[Faculty] Temporary Restraining Orders

[Chorover, Jon - (chorover)]

ALVSCE Colleagues,

This email is to draw your attention to the latest update on the RII Federal Funding Updates<https://research.arizona.edu/administration/federal-funding-updates?j=1713153&sfmc_sub=35993279&l=1205_HTML&u=38967214&mid=514008426&jb=1> webpage.

Specifically, a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) out of NY state with nationwide impacts has placed, at minimum, a delay on implementation of the President's Executive Orders pertaining to research funding.  Specifically, "updated guidance is to continue work on your federal awards unless you have a project specific stop work order, suspension or termination from your federal award or prime sponsor".

Please remember that if you receive such a "pause work" directive from your sponsor, forward it to me, your unit head, your unit lead business manager, and sponsor at arizona.edu<mailto:sponsor at arizona.edu>.

If you have any uncertainties about the status of your directives at this time (e.g., you received a project specific directive to pause work prior to the present implementation of the TRO), please be in communication with your program officer for their guidance as to whether the directive still applies under the TRO.

The back and forth on these orders has created confusion, and the impact on your programs are well recognized. For this reason, I will continue to maintain regular email communications at times when guidance changes, such as at this time.

Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns.

Kind regards,
Jon

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Jon Chorover
Interim Associate Vice President/Associate Dean for Research
Professor, Department of Environmental Science
Division of Agriculture, Life & Veterinary Sciences, & Cooperative Extension (ALVSCE)
College of Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences (CALES)
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone:  (520) 626-5635
Email:  chorover at arizona.edu<mailto:chorover at arizona.edu>

I am on ancestral lands of the
Tohono O'odham and Pascua Yaqui.


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