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ePAWs Award is an easy to follow module where simple questions and answers guide the user in providing the necessary information to track details about awards, from the first competitive segment to Program/Projects over time.

Award Acceptance Requests initiated by NU-RES or by the College

Log into ePAWs and choose the role “ePAWs Transaction Reviewer/Approver”

• On the Dashboard, review the “My Pool” and “My Queue” widget for transactions submitted for Award Acceptance

• Select the Transaction ID link, and open the Transaction
• View the Route Log; if the College submitted the transaction, the first stop is the Submitter stop; if NU-RES submitted the transaction, the first stop is the Receipt stop:

While Senior GOs will use this workflow, GOs should add a secondary review stop as necessary

• Select the 3 action dots, and select “Add stop Research Administration Secondary Review” and a secondary review stop is inserted to the Route Log

• Select “Review Data via Award Acceptance Request” link

The Transaction Wizard presents 4 steps

General Information

• Similar to the NU-RES RA Award Obligation Setup (AOS) form, the Transaction provides details about the award obligation in the appropriate Award Wizard fields
  • Review the information provided; adjust as necessary
  • All fields are editable to align with what is in the Notice of Award
    • NEW- Places of Performance
      • Select “+Add Place of Performance” to open a pop-up
      • Enter the building from the dropdown menu (Information from NU Facilities was pre-loaded to ePAWs)
      • Enter other information relative to the Places of Performance
      • Select “Add” to include comments as needed
    • The Comment box is the common place where the application collects comments to add to the Notebook
  • Optionally: Request information through use of the Information Request or Consult feature
• Select Next

Notice of Award Details

• Review and adjust details about the award obligation in the appropriate Award Wizard fields
• Review the “At Risk Accounts” file stored on NU-RES Sharepoint/Award Management Resources to see if Research Finance has already created an At Risk award in Workday for this NOA
  • If yes, then select Yes to the question “Was there an Advance Account (Air or At Risk) requested?”
  • Selecting Yes will prevent this award from being duplicated in Workday
• Select Next