If you have
not yet registered for the SRA
Western Section Annual meeting in Coeur d’Alene, it
isn’t too late! You can still
register on-site!
Next week we launch our research administrators’ rendezvous of
knowledge. In addition to our Keynote and Award Speakers; Dr.
Warren Browner speaking on “In Search of the Fountain: The Genetics of Human Longevity” and Mary Woolley
from Research!America,
look at what is in store for you!
“Performance
Management in Research Administration – Can You Use it in Your
Job?” Will be presented by Geoff Grant from the White House Office of Science and
Technology
Policy. It is a session you won’t want to miss. Additionally:
Executive
Administration and Leadership
All day Leadership
Retreat April 30th with
facilitator Fran Ulmer
Experts, Entrepreneurs
and Conflicts of Interest
Moving Up: Lessons
Learned
How Globalization Will
Change the Clinical Research Industry
Bridging the Gap Between
Research and Technology
Commercialization
Managing Workplace
Catastrophe
Administrative
Innovations to Accelerate Translational
Research
Strategic Planning
Finding Grant Management
Solutions for Small Grantees
White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy Update
International Trade in
Arms and Export Regulation
Venture Capital Funding
of Academic/Institutional Start Up
Companies
Secrets of Developing a
Classified Research Program
People
New to Research Administration
NIH Fundamentals
Fundamentals of Research
Administration
OMB Circular A-110
Intellectual Property
Primer
Office of Management and
Budget Update
Bumps in the Road
Beyond Humor
Property and Inventory
Basics
Sponsor Updates
NSF Fastlane Workshop
Fundamentals in
Government Contracting
Panel of Federal and
Institutional Experts – Ask your
questions
OMB Circular A-21
Pre
Award Administrators
Grants.gov Workshop
NIH Update
NSF Update
ONR Update
Faculty and Administrator
Relations: Don’t They
Realize I Am on Their Side?
OMB Update
Pre-Award Process and
Budget Planning
Contracts A to Z
National
Lab/Institutional Collaborations
Results of NIH Funded
Research Study in Best ERA Practices
Subcontracting
Administrative
Collaborations in Global Research
Clinical Trial Budgeting
and Management
Bumps in the Road
Performance Management
for the Sharp Hearted Research
Administrator
Post
Award Fiscal Administrators
Logistics of PI Transfers
Employee vs. Independent
Contractor
OMB Update
Introduction to Fringe
Benefits
Effort Reporting
Space Utilization Surveys
FDP Update
Property and Inventory
Basics
Service Centers- What Do
You Need to Know?
Cost Sharing
Subcontracting with
Foreign Entities
Panel of Federal and
Institutional Experts – Special
Session on Cost Principles
Departmental
Administrators
DA 201 Series Including:
Management Principles
Financial Reporting
Engaged Management
Financial Planning and
Shadow Accounting
Compliance for
Departmental Administrators
Cost Sharing
Compliance
Officers
Mitigating Risk in
Research Administration
Effort Reporting
Building and Training an
IRB for the Social and Behavioral
Sciences
Panel of Federal and
Institutional Experts
Entrepreneurs and
Conflicts of Interest
It Takes a Village to
Manage a Conflict of Interest
Space Utilization Surveys
Vulnerable Populations
Training Programs:
Designing Implementing and Updating
Compliance for
Departmental Administrators
International Trade in
Arms and Export regulations
Developing Clinical Trial
Agreements
Hands
on Computer Lab: Brush Up on Your
Software Skills and Find New Electronic Business Methods
Access Fundamentals
Creating Graphics, Charts
and Presentations Using Excel
Grants.gov Workshop
Adobe: Creating Forms
for Electronic Communications
Powerpoint Presentations
for the Beginner
Results of NIH Funded
Research Study in Best ERA Practices
Excel Basics
Paperless Sponsored
Research – Preparing for
Organizational Change
Expanding Your Outlook
SPAM I Am Not
NSF Fastlane Workshop
Networking
Opportunities
Sunday, May 1st
Newcomer’s Reception
May 1st
Opening Reception – the
“Rendezvous”. (Wear your best mountain man/woman getups to
whoop it up!)
Monday Afternoon Chapter
Meetings
Monday Evening Commercial
Reception on the floating
boardroom on Lake
Coeur d”Alene
Tuesday Morning Breakfast
Roundtable Discussions
Tuesday Evening Dinner
Group Sign-Ups
Monday and Tuesday
Evening Hospitality Suite (With a Fishing
Pool for Prizes)
Geezers meeting (You know
who you are)
Join Us for a fun-filled
learning experience.
“Coeur of Learning, Heart of Leadership, Core of Knowledge”
In the beautiful setting at the edge of Coeur D’Alene Lake.
See www.srawestern.org
for more information.
Cindy Kiel
SRA Western Section
President
Andrea Comley
SRA Western Section
President Elect and Meeting Chair