Public Access Policy regarding peer-reviewed publications. The new NIH Public Access Policy will ensure published NIH-funded research is accessible to the public, health care providers, educators and scientists and will help advance science and improve human health.Read More

The Research Foundation Board of Trustees promulgated certain policies in accordance with the federal Cost Accounting Standards Disclosure Statement (DS-2) process. The policies provide documentation to formalize existing procedures but do not reflect change in practices.Read More

The purpose of the Advance Travel Authorization procedure is to provide documentation for insurance purposes regarding travel at the Foundation as well as to verify the allowability, allocability, and reasonableness of proposed travel under a sponsored program.Read More

Do you ever use ODU classified employees to work on funded research projects? If so you need to be aware of the procedure on Secondary Employment of a University Classified Employee through the Research Foundation, effective November 1, 2005.Read More

This serves to document the current Research Foundation procedure for processing faculty overload payments. Please note that this process has been in place for some time and does not denote a change.Read More