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Announcements & Updates: Farewells, No RAS Friday in August, New GMAS "Segment Document" Screen
Office for Sponsored Programs Personnel Changes
Education Initiatives in FAS, including RA Certificate Program
Introduction to Cost Transfers: Online Module Demo
Hot Topic of the Month: Overhead Rates on Non-Federal Awards
Announcements & Updates:
1. FAS Personnel Updates: Farewell to the following RAS employees who are moving on to new opportunities:
- Yulanda Quinlan -- ARRA Project Specialist -- will be going back to OSP at the end of June 2010.
- Hannah Coache -- ARRA Project Specialist -- will be moving to the west coast in mid-July 2010.
- David Norcross -- Assistant Dean for Research Administration Services -- has accelerated his retirement plans and will be leaving Harvard as of the end of June 2010.
We wish Yulanda, Hannah, and David all the best as they begin their next chapters!
2. No RAS Friday in August (next RAS Friday will be Friday, July 16th)
3. New GMAS "Segment Document" Screen -- Check out the new feature in GMAS, located just under the Revisions section, called Segment Documents, which consolidates award documents in one place. Information available in the June 2010 issue of the Administrative Systems eNews, available here.
Office for Sponsored Programs Personnel Changes
Cathy Gorodentsev, Director of Office for Sponsored Programs
Cathy discussed the recent shifting of personnel and resources within OSP. The new OSP org chart can be viewed at the following link:
http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/osp/pdfs/Proposed OSP Reorg 6 9 10.pdf
Some changes mentioned by Cathy include:
* Rachel Cahoon Blaine -- Manager, FAS Physical and Social Sciences life cycle team
* Marrybell Ramos -- Grants and Contracts Team Leader, FAS Physical & Social Sciences team
* Carol Pennant -- Financial Team Leader, FAS Physical & Social Sciences team
* Min Xiao -- Manager, FAS Life Sciences and Humanities team
* Colleen Hutchins -- Grants and Contracts Team Leader, FAS Life Sciences and Humanities team
* Alison Wellman Smith -- Financial Team Leader, FAS Life Sciences and Humanities team
* Helia Morris -- Associate Director, QA Teams and Longwood Financial Teams
* Ti Tang -- Financial Team Manager, Longwood Medical Area
* Yulanda Quinlan -- Financial Team Leader, Harvard Medical School
* Pat Carlin -- Financial Team Leader, Harvard School of Public Health
* Amy Gustavsson -- Manager, Reporting, Cost Analysis, and Compliance
* Roseann Luongo -- Associate Director for Training and Compliance
OSP is trying to solicit feedback on all of its operations, so if you have advice, thoughts, or general comments, please send an email to ospfeedback@harvard.edu.
Education Initiatives in FAS, including RA Certificate Program
Karen Woodward Massey, Director of Education and Outreach, FAS RAS
Pat Fitzgerald, Associate Dean for Research Administration, FAS RAS
Karen and Pat outlined some recent training initiatives for research administrators.
REACH: The former training model was to let each school be responsible for its own training program, but there have been recent initiatives designed to combine forces across Harvard to develop a Research Excellence in Administration Certificate at Harvard (REACH). Teams have been formed to develop curricula for the Basics and Intermediate certificates, and the team to develop the Advanced curriculum will be formed at a later date. The program will be ready to pilot sometime in Fiscal Year 2011. There will be an application process, a prerequisite (the Sponsored Projects Administration Overview course), and assessments of learning.
RAE: The Research Administration Education (RAE) team is an FAS-specific team working to develop and maintain education initiatives in research administration at FAS. Most of the major research departments at FAS have someone on the RAE team. If you are interested in any research administration educational initiatives at FAS, please let Karen know (kwmassey@fas.harvard.edu).
Introduction to Cost Transfers: Online Module Demo
Karen Woodward Massey, Director of Education and Outreach, FAS RAS
Karen demonstrated the new Harvard online course "Introduction to Cost Transfers", which she said should take thirty minutes at most. Please send Karen your feedback, and please publicize this new online training tool to others in your department.
Hot Topic of the Month: Overhead rates on Non-federal Sponsored Awards
Alan Long, Assistant Dean for Research Finances and Systems, FAS RAS
Alan's "hot topic" for June is the recent Statement of Harvard University Principles for the Application of Indirect Costs to Non-federal Sponsored Awards. More information about FAS F&A rates is available here.
