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Personnel

Equipment

Travel

Other Direct Costs

Indirect Costs

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Personnel
There is one Primary Investigator and one Senior Investigator on this project:

• ____________________, Assistant Professor, will be the principal investigator and will lead the research.
• ____________________, Associate Professor, will assist in this effort.

Support for two (2) full-time graduate student research assistants (RAs) is requested.

• 1 student will _____.
• 1 student will _____.

Equipment
Support is requested for the purchase of ________ in the ____ year of the project. It has an estimated cost of $______.

Travel
$_____ per year is required for domestic travel to technical conferences to present the results of our research. This represents ____ trips per year. An additional $_____ is required for foreign travel to ___ technical conference per year. Travel lines are inflated by 4% in years two and three.

Other Direct Costs

• Materials and Supplies: $_____ per year is required to pay for project specific software and research supplies. No routine office supplies are charged to sponsored research projects.

• Computer Services: The Department of Computer Science distributes the cost of maintaining its shared computing infrastructure among all projects through its Computer Services Recharge Center. This Recharge Center is reviewed by the University each year to ensure that it is in compliance with all applicable federal and state regulations, including OMB Circulars A-21 and A-110, as well as the Federal Cost Accounting Standards. Rates are adjusted annually to ensure that the Recharge Center is operating on a strict cost recovery basis. The current rate is $535 per Full Time Equivalent (FTE) per month. Rates apply to each user and are charged based upon each person's salary distribution, e.g., if a person works 50% on one project and 50% on another during the month, each project pays 50% of the fee for that month. All employees and students are assessed the same rate without regard to their salary source (federal, state, foundation, commercial). No additional fees are charged and all services included within the Recharge Center are available to all users. The Department's computing environment includes more than 680 computers integrated by means of high-speed networks, including an integrated voice/data switch and video switches. E-mail, internet access, routine backups, a host of personal productivity and development software, the services of the TSC (Technical Support Center) Help Desk, UNIX System Administration, PC (Windows and NT) and Macintosh System Administration and the labor for most hardware repair are examples of the available services. This Recharge Center is subject to, and has passed, both federal and state audits. All records are available for review by authorized federal and state representatives.

• Maintenance: Equipment maintenance is calculated at 2.5% of the cost of equipment in the year it is acquired, and 5% of the cost of equipment in both the second and third years after acquisition. By handling these repairs "in-house" with our factory-certified staff, we are able to keep the costs considerably lower than charges from either the manufacturer or from third-party providers (typically 10% of the purchase price).

• Communications: $500 per year is requested to cover the cost of Federal Express or other expedited package delivery services.

• Graduate Student Tuition: All supported graduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill have their in-state tuition paid by the source of their support, e.g., federal grant, state teaching assistant funds, fellowship grant. These numbers are estimates as tuition charges are set by the North Carolina Legislature annually. $4,614(estimate) is required for each graduate student for academic year 2007-2008; and $4,798 (estimate) for academic year 2008-09;and $4,990 (estimate) for academic year 2009-10 .

All categories of Other Direct Costs are inflated by 4% in years 2 and 3 except the two that are formula driven, i.e., computer services and maintenance.

Facilites & Administrative Costs
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has an approved Facilities & Administrative (F&A) cost rate agreement providing for an F&A cost rate of 46% of MTDC. This rate is not applied to equipment over $5,000 per unit, graduate student tuition or any subcontract costs in excess of $25,000.