Salaries (Back to Top)
The total of salaries requested is $71,888. Support is requested for two months of summer salary for the project director, Prof. J. Jones, (July 1-31, Year X, and June 1-30, Year Y), 50% salary for a research associate (Dr. Smith), support for two graduate students at 50% time, and one year support for a research technician. Western Kentucky University will provide release time of one course (or 12.5%) during academic year X-Y for Dr. Jones. All salaries are based on the current institutional salary bases for Year X-Year Y.
Fringe benefits (Back to Top)
The total of fringe benefits requested is $11,761. Fringe benefits are calculated at the current [*] institutional rates of 27.56% for professional staff, 21.61% for classified staff, and 0.60% for graduate students.
[Note: remember that fringe rates change each year. Check the Sponsored Programs Web site for current rates.]
Travel (Back to Top)
Support is requested for the project director to attend the National ABC Meeting in New York. Costs are estimated at $900 for meeting registration, $350 for airfare, $650 for lodging ($130/night x five nights), $200 for ground transportation and parking ($38 for round-trip to Nashville, $42 for seven days in long-term parking, and the remaining $120 for transportation to the meeting site and taxis).
Equipment (Back to Top)
Support is requested for a Compro Analytical Unit XC-12 at $8,320 and the peripheral control unit at $1,680. Both pieces of equipment are available to the university at a 20% educational discount from the manufacturer (see attached agreement).
Supplies and Materials (Back to Top)
A total of $14,970 is requested for supplies and materials as follows.
Electronic components, $5200: Two XYZ processor chips @ $280 apiece, are required for the enhanced calculation experiments described in Activity 2.3. Five connector units @ $120 apiece and five QBIV interface boards @ $230 apiece will permit data transfer to the existing laboratory workstations as described in Activity 3.1. Ten portable Quanta Data Kits (QD-12b's) @ $195 apiece will permit the data collection in the field, as described in Activity 4.2. Five solar developers @ $188 apiece will permit the production of the Datachrome slides as described in Activity 4.3.
Photographic materials, $4800: Five Datachrome DX23 cartridges @ $100 each with bi-port attachments @ $35 each will be used with the solar developers. Data collection in Activity 4.3 will require and estimated four cartons of D25x film @ $200 per carton, six cartons of D832 film @ $150 per carton, six packs of S13 solar developing paper @ $120 per package, and ten assorted filters @ $30 each. An estimated 100 boxes of slide frames @ $7.00/box will be used for the final slide production. The remaining $705 requested will be used for miscellaneous photographic materials, such as film rollers, developing pans, plastic gloves, photo clips and other supplies.
Chemicals, $4970: Costs of developing fluids and chemicals for Activity 4.3 are estimated at $1280 for Phase One and $890 for the follow-up portion of the study. The remaining $2800 requested here is budgeted for the laboratory chemicals for Activity 3.1 (kryonic analysis), Activity 3.5 (media and solutions) and Activity 4.1 (sample testing).
Other direct costs (Back to Top)
Other direct costs of $7810 will be needed. The graduate operating fee @ $3,180 per year is required of all students in the biotechnology program. Two students will be supported by this project. Support is also requested for page charges of $750 (estimated at the current $125 per page for the Photochemistry Journal) and for telephone, fax, and postage estimated at $700.
Indirect or Facilities & Administrative costs (Back to Top)
Indirect costs totaling $38,820 are requested at the institution's (DHHS pre-determined) approved rate of 54% [Check with OSP for the current F&A rate.] of salaries and wages.