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[Hlitawci Xiong]

My question is what to do if the Grad Student holds a 50%FTE position on a grant 1 and then charges one week travel expenses to grant #2 and states they volunteered their non UMN appointment time to grant #2.  If they hold a 50%FTE 20 hrs a week position, how can you travel for the week and fulfill your time for your position?

[Angi Aune]

From my understanding, they can commit unpaid time for travel on another grant while working 50% on the first grant. 

[Heather Steen]

Hitawci, that is partly a question for the supervising PI, but in Chemistry they could be doing literature reviews, or writing up results for a paper on work they've already done in the lab.  I'm guessing that in some other departments remote work is even easier.  I'm not sure what math grad students do, but I imagine they don't' have to be on campus to do it.  Even many of our chemists are computational, and can do their work fully remotely, so woudl be able to do it from a hotel at a conference, in the evenings.