The NCURA 51st Annual Meeting is where faculty and staff, who are involved in research administration come to meet and share real-world experiences of pre and post-award administration as it affects institutions (higher-education, scientific, foundations, and governmental bodies) who are involved in research, service, and project activities.
Posts under ‘Training’
Office Live Workspace: Research Collaboration and Document Sharing
Over the last three years, both the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have encouraged collaboration among researchers primarily through the status of co-investigators and/or research collaborators as a way to insure a team-oriented research environment between departments and colleges within a university, as well as between institutions and research [...]
Content Development and Deployment: Using a Wiki
The upcoming National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) 51st annual meeting in Washington D.C. from October 20 – 24th
provides a wide opportunity of training, discussions and meetings that affords research administrators like me a great opportunity to widen our knowledge base to ably support faculty and staff engaged in external research. This will be [...]
Centralized Training
The challenge of designing a comprehensive training program that supports the introduction of a new computer application within a university is one that can be exciting at one end, but daunting in its scope and nature.
Just imagine, you are about to roll-out a system where one of its functions allows users to view their [...]
Responsible Conduct of Research Training Plan
In the last two posts I shared with you details on upcoming changes in National Science Foundation (NSF) proposals that would require all institutions seeking funding to ensure that they have “a plan to provide appropriate training and oversight in the responsible and ethical conduct of research to undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers who will [...]
Making the case for Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research:
(This is a fictional story)
The deadline for generating the report was rapidly approaching, and Lisa knew that the federal agency would not be pleased with another delay in presenting some data on the study of “Microbial Interaction regarding Patient Antibiotics Responses”. To compound the problem, Dr. Argman-Pait, the Principal Investigator (PI) had not yet compiled [...]