KRANIUM Participant Page

• Ella Batty, Assistant Director for Educational Programs
• Lani O’Donnell, Educational Coordinator

The Kempner Institute is located on the 6th floor of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex (SEC).

Address:
150 Western Avenue,
Allston, MA 02134

All KRANIUM events will take place in the Kempner Conference Room (6.242) in the East wing unless otherwise noted.

Shuttles:

Harvard provides free shuttles to get around campus. You can see where on the map of Harvard Shuttle Stops.

Note: Kempner Institute’s stop is the bottom, middle stop called SEC. It is on the green Quad Stadium Express line, the purple Quad SEC Direct line, and the red Allston Loop line.

You will receive the first $1000 as soon as possible after being set up in Harvard’s procurement system, Buy2Pay.

You will receive the remaining $2000 in early July.

Register for Buy2Pay

Buy2Pay is the procurement system we use to pay your stipends. 

To set up your account with Buy2Pay, contact Lani O’Donnell, and she will send you a supplier registration invitation via email that will come from ap_supplieronboarding@harvard.edu. See the detailed description of the registration process here. Harvard will review your registration details and notify you if anything is missing. You can expect this process to take about a week to complete from start to finish.

When completing your registration, please select the electronic payment option (Zelle). This is the fastest way to receive payment and safeguards us from having to track down and replace paper checks if they are lost in the mail. 

 After your profile is setup and confirmed, you can use this link to login. *Note: Foreign Individuals (Non-U.S. Citizens) may also be required to submit additional information to ensure compliance with U.S. regulations. New registrants may receive a separate email from Harvard’s Online Tax Compliance System, Sprintax Calculus (hutax@sprintax.com), after their Buy2Pay registration has been submitted. The link they send will only remain active for 24 hours so please respond quickly.  You may set up a 1:1 appointment to get help with completing the Sprintax questionnaire and uploading required documents.

Stipend Financial Policy

To learn more about the tax and financial policies of your stipend, please see the following resources:

• There is a training and slide deck held on 4/17/24 that has some nice quick reference charts that may be helpful. See the main policy page under What’s New for the slide deck and recording.
• They also have a full written policy – Fellowship Payments and Reimbursements for Students and Non-employee Postdocs/Fellows | Financial Policy Office (harvard.edu)
• General Fellowship Information Brochure has some frequently asked questions.
• Fellowships Toolkit – Appendix B gives a more detailed breakdown on tax and reporting requirements that is a good reference.

Please refer to the HSURV handbook for information about housing, dining, and contacts for questions not addressed in the handbook.

You should receive an email invitation to the Kempner workspace. If you don’t, try logging into the Harvard Enterprise grid in order to see the Kempner workspace. 

Please monitor the private kranium2024 channel and use it to chat/ask questions!

If you’re using the cluster, please make sure you join and monitor the cluster-users channel

Ella Batty: Tuesdays 3pm, Room 6.110 (message to schedule Zoom if you can’t come in person)

Lani O’Donnell: Thursdays 3pm, Room 6.149 (message to schedule Zoom if you can’t come in person)

July 4th is a holiday. We may approve up to 3 other days off if your mentor approves, it isn’t a Tuesday, and it is not too many consecutive days off in a row. Please email Lani about vacation requests.

We will be using a Google Drive to share resources. You will be given permission, and can access the drive here: KRANIUM 2024 Shared Resources.

If you don’t have access, please email Lani to make sure you get added.

You will be writing an abstract to be featured in the HSURV book. You can check out this book from last year here. The tentative deadline is July 17th – more information will be coming soon.

Towards the end of the program, we will have a poster session where KRANIUM students will present posters of their research. Information on the poster session will be updated throughout the summer.

At the end of summer, you’ll fill out a short final report that consists of your abstract and a brief personal reflection.