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Announcements & Updates: Personnel Updates, New Vice Provost for Research Website, Research Development at FAS, Annual Harvard Research Administration Holiday Party, GMAS/CREW Updates
Bright Ideas: File Management -- "Where Did I Put That?"
Research Excellence in Administration Certificate at Harvard (REACH)
GMAS Rollout Implementation Planning (GRIP) Committee
Announcements & Updates:
1. FAS Personnel Updates: Please welcome our new RAS Friday attendees from OSP, FAS, and FSS:
- Jennifer Ponting (OSP) -- Grants & Contracts Officer
- Melissa DaSilva (OSP) -- Sponsored Programs Administrator on the QA Team
- Danielle Costa (OSP) -- Sponsored Programs Administrator on the QA Team (new role)
- Melissa Siegel (OSP) -- Senior Grants & Contracts Specialist on the Life Science Team
- Tiffany Blackman (OSP) -- Manager of International Operations and Grants & Contracts Officer (new role)
- Lynne Prevost (FSS) -- Systems Operations Analyst
- Alex Feskoe (CCB) -- Intern
- Kirsten Duda (MCB) -- Pre-Award Grants Assistant
- Leslie Kamika (CCB) -- Financial Assistant
- Celia Schneider (SCRB) -- Lab Administrator
2. New Vice Provost for Research Website: http://vpr.harvard.edu/
3. Research Development Report
Click here for upcoming limited submission, early career and internal funding opportunities with deadlines. Please contact Susan Gomes, Susan_Gomes@harvard.edu or 496-9448 for more information.
Community of Science info on the OSP website under Finding Funding/Resources/COS, as well as on the RAS website under Funding Opportunities/Community of Science.
There will be a Community of Science representative in Holyoke Room 869 on Monday, 11/22/10, at 2pm, to give an overview of the COS website and to answer any questions. For questions, please contact Kerry Unflat (OSP) at kerry_unflat@harvard.edu.
4. Annual Harvard Research Administration Holiday Party will take place on Thursday, December 2nd from 2-5pm at the Queen's Head Pub, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge (basement of Memorial Hall). Please RSVP to holidayparty@fas.harvard.edu by Nov. 24th if you plan to attend.
5. GMAS/CREW Updates from Veronica Surrette (FAD Systems Solutions) --
- CREW release December 11th (link to release notes here)
Bright Ideas -- File Management: "Where Did I Put That?"
Nuala McGowan, FAS RAS --Research Finances & Systems Specialist
Chris Nicholson, FAS Department of Psychology -- Financial Associate
T.J. Martin, FAS Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology -- Laboratory Manager
Frances Meale, FAS Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology -- Laboratory Administrator
Chris, T.J., and Frances presented three different business models for file management. Chris's model was mostly paper-based, T.J.'s a mix of paper and electronic filing, and Frances's model nearly 100% electronic. Link to Nuala's amazing flowchart here.
Research Excellence in Administration Certificate at Harvard (REACH) Program
Pat Fitzgerald, FAS Associate Dean for Research Administration
Karen Woodward Massey, FAS Director of Education and Outreach
Applications for admission to the REACH "Foundations" and "Intermediate" certificate programs are now available on the OSP website at http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/osp/training/REACH.php. More information is available here.
GMAS Rollout Implementation Planning (GRIP) Committee
Helia Morris, OSP Associate Director, Sponsored Programs Administration
February 1st is the implementation date for electronic UPAS and At-risk Requests. There will be trainings in January to get people up-to-speed on the new processes. Look for a memo in the near future asking departments to send a list of who can sign on behalf of the department for both UPAS and at-risk requests. Helia's PowerPoint slides are available here.
