RCUH, in partnership with the University of Hawai‘i, will be joining the State of Hawaii’s eSign program.  eSign will provide users with the option to route documents (such as contracts) via email for electronic signature.  Our hope is that this system will improve the efficiency of contract/document routing and signing.

eSign does not require the document signers to be registered.  However, all those who will be initiating the transmittal of RCUH documents for electronic signature must be registered in order to use the system.

We are now collecting the names, email addresses, and affiliation (i.e., UH or RCUH employee) of those interested in utilizing eSign.  You must have a hawaii.edu, rcuh.com, or hawaii.gov email address.  Please email [email protected] with your information by Friday, December 2, 2016.

Information regarding future use of the eSign program will be announced in the coming weeks.

Should you have any questions about the eSign program, please contact Erin Yoda at [email protected].

 

 

NOMINATE YOUR PROJECT STAFF FOR THE
2016 RCUH OUTSTANDING EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR:

RECOGNITIONS

Two types of awards will be given:

1. Outstanding Researcher/Project Manager/Professional (exempt status position)
2. Outstanding Project Support Staff (non-exempt status position)

 The awards encourage, recognize, and reward RCUH employees who have made demonstrable, significant, and exemplary contributions to their project during the past fiscal year (July 2015 – June 2016).

AWARDS

• $1,000 to the first place awardee in each category
• $500 to the second place awardee in each category

All nominees will be recognized at the RCUH Annual Outstanding Employee Luncheon (date to be announced), where the awardees will be announced.

NOMINATIONS

Principal Investigators may nominate up to two employees per category from their respective program/project.  No more than one group or team nominations will be accepted from a program/project or college/school/institute.  Group or team nominations are limited to no more than five individuals.

DEADLINE

The deadline to submit nomination/s is November 7, 2016.  Email all nominations to [email protected].  Click here for the nomination form.

For more information, please refer to policy 3.450 Outstanding Employee of the Year Award or contact Gayle Hamasaki at [email protected].

We’ve launched . . . the redesigned RCUH website is live!  We hope you like the new look, feel, and functionality of the site.

Please be sure you are going to www.rcuh.com so you land on the home page.  Previous bookmarks may take you to a different page.

Some new items have been added so take a look at:

• Awards – Meet the outstanding project employees who were recognized this year and view the video clips on each of them. It’s fascinating to learn about the diverse  research activities everyone is involved in and the dedication of our employees.

• Online Training Videos – There are currently 2 video series for your viewing pleasure. We hope you find these to be helpful resources.  After watching the videos, please take a few minutes to complete the evaluation forms.  We value your feedback, which will help us improve upon future training.  We intend to establish more training programs, so your suggestions on future topics are welcome.

Our Policies and Procedures are still ‘under construction’ so do not yet have the new look/feel.  We hope to be able to move that to the new platform before the end of the year.

Please let us know how you like our new look.  If you have any questions, please let us know ([email protected]). Thank you!

 

Effective January 1, 2017, RCUH will be eliminating the discount on the indirect cost rate for advance funded intramural projects service ordered to RCUH. Currently, the indirect cost rate is 1.5% for projects with advance funds and 3.2% for projects without advance funds. All projects will henceforth be charged the 3.2% rate. RCUH regrets that it is unable to continue the discounted rate. Revenues are needed to implement long delayed and much-needed infrastructure upgrades to RCUH’s IT systems and to enable RCUH to provide enhanced project services. We appreciate your understanding.

In October, a reminder notice will be sent to the lead fiscal administrators along with a list of their affected accounts.

If you have any questions, please contact Doug Tonokawa at 988-8320 or [email protected].

Effective July 2016, RCUH will be sending monthly email notifications to Principal Investigators (PIs) and Fiscal Administrators (FAs) regarding intramural or revolving accounts that are nearing termination and/or have a deficit balance. We request that PIs work with their FA to take the necessary action regarding their account(s).

We hope that these notifications will be helpful to the PIs and FAs in managing their accounts. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Project Administration section at [email protected].  Thank you.