Table of contents / Schedule-at-a-glance
Monday, May 19, 2014 Table of 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration Open Contents 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Pre-conference Concurrent Workshops Conference App...... 3 5:30 pm – 6:15 pm Welcome Reception 6:15 pm – 7:00 pm Keynote Address - Sally Rockey Welcome Letter...... 4 Tuesday, May 20, 2014 Special Thanks...... 5 7:30 am – 7:00 pm Registration Open Conference Sponsors...... 6 7:30 am – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast 8:30 am – 8:45 am Opening Remarks – Alicia Knoedler, NORDP President Conference Overview...... 8 8:45 am – 9:30 am Keynote Address – Kelvin Droegemeier About NORDP...... 9 9:30 am – 10:30 am General Session 10:40 am – 11:40 am Group Sessions Monday Program...... 10 - 11 11:50 am – 12:50 pm Lunch Tuesday Program...... 12 - 31 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Special Group Presentation, Roundtable Discussions, & Sponsor Demonstrations Wednesday Program...... 32 - 39 2:10 pm – 3:10 pm Group Sessions Committee Meetings...... 39 - 40 3:10 pm – 4:00 pm Break & Sponsor Demonstrations 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Group Sessions Business Meeting & 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Idea Showcase, Light Reception, & Sponsor Demonstrations Officers/Board of Directors...... 40 6:45 pm Optional No-Host Networking Dinners Biographies...... 41-51 Wednesday, May 21, 2014 Hotel Map...... 52 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration Open 7:30 am – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast Consent to Use of 8:30 am – 9:30 am General Session Photographic Images 9:40 am – 10:40 am Group Sessions Registration and attendance at, or 10:50 am – 11:50 am Open Session, Roundtable Discussions, & Sponsor Demonstrations participation in NORDP Conference and Workshops and other activities constitutes 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch & Keynote Address – David Robinson an agreement by the registrants to allow 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm Group Sessions NORDP to use and distribute (both now and in the future) the registrant’s or attendee’s 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm NORDP Committee Meetings image or voice, in photographs, video, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm NORDP Business Meeting electronic reproductions, and audio of such events and activities.
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Download the Sign-Ups Required for the Conference Conference Roundtable Guidebook App Discussions “What’s a Roundtable Discussion?” you ask. The Roundtable Discussions are one of the presentation formats for the 2014 conference and have been changed a bit from the format piloted last year. Each discussion group will be limited to 20 participants and these participants need to sign up at the registration desk as soon as possible upon their arrival at the conference venue if they have not pre-registered. We Use your smart phone or your tablet to access the program, ask that all attendees honor the maps and exhibitor information throughout the conference. sign-up process: the discussions will not be as successful if Simply scan the QR code above . . . there are too many people in the space planned. This format Search for “Guidebook” in your App store . . . is particularly suited to group discussion, brainstorming, and Or go to www.guidebook.com/getit networking in general. to download the Guidebook app . . . Idea Showcases Once downloaded, search NORDP. New this year, the Idea Showcase format, akin to a poster session, is designed for individuals or Program small teams to present their Browse the full conference schedule and click ‘Add to My own approaches to problems Schedule’ to plan your conference experience. and solutions in research development, to showcase best practices, or to introduce Map innovative ideas. This format is Interactive hotel map helps you find that intriguing discussion or particularly suited to one-on- fun networking event quicker and easier. one discussion and networking. Though this format does not To-Do List require prior sign-up to attend, Create your own To-Do list to ensure you accomplish your please note that the presenters personal and professional goals at innovations. for the Idea Showcase are only required to attend their posters Exhibitors as follows: Browse or search the exhibitor list for general information, Idea Showcase A1 – A11 booth numbers, and link to an exhibitor’s website to learn more. from 5:00 – 5:45 PM and My Schedule Idea Showcase B1– B12 Personalize your conference experience by adding sessions and from 5:45 – 6:30 PM events to the ‘My Schedule’ feature.
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Dear Research Development Colleagues and Guests,
Welcome to Portland, Oregon and NORDP’s 6th Annual Research Development Conference! This year, we have brought both innovation and inspiration to the meeting and we hope that you are able to take full advantage of the many opportunities to connect, discuss, learn and have some fun in the process.
Developing a conference of this magnitude is a significant team effort and much of the work is performed by volunteers. A list of our wonderful volunteers are included on page 5 of the conference program. This year, we are working with Designing Events and Talley Management Group who have helped with conference logistics and our organization’s administration. Their services have streamlined some of our processes and enhanced the work of our volunteers.
As in years past, we considered your comments from prior conferences and have incorporated a few new sessions and formats. Our most noticeable new offerings are two pre-conference workshops: “Team Science: Fostering Collaborative, Large-Scale Research Proposals and Team Leadership,” led by Dr. Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski and Dr. Jennifer Eardley; and “Managing Up: Effective Research Development Evaluation and Assessment,” led by Tina Edgerly Campbell. These intensive workshops allow for greater interaction among participants and greater exposure to specific topics in which our members are interested.
Also new this year are Roundtable Discussions and the Idea Showcase. The Roundtable Discussions, piloted last year, will include more topics but each will be smaller in terms of the number of participants within each discussion. Participants must sign up at the registration desk as soon as possible upon their arrival at the conference venue if they have not preregistered. The Idea Showcase is designed for individuals or small teams to present their own approaches to problems and solutions in research development, to showcase best practices, to introduce innovative ideas, and similar concepts. The format of these presentations will be suited to discussion and networking. The Idea Showcase will include over 20 different presentations on our first full conference day and will be part of the session prior to the optional Networking Dinners.
We are excited to include three keynote speakers in the program this year. Our opening keynote on Monday evening will feature Dr. Sally Rockey, Deputy Director for Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health, who will talk about the role that large-scale funding programs play in the NIH portfolio and their role in advancing science and public health. These topics are of central interest to research development professionals who are often tasked by their institutions with the job of ensuring that calls for large-scale research projects are appropriately identified and responded to in ways that fully leverage institutional resources and the intellectual capacity available across campus. Tuesday morning, Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, Vice President for Research at the University of Oklahoma will present a keynote, “Transformation of the Academic Research Enterprise: Roles and Pathways for Research Development Professionals”. Finally, at the lunch on Wednesday, Dr. David Robinson, Executive Vice Provost at Oregon Health and Science University will present a keynote, “The Federal Demonstration Partnership and Research Development”. These keynote speakers will provide their unique perspectives related to research development and challenge us to think beyond our institutions to the various ways we can have impact as research development professionals.
Throughout the conference, participants will have many networking opportunities, time to interact with sponsors, and opportunities to learn more about NORDP as an organization. If you are new to NORDP or will be attending your first NORDP conference, we welcome you and encourage you to ask questions and participate fully in the conference by: attending a pre-conference workshop, participating within the sessions and discussions, networking with colleagues, talking with sponsors, joining a networking dinner, sitting next to people you don’t already know at the lunches, and learning more about NORDP through committee meetings and attending the NORDP Business Meeting, which is open to all conference participants.
The NORDP Conference has been successful because of the enthusiasm and energy of our members and volunteers. Please embrace the volunteer culture of NORDP and get involved. Consider this your invitation: we need all of our members to participate actively within NORDP, identify ways to volunteer and give back to this organization that we hope provides you with excellent professional development and a community in which to connect with your research development peers. If you are not sure how to get started, find a NORDP Board member and ask questions.
As NORDP continues to grow and develop, we strive to be a resource for you and to develop programs and events targeted toward your professional needs. We are made better by your participation!
With my sincerest appreciation,
Alicia J. Knoedler, CRA, PhD President
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Special thanks to NORDP members who have contributed their time and energy to planning and organizing this conference.
CONFERENCE PLANNING PROGRAM COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS COMMITTEE Rachel Dresbeck Diane Fisher Rachel Dresbeck Chair Director of Research Development, Conference & Program University at Buffalo, School of Committee Chair Jeff Agnoli Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Director, Research Development Education, Funding, and Sciences and Research & Academic Research Development Communications Office of the Vice President Katie Keough Oregon Health & Science University for Research Assistant Director, The Ohio State University Syracuse University Falk College Susan Carter Research Center Director, Research Development Wendy Hunter Barker Services Assistant Dean for Academic Programs Anne M. Pascucci University of California Merced School of International Relations & Director, Matthew Christian Pacific Studies (IR/PS) Office of Sponsored Programs Associate Dean University Of California, San Diego Christopher Newport University Division of Social Sciences University Of Chicago Gretchen Kiser Marjorie Piechowski (Board member) Director Director Emerita of Research Support Anne Geronimo Research Development Office University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Director for Research Development University Of California, San Francisco Division of Research Jaine Plaice University of Maryland Kendra Mingo Director, Director for Faculty Research Research Proposal Development Alicia J. Knoedler and Development North Carolina State University President Office for Faculty Research and Associate Vice President for Research Resources R. Michelle Saur Director, Center for Research Willamette University Research Assistant, Program Development & Enrichment Professor & Research Liaison Officer Office of the Vice President for Research Katie Wilkes University of Houston, College of University Of Oklahoma Program Manager Natural Sciences & Mathematics Research Funding & Development Ann McGuigan Services Claudia Scholz Sponsorship & Membership Oregon Health & Science University Research Programs Coordinator, Director, Research Development Academic Affairs Office of the Senior Vice President Trinity University for Research University of Arizona Charlie Senn Research Development Team, David Stone Office of Research and Engagement Vice President University of Tennessee Associate Vice President for Research Division of Research and Sarah Sherman Innovation Partnerships Proposal Development Coordinator Northern Illinois University Tufts University Peggy A. Sundermeyer Treasurer Jessica Venable Executive Director, Research Grant and Research Analyst Advancement, Office of the Vice Virginia Commonwealth University President for Research University Of Minnesota Anne Windham Assistant Dean of the Faculty Brown University
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Following is a brief overview of the program guide, events at the conference, and ways to take full advantage of your time here. An Abundance Informative of Networking Educational Opportunities Sessions First Time NORDP was born from the desire to get In addition to the general sessions and together and work on common problems. keynotes, you will see that we offer four at NORDP? Networking is what this organization and types of education sessions: Group conference are all about. This is your Sessions, Roundtable Discussions, Open Be sure to sign up for chance to make lasting connections and Sessions, and the Idea Showcase. learn from your colleagues. Networking Dinners and Group Sessions We have ample ways for you to get These panel-format presentations have Roundtable Discussions connected: been chosen to deliver maximum value with Board members — from colleagues across the world of • Receptions so you can mingle with other research development. and, if you feel like it, research development professionals in an informal manner. This is a friendly Roundtable Sessions put a sticker on your crowd eager to make connections. This year’s Roundtable Discussions build name badge to let on a format piloted at the NORDP 2013 • Sponsor interactions. Learn about new conference. Each discussion group will be people know you’re new. tools and innovations from our NORDP limited to 20 participants. You’ll need to sponsors, who will be exhibiting outside preregister for your Roundtable Discussion The conference staff the ballroom area. online or at the registration desk. This and volunteers at the format is particularly suited to in-depth • Breakfast and lunch are great times to discussion and brainstorming--as well as registration desk can introduce yourself to people you don’t relationship-building. know and connect with them. guide you. Open Sessions and Special • Networking Dinners on Tuesday evening. Sign up at the registration desk to join a group presentations no-host networking dinner after the Idea If you’d like another option besides the Showcase. Dinners might be organized Roundtable Discussions, look for the around a research development theme, Special Group Presentations or Open a shared love of a cuisine, or multiple Sessions happening at the same time— other themes. You can also offer to host they will give attendees a chance to hear a networking dinner—conference staff presentations on common research develop problems or have an open and the hotel concierge will help arrange discussion with the Board. reservations and transportation.
• Message area at the Registration Idea Showcase Desk. Do you need to leave a note for The Idea Showcase provides an opportunity a colleague? Check out the message for one-on-one interaction with a variety board. of presenters, while you enjoy a drink. Presenters will be highlighting a particular • Twitter: check out our Twitter feed - study, solution, or approach in an #NORDP2014 individual manner.
• Board interactions: there are numerous General Sessions opportunities to talk to the NORDP Board and Keynotes and learn how to get involved in this all- The conference includes five all- volunteer organization. Take advantage conference general sessions or keynotes. of these—it will be important as we On Monday, Tuesday ,and Wednesday, move our young organization toward all- there are exciting, recruited keynote member elections in the near future. speakers. We will also hear important updates in the world of research development as well as foundational inspirations for thinking about our work as research development professionals.
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The National Organization of Research Development Professionals was formally established in 2010 from a grassroots movement to build a peer community. BENEFITS OF The organization grew from this informal network to an organization of more DEVELOPING A than 550 individuals engaged in research development activities at universities RELATIONSHIP and research institutions across the country. The central goals of NORDP are WITH NORDP to serve these professionals by supporting their professional development, enhancing institutional research competitiveness, and catalyzing new research and • Access to a nationwide network of institutional collaboration. strategically placed professionals who work closely with deans, provosts, vice ABOUT NORDP Research Development presidents/vice chancellors of research, and faculty; Research development is a set of strategic, proactive, catalytic, and capacity- building activities designed to facilitate individual faculty members, teams of • Liaison with faculty experts and senior academic leadership for input on researchers, and central research administrations in attracting extramural position papers, RFPs, and sponsored research funding, creating relationships, and developing and implementing conferences; strategies that increase institutional competitiveness.
• Easy and broad dissemination of Research development professionals initiate and nurture critical partnerships materials for informative or evaluative and alliances throughout the institutional research enterprise and between purposes; institutions — and with their external stakeholders. With the goal of enabling competitive individual and team research and facilitating research excellence, • Institutional coordination to implement research development professionals build and implement strategic services and regional workshops by agency staff; collaborative resources that span disciplinary and administrative barriers within their organizations and beyond. • Wide geographic and academic size distribution to encourage diverse responses to RFPs; Research development includes a broad spectrum of activities that vary by institution, including funding opportunity identification and targeted dissemination, • Information to enable proactive grant/contract proposal development, budget preparation, forms and submission responses to novel RFPs; and assistance, collaboration enhancement, research team building, interaction with funding agencies and institutional research administration and leadership, and • Coordination of multiple universities, outreach activities and training. encouraging regional or national collaboration. www.NORDP.org
9 Monday, may 19th : 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Registration / workshops
• Offer evidence-based insights planning. Presentations, mock focus 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM and techniques on team science groups, and interactive discussions will leadership; and, address: Registration Open • Demonstrate tools and resources • What to measure and how to Room: Oregon Ballroom Lobby that promote collaboration, benchmark performance internally communication, trust, and conflict and externally, and how to establish management in science teams. target goals and service level expectations; • Use the online TeamScience.net tool and Team Science Toolkit in • Benefits of and motivations for using practical, interactive experiences for metrics, when to use them, and Pre-conference participants working in small teams. how these choices may be affected by the nature of the institution and Concurrent reporting structure of the research development office; Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski Workshops Vice President, • Best practices in streamlining Global Academic & internal assessment processes in a 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM Research Relations, complex research environment; Elsevier Research Intelligence • Provide participants with an Team Science: opportunity to share their own best Fostering Collaborative, practices and discuss challenges related to meaningful assessment Large-Scale Research Jennifer Eardley of qualitative research development Proposals and Team Interim Director, outcomes; Leadership Division of Biomedical Sciences, • How to draft a funding strategic plan Room: Salon I University of Illinois at for faculty; and Urbana-Champaign Research development professionals • How to develop an enhanced are frequently asked to encourage business plan for a research collaborations and facilitate development office, setting interdisciplinary and multi-institutional reasonable expectations and team proposals in partnership with justifying results-based growth faculty members and other researchers. These teams may lack a deep knowledge Managing Up: Helping of effective, evidence-based practices your Institution Launch for team science and have little or Tina Edgerly Campbell no practical experience working in Effective Research Principal, interdisciplinary teams or developing Development Metrics and Campbell Consulting Group large-scale collaborative grant proposals. Assessment and Former Director, How does someone who is not an Research Enhancement, expert in the research topic help make Room: Salons G&H The George Washington interdependence, joint ownership, and University collective responsibility the standard Although multiple metrics have been operating procedure for teams of defined for research administration, faculty who may have little history of less attention has been paid to Portia Pusey collaboration, geographic separation, research development, where the Director for and a nearly impossible deadline? outcomes are not always immediately Instructional Media, Through a combination of lively lecture quantifiable. Yet, university executive National CyberWatch and interactive small group activities, officers are increasingly seeking Center this workshop will arm participants with proven ways to lower barriers new skills and resources for building to research, increase proposals collaborative, interdisciplinary research and success rates, and provide proposals and supporting researchers in professional development for team-based science. The workshop will: research faculty. This workshop will Chris Campbell use presentations, handouts, and Principal, • Provide an overview of team science, interactive discussions to provide Campbell Consulting Group from empirical research to practice; participants with practical tools to assess quantitative and qualitative • Describe specific strategies and tactics outcomes of research development for grantsmanship to support team offices and activities and to use science; assessment data to enhance strategic
10 Monday, may 19th : 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm welcome / Opening keynote
5:30 PM – 6:15 PM 6:15 PM – 7:00 PM Welcome Opening Keynote Reception Room: Oregon Ballroom Salons E&F Room: Oregon Ballroom Salons E&F Sally Rockey, Ph.D. Deputy Director for Extramural Research, The Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health
Join us for this Opening Keynote presentation as Sally Rockey discusses the role that large-scale funding programs play in the NIH portfolio and their role in advancing science and public health. These topics are of central interest to research development professionals Rockey leads or is active on a number who are often tasked by their of Federal committees related to institutions with the job of ensuring science, research administration, that calls for large-scale research and electronic government. She projects are appropriately identified works most closely with other and responded to in ways that fully Federal science and university leverage institutional resources and administrators, small businesses, the intellectual capacity available professional societies and the across campus. scientific communities here and around the world. She co-chairs Dr. Sally Rockey, National Institutes the NSTC Committee on Science of Health (NIH) Deputy Director for Research Business Models and serves Extramural Research, leads the NIH as the Vice President of the Human extramural research activities. Her Frontiers of Science Program, an role is to oversee the development international program for life science and implementation of the critical research support. In 2012 Dr. Rockey policies and guidelines central to the co-led a groundbreaking effort on successful conduct of NIH supported the biomedical workforce. She is biomedical research. the author of the widely read “Rock Talk” blog and has been recognized Dr, Rockey has a Ph.D. in Entomology for her numerous professional from The Ohio State University, and accomplishments, including receiving has spent the majority of her career the Presidential Rank Award in 2004, in the area of research administration and the Joseph F. Carrabino Award in and information technology. In 1986, 2013. she joined the US Department of Agriculture, soon becoming a Deputy Administrator of the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, overseeing the USDA extramural competitive grants program, and served as the Agency’s Chief Information Officer. In 2005, Dr. Rockey moved to NIH as Deputy to her current position and became the DDER in 2008.
11 Tuesday, may 20th : 7:30 am - 7:00 pm Opening remarks / Registration breakfast / keynote
7:30 AM - 7:00 PM 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM Registration Open Keynote Room: Oregon Ballroom Lobby Speaker Kelvin 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Droegemeier, Ph.D. Continental Breakfast Room: Oregon Ballroom Salons E&F Room: Oregon Ballroom Salons E&F Transformation of & Lobby the Academic Research Enterprise: Roles 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM and Pathways for Research Development Opening Remarks Professionals Room: Oregon Ballroom Salons E&F The academic landscape The opening remarks for the 6th Annual is undergoing a profound Research Development Conference transformation. This change set the stage for nearly two days of is driven, in large part, by new intensive networking, thinking, learning and inspiration. NORDP’s president will technologies; the now-familiar welcome new and old members, sponsors, pressures associated with and participants and provide an overview declining state appropriations; higher overall costs and student debt; and personal perspective on this year’s problematic graduation rates and the high number of years required to conference and the current state of graduate; burgeoning enrollment; and the public’s notion that higher research development. education exists solely to ensure gainful employment. Presenter: In research, challenges are abundant as well, including highly problematic Alicia J. Knoedler Federal budgets, excessive compliance burdens and a continual stream Associate Vice President for Research; of unfunded mandates, the fundamental cost of research, the notion that Director, only research having clear practical value in the national interest should Center for Research Program be funded, and an inability by universities to foster true partnerships with Development and Enrichment, private industry owing to arcane laws that limit flexibility in licensing University of Oklahoma intellectual property.
Yet in the midst of these challenges is unprecedented opportunity for the nation and world – opportunity in research, education, and economic development that will require greater leadership, creativity, and diversity of views and backgrounds than ever before by academic research officers. In this context, research development professionals are poised not only to help address these challenges by virtue of their craft, but also to develop trajectories of professional growth that will position them for senior leadership positions – in many cases, trajectories quite different from those who traditionally hold such positions.
This presentation will address the role of research development professionals, present and future, through the eyes of a research officer who also is involved with setting national science and technology policy. It will present possible new opportunities for research development professionals to shape the future of their institutions, careers, and the research enterprise more broadly as partners with faculty, academic and agency officials, and senior leaders in government.
12 Tuesday, may 20th : 9:30 am - 10:30 Am General Session
This session will help participants to • Cross-cultural conflict resolution 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM understand the changing demographics strategies of the U.S. research community, learn General Session characteristics and communication • Key strategies for shepherding cultural patterns of diverse cultural groups, change. recognize barriers to effective Intercultural communication in proposal development, These strategies will provide both Communication in Team and apply current strategies and best theoretical and practical information practices to developing effective research for research development in all types of Building for Complex and administrative teams. institutions. Proposals: An Overview This presentation will offer simple but powerful tools to describe current and Presenters: for Research Developers desired research-intensive cultures and Room: Oregon Ballroom Salons E&F isolate the sources of potential or real Marjorie Piechowski points of conflict. Participants will learn Director Emerita of Research Support Preparing complex proposals requires about tools for analysis of institutional College of Engineering & Applied Science skills not only in team-building and environments, consideration of possible University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee communication, but also in intercultural influences arising from an individual’s communication. The research community culture of origin, and strategies for Paul Tuttle has become global, with diverse behavior developing positive change. These will Managing Grants Consultant, include a three-tiered understanding of characteristics and communication Hanover Research culture patterns that need to be considered in forming teams, developing proposals, Michael Preuss and conducting funded projects. • Interaction of grid (pressure toward conforming behavior) and group (insider/ Grants Consultant, Awareness of such cultural differences Hanover Research and communication patterns is crucial for outsider relations) characteristics that research developers to function effectively. constitute a powerful cultural analysis tool
13 Tuesday, may 20th : 10:40 am - 11:40 am Group Sessions
10:40 AM – 11:40 AM Growing the Scholarly Scholarly Communication & Research Enterprise and Identity in the Digital Strategies for Increasing through Speed- Age the Competitiveness of Networking Room: Salon D Team Science and Center Room: Salon A Grant Proposals This session will focus on new Speed-networking is a fun and fast-paced developments around how researchers Room: Salons B&C way of bringing together researchers from collaborate while remaining connected different disciplines who otherwise would to their work in rapidly evolving online Multiple factors in the research not have a reason to meet. The goal is environment. Scholarly communication landscape are converging to make the to provide a structured format in which has changed dramatically given the ease competitiveness of an institution’s team researchers can explore new partnerships with which we have the ability to share science and center grant proposals critical outside their usual group of collaborators, information digitally. We will cover online to long-term financial sustainability. discuss research expertise and evaluate sharing and evaluation of research and Science is increasingly performed in larger the potential for future collaboration. data, addressing topics that have arisen teams. Funding bodies are receiving more through collaborative partnerships: proposals for the same award dollars. What is the best way to structure a Open Access, FundRef, CHORUS, These factors, combined with the larger speed-networking event when different Data management, and altmetrics. In financial scale of team science and center disciplines are represented? How do addition, the session will focus on the grant proposals, make it more important you identify participants? How do you complementary topic of how researchers than ever to submit proposals that will encourage participation in an event that maintain their connection with their stand apart from the crowd. can be perceived as “soft?” What can research and research products via be done to ensure quality connections? identifiers. In this portion of the session we Best practices - Christine Black will How do you modify the standard speed- will provide an introductory overview on discuss the array of resources and networking model when multiple the new scholar identifiers: ISNI, ORCID, services available to investigators at disciplines participate? How do you deal and how they relate to SciENcv. We will the University of Michigan Medical with last-minute cancellations when present information on your institution’s School, including: direct proposal the event is structured and depends on role with identifiers and provide answers assistance – defraying the costs of pre-determined pairings? What about to most of the commonly asked questions proposal preparation, editing services, last-minute cancellations and early about these identifiers. and peer review; informational resources departures? – a database of previously funded Presenters: proposals, CTSA resources for team Gail Fisher, Erica Gambrell and Angela science; attention to resource-based Shotts will share various models of Marie Linvill competitiveness – maintenance of leading- speed-networking events that have worked Director of Content Development, edge cores/shared service facilities well at very different institutions. They ProQuest and equipment, and a database of the will take you through the nuts and bolts resources available. of “how-to” and share lessons learned, Laura Dawson as well as best practices. Having a solid Product Manager, Jeff Horon will discuss further non- plan and anticipating “hiccups” in both SelfPublishedAuthor.com traditional and data-enabled support, your pre-planning and during the session and Identifier Services, Bowker including: team formation assistance – will ensure a productive (and enjoyable!) discovering new team/center participants session for your faculty and foster broader Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski via searches of subject matter expertise collaborations. Vice President, data; evidence to increase proposal Global Academic & Research Relations, impact – utilizing network analysis of Presenters: prior co-authorship and co-participation Elsevier Research Intelligence on sponsored projects; direct proposal Gail Fisher assistance – establishing data resources Manager, to complete exhibits and supplementary Research Development Office, data requirements with minimal burden on University of California, San Francisco pre-award staff. Angela Shotts Presenters: Coordinator of Research Support, Christine Black University of Alabama Assistant Director for Erica Gambrell Research Development, Coordinator of Research Services, University of Michigan Medical School University of Alabama Office of Research
Jeff Horon Consultant, Elsevier Research Intelligence
14 Tuesday, may 20th : 10:40 am - 12:50 pm Group Sessions / lunch
Strengthening Your Small Investments, Big 11:50 AM - 12:50 PM Institution’s Research Impact: A Case Study of Portfolio by Integrating Organizational Change Lunch - Undergraduate Research at an Emerging Research Programs Institution Introduction Room: Salons G&H Room: Salon I of New and Continuing It is well known that undergraduate A case study will be presented showcasing research experiences increase student how small investments in research Board retention and graduation rates, and development –in an academic unit and a lead to higher rates of graduate school central office-- can support organizational Members and enrollment. Less is known about how change at emerging research institutions; undergraduate research improves faculty particularly how these institutions can Presentation of research programs and overall research leverage efforts to affect a shift in culture NORDP Awards vitality at institutions. Panelists in this toward research productivity. In 2005, session will provide insights and case Boise State University’s leadership Room: Oregon Ballroom Salons E&F studies on how undergraduate research redefined the institution’s mission plays a fundamental role in growing as that of a ‘metropolitan research overall research capacity at a variety of university,’ signaling a significant shift institutional types. Increasingly colleges in organizational culture. Boise State and universities are establishing and/ University does not have a medical school or formalizing undergraduate research and most external funds have supported programs. This panel session synthesizes educational programs and STEM education and explores different models for research. University leadership has set a goal of becoming a Carnegie classified establishing successful undergraduate “Research University — High Research research programs and offices, Activity”. To facilitate organizational emphasizing collaborative relationships change, many concurrent multi-level among Offices of Research Development, initiatives are needed to be successful. faculty, and federal and private funding agencies. We will discuss research Two years ago, the College of Health development strategies to catalyze Sciences established a Research Office extramural funding for undergraduate with 1.5 FTE to promote a culture of research, from a variety of federal and research within the academic unit. foundation sources. During that time, the central Office of Sponsored Programs re-allocated 1 FTE Presenters: to research development. The presenters, representatives from these two offices, Barbara L. E. Walker have implemented initiatives individually Director of Research Development for the and collectively to encourage change at Social Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts the personal, peer and organizational University of California at Santa Barbara levels. As a result of these and other strategic investments, sponsored project Anthony Carpi expenditures have increased 70% at Interim Associate Provost for Research the college level and 18% institutionally compared to four years ago with a net and Professor, Department of Sciences, 0.5 FTE increase dedicated to research John Jay College, development activities. Investments The City University of New York in research development, however incremental, can effect change at Susan Carter emerging research institutions. Key to Director, the success of small investments is the Research Development Services, synergy generated when central and University of California Merced academic units collaborate.
Presenter:
Kimberly Page Associate Director, Office of Sponsored Programs, Boise State University
Terri Soelberg Director, College of Health Sciences Office of #NORDP2014 Research, Boise State University
15 Tuesday, may 20th : 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm SPECIAL GROUP PRESENTATION / ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Roundtable Roundtable Discussion Discussion Special Group The Past and Future of Recruiting and Presentation NORDP and How You Can Get Maintaining Faculty Grant Writing is Involved “Volunteers” Rewriting: Functioning as Room: Meadowlark Room: Laurelhurst Editor and Writing Coach – Open Session NORDP began as a grass-roots effort A successful research development office of some motivated individuals who (RDO) often needs to leverage significant Room: Salons B&C saw the possibilities in collaborating— faculty assistance and participation. totally reflecting the spirit of research Programmatic advisory boards manned Grant specialists are frequently confronted development. Come to this informal by faculty representatives (as well as with proposals that show promise of solid discussion of NORDP’s origins, its nature institutional staff representatives) are academic advances, but are written in as an all-volunteer organization, and how critically important to providing the frank ways that risk failure in the competitive you can contribute to its future. insight that leads to services that are arena of peer review. Some are mistakes truly responsive to our researcher clients. in grammar; others are stylistic habits Presenter: Similarly, intramural funding programs, that might serve researchers well in limited submission programs, grant writing academic papers, but are likely to Peggy Sundermeyer preparation programs, etc., all rely on doom their grant proposals. This session Executive Director, faculty researchers for review panels. will focus on identifying some of the Research Advancement, Faculty advocates “at large” are also common writing mistakes that plague such often key to the success of an RDO. In proposals, highlighting their structural University of Minnesota (NORDP Treasurer) this session through group discussion, weaknesses, and substituting more we will explore strategies for recruiting effective expressions of the writers’ intent. Participants will have opportunities to such faculty partners, establishing a viable practice their own editing skills, with prizes “pipeline” of new faculty volunteers, and awarded to the best rewrites. Learning maintaining strong on-going relationships objectives: 1. Recognize five most common Roundtable with the faculty. weaknesses in poorly constructed proposal excerpts 2. Apply effective techniques to Discussion Presenters: remediate such weaknesses Starting a New Research Gretchen Kiser Presenter: Development Office Director, Room: Pearl Research Development Office, Robert Porter University of California, San Francisco Director of Research Development, Are you new to research development? University of Tennessee Are you starting a new research Emanuela Volpe development office? In this informal Manager, chat, take advantage of the wisdom of a Resource Allocation Program, highly seasoned research development University of California, San Francisco professional with a wide range of Roundtable experiences. This session may be especially appealing for those transitioning Discussion from research administration to research Developing a Business development. Plan Room: Douglas Fir Presenter:
Increasingly, funders are requesting clear Majorie Piechowkski explanation of ROI, requiring a business Director Emerita of Research Support plan. However, faculty are not trained in College of Engineering & Applied Science business, but trained in their specific area University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee of science, which is why this is often the (NORDP Board Member) weakest component.
Presenter:
Tina Edgerly Campbell Principal, Campbell Consulting Group and Former Director, Research Enhancement, The George Washington University
16 Tuesday, may 20th : 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Roundtable Discussions
represent positive actions (“good ideas”) the dimensions of the certification initiative Roundtable and those that are potentially fundable for research development professionals (“competitive proposal concepts”). and identify areas where you want to Discussion However, faculty members, especially participate as the initiative evolves. Critiquing Proposals those in the early stages of their career, can struggle to make these distinctions. Presenter: When You’re Not a Writing As research development professionals, or Subject Matter we can and should assist faculty members Pollyanne Frantz Specialist with distinguishing between good ideas Director, Grants Resources & Services, and competitive proposal concepts. In this Office of Research, Room: Mt. Hood Roundtable Discussion, the facilitators will Appalachian State University lead participants in discussion of a table Because they are not writing or subject relevant to educational programming and matter specialists, many pre-award interventions as well as the social sciences research administrators feel caught and humanities that shows several major in an awkward position when asked to differences between a good idea and a Roundtable critique proposals prior to submission. fundable idea. The group will critique What proposal aspects should they the presenter’s formulation of the table Discussion critique? What can they do that can add and then use those collective lessons The Benefits of Using value? To answer these questions, this learned to construct a similar table for the interactive presentation will offer at least sciences. Both tables will be distributed to an eRA Tool to Drive four possibilities from the presenter’s participants and other interested parties Improvement to a PUI experience, including (1) assessing via e-mail following the conference. the persuasiveness of the writing from Room: Salem a classical rhetoric perspective, (2) Presenters: assuming the persona of an educated At PUIs, Research Developers and reader with no knowledge of the field, (3) Bryan DeBusk Administrators often wear many hats and addressing the logic and structure of the Senior Grants Consultant, have to use the tools available in order proposal elements at the subsection and Hanover Research to provide the best customer service and sentence levels, and (4) reminding the support to faculty. Having the proper writer of a proposal’s rhetorical situation, Michael Preuss tool box is essential to managing these which--uniquely in academic writing-- Grants Consultant, responsibilities and has a major impact on incorporates a “sales pitch” to reviewers Hanover Research the level of customer service that can be who will also assess whether the proposed provided. In this session, this roundtable project can realistically be accomplished. will discuss how adopting the proper Other possibilities will be discussed eRA tool has helped reduce the daily with and/or solicited from participants. burden, improved the proposal creation A summary of these strategies will Roundtable process and enhanced institutional be distributed to participants and research competitiveness at a primarily other interested parties following the Discussion undergraduate institution. conference. Certification for Presenters: Presenter: Research Development Professionals Traci Merrill Paul Tuttle Room: Hawthorne Associate Director, Managing Grants Consultant, University of San Diego Hanover Research This session includes a summary of a July 2013 focus group session conducted with Anita Mills NORDP Northeastern Chapter members Solutions Consultant, to explore essential expertise and Evisions Roundtable competencies for research development professionals. NORDP members can Discussion access the full report of the focus group Project Ideas: Helping session through the NORDP Effective Practices and Professional Development Faculty Differentiate Committee web page. Participants Between the Good and the will brainstorm ideas about possible Fundable structures for a “body of knowledge” to encompass the content domains Room: Belmont associated with research development professionals’ work. Suggestions also All proposal and research development will be solicited and shared about the professionals have the ability to organizational aspects of a certification differentiate between project concepts that program. Join this conversation to explore
17 Tuesday, may 20th : 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Roundtable Discussions
Roundtable Roundtable Discussion Discussion Intramural Funding Building Broader Impacts Strategies Infrastructure Room: Medford Room: Columbia
To improve prospects for external As funding agencies, especially the NSF, funding, the Office of the VP for Research raise expectations for braoderimpacts (OVPR) at Wayne State University activities (e.g., outreach, sustainability, (WSU) recently added internal funding ROI, and community impact) in grants, competitions, suggested by faculty, that institutions find that they must provide target vulnerable areas. As background, support for researchers in this area. OVPR already funds internal programs This session will focus on how to develop for faculty: at different stages of their necessary institutional infrastructure and careers; with a wide range of research partnerships to synergistically support foci; and who participate in individual broader impacts via an institution’s investigator to multi-investigator teams. research agenda. The presenters will In addition to internal funding, OVPR also discuss outcomes of the 2014 funds pre-submission reviews, editorial Broader Impacts Summit that focused on reviews, one-on-one proposal editing, increasing collaboration among broader and for new faculty, research mentors. impacts professionals, enhancing broader These incentive programs are coupled impacts scholarship, and influencing policy with both development programs regarding broader impacts. (monthly peer group mentoring to propel research, training on finding collaborators, Presenters: workshops on grant-writing) and on-line resources. Kemi Jona Director, Presenters: Office of STEM Education Partnerships, Northwestern University Freda Giblin Director of Inter-Institutional Initiatives, Susan Carter Director, Research Development Services, Wayne State University University of California Merced Sarah James Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski Research Support Liaison, Vice President, Division of Research, Global Academic & Research Relations, Wayne State University Elsevier Research Intelligence (Moderator)
Sponsor Demonstrations Room: Portland and Eugene Rooms
#NORDP2014 18 Tuesday, may 20th : 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm Group Sessions
2:10 PM – 3:10 PM International Research Fixing a Broken LSO Collaboration, Faculty Process: A Case Study Driving Change by Development Programs, Room: Salon A Creating a Shared Vision and Role of International or Setting Specific Offices. In 2011, in an effort to improve what was then a decentralized and disorganized Funding Targets: Lessons Room: Salons G&H process for managing limited submission Learned from the Two funding opportunities – and in response Approaches In order for US research universities to to faculty frustration - research remain competitive in today knowledge development professionals from across Room: Salon I and innovation-driven global economy, Harvard convened to evaluate existing it is essential to expand research and practices for managing LSOs and to Cristin Dorgelo, from the Executive Office scholarly collaborations and forge recommend solutions to make the of the President, shares best practices for partnerships internationally. International nomination process more efficient, vision and goal setting she has observed collaborations are valuable mechanisms to organized and transparent. These in her role as the Assistant Director for promote scientific discovery and maximize meetings culminated in recommendations Grand Challenges in the Office of Science impact through strategic, multidisciplinary for improving application timelines, and Technology Policy. After the session, and synergistic linkages. In recent years, refining communication and coordination, you too, will be convinced of the power the value of international collaboration proactively identifying and planning for of grand challenges in driving change. has been increasingly emphasized by upcoming opportunities, and maximizing Michelle Popowitz and Amy Hawkins federal agencies, including the US Agency the number of LSOs that the University is from UCLA will share examples of how for International Development and the able to respond to. institutional change has resulted with the National Science Foundation (NSF), both UCLA Grand Challenge Program. Stacy of which now encourage more cross- This roundtable discussion will give Esposito will provide case experiences border cooperation in science, technology, particular emphasis to discussion of where specific funding targets have driven and education. Without a doubt, strong best practices both in business process change at ASU. relationships between individual and in the use of IT. Harvard is currently researchers are the most common and implementing a new online submission Presenters: strongest indicator of international system for managing LSOs, and we discuss collaborations and productivity. the process of identifying needs for an LSO Cristin Dorgelo Universities can also play a bigger role system, identifying and evaluating vendors, and implementing a system. Assistant Director for Grand Challenges in promoting international partnerships. Office of Science and Technology Policy Indeed, such collaborations at the institutional level must begin with stronger Presenters: Technology and Innovation Division interaction between the offices that have Executive Office of the President oversight of research and international Elizabeth Langdon-Gray affairs. This session will explore the role Assistant Vice Provost for Research Michelle Popowitz and added value of international officers Development and Planning, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research in facilitating strategic international Office of the Vice Provost for Research, & Executive Director of UCLA Grand partnerships in collaboration with Harvard University Challenges, research and other academic officers University of California, Los Angeles and faculty. It will also encourage the Amanda Spickard exchange of best practices in building Director of Research Strategy Stacy Esposito the international research support; and Development, understanding international agreements; Director, Research Advancement, School of Public Health, pre-and post-award management for IRA A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Harvard University Arizona State University international grants; and assessing the impact of international research using Erin Cromack Amy Hawkins productivity metrics. Research Development Officer, UCLA Grand Challenges Student & Presenters: Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Public Relations Officer, Research Administration Services, University of California, Los Angeles Jane Payumo Harvard University Faculty Research Development Specialist and Research Associate, Washington State University
Erin-Kae Rice Research Administrator, Washington State University
19 Tuesday, may 20th : 2:10 pm - 4:00 pm Group Sessions / break & Demos
Research Development interdisciplinary teams (including basic, from their experiences working at or translational, and clinical research foci) with HBCUs, PUIs, research-intensive for Pre-Tenure Faculty: to develop an application. Each team was institutions, and community colleges, Strategies to Jumpstart led by one or two senor investigators as the presenters will offer 10 examples of Funding Success coaches. Several workshops also were inept, inappropriate, inadequate, and/ included. Analysis of assessment data or inefficient research administration Room: Salon B&C informed revisions for a re-launch. practices and explain what we can and should learn from them. Examples will In today’s extremely competitive Presenters: address proposal development, research environment, new strategies are essential development, research administration to help pre-tenure faculty acquire the Nathan Meier management, internal routing and skills necessary to develop high quality Director of Research Strategy, approval, grantsmanship training, grant proposals and successfully Office of Research and institutional cultural change and capacity compete for research funding. This group Economic Development, development, and other current areas of presentation highlights two approaches University of Nebraska, Lincoln interest in the field. Other examples and/ to research development among early or areas of interest will be discussed career faculty. The first approach features Tisha Mullen with and/or solicited from participants. A summary of these examples and lessons a cross-disciplinary, non-agency specific Director, program at a comprehensive research learned will be distributed to participants Office of Proposal Development, and other interested parties following the university, and the second approach University of Nebraska-Lincoln focuses on a program for medical school conference. faculty seeking NIH R01 support. Christine Black Presenters: Assistant Director for The Research Development Fellows Program at the University of Nebraska- Research Development, Bryan DeBusk Lincoln is a yearlong initiative in which Office of Research Senior Grants Consultant, more than 80 faculty have participated University of Michigan Medical School Hanover Research since 2009. Learning sessions teach participants to plan and write effective Paul Tuttle proposals, integrate research and What We Can Learn Managing Grants Consultant, education for broader impact, build from 10 Examples of Hanover Research responsible project budgets, network with program officers, and understand the Inept, Inappropriate, proposal review process. Consultations Inadequate, and/or with research development staff and senior, federally-funded colleagues Inefficient Research support emerging investigators as they Administration Practices 3:10 PM - 4:00 PM conceptualize, prepare, and submit grant applications. Qualitative and quantitative Room: Salon D indicators of program success will be Break shared. The R01 Boot Camp, launched All research administrators have seen at the University of Michigan School and/or experienced instances in which Room: Oregon Ballroom Lobby of Medicine during 2013-2014, is a a proposal became a train wreck, an multifaceted program designed to mentor idea fizzled out, or an initiative hit a faculty through the proposal development wall. Because we are so busy, it can Sponsor process, and is geared toward those be difficult to step back and objectively who have yet to receive R01 support. assess what we can learn from those Demonstrations The pilot included 40 investigators instances and/or to perceive them from 26 departments working in small within their larger contexts. Drawing Rooms: Eugene and Portland
20 Tuesday, may 20th : 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Group Sessions
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Fulbright and Your Cost-Effective Ways to Institution “Keep Up with the Joneses” The New Sandbox: Fostering Room: Salons G&H Room: Salon A Collaboration between The Fulbright Program is the flagship Even large, top-100 research-intensive Academic and Clinical international educational exchange institutions are facing increasingly limited Institutions: A Research program sponsored by the U.S. operational budgets and reduced funding Administrator’s Perspective government and is designed to “increase pools at federal and state agencies mutual understanding between the people and private and corporate foundations, Room: Salon I of the United States and the people of resulting in significantly heightened other countries.” There are opportunities competitiveness. In this environment, With a second opportunity to submit a that enable faculty and administrators providing services in cost-effective ways large, complex interdisciplinary and multi- to consult, teach, or conduct research remains a top consideration in establishing institutional proposal, the UD administrative abroad. While awards are disbursed or maintaining research development team needed to examine varying competing directly to faculty recipients, what role offices. The presenters will offer multiple cultures and infrastructure to develop a do sponsored programs offices play in strategies for providing those services, project plan for bringing home an award. promoting and facilitating applications including Over the past ten years, three leading for these opportunities? Where is the Delaware institutions and the University campus representative on your campus? • Leveraging existing expertise among of Delaware (UD), Christiana Care Health What support might faculty find at your senior faculty members who have been System (CCHS) and Nemours/Alfred I. institution either prior to application or continue to be PIs or reviewers duPont Hospital for Children (Nemours) - submission or upon receipt of award? have received awards through the National Come learn more about Fulbright awards • Writing comprehensive manuals that Institutes for Health and IDeA program. for faculty and administrators and discuss clearly describe institution-specific These Delaware institutions have developed ways in which sponsored programs offices research administration policies and a strategic partnership with the Medical are involved in the process of promoting procedures University of South Carolina (MUSC), to the program and supporting applicants. leverage MUSC and experience and further • Creating online training modules that build the infrastructure in both states Learning Objectives: can be viewed at an investigator’s needed to create sustainable, nationally convenience competitive, clinical and translational • Participants will be provided a brief research programs. overview of Fulbright awards for faculty • Connecting to key knowledge bases such as specific listservs and funding alerts Last year, this team, referred to as the • Participants will discover how various DE-CTR team was able to successfully institutions promote or assist with • Inserting research development into collaborate and win a $20,000,000 award Fulbright or fellowships that are related areas of institutional life, such as through the IDeA program. The team awarded directly to faculty members faculty development seminar series and used lessons learned from the initial faculty awards celebrations submission to strengthen under-developed • Participants will learn ways in which partnerships, improve information sponsored programs offices work with Other possibilities will be discussed exchange, bridge cultural differences deans and other administrators to with and/or solicited from participants. and maneuver through multi-institutional encourage participation A summary of these strategies will bureaucracies. Session participants will be distributed to participants and hear from the UD administrative team, • Pre-Requisites: Some knowledge of other interested parties following the which is made up of Leigh Botner from the Fulbright opportunities and institutional conference. UD Research Development Office, Laura procedures and/or policies for faculty Paller from the UD Office of Sponsored who receive awards would be helpful but Presenters: Programs and LaVonne Sumler from is not required the UD Department of Physical Therapy. Bryan DeBusk The focus of this presentation will be Presenters: Senior Grants Consultant, best practice strategies for minimizing Hanover Research competition among varying stakeholders John M. Carfora Associate Provost for Research and administratively collaborating to build a Paul Tuttle sand castle worthy of award. Advancement and Compliance, Loyola Marymount University Managing Grants Consultant, Presenters: Hanover Research Andy Reiss Leigh Botner Assistant Director, Michael Preuss Research Development Director, Outreach and Communication, Grants Consultant, University of Delaware Institute of International Education, Hanover Research Department of Scholar and Laura Paller Professional Programs, Contract and Grants Specialist, Council for International Exchange Research Office, of Scholars University of Delaware Alexandra Roosa LaVonne Sumler Director, Sponsored Programs Coordinator, Research and Sponsored Programs, Physical Therapy Department, Pepperdine University University of Delaware
21 Tuesday, may 20th : 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Group Sessions
Jane of All Trades: The apply project management principles in Presenter: an academic setting. Applying business Role of the Research acquisition and project management Development Professional David Stone principles can help improve the process for in Facilitating Cross- Associate Vice President for Research, finding, securing and managing research Division of Research and Innovation funding in an academic setting. Business disciplinary Collaboration Partnerships, acquisition processes to be discussed include Northern Illinois University finding funding opportunities and developing Room: Salon D the proposals that will capture them. One of the things that separates research Presenters: development from research administration is the strategic ways which research Private Industry Best Conrad Monson development professionals work with Research Development Specialist, science teams and interdisciplinary Practices That Can Improve Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and collaborations. Much of the value added Research Development at Technology and the College of Physical and in these contexts comes from the capacity Universities Mathematical Sciences, of research development professionals Brigham Young Univeristy to serve as an intellectual bridge among the various participants on such teams. Room: Salons B&C Laurel Passantino Recent scholarship in the areas of tacit Program Manager, Research, knowledge, interactional expertise, and This session will present lessons learned Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, transdisciplinarity point to ways in which from private industry for improving Arizona State University research development professionals can research development at universities. First, leverage their experiences serving in this Conrad Monson will describe how applying intermediary role to further add value and business acquisition processes can help support effectiveness among team scientists capture research funding. Then, Laurel and interdisciplinary collaborators. Passantino will describe how to successfully
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5:00 PM - 6:30 PM proposal management best practices Idea Showcase A2 at the university. We will describe Rethinking Training: IDEA SHOWCASES, LIGHT how traditional proposal management A Low-Cost and practices have been adapted to the RECEPTION, & SPONSOR Highly-Effective university system. DEMONSTRATIONS Collaborative Model Presenters: Room: Oregon Ballroom Salons E&F & Lobby If you could implement a low-cost, Alexandra Stinchfield highly effective approach to educating Project Coordinator, Enjoy a light reception with the industry faculty and staff about pre-award best Global Engagement, leading vendors while soaking up practices that also builds connections Arizona State University more content through pioneering Idea among and between faculty and central Showcases. and departmental staff, would you do Haley Tabor so? At Tufts University, the Applicants Opportunity Analyst, and Administrators Pre-award Luncheon Global Engagement, Arizona State University Series (AAPLS) has created a vibrant, NOTE: well-attended and effective program that Gina Kuypers accomplishes these goals. Learn how Project Coordinator, Idea Showcases A1 – A11 we use monthly hour-long sessions to Global Engagement, facilitate dialogue between faculty, staff Arizona State University (Tentative) will take place from and administrators, as well as techniques 5:00 PM – 5:45 PM. and best practices for setting up a training program at your institution. Program evaluation methods and results over Idea Showcases B1 – B12 the first three years of the program will will take place from also be discussed. With commitment Idea Showcase A4 and strategic investments, our program Developing an All-in- 5:45 PM – 6:30 PM. and its rewards can be replicated across One Limited Submission institutions. Competition Space Presenter: Managing Limited Submission Idea Showcase A1 Sarah Marina competitions (LSC) can be a burdensome Proposal Development Coordinator, process for research administrators. While Navigating into the Void? Tufts University several competition spaces have emerged How to Chart a Successful to assist administrators in streamlining Course Towards DoD the process, none of these spaces Funding addresses one of the primary problems with LSC timely receipt of an alert of We will highlight actionable steps the competition. While the process for that have worked for us to ensure Idea Showcase A3 regular submissions in firmly implanted consideration to help those who are lost or Proposal Management: within the Sponsored Projects community, too intimidated to apply for DoD funding. Fact and Fiction the optimum processes on how to best We identify the key step in DoD funding manage Limited Submissions is anemic. process: the development of a clear and With an increasing number of investigators compelling White Paper that resonates How do proposal management practices with a Program Manager. apply at a university? Widely recognized and/or teams for these competitions as a critical role within healthcare and becoming increasingly emulous, it is Presenters: aerospace commercial proposal offices, critical for a process to emerge as a model proposal management is not common in for Limited Competitions. Rachael Voas academia. However, with an increasing Administrative Specialist, need to manage more complex bids that Presenter: Iowa State University reflect a more commercial look and feel, Lacy Fenn Julienne Krennrich proposal management is beginning to take Assistant Director, Assistant Director of Research Initiatives, a foothold within academia. Arizona State Research Development, Iowa State University University has four accredited foundation University of North Texas level proposal management professionals, who work closely together to define
23 Tuesday, may 20th : 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm Idea Showcases A5-A7
Idea Showcase A5 idea Showcase A6 Idea Showcase A7 Celebration of Strategic Proposal Using Graduate Writing Scholarship Development: A Centers to Magnify Research Administration Success in NSF Graduate James Madison University Office of Research Development has strategically Perspective Research Fellowship focused on addressing the challenge of Applications recognizing scholarly accomplishments How do you address the specialized in an environment centered on teaching. administrative requirements for large NSF Graduate fellowships are significant Digital and social media platforms are and strategic proposals? Clearly sources of extramural funding 25 awards used to market a range of events and establishing expectations within research are worth more than $1 million a year. share scholarly achievements with administrative units (decentralized and Support for student applications typically external and internal constituents through centralized) and enhancing cooperation takes the form of one-on-one help from a monthly video interview with faculty and communication across units faculty advisors and consultants in the researchers, daily posts to Facebook and decreases stress, increases satisfaction, graduate writing center. However, advisors Twitter, a blog, and a web-based research and improves the proposal submission tend to focus on the research essay and magazine. Print materials capturing process for everyone. In Research can’t support the personal essay, while scholarly highlights and unique programs Advancement Services (RAS) at Arizona writing center staff are ill equipped to are developed for distribution to guests State University (ASU), we are frequently advise on the research essay and are of the university and at professional called upon to provide departmental trained to defer to students on their meetings and conferences. In partnership research administrative support for personal essays. with a campus-wide faculty development large-scale, complex, multidisciplinary center and faculty research governance research proposals. We partner with ASU’s The presenter will report on a method body, the Office of Research Development Research Development office and other of supporting students that integrates established an annual celebration of groups (e.g., ASU Global). In an effort to the advisor and graduate writing center scholarship to connect internal audiences assist members of the RAS team in this support. Using intensive training of writing and showcase significant research role, a section of our evolving team manual staff and coaching advisors, we achieved accomplishments. These activities have has been dedicated to clarifying roles success rates 10 percentage points above been conducted in coordination with and expectations for strategic proposals. the national average. More significantly, academic programs to achieve maximum Within the strategic proposal section of the success rate of students who used exposure and are shared with the the manual, we articulate some of the the program was four times greater than university public affairs office to broadly unique aspects of strategic proposals, those who did not. connect with traditional media outlets. including: increased time commitment; The final products provide an additional finding unique solutions to questions, Presenter: avenue to engage alumni of the institution issues, and non-standard requirements; managing multiple subcontractors or and other potential funders. Research Alan Paul and scholarship promotion is a low-cost partners diplomatically; identifying tools and resources; and working effectively President, approach, especially important during Giant Angstrom Partners, LLC times of budget uncertainty, to recognizing with Research Development staff and the good works of faculty and students. central research administration officers. Program assessment is currently under This Idea Showcase will provide the top 10 development. recommendations for supporting a well- integrated research administrative unit as Presenters: part of a large-scale, strategic proposal.
Kenneth Newbold Presenter: Director of Research and Innovation, James Madison University Jessica Robins Research Advancement Administrator, Benjamin Delp Arizona State University Associate Director for Research Development, James Madison University
24 Tuesday, may 20th : 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm Idea Showcases A8-A11
• High-level training materials culled from Idea Showcase A8 Idea Showcase A9 webinars, workshops, and colleagues, Which comes first: the job Barriers and Facilitators • An actively-maintained list of freelance or the experience? Case of Broader Impacts proposal writers, training groups and study in learning through other independent support that includes The NSF’s broader impacts review criterion reviewers, and interning has been an ongoing challenge within the scientific community, particularly in • Examples of particularly challenging or How does someone gain hands-on terms of conceptual clarity, assessment, experience that will help them land a job unique sponsor specific documents that and philosophical resistance. This poster defy boilerplate in the relatively new field of research and presents the results of a national study of proposal development? A recent law school the factors that shape PI response to the graduate with a science background wanted Still in beta format, the site is maintained NSF’s broader impacts criterion. An online through the Research Development arm of to break into the research and proposal survey of a random sample of 700 NSF grant development field. Although proposal the University’s research office and used recipients collected data about the type by approximately 50 proposal development writing guides and workshops abound, and and quality of broader impacts activities research administration programs exist, professionals across four campuses. performed, grantees’ views on knowledge The site will be available university-wide she could not find a training program or production and the democratization of internship opportunity that would give beginning July 2014. By creating and science, their prior experience and training adapting toolboxes for your organization, her hands-on experience specifically in in community engagement, and institutional research and proposal development. you can spend time on what really matters – climate and resources for community composing a competitive proposal. engagement. The study determined how The solution? In the absence of existing much variance in type and quality of broader Presenter: internship programs, she approached the impacts activity could be explained by the Director of the University of Idaho Office respondent’s personal characteristics Faye Farmer of Competitive Funding and together they and perceptions of institutional support. formulated a training program combining This study was designed to enhance Associate Director, educational and practical experience understanding of the training and support Research Development, elements. Here we describe the process of faculty members need to successfully Office of Knowledge Enterprise developing and implementing an informal meet the broader impacts requirements of Development, proposal development internship program federal sponsors. Arizona State University from scratch at the University of Idaho, a university with limited resources and Presenter: a one-person RD office. The aspiring intern and the Director first defined goals Dianne Nagy and objectives, and then developed a Grants Coordinator, Idea Showcase A11 one-semester mentored internship with College of Engineering, Little Things Mean a Lot: educational and hands-on activities that involved faculty and staff from across the South Dakota State University Letters of Intent, White university and encompassed research and Papers, Preproposals, proposal development from idea generation Requests for Information, to proposal submission. The internship model turned out to be an effective way and Abstracts to break into research and proposal Idea Showcase A10 development in higher education. Although Go Faster by Not Many successful grant applications, our plan is specific to the UI, by laying out Reinventing the Wheel: especially for large-scale, complex goal and objective development, challenges, projects, require a preliminary short paper lessons learned, and the outcome of our Capitalizing on Shared before a full proposal can be developed experiment, we believe the process can be Resources for Large, and submitted. This session will provide adapted to other institutions. information on the definitions and multiple Strategic Proposals purposes of these important short papers and offer preparation strategies to increase Presenters: Reinventing the wheel for every proposal chances of funding success. Participants slows you down. Leveraging past will learn the differences between letters Sarah Koerber proposal experience invariably creates a of intent, white papers, preproposals, Proposal Development Specialist, valuable shortcut under tight deadlines. abstracts and requests for information, Office of Research and Economic Are you looking for a way to go faster? which funding agencies require these short Development, This showcase will help you harness papers, and also review successful models institutional knowledge by providing clear University of Idaho and examples. and meaningful strategies for identifying, collecting, prioritizing, and sharing Denise Mazurik Presenter: Research Proposal Writer, resources in an easily accessible and translatable manner using Arizona State College of Engineering, Marjorie Piechowski University of Idaho University’s “Proposal Toolbox” as a model. The Toolbox is an internal SharePoint site Director Emerita of Research Support designed to provide a one-stop-shop for: College of Engineering & Applied Science University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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done by our faculty and staff. Information Administration has experienced the Idea Showcase B1 about individual research projects was project-management process under Strategies for all but impossible to find, scattered varying schedules and has prepared a between collegiate, departmental and menu of services offered under optimal Sustainability: faculty websites designed for students. scenarios, as well as a list of service Maintaining Research Our solution was to build a stand-alone gaps that occur under not-so-optimal Development Excellence site that serves as a portal for outside conditions. Both timelines lead to audiences to learn more about our submitted grants as the final product, but and Impact college’s research enterprise. This under extremely different circumstances. presentation will cover our process for Maintenance of research development strategically identifying our audiences, Presenters: excellence and impact over the long designing content for those audiences, term requires creativity, strategy, and building and implementing a Julia Rudolph adaptability and evolution. Building from research tagging system that includes Proposal Development Manager, our experiences over the past 15 years, 250 researchers and their individual Office of Research & Project we will present solutions to key issues, research projects. Our challenges included such as changing institutional expectations Administration, Grants/Contracts, gathering institutional support, designing Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and tightening of funding budgets, and tags to describe a wide range of research, successful approaches for sustainability and site maintenance. The payoffs include Vaso C. Bitas of effectiveness and outcomes. We will higher visibility; a unified way to present Proposal Development Manager, discuss strategies that have worked so our collegiate research enterprise to far, and engage the group in discussing policymakers, funders and collaborators; Office of Research & Project future challenges that will face research and common threads in the way we tell the Administration, Grants/Contracts, development professionals striving to story of CEHD research. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center maintain excellence and impact. Presenter: David Widmer Presenter: Manager, Scientific Development, Ellen Freeman Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center M. Dawn McArthur Assistant Director, Research & Technology Office of Research & Policy, Development Office, College of Education and Human Child & Family Research Institute, Development, Idea Showcase B4 University of British Columbia/BC University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital Faculty Enrichment Programs
What are the most effective ways for Idea Showcase B3 faculty to gain knowledge and experience? Idea Showcase B2 Timing is Everything: There may not be a one size fits all solution Content + Strategy: the Good, the Bad, and to this question. We present a wide variety Building a Research of workshops, meetings, panels, and the Ugly in Project Web Site interventions that have been tailored to Management and audience expectations, experience level, and interests. This includes events focused A research website can be an effective Coordination for Complex on sponsor agencies, topics, and aspects tool for communicating the impact of Grant Mechanisms of proposal development. We present your organization’s research. If the site’s methods for evaluation and metrics for content and strategy don’t match up, the In an effort to encourage collaborative success. end product may not accomplish that goal. research, sponsors are increasing the The University of Minnesota’s College release of funding opportunities for Presenter: of Education and Human Development multi-project grants [e.g. NIH Ps and Us, recently used the principles of content etc.]. When developing these complex Stacy Esposito strategy to design and launch a new applications, synergy is required not only Director, Research Advancement, “CEHD Research” website. We consciously scientifically but also administratively, put our users and content first, building IRA A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and both aspects may be affected by Arizona State University and selecting tools that fit our purposes the amount of lead-time available for rather than letting existing systems define preparing the application. Created to the scope of our content. Our existing provide complex grant coordination, the research website was not doing a good MSK Funding Development Team (FDT) job linking users to the research being within the Office of Research Project
27 Tuesday, may 20th : 5:45 pm - 6:30 pm Idea Showcases B5-B8
reduce power loss and damage caused by sketch or proposal draft in advance of Idea Showcase B5 turbine-to-turbine interaction, enhance the event. Participants left with a firm Taking the Long View: energy capture and damage-mitigation commitment to submit a proposal in potential of advanced rotors, and improve the subsequent months. Several inter- Opportunities on or the validity of aerodynamic, aero-elastic institutional partnerships were formed Beyond the Horizon and aero-acoustic simulations used to among participants, including a writing develop innovative technologies. SWiFT group. This poster will present the initially consists of three research- workshop agenda, some artifacts collected Building a proactive research advancement scale wind turbines (heavily modified and the results of a detailed evaluation portfolio requires taking the long view— V27s). Though this has been established survey completed by virtually all of the communicating with program officers/ as a national priority for the DOE, who 31 participants. The presenter will share sponsors; establishing relationships designated noncompetitive funding lessons learned and plans for the future. with universities, public sector, and through SNL, there have been significant private sector stakeholders; and building hurdles, sacrifices and compromises Presenter: teams for opportunities 3-5yrs before that were made by all involved. In the solicitation is announced. We explore order for this large-scale initiative to Claudia Scholz both common and not-so-common ways be sustainable, continuous strategic Coordinator of Research Programs, to get ahead of the game and raise your planning and evaluation is essential. Academic Affairs, profile, whether you’re applying for a This poster will evaluate the multi- Trinity University center of excellence, development project, institutional, multidisciplinary efforts of research center, or an unsolicited project the SWiFT Facility during the project’s or partnership. No mind reading needed— inception, discussions, development, just a solid approach to research and negotiations, contracts, construction, business development that aligns the deployment, commissioning ceremony Idea Showcase B8 strategic mission of your department/ and research. Past conflicts, resolutions institution with the known and anticipated and potential contributions will be A Starting Point: Six requirements of funders. explored through a lens that considers Questions to Launch intellectual and interpersonal dimensions a Successful Grant Presenter: of multidisciplinary team research development. Proposal Allison Shannon Researchers who are new to the Grant Proposal Writer, Presenters: sponsored research game are prone to Global Institute of Sustainability, Anna Thomas Young start writing their grant proposals with Arizona State University the same mindset they apply to their Associate Managing Director, academic papers, often with disappointing National Wind Institute, results. This poster display highlights Texas Tech University six key questions that are essential to starting a grant proposal with essential Idea Showcase B6 Kayla Tindle information that grant reviewers expect The Development and Senior Proposal Development Administrator, to see on the first page. Brief answers to Progress of the Scaled Office of the Vice President for Research, these questions can be used to compose Texas Tech University a preabstract to the proposal itself, a Wind Farm Technology “talking paper” to start a dialogue with (SWiFT) Facility: A a grant program officer in the critical Multidisciplinary, Multi- preproposal phase. For more than a decade, the questions have met with institutional Research Idea Showcase B7 notable success in numerous grant writing Project Intensive Proposal workshops internationally. Development Workshops: This poster will focus on the Presenter: establishment, collaboration, and future A Model for Near-Peer of the Scaled Wind Farm Technology Faculty Mentoring and Robert Porter (SWiFT) Facility. The SWiFT Facility is Inter-institutional Director of Research Development, a collaboration of industry, academia, University of Tennessee and government based interaction to Cooperation perform accredited research testing for both collaborative and highly proprietary In the fall of 2013, three small, private projects in the wind energy field. Sandia institutions in San Antonio TX (Trinity National Laboratories (SNL), Vestas, Texas University, St. Mary’s University and the Tech University’s National Wind Institute University of the Incarnate Word) co- (NWI) and Group NIRE, a renewable energy sponsored a grant proposal development development company, began discussions workshop for faculty in all disciplines. over two and half years ago to capitalize on The two-day workshop was a balance of each entities’ expertise in creating a test- presentations, writing time and one-on- bed for wind turbines. SWiFT’s primary one meetings with experienced reviewers. objectives will be to further research to: Each participant submitted a project
28 Tuesday, may 20th : 5:45 pm - 6:30 pm Idea Showcases B9-B10
Idea Showcase B9 Idea Showcase B10 Transitioning from Maximizing Efficiency: Research to Research A Case Study in How to Development (R2RD) Avoid Saying ‘No’ in a Resource-Limited Office Evident from the regular announcements posted through the NORDP listserv, As the funding climate tightens and University-based research development academic institutions work to streamline offices are quickly growing. The administrative services to reduce costs, comprehensive list of research development research development offices are often activities encompasses nearly every task expected to take on a greater level of imaginable, requiring professionals to responsibility without a commensurate hone skills in organizational development, increase in resources. Solutions: Over writing, interpersonal relationships, the past five years, the Tufts University leadership, and communications, in addition Office of Proposal Development has to demonstrated excellence in a relevant increased the number of individual and field, e.g., science or engineering. multidisciplinary proposals worked on by more than 150%. At the same time, we So who are the superheroes of research have increased the number of workshops, development and how have they attained outreach, and research development and and grown into these research development strategy activities performed. During this roles? Many research development period, the conscious choice was made to professionals are Ph.D.s with traditional accommodate all requests for assistance academic training, yet how did they from faculty and staff to facilitate our acquire the skills to succeed in these mission of helping all researchers receive unconventional, transdisciplinary positions? funding, particularly new and inexperienced What supplemental training could faculty, those struggling with getting universities offer to enhance experiences funded, and those working in multi- for talented graduate and postdoctoral investigator teams. These increases were trainees who might consider research accomplished with a near-zero increase development careers? in FTEs. Our strategy to ramp up services has been twofold. First, we created levels The R2RD panel session will highlight the of service based on the needs of the journeys and on-the-job training of two faculty and existing institutional resources RD professionals who transitioned from available to them. Second, we developed the bench to the research development concrete project management strategies office. We will also include one to two that do not increase principal investigator panelists who are effectively working with teams’ workload, while minimizing spikes in their Universities to broaden experiences work immediately prior to deadlines. for academic trainees, ensuring that the next generation of research development This poster presentation will highlight professionals will be equipped with these strategies in the context of current organizational skills that might not be academic and funding environments and included in traditional academic graduate how we ensured buy-in from stakeholders programs. throughout the Tufts research community. With minimal need for significant increases Presenters: in institutional investment, we have demonstrated that a research development Debra Weinstein office can expand its capacity while Assistant Director, providing valuable resources for creating Research Coordination and Planning, highly competitive proposals. Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Presenter: University of Maryland Amy Gantt Amy Davis Director of the Office of Proposal Director of Research Program Development, Office of the Vice Provost, Development, School of Medicine, Tufts University University of Utah
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29 Tuesday, may 20th : 5:45 pm - 6:30 pm Idea Showcases B11-B12 Sponsor Demonstrations
Specifically, we grounded our work in Idea Showcase B11 the existing CTSA Core Competencies Assessing Research for Clinical and Translational Research, and developed three ITHS Competency Impact: New Metrics & Domains: Research Initiation, Data Innovations Analysis and Management, and Professional Regulations and Skills. We The ways to discover and disseminate used these three domains to classify our research are now almost limitless. For existing extensive ITHS online content. In example, people download or view articles addition, we followed the ADDIE (Analysis, on PLOS, view researchers’ presentations Design, Development, Implementation, on SlideShare, find about new research Evaluation) instructional design model, from Twitter, to name just a few. Yet, we to ensure the effectiveness of our online still are relying almost solely on citation- knowledge system. We will describe the based metrics developed fifty years process, E-Portal results, and lessons ago to evaluate research. By carefully learned. We believe our work exemplifies designing and deliberately collecting the a best practice of research training and big data created when people interact with faculty development within and across research, you can start to uncover new organizations, and a model that could findings and gain a new understanding be adopted both by CTSAs and by others about research and its impact. This poster engaged in research training. will help define this brave new world of research metrics, often called altmetrics, Presenters: and show you what you can do with them. Leslie Schmitz Presenter: Director of Education and Pilot Programs, Institute of Translational Health Sciences, Mike Buschman University of Washington Chief Product Officer, Plum Analytics Cathryn Booth-LaForce The Charles and Gerda Spence Endowed Professor in Nursing, Family & Child Nursing, Idea Showcase B12 University of Washington ITHS E-Portal: An Online Sensen Li Learning Repository for Curriculum Manager, Translational Health Institute of Translational Health Sciences, Sciences University of Washington
Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) programs have widely adopted the use of online repositories of educational content to advance integrated and 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM interdisciplinary education, training, and career development. However, a key challenge is the management and integration of online content to ensure its Sponsor usefulness and impact. The Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS; one Demonstrations of the CTSAs) has an exceptionally rich Room: Portland and extensive library of online offerings for research training and faculty development, thereby providing an excellent opportunity to develop and evaluate a learner-centered educational environment, the E-Portal. Researchers we serve focus on diverse areas—from basic science to clinical trials to outcomes evaluation—and are located across a 5-state region, thereby increasing the challenge of creating comprehensive relevant programming. To address these needs, we developed the ITHS Competency Framework and constructed the ITHS E-Portal.
30 Tuesday, may 20th : 6:45 pm Optional no-host networking dinners
Join other conference attendees for dinner at some great local establishments in the Portland area. Some dinners will also feature an informal discussion around a research development topic of interest. Each dinner guest pays their own way and groups are limited to a total of eight guests.
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31 Wednesday, may 21st : 7:30 am - 6:00 pm Registration / breakfast general session
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Continental Breakfast General Session Room: Oregon Ballroom Salons E&F Drawing on Research Development to Define & Lobby Future Research Leaders BREAKFAST WITH THE BOARD Room: Oregon Ballroom Salons E&F Room: Eugene Room As the field of research development continues to develop and evolve, it is important for NORDP to provide professional development opportunities NORDP Member and Board Discussion: across the diverse array of research development professionals. This proposed Bylaws, voting, and other matters. As conference session will focus on RD professionals who aspire to become a vice we prepare for general membership president/chancellor for research. We propose a panel of VPR/VCRs who are both elections of Board Members, many NORDP supportive of research development as well as who understand the importance members have expressed increased of preparing future leaders in research. This panel will include a presentation of interest in our bylaws, processes, and findings from a recent national survey of vice presidents/chancellors for research procedures. Please join the NORDP Board at APLU institutions to study the current duties, and potential future changes of over breakfast in an informal discussion of duties, of senior university research leadership and the structure and function these and other matters. of the office. The purpose of the survey was to address how to prepare research leaders for the future, particularly as the context, requirements, and importance of the position evolves in response to the significant changes now underway in 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM higher education. We will highlight and discuss results from this survey, and consider the skill sets, qualities and characteristics seen as essential for success in a VPR/VCR position. Registration Open Presenters: Room: Oregon Ballroom Lobby Alicia J. Knoedler Associate VP for Research, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Oklahoma
Kevin Droegemeier Vice President for Research, Regents’ Professor of Meteorology, Weathernews Chair Emeritus in Applied Meteorology, Roger & Sherry Teigen Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma
32 Wednesday, may 21st : 9:00 am - 10:40 am Group Sessions
9:40 AM – 10:40 AM documents, and herding subcontractors. discourage arts, humanities, and social Charlie and Sharon will discuss their science (AHSS) faculty from pursuing grant changing roles within the recently funding. For example, these scholars do Integrating Research restructured RDT. From the University not always require funding to conduct of California, San Francisco, Erin Bank their research and may be unaware Development, Sponsored will describe best practices and lessons that grants fund research and other Programs, and Faculty learned managing the Large Grant scholarly pursuits, such as exhibitions, Teams on Large Proposals Development Program, which provides book projects, travel to archives, and scientific support to investigators and publication subventions. For new AHSS Room: Salons B&C works closely with traditional pre-award faculty, in particular, time spent identifying teams. This structure is unique in that funding opportunities and developing and Meaningful collaboration is a key each team has distinct but complementary submitting grant proposals may detract prerequisite for successful large grant roles. This will be an interactive panel from producing materials upon which proposals. This presentation explores the discussion examining the intersection of tenure and promotion are contingent, internal resources necessary to mobilize, faculty and administrative staff across namely publications, exhibitions, and motivate, untangle, and unburden the proposal development lifecycle. commissions of work. In addition, faculty researchers. While each institution attacks Attendees will gain familiarity with several may be unfamiliar with writing for grant these problems in different ways, the team models, definitions of roles and reviewers; though they have extensive goals are the same: assemble, motivate, responsibilities, and other innovative experience writing articles for peer- and manage teams, and provide technical, approaches for large grant proposal reviewed journals or writing a monograph administrative and project management submission. or book, writing for a grant competition support. From Arizona State University, differs greatly. Another challenge is that Faye Farmer will discuss approaches Presenters: funding for AHSS research is often less to interacting with faculty and faculty abundant than funding in the life and teams, identifying team needs, and Erin Bank physical sciences; compounding this creating a culture of assistance that Research Development Specialist, dilemma is that as university budgets enables researchers to take advantage of Research Development Office, become more constrained and federal available resources. From the University University Of California, San Francisco funding for research declines, the need to of Tennessee at Knoxville, Charlie Senn, pursue funding and to submit competitive Sharon Pound, and Jennifer Webster Jennifer Webster proposals has risen. This presentation is will discuss the interaction between the Sponsored Programs Administrator, designed to help participants recognize and remove barriers and impediments to Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) and Office of Research & Engagement, grant seeking among faculty in non-STEM the Research Development Team (RDT). University of Tennessee, Knoxville Jennifer will compare her role in OSP disciplines. Participants will learn about with her responsibilities as a “borrowed” the major and less well-known funders member of the RDT, preparing budgets, Charlie Senn for AHSS research and how to articulate collecting and organizing supplementary Director, Research Development Team, the value of sponsored research, including Office of Research and Engagement, communicating what sponsored research University of Tennessee, Knoxville actually funds, how sponsored research can increase one’s visibility as a scholar, Sharon Pound and how AHSS research can enhance the Manager, Strategic Research Initiatives, prestige of institutions. Research Development Team, Office of Research & Engagement, Presenters: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Susan Gomes Faye Farmer Director of Research Development and Associate Director, Strategy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Research Development, Office of Harvard University Knowledge Enterprise Development, Arizona State University Barbara L. E. Walker Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts University of California at Santa Barbara Funding Opportunities in the Arts, Humanities Caitlin McDermott-Murphy Research Development Coordinator, and Social Sciences: Harvard University Strategies for Supporting and Promoting a Grant Seeking Culture Room: Salon I
A culture of grant writing is not ubiquitous across disciplines. Many factors
33 Wednesday, may 21st : 9:40 am - 10:40 am Group Sessions
Stewardship and Bridging Join three highly experienced proposal participants will be encouraged to ask developers and reviewers with a combined questions and share experiences. Research Development century of experience in this question for Across Federal, a discussion of what makes for a good, Presenter: Foundation, Corporate competitive core description. We will discuss the key elements and common J. Quyen Wickham and Industry to increase mistakes in a service core description and Interdisciplinary Research Program Efficiency and IMPACT! an administrative core description. The Consultant, Center for Research Program focus will be both on what works well in Development and Enrichment, Room: Salons G&H peer review, and on how you as research University of Oklahoma development staff can help write the core This session will cover the following to put in place the elements for successful operation and long-term success in a • Identify key strengths and skills RD funded center. professionals have that are universal to Measuring Institutional all sponsors Presenters: Grant Capacity: Present Context and Key • Differences making contact with federal, Peg AtKisson foundation, corporate and industry Associate Member, Considerations program officers Grant Writers Seminars and Workshops Room: Salons E&F • How to steward relationships with each John Carfora of the four stakeholder groups, including Key concerns when measuring institutional Associate Provost for Research grant capacity are institutional capacity, personal relationship development, Advancement and Compliance, connecting with faculty, and putting the potential scope of projects and current Loyola Marymount University on showcase events for sponsors to ability to accomplish related tasks, and highlight the impact you have been able cataloging preparedness or readiness to leverage because of sponsor funding Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski regarding necessary tasks. In fact, the Vice President, Global Academic & ability to gauge these characteristics • How to spin a federal proposal to fit Research Relations, as objectively as possible is critical for for foundation, corporate and industry Elsevier Research Intelligence establishing an operational baseline and prospects assessing progress toward institutional goals. However, very few authors have Presenters: addressed these concepts or a means of categorizing them in the research Proposal Success and the administration literature and, at present, Tina Edgerly Campbell Importance of Academic no publicly-accessible, robust, and up-to- Principal, Campbell Consulting Group and date instruments exist to measure them. Former Director, Research Enhancement, Team Leadership The George Washington University Room: Salon D Responding to that need, this presentation will outline the context for assessment Christopher G. Campbell Leadership in academic proposal teams of institutional grant capacity based Principal, can make or break successful proposal on a thorough review of the research Campbell Consulting Group efforts. While business & industry has a administration literature, discuss long history of leadership research and important considerations for measuring development, the culture of academia grant capacity based on work already often makes it difficult to apply what completed toward developing instruments, Good Core, Bad Core may typically work in the hierarchy of and propose potential applications for such a business. This session will distill the instruments and the results they produce. Room: Salon A best of team leadership research from Illustrations of the need for assessment of Business Communication, Industrial this type, their institutional applications, Research and proposal development staff & Organizational Psychology and the and their potential applications in members are often called upon to draft Science of Team Science for the context higher education will be drawn from the parts of large center proposals, such as of academic proposal teams at research presenters’ experience with HBCUs, PUIs, core facilities. Often our collaborating universities. The session will follow the research-intensive institutions, graduate- faculty have never served as reviewers proposal team process in academic degree-granting but primarily teaching for these kinds of proposals, and cannot research from team formation to proposal institutions, and community colleges. provide insight on the ‘unspoken’ elements submission and present leadership of the panel discussion. We usually have to strategies that can help throughout this Presenters: rely on the instructions in the RFA and the dynamic process: tips and tricks for stated review criteria, and do the best we picking team leaders, supporting existing Paul Tuttle can. The specific content varies depending leaders, utilizing shared leadership; Managing Grants Consultant, on the type of core. They could need specific leader impacts on team organization; Hanover Research aims, scientific justification, governance, a leadership communication; and leadership business plan and an evaluation plan. But development in academia. Session Michael Preuss what makes one core good and another Grants Consultant, core not quite make the grade? Hanover Research
34 Wednesday, may 21st : 10:50 am - 11:50 am OPEN SESSION, SPECIAL GROUP PRESENTATION, ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS, & SPONSOR DEMOS
depth include: optimizing communication, thereby providing an excellent opportunity 10:50 AM – 11:50 AM coordinating strategy, and leveraging to develop and evaluate a learner-centered resources from across a complex educational environment, the E-Portal. research development infrastructure Researchers we serve focus on diverse Open Session including external relations, technology areas—from basic science to clinical development, government relations and trials to outcomes evaluation—and are NORDP Presidents’ Chat sponsored programs administration. located across a 5-state region, thereby Room: Salons G&H This presentation is intended to spark increasing the challenge of creating discussion and we encourage engagement comprehensive relevant programming. You’re invited to an informal gathering with in the post-presentation conversation by To address these needs, we developed the current, future, and immediate past representatives from both centralized and the ITHS Competency Framework presidents of NORDP. This session is a decentralized institutions. and constructed the ITHS E-Portal. chance to give input into the organization, Specifically, we grounded our work in learn about opportunities to get involved, Presenters: the existing CTSA Core Competencies and discuss future plans. for Clinical and Translational Research, Susan Gomes and developed three ITHS Competency Presenters: Director of Research Development and Domains: Research Initiation, Data Strategy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Analysis and Management, and Harvard University Professional Regulations and Skills. We Alicia Knoedler used these three domains to classify our NORDP President Elizabeth Langdon-Gray existing extensive ITHS online content. In Assistant Vice Provost for Research addition, we followed the ADDIE (Analysis, David Stone Design, Development, Implementation, Development and Planning, NORDP President-Elect Evaluation) instructional design model, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, to ensure the effectiveness of our online Ann McGuigan Harvard University knowledge system. We will describe the NORDP Immediate Past President process, E-Portal results, and lessons Helen Page learned. We believe our work exemplifies Assistant Dean for Research a best practice of research training and Administration, faculty development within and across Office of Sponsored Projects, organizations, and a model that could Special Group Graduate School of Education, be adopted both by CTSAs and by others Presentation Harvard University engaged in research training. Working Across Amanda Spickard Presenters: the Institution: Director of Research Strategy and Development, School of Public Health, Leslie Schmitz Strategies for Success Harvard University Director of Education and Pilot Programs, in a Decentralized Institute of Translational Health Sciences, Environment University of Washington Room: Salon I Cathryn Booth-LaForce Roundtable The Charles and Gerda Spence Endowed Harvard University is a remarkably Professor in Nursing, decentralized institution. In this discussion, Discussion Family & Child Nursing, representatives from school and central ITHS E-Portal: An Online University of Washington research development offices will relate Learning Repository for how we are meeting the challenges of a Translational Health Sensen Li decentralized organizational structure, Curriculum Manager, and using that structure to our advantage. Sciences Institute of Translational Health Sciences, We will describe the different research University of Washington development models employed by Room: Salem Harvard’s ten schools (often determined by very different resource landscapes), Clinical and Translational Science Award explain how those models coexist, and (CTSA) programs have widely adopted the examine the work of the Research use of online repositories of educational Development Coordinating Committee content to advance integrated and (the advisory group of RD professionals interdisciplinary education, training, convened by the Office of the Vice Provost and career development. However, a for Research). We will give particular key challenge is the management and emphasis to the challenges of supporting integration of online content to ensure its faculty in different disciplines, working usefulness and impact. The Institute of with significant resource constraints, Translational Health Sciences (ITHS; one and coordinating decision-making and of the CTSAs) has an exceptionally rich leadership functions across many units. and extensive library of online offerings for Broad themes that we will explore in research training and faculty development,
35 Wednesday, may 21st : 10:50 am - 11:50 am OPEN SESSION, SPECIAL GROUP PRESENTATION, ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS, & SPONSOR DEMOS
Activities discussed will include mind- Roundtable mapping and collaborative problem- Roundtable solving techniques applied to research Discussion development. Discussion Research Development Fostering Partnerships Office Staff Management Presenter: with University Librarians Strategies Naomi Nishi Enhances Research Room: Belmont Assistant Director For Educational Development Outreach, Office of Research Development Room: Hawthorne Most research development offices and Education, University of Colorado (RDOs) are fairly small but handle a The library as a partner in the pre-award myriad of distinct functions. This leads process may include but is not limited to unique staff management challenges: to: citation impact metrics, specialized how to manage the career development literature searches ,data management and supervise independent program Roundtable recommendations, and the availabilit of managers; how to provide effective institutional repositories. Learning to programmatic oversight; how to share ask how, when, why, and who to make visibility; how to negotiate your office vision Discussion Defining and Supporting referrals between enhances the services vs. that of your staff; how to optimize the of the research development office. effective utilization of the skills and talents Institutional Aspirations of all members of the office, etc. This Presenter: session will explore strategies for effective via Sponsored Programs: management and development of strong Three Case Studies Amanda Rinehart RDO program staff leaders. Room: Pearl Data Management Services Librarian, Presenter: Ohio State University An interesting consequence of the Gretchen Kiser recent sequester and subsequent Director, Research Development Office, Federal government shutdown, coupled with decreases in state support, has University of California, San Francisco been increased interest among public institutions of higher education in Sponsor sponsored programs. Indeed, even small institutions without grants offices have Demonstrations begun to establish them. In offering Rooms: Portland and Eugene Roundtable three case studies to participants, Discussion the presenters will draw from their experiences working with two- and Designing Collaborative four-year institutions of higher education Learning Activities for that are new to grants and sponsored Faculty programs. These three case studies will describe instances in which the presenter Room: Medford and an associated team addressed such issues as establishing institutional Faculty members are a tough audience, strategic plans relative to grants and given their own experience in teaching and sponsored programs, building institutional busy schedules. However, many seem to capacity for seeking grant funding, and expect traditional lecture-style teaching developing institutional infrastructure and learning when it comes to their own for managing externally funded projects. development. The problem with sticking Lessons learned will be discussed with to lectures is faculty are not given the and/or solicited from participants. opportunity to learn from one another, engage in their own development, and we Presenters: as faculty developers are less connected to our faculty learners and less able to Bryan DeBusk determine if our learning outcomes are Senior Grants Consultant, met. In this roundtable discussion, we Hanover Research will brainstorm several strategies for designing interactive learning activities, Paul Tuttle and identify examples of such activities Managing Grants Consultant, that have worked with diverse groups of Hanover Research faculty in research development seminars.
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36 Wednesday, may 21st : 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch & Keynote Address
Lunch & Keynote Address – David Robinson, Ph.D.
The Federal Demonstration Partnership and Research Development Room: Oregon Ballroom Salons E&F
David W. Robinson, Ph.D. is Professor and Executive Vice Provost at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Robinson was born and raised in rural North Yorkshire, England, before obtaining a B.Sc. in Physiology at University College London and a Ph.D. at Cambridge University. In 1992 he moved to the United States to do post-doctoral training at the University of California at Davis, where he subsequently became a research track faculty member before moving to Oregon Health & Sciences learning management system (Sakai) and University (OHSU) in 1997. the establishment of the Teaching and Learning Center at OHSU. He holds a faculty appointment as Professor in the Department of Physiology At OHSU, Dr. Robinson’s administrative and Pharmacology with joint appointments work began as the Senior Technology in the Department of Ophthalmology and Advisor for Research and Education in the Oregon Institute of Occupation Health 2000. Subsequent to that, he served as Sciences. David’s research interests Vice Provost for Academic Technology have been directed toward gaining a (2006), Director of Educational better understanding of the role retinal Communications (2006), Interim University development plays in the maturation of Librarian (2008), Vice Provost for the circadian and visual systems. More Academic Technology and Information recently David led the OHSU participation Services (2008), Interim Provost for in the NCRR-funded eagle-i Consortium, Education and Research (2009), and made up of nine member institutions, Interim Provost and Vice President for which was established to build a prototype Academic Affairs (2010) before receiving of a national research resource discovery his current appointment as Executive Vice network to help biomedical scientists Provost (2011). search for and find previously invisible, but highly valuable, research resources. His Dr. Robinson has also been the OHSU research has been published in multiple faculty representative to the Federal academic journals, most recently in the Demonstration Partnership (http://www. Journal of European Neuroscience (2009), thefdp.org/) since 2002. The FDP is a Behavioral and Brain Functions (2010) and 25- year-old association that presently Database (2011). comprises 10 Federal Agencies and 119 academic institutions with more than Dr. Robinson’s responsibilities as an $15 billion in federal research grants. In educator have included teaching and 2008 David was elected for a 3-year term directing courses in the Department to the position of Vice Chair and works of Physiology and Pharmacology and closely with senior staff members from Allied Health programs, serving as the FDP’s Federal Agency partners (NIH, advisor to three graduate students in NSF, ONR, UDSA, AFOSR, ARO, AMRMC, OHSU’s Neuroscience Graduate Program NASA, EPA and DHS), the Office of Science and Integrated Biomedical Sciences and Technology Policy, and the National program, and leading the selection Academies to improve the administrative and implementation of an OHSU-wide processes involved with receiving funding from the Federal Government.
37 Wednesday, may 21st : 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Group Sessions
Lastly, the presenter will discuss Identifying Research 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM evaluation of programs--when to evaluate, which methods to choose, and sample Development Metrics: A Using Social Media in surveys and sample/recommended ways Case Study to obtain feedback using free services Research Development such as survey monkey. If time permits, Room: Salons G&H the presenter will discuss how to report Room: Salon A the results to supervisors, VPR, President/ Understanding an institution’s research Provost, and how to self promote via their foci and the interests and activity of its Social media is becoming more prevalent website and/or social media. in virtually all facets of modern life. But is it faculty is critical for research development and administration. But assessing and really helpful for research administrators? Presenter: To a certain extent, yes: and likely to monitoring the level, type, and foci of become more useful as more researchers externally-funded activity at an institution and scholars who grew up using smart Tina Edgerly Campbell of higher education can be a daunting phones and tablets enter the workforce. Principal, Campbell Consulting Group and task, especially when initiating the This session will discuss some of the Former Director, Research Enhancement, process. To help participants consider common social media platforms and The George Washington University the effectiveness and efficiency of their their usefulness in the world of research present process or initiate a new process, development (and research administration). an extended case study will be presented. Within this case study, the presenter Presenter: Research Networking will discuss outcomes from quantitative and qualitative analysis of 18 data points Michael Spires and Funding Opportunity gathered concerning every proposal Senior Proposal Analyst, Systems: Exploring submitted across a three-year period by University of Colorado at Boulder Best Practices in a research-intensive institution in the southern United States. Participants will Implementation and learn how to reproduce the system used to Evaluation gather the information presented; which of the data points gathered proved to be Successful Faculty Room: Salon D indicators of institutional characteristics, Training Program which were redundant, and which were Development and Join us as we share our experiences to inconclusive; and how to use content increase awareness and usage of a funding analysis to develop an overview of Implementation opportunity system by departmental institutional research and grant activity, Room: Salons B&C administrators through a unique and including a clear and evidence-based educational campus-wide solution. The statement of an institution’s research foci. Learning Objectives: presenters will also share experiences with a variety of state-led and other multi- Presenter: • Learn different effective training types institutional research expertise systems to demonstrate the versatility of the various Michael Preuss • Identify ways to clarify needs of client platforms and specific use cases. We Grants Consultant, groups and tweak existing “effective will also share our recommendations for Hanover Research practices” in training programs to their evaluating these systems, including how to own campuses measure the impact of these systems.
• Develop expertise in evaluation and data Presenters: gathering to demonstrate the impact of their training programs Jeff Agnoli Senior Staff Training & Development In this presentation, the presenter will Specialist, Office of the Vice President select 2-4 successful training programs for Research Education, Funding and implemented by NORDP members. As Research Development, some preliminary work, information has The Ohio State University been obtained on the various training programs run by our membership, from the one day training to the several week Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski training modules. The discussion will Vice President, include the pros and cons of different Global Academic & Research Relations, formats, and provide evaluation data. Elsevier Research Intelligence The presenter will also share training Jannmarie Sutton modules, including presentations, Coordinator Of Research Development worksheets and syllabi so that attendees Education, Research Office, will walk away with enough materials and University of Delaware training to walk into their office the next week and launch a new training program Leigh Botner tailored to their specific campus, making Research Development Director, an immediate impact on their campuses. University of Delaware
38 Wednesday, may 21st : 1:15 pm - 3:15 pm Group Sessions / NORDP Committee Meetings
Crowdfunding: Developing 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Member Services Models and Approaches Room: Columbia for Administering Projects NORDP Committee Funded by “The Crowd” This committee is responsible for Meetings developing policy and procedure Room: Salon I recommendations related to NORDP membership, membership renewal, Crowdfunding is a recent phenomenon Enhancing Collaborations and membership surveys. A subset of where a large number of contributors Room: Salon A the Committee actively manages the pool small individual donations to support NORDP Membership Database and the a project in which they share a common The Enhancing Collaboration Committee RD list serve. The Membership Services interest. Crowdfunding is used to support involves members in working on a range Committee is always exploring ways to a wide variety of activities including of ways in which research collaboration enhance services to NORDP members, so disaster relief, research, art projects, across departments, disciplines, states, your ideas and comments are welcome films, games, music, technology, and and countries can be improved and the role and appreciated. start-up companies. Faculty, staff, and the research development professionals students from many institutions have can play in those improvements. The Jeffrey M. Anderson utilized crowdfunding web sites to raise committee current hosts five subgroups. Associate Vice President for Research, funds to support a range of projects that The first has been working for over a Florida Atlantic University typically fall outside the usual funding year on a Center Resources Guide, which channels. Crowdfunding is also a new will be a web-based compendium of Peggy Sundemeyer way of engaging the public in higher information and sources for institutions Executive Director, education. This form of research support and individuals interested in all aspects Research Advancement, raises many questions for research of the establishment, running, and University of Minnesota administrators. Should these funds be sunsetting of research centers. A second treated as grants or gifts? If treated as is focused on the needs and opportunities gifts, how does an institution provide of student centered and specialty research the appropriate level of stewardship and institutions. The third is addressing needs Effective Practices oversight needed for the types of research and opportunities of institutions in EPSCoR that is crowd funded? What is the role of states and those who want to work with and Professional the Office of Research and the institutional them. The fourth looks at collaboration Development foundation/advancement office? What with minority serving institutions. The fifth type of support is needed from our offices subgroup is exploring mechanisms for Room: Salons E&F to ensure the success of these crowd- improving collaboration among faculty. supported projects? In the absence of an Members are welcome to join in any of The Effective Practices and Professional official university policy on crowdfunding, these areas. Most of the subgroups have Development (EPPD) Committee provides what are basic principles and guidelines a monthly phone meeting to keep projects opportunities for research development that universities may follow to provide moving and there is a quarterly meeting of professionals to build their skills and appropriate oversight for pursuing and the whole to address larger questions and knowledge and share information about managing “crowd-funded” projects? to update members on progress within the research development practices and subgroups. activities that have been used successfully Presenters: in various settings. EPPD webinars are Co-Chairs: a great way for any NORDP member to Patience Graybill-Condellone share expertise with other members. The Pre-award Administrator, EPPD Committee is also seeking volunteer Southern Illinois University (Moderator) David Stone NORDP Vice President and members for its three working groups Natasha Chopp President-Elect, (Mentor Program, Online Professional Research Development & Associate Vice President, Development, and Special Programs), involving either small or large time Marketing Manager, Division of Research and Michigan Technological University commitments. This is a fun and active Innovation Partnerships, committee with plenty of room for new ideas. Northern Illinois University Susan O. Gomes Co-Chairs: Director of Research Development and Fruma Yehiely Strategy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Harvard University, Director, Jaine Place Office of Research Development, Director of Research Barbara L. E. Walker Northwestern University Proposal Development, Director of Research Development for the North Carolina State University Social Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts University of California at Santa Barbara Leigh Botner Jerry B. Weinberg Research Development Director, Associate Provost for Research University of Delaware and Dean of the Graduate School, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Ioannis Konstantinidis Konstantinidis Consulting
39 Wednesday, may 21st : 2:15 pm - 4:30 pm NORDP Committee Meetings / NORDP Officers & Board of Directors
External Engagement NORDP 2015 Conference NORDP Officers
Room: Pearl Room: Salem Alicia J. Knoedler Ph.D., CRA, President, Associate Vice This committee focuses on the interactions Do you have ideas for next year’s Research President for Research, Director, between NORDP and all external entities, Development conference? Do you Center for Research Program including other professional organizations have thoughts about inspiring keynote Development & Enrichment, and research funding agencies in the speakers? Do you want to help develop the government and the private sector. Our program or wrangle volunteers? Please University of Oklahoma goal is to become recognized as the “go- join Susan Carter and Anne Geronimo for to” organization regarding interactions a discussion of next year’s conference in David A. Stone, Ph.D. between funding agencies and research the Washington DC area to give feedback, Vice President, Associate Vice performing institutions, and to facilitate volunteer, and otherwise contribute to the President for Research, Division of communication and collaboration between NORDP annual meeting. Research and Graduate Studies, research institutions themselves. This Northern Illinois University meeting will provide an update of some Co-Chairs: of our new NORDP partnerships, such as Peggy Sundermeyer, Ed.D. with APLU and AAAS, and what they mean Susan Carter Treasurer, Executive Director, for members and for the organization as a Director, Research Development Services, Research Advancement, whole. University of California Merced University of Minnesota
Future plans and activities of the Anne Geronimo Anne Windham, Ph.D., External Engagement Committee will Director for Research Development, Secretary Assistant Dean of the Faculty be discussed, including the launch of Division of Research, Brown University the NORDP Liaisons, lead individuals for University of Maryland interactions between NORDP and affiliated Ann McGuigan, Ph.D. organizations and groups, and the NORDP Immediate Past President, Notes monthly full-membership briefs. All members interested in NORDP’s 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Director of Research Development, interactions with other entities should University of Arizona attend! NORDP Business Meeting NORDP Board of Co-Chairs: Room: Salon I Directors
Jeff Anderson What does the future of NORDP look like? Jeffrey M. Anderson, Ph.D. Associate Vice President for Research, What should our priorities and directions Associate Vice President for Research Florida Atlantic University be? Come to the NORDP Business Florida Atlantic University meeting, led by incoming president David Stone, to find out what the NORDP Board Jacob Levin John M. Carfora, Ed.D., CCEP Assistant Vice Chancellor, is planning and to give your ideas for the future. Associate Provost for Research Research Development, Advancement and Compliance, University of California, Irvine Presenter: Loyola Marymount University Casandra Rauser Matthew Christian, M.B.A. Research Development Officer, David Stone NORDP Vice President and Associate Dean, Division of Social American Association of Sciences, University of Chicago University Women (AAUW) President-Elect, Associate Vice President, Division of Research and Rachel Dresbeck, Ph.D. Innovation Partnerships, Director, Research Development Northern Illinois University and Research & Academic Communications, Oregon Health & Science University
Jacob E. Levin, Ph.D. Assistant Vice Chancellor, Research Development, University of California, Irvine
Marjorie Piechowski, Ph.D. Director Emerita of Research Support University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jaine Place, B.S. Director of Research Proposal Development, North Carolina State University
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M. S. (Peg) AtKisson, Ph.D., is currently Cathryn Booth-LaForce, Ph.D., FAPS, research, a university president, a board an Associate Member of Grant Writers’ RYT, is the Senior Faculty Director of trustees, faculty or staff colleagues, or Seminars and Workshops. She began work of Educational Programs for the federal, corporate or foundation sponsors. in research development as a contract University of Washington’s Clinical and Chris is currently a Principal at Campbell grant writer in 2001, working with major Translational Science Award, the Institute Consulting Group. institutions and professional societies, of Translational Health Sciences. She is and founded the Office of Proposal a developmental scientist who studies Development at Tufts University. She children’s social-emotional development currently teaches grant writing, consults as influenced by contextual factors (family, Tina Edgerly Campbell, MPH, Principal, on individual and large grant applications, home, child-care, etc.), and considered Campbell Consulting Group, has 13 years and is sometimes asked to consult on within trajectories of risk and resilience. of experience in research development and research development strategies. Additionally, she is adapting and testing public policy research and administration, the Promoting First Relationships with particular expertise in connecting preventive intervention program in Native researchers with federal sponsors, communities. including Health and Human Services (NIH, Erin M. Bank, Ph.D., joined the Research NSF, CDC, AHRQ, HRSA) and other federal Development Office at the University agencies, including NASA, DOD, DOE, NSA, of California, San Francisco following NEH, as well as foundation, corporate, and her years in the lab as a graduate Leigh Botner is the Director of Research industry sponsors, raising over $250M in student and post-doctoral fellow and Development in the Office of Research at the last decade for grant funded research as a freelance writer and editor. She the University of Delaware. As the Director, and public-private partnerships, from works with faculty and administration she works with groups across campus to corporate, foundations and government throughout the program project grant develop strategic interdisciplinary grant grants and contracts. proposal development process, lending proposals to federal agencies to further her project management, technical writing accelerate the growth of UD’s research Tina started first in research development, and editing, and organizational skills to portfolio. She has a Bachelor’s degree in focusing explicitly on innovations of team these complex endeavors. Erin graduated Business Administration from Eastern science applications in cancer treatment from the University of Rochester with a Kentucky University and is pursuing a and research, developments in federal, BS in Biochemistry in 2003; went on to Master’s degree in Public Administration foundation and industry funding, changes Weill Cornell Medical College for her at UD. in fellow, postdoctoral and pre-doctoral doctoral work in the lab of Lonny Levin training practices, and the way the best and Jochen Buck studying an essential Prior to working at UD, she served seven and brightest faculty work. The field has signaling pathway in the malaria parasite; years as Contracting Officer within the changed drastically in the last decade, and then spent 2 years in Jerusalem, Israel Office of Sponsored Programs at Rowan Tina has cultivated evidence-based training in the laboratory of Yosef Gruenbaum at University. She also spent fifteen years programs that have evolved as federal and the Hebrew University studying aging and at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia private funding climates have changed, muscular diseases using C. elegans as a where she worked as a Research communication needs and styles have model system. She transitioned away from Administrator in the centralized Research evolved, and how early stage investigators, the bench as a freelance writer and editor Office and numerous departments. She is fellows and students are different today before joining the UCSF team in March, an active member of SRA and serves as in terms of their communication needs 2012. Co-Chair of the NORDP Effective Practices and preferences, learning styles, and and Professional Development Committee retention in academia and industry. and Lead of the Mentoring Working Group. The solution requires us to be fluent with current research on pedagogy, Christine K. Black is the Assistant media communication modalities, and Director for Research Development at the innovative, flexible programming, as University of Michigan Medical School. In Chris Campbell, M.Ed., has spent 21 the need for diverse experience and her role, Chris is responsible for several years in development, strategic planning, the ability to help faculty diversify their areas, including a mentorship academy and university administration, leadership research portfolios creatively has become for new faculty members (the R01 Boot and training. He has a B.S. from Duke increasingly necessary, often involving Camp), some large federal proposal University in Biology with a concentration strategic plans within departments, development, internal competitions in Neuroscience and a minor in Chemistry. schools and institutions to develop for foundation limited submission He also has an M.Ed from Marymount comprehensive funding strategies that opportunities, several online resources, University in Education. His strengths include foundations, private donors, (e.g., the Medical School Proposal and passions include donor/corporate diverse federal sponsors, and public- Sampler), a governance committee for UM relations, strategic planning including private partnerships, which has not always SciVal Experts, and training in proposal program core value development, and been the norm, especially within NIH and writing. She has served in several roles leadership development. This workshop NSF. Tina later jointly pursued academic in research development, including will draw from Chris’ expertise in teaching research interests in policy, studying law transdisciplinary proposal writer and and innovative pedagogy. Specifically, and public health with a focus on health program director. She was a PI of three he will discuss innovative marketing policy for underserved populations, and U.S. Dept. of Education projects, including and social media strategies, corporate specifically with issues related to food “The Women in Video Science Series.” and foundation stewardship as a part security, first at Emory University, and She helped start a non-profit agency for of a research development office’s then at Yale University School of Public teens and has experience writing grants strategic plan, engagement of sponsors, Health and Yale School of Law. “The for non-profits. She presents workshops in administration, and faculty, and most highlight of my time there,” says Campbell, proposal writing to universities across the importantly, packaging and messaging “was my policy work under the Yale Law country. goals and outcomes for different Legislative Advocacy Clinic.” Tina has audiences. These may include “clients” since pursued and obtained several high such as a supervisor, a vice president for profile research contracts as Principal
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Investigator funded by state and federal Academy of Sciences and Government- Erin Cromack is a Research Development sponsors, but the heart of what Tina does University-Industry Research Roundtable Officer for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is designed to bring the best out of clients committee on international research (FAS) at Harvard University, serving over and provide them with the support and -- which published the book “Examining 700 faculty across the arts, humanities, resources required to innovate and achieve Core Elements of International Research social sciences, and sciences. She seminal findings, contributing to research Collaboration” (National Academies Press, supports the broad research development and scholarship which drives our nation 2011). Dr. Carfora is Treasurer of the needs of FAS faculty by identifying funding forward. Higher Education Teaching and Learning opportunities, enhancing proposal Association (HETL), a member of the Board competitiveness, developing resources Tina has the demonstrated ability to of the National Organization of Research and programming, and managing the connect researchers with her existing Development Professionals, and an advisor limited submissions process within the relationships and partnerships with to the Fulbright Association (Los Angeles). school. Erin co-chairs the university-wide federal agencies, which she has been He is a former member of the Board of the subcommittee on limited submissions, a able to successfully leverage on behalf Alumni and Friends of The London School subcommittee of the Harvard Research of her clients, leading to almost half of of Economics (1982-1990). Dr. Carfora Development Coordinating Committee, the $101M+ she has helped raise during co-authored “The Art of Funding and which is currently engaged in rolling out her most recent tenure at The George Implementing Ideas: A Guide to Proposal a new online system designed to increase Washington University as the Director Development and Project Management” the transparency and efficiency of internal of Research Enhancement in less than 4 (Sage, 2011), and wrote the Foreword to competitions. Erin joined Harvard FAS years, and close to $300M over her career. “Universitas: The Social Restructuring of in 2012 after over eight years at Harvard Higher Education in America” (Praeger, Medical School where she managed their Her skills and expertise include strong 1998). He co-authored a popular article limited submissions process and other analytic and strategic skills, developing on the New Deal economist Stuart Chase proposal support initiatives. Erin earned and implementing strategic plans, and (Harvard Magazine, 2004), and is writing a her MA in Management from Harvard substantial experience with the application book on “Leadership, Decision-Making and Extension School and a BA from Boston of commercial marketing methods to the Academic Presidency.” College in Political Science. health and social issues, especially food and health policy. In addition to Tina’s strengths in qualitative and quantitative research, the backbone of effective Susan Carter, J.D. is the Director of Laura Dawson is Product Manager for strategic and commercialization plans, Research Development Services in the Identifiers at Bowker. Previously, she Tina has a proven ability to generate Office of Research at the University of worked at the following companies: new business development for clients, California, Merced, a position she has held Firebrand Muze/Rovi SirsiDynix Barnes utilizing her strong relationships with since 2008. She oversees a staff of five & Noble.com Independent booksellers Universities, federal agencies, National professional and analytical staff engaged Bantam Spectra Books Doubleday Laura laboratories, professional societies, in strategic activities to promote growth in has also been an independent consultant stakeholders in government agencies campus extramural funding for research to the publishing industry. Her clients have (federal, state, county and local), in and graduate training. Previously Ms. included: Bowker, McGraw-Hill Higher addition to relationships with corporations Carter served as a Program Officer at the Education, Cengage Audible, Alibris, (mainly pharmaceutical and government California HIV/AIDS Research Program and Loyola Press, Carson-Dellosa, Chuckwalla, contractors), private foundations, and the California Program on Access to Care, Capstone Press, and Book Industry Study major research hospitals. two statewide health sciences research Group. funding programs based in the University of California Office of the President. Ms. Carter was a founding member and John M. Carfora, Ed.D., CCEP, holds founding Secretary of the NORDP Board Bryan DeBusk received a Ph.D. in graduate degrees from a number of of Directors and has served on a number Pharmaceutical Sciences from the universities, including The London School of NORDP committees and working University of Mississippi in 2001 and of Economics, Harvard University, and groups. She will Co-Chair the NORDP 2015 immediately began teaching at a small a doctorate from Teachers College, Annual Conference to be held in Bethesda, liberal arts college and building a Columbia University. A recipient of several Maryland. program of research. During his time as international research awards, John a professor, Bryan discovered a knack regularly lectures in the USA, Europe, for writing winning grant proposals and Canada and Africa. He is a recipient of transitioned from teaching to full-time the Distinguished Service Award from the Natasha Chopp is the Research consulting in 2008. Since that time he National Council of University Research Development and Marketing Manager in has helped clients obtain more than Administrators (NCURA), and was an IREX the Vice President for Research Office at $110 million in funding from government Fellow to Russia and a Fulbright Scholar Michigan Technological University. Ms. agencies and private foundations including to Ireland. Dr. Carfora has been a tenured Chopp received her Bachelor of Science NIH, NSF, DOL, the Department of professor, research scholar, and an in Business Administration from Michigan Education, other federal agencies, and international consultant with clients such Technological University and is currently private funders. Although his background as American Airlines, Disney and “U.S. working on her Masters in Business is in the health sciences, Bryan has News and World Report.” He was founding Administration. Ms. Chopp was the project extensive experience and success with Curator of the Sir Leonard Bertram leader for Superior Ideas, Michigan proposals involving basic and clinical Schapiro Collection at the British Library of Tech’s internally developed crowdfunding science, institutional improvement, Political and Economic Sciences (London), platform, which she now manages. student support services, workforce and is also a bioethicist and Certified development, and other areas. Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP). Dr. Carfora is former Co-Chair and current member of “I-Group” -- a National
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Benjamin T. Delp is the Associate Director by the Senate in 2011 for a six-year term opportunities in the biomedical sciences. of Research Development at James ending in 2016. He was elected in 2012 for DBS programs include establishment Madison University. In this capacity, he a two-year term as Vice-Chairman of the of strategic research initiatives in the leverages the resources of the university National Science Board. health sciences, coordination of large to identify research and scholarship multidisciplinary research proposals, opportunities, while cultivating strategic In 2009, Dr. Droegemeier was appointed career development for faculty in the alliances with governmental, academic, Vice President for Research at the biomedical sciences and assistance with and private sector partners. Mr. Delp University of Oklahoma. He is a Fellow of development of clinical research studies, plays a key role in the marketing and the American Meteorological Society, a including feasibility assessment, subject promotion of JMU research capabilities member of the Board of Directors of Oak accrual and data management assistance. and projects. He has published articles Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge Dr. Eardley was a founding Board Member on energy and cybersecurity issues in The Associated Universities Foundation, and of the National Organization of Research CIP Report, in addition to co-authoring two the Council on Governmental Relations. Development Professionals and is chapters in homeland security textbooks— He has served on the Advisory Committee currently engaged in the development Understanding Homeland Security: for the Geosciences Directorate at the of the NORDP Program for External Policy, Perspectives, and Paradoxes; National Science Foundation and the NSF Evaluation of Research Development. and Homeland Security: Principles and Advisory Committee for the Computer Practice of Terrorism Response. He is a Information Science and Engineering graduate of James Madison University, Directorate. Dr. Droegemeier is a Member where he received his Bachelor of Arts in of the Board of Directors of the Norman, Stacy Esposito currently serves as the Political Science as an Honors Scholar, OK Chamber of Commerce and chaired the Director of Research Advancement (RA) and Master of Public Administration as a Weather and Climate Team for Oklahoma for Arizona State University Fulton Schools Fellow with the Institute for Infrastructure Governor Brad Henry’s EDGE (Economic of Engineering (FSE). In this capacity, and Information Assurance. Development Generating Excellence) she leads 25 RA staff who manage the Program. He presently serves on FSE research enterprise at the proposal Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin’s Science development and post award levels. FSE’s and Technology Council and chairs the current annual research expenditures Kelvin K. Droegemeier earned a B.S. with Sub-Committee on Academic Research are ~$80M with a goal of $200M by Special Distinction in Meteorology in 1980 and Development. Dr. Droegemeier also 2020. In order to meet this ambitious from the University of Oklahoma, and M.S. is a Trustee of Southeastern Universities goal, Stacy works closely with FSE’s and Ph.D. degrees in atmospheric science Research Association. Elected to the UCAR Associate Dean for Research, RA staff, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, from the Board of Trustees in 2002 and as its Vice and faculty to strategize and implement University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Chairman in 2003, he served as Chairman effective ways to support the planned He joined the University of Oklahoma in of the Board from 2004-2007. growth. Research advancement has been September, 1985 as an Assistant Professor the focus of Stacy’s career for the past of Meteorology, and was tenured and Dr. Droegemeier is a national leader in the 18 years; 7 at ASU and 11 years at the promoted to Associate Professor in July, creation of partnerships among academia, University of Southern California. She 1991, and promoted to Professor in July, government and industry. He initiated earned a MPA from USC and a BA from the 1998. Dr. Droegemeier was co-founder in and led a 3-year, $1M partnership with University of Minnesota. Prior to her work 1989 of the NSF Science and Technology American Airlines to customize weather in research advancement, Stacy served Center (STC) for Analysis and Prediction of prediction technology for commercial the Minneapolis community as a licensed Storms (CAPS), and served for five years as aviation, and this resulted in him founding social worker. its deputy director. He then directed CAPS a private company, Weather Decision from 1994 until 2006, and today CAPS Technologies, Inc., located in Norman, is recognized around the world as the that is commercializing advanced weather pioneer of storm-scale numerical weather technology developed by the University Holly Falk-Krzesinski, Ph.D., is focused prediction. In 2003, Dr. Droegemeier co- of Oklahoma and other organizations. on intelligently derived insight from data founded the NSF Engineering Research Dr. Droegemeier led a $10.6M research and analytics to guide strategic planning Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing alliance with Williams Energy Marketing for the research enterprise. Prior to joining of the Atmosphere (CASA) and served and Trading Company in Tulsa, which is Elsevier, she had been a faculty member for several years as its deputy director. the largest such partnership between a in arts & sciences and medicine for fifteen From 1999-2001, he wrote a daily weather university and a private company in the years at Northwestern University where science column for the Daily Oklahoman field of meteorology. Dr. Droegemeier’s she led initiatives related to research newspaper, which is Oklahoma’s largest. research interests lie in thunderstorm development and team science. She dynamics and predictability, variational facilitated a multitude of trans-institutional In 2004, Dr. Droegemeier was appointed data assimilation, mesoscale dynamics, collaborative grant programs spanning art by President George W. Bush to a 6-year computational fluid dynamics, massively history to bioenergy, with a special interest term on the National Science Board, parallel computing, and aviation weather. on approaches to evaluating collaboration the governing body of the National and interdisciplinary research, team Science Foundation that also provides science leadership, and research science policy guidance to the Congress networking tools. To enable broad and President. He chaired the Board’s Jennifer Eardley, Ph.D., is responsible sharing of her experiential knowledge in Committee on Programs and Plans and for coordination of planning activities for combination with effective practices drawn served on or chaired several task forces, the Health Sciences and the development from team research, Dr. Falk-Krzesinski including those on hurricane science and strategic research partnerships with was a co-developer of TeamScience.net. engineering, transformative research, cost key healthcare institutions. Through Moreover, through her leadership with sharing, and NSB nominations. In 2010, Dr. leadership of the Division of Biomedical the Annual International Science of Team Droegemeier was nominated by President Sciences (DBS), Dr. Eardley supports the Science Conference and NIH Team Science Barack Obama for a second term on the efforts of faculty, researchers and campus Toolkit project, Dr. Falk-Krzesinski has National Science Board and was confirmed leaders to pursue clinical and translation been instrumental in developing a strong
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international community of practice Ellen Freeman joined the University of Gretchen Kiser, Ph.D., is the Director of for team science and interdisciplinary Minnesota in 2004. She holds bachelor’s the Research Development Office (RDO) at research. Dr. Falk-Krzesinski continues and master’s degrees in English and the University of California San Francisco. to teach grantsmanship as an adjunct journalism from the University of Iowa. As Dr. Kiser has diverse molecular biology lecturer at Northwestern University Assistant Director of the Office of Research and biochemistry experience, including and consults at universities and & Policy at the College of Education and over 20 years as a lab researcher with six funding agencies on team science. She Human Development, her job is to help years in the biotechnology industry. She launched NORDP in 2008, serving as the faculty engage in high-quality research. combines her hands-on bench know-how organization’s founding president. Ellen’s work involves research strategy, with research and faculty development, designing educational opportunities teaching, and technical writing experience, for researchers, coordinating internal as well as expertise in Lean Six Sigma, a funding programs, and assisting in the statistical measurement-based business Faye Farmer is Associate Director of development of large-scale research management strategy. Dr. Kiser leverages Research Development at Arizona State initiatives. this broad background to support University (ASU), Faye Farmer works institutional research goals and strategic closely with faculty investigators across research initiatives, leading a professional the university irrespective of discipline to team that facilitates development of improve funding outcomes. She enjoys Amy Gantt has served as Director of complex multi-disciplinary research identifying innovative ways to connect and the Tufts University Office of Proposal proposals, management of intramural and motivate individuals and teams so that Development (OPD) since 2010. Prior, limited extramural funding responses, they can skillfully articulate research, she worked as Associate Director from and development of collaborative cross- development, and discovery to maximize 2009-2010, and as a grant writer since functional, innovative research teams. sponsored research funding. Research 2004. Ms. Gantt received a master’s Dr. Kiser received her B.Sc. in Biology Development at ASU is responsible degree in English from North Carolina at UCLA and her Ph.D. in Molecular and for competitive intelligence, limited State University, with a concentration in Cellular Biology (Genetics minor), studying submissions, proposal development, sociolinguistics, for which she did field cell cycle regulation in the yeast genetics and internal grants programs. The office research on North Carolina dialects. lab of Dr. Ted Weinert at the University also provides a suite of tools that assist Currently, she is managing a team of of Arizona. She then went on to a post- faculty in the identification of funding and grant professionals through a time of doctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in collaborators, a research development administrative transition at Tufts, a the protein structure/function lab of Dr. blog, research forums (events that bring part of which involves expanding roles John Riordan. key stakeholders together to pursue for the OPD. She also teaches in the strategic funding opportunities or support Tufts Masters of Conservation Medicine communities of practice), and a proposal program, and she is working with faculty toolbox (a shared document library useful and administration to create professional Susan O. Gomes, as Director of Research for proposal development). development curricula for graduate and Development and Strategy for Harvard’s undergraduate students that covers Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), grant writing, communicating with lay oversees efforts to foster relationships and academic audiences, professional with external sponsors, develop strategies Pollyanne Frantz, Ph.D., helps faculty and research ethics, and effective team to enhance the research portfolio, develop competitive proposals for science. increase sponsored revenue, and facilitate internal and external funding through the pursuit of external funding. She individual consultations, funding oversees efforts to provide proposal opportunity information dissemination, development resources, advice, service and professional development Freda Giblin, Ph.D., M.B.A., is the and support for 700+ faculty in the Faculty workshops. Frantz earned the Ph.D. in Director of Inter-Institutional Initiatives of Arts and Sciences, with the goal of higher education administration and in the Office of the Vice President for amplifying faculty-led research and a MLS degree in library science from Research at Wayne State University collective research enterprise activities The University of Southern Mississippi, (WSU). She establishes and/or facilitates in the science, social science and arts and a bachelor’s degree in English collaborative research groups to develop and humanities divisions. She has over and journalism from Franklin College interdisciplinary proposals and training fifteen years of experience in research of Indiana. She has been successfully grants, and directs a university-wide development and has contributed to funded by the Elsevier Foundation, seminar series (now in its sixth year) to proposals resulting in total project awards National Science Foundation, Phi Kappa help faculty succeed academically and in in excess of $52 million. At Harvard she Phi, National Collegiate Inventors and research. She was previously a Project was instrumental in creating the Research Innovators Alliance, and the Mississippi Manager in the NICHD’s “WSU Services Development Coordinating Committee, State Board of Animal Health. Frantz in Support of the Perinatology Research a cross-university advisory group that serves on the Research Administrators Branch”, facilitating the establishment of promotes best practices and policies in Certification Council Board of Directors one of the largest intramural branches research development. and maintains memberships in the located outside of Bethesda. Prior to National Organization of Research that, she was assigned from the Detroit Development Professionals; Phi Kappa Medical Center’s Planning and Marketing Phi Honor Society; and, Beta Phi Mu department to the Dean’s office as Patience Graybill-Condellone is a Pre- International Library Science Honor Director of Strategic Planning at the WSU Award Administrator in the Office of Society (Beta Psi Chapter). School of Medicine. Her interdisciplinary Research and Projects at Southern Illinois doctoral degree (2010) is in social support University Edwardsville. She carries an and mentoring in academic and clinical M.A. in German Language and Literature settings. from Washington University in St. Louis, and a B.A. in English and German from Hope College. Ms. Graybill Condellone
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specializes in proposal development and Alicia Knoedler, Ph.D., is the Associate Program; a $26.5 million grant from the outreach, manages internal funding and Vice President for Research and Director MasterCard Foundation to sponsor 120 all- limited submission competitions, and of the Center for Research Program expenses paid first-time freshmen to ASU edits the ORP’s publications, including the Development and Enrichment at the from sub-Saharan Africa. Ms. Kuypers is annual research magazine Research & University of Oklahoma. Within the Center, also a certified proposal manager with Creative Activities. she leads a team that works with faculty, the Association of Proposal Management postdocs, graduate students, and other Professionals and is a member of the investigators to significantly enhance the National Italian-American Foundation. research enterprise, focusing on changing She earned a B.A. in International Jeff Horon, MBA, is a Consultant at the research culture as well as assisting Relations and Journalism from the Elsevier, Inc., where he helps research investigators in their efforts to develop American University in Washington, D.C. institutions spark new scientific more competitive research programs and is pursuing a Master’s in Sustainable collaborations and implement solutions and proposals for external funding. Dr. Solutions and International Development for strategic planning and performance Knoedler received her B.A. in Psychology at Arizona State University. She has measurement. Jeff specializes in from Trinity University in San Antonio, over five years’ experience in writing facilitating research networking events, Texas, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive and editing, as well as two years in the adoption of research networking tools, Psychology from Purdue University. Dr. non-profit sector, including the National and team formation ranging from Knoedler has over 14 years of experience Women’s Law Center in Washington. mentor-mentee dyads to large research assisting investigators in the development centers. He is a frequent speaker at team of their research programs and facilitating science, research networking, research the development of proposals for a development, and research administration variety of funding sources, including Elizabeth Langdon-Gray, LL.M., is conferences, and offers workshops on federal sources, private foundations, and the Assistant Provost for Research network analysis, forecasting, and metric corporations. Dr. Knoedler is a Certified Development and Planning at Harvard design. He has an MBA with distinction Research Administrator and a founding University. In this role she works closely from the Stephen M. Ross School of member and currently the President of with the Vice Provost to promote high Business at the University of Michigan with impact research, identify and cultivate emphases in Strategy and Finance and a the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP). sources of research funding, and BA with honors in Economics, a dual major support schools in providing research in Business, and a minor in Philosophy development services. Liz is co-chair of from Calvin College. the University’s Research Development Coordinating Committee which convenes Julienne Krennich, a PhD Physicist by research development professionals from training with significant national laboratory throughout the University to promote Gretchen Kiser, Ph.D., is the Director of work experience, Krennrich began her best practice and facilitate dissemination the Research Development Office (RDO) at Research Development career in the IPRT of funding opportunities. She also is the University of California San Francisco. Company Assistance Program at ISU. responsible for the University’s selection Dr. Kiser has diverse molecular biology There she developed company-led projects of candidates for funding opportunities and biochemistry experience, including with faculty from across the university. where the sponsor limits the number of over 20 years as a lab researcher with six She then moved on to the Engineering applicants that may apply from a single years in the biotechnology industry. She Research Institute whose mission is to institution. Prior to being named Assistant combines her hands-on bench know-how grow and diversify the research funding Provost for Research Development with research and faculty development, portfolio of the Engineering College. and Planning, Liz served as Director of teaching, and technical writing experience, Krennrich has a strong interest in helping Research Policy and Education and before as well as expertise in Lean Six Sigma, a faculty navigate the complex world of joining Harvard in 2010 was Legislative statistical measurement-based business federal and industry funding. She tracks Director for Research Policy in the management strategy. Dr. Kiser leverages funding opportunities, attends proposer’s University of California Office of Federal this broad background to support days and organizes interdisciplinary teams Relations in Washington, DC. Liz was institutional research goals and strategic of faculty to respond to opportunities. She educated in Scotland, receiving her MA research initiatives, leading a professional works with faculty to develop competitive from the University of St. Andrews and her team that facilitates development of white papers, quad charts and proposals, LL.M. from the University of Edinburgh. complex multi-disciplinary research and then assists them in successfully proposals, management of intramural and managing complex projects. She also limited extramural funding responses, assists during contract and IP-related and development of collaborative cross- negotiations. Sensen Li received her PhD in Engineering functional, innovative research teams. Education at Purdue University. She Dr. Kiser received her B.Sc. in Biology also holds a M.S. Ed. in Learning Design at UCLA and her Ph.D. in Molecular and and Technology from Purdue University. Cellular Biology (Genetics minor), studying Gina Kuypers is a project coordinator for Currently, she works as the curriculum cell cycle regulation in the yeast genetics ASU Global in the Office of Knowledge manager at ITHS of University of lab of Dr. Ted Weinert at the University Enterprise Development. She is Washington. Her research interests lie in of Arizona. She then went on to a post- responsible for managing the international identifying and developing new educational doctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in pipeline focus areas for University-wide activities, with particular emphasis on the the protein structure/function lab of Dr. initiatives, including Rule of Law, Health, early and later phases of translational John Riordan. Sustainability, and Education. She has sciences. traveled internationally on behalf of the MasterCard Foundation Scholarship
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Marie Linvill is the Director of Content Caitlin McDermott-Murphy is the research has been responsible for implementation Development, Research Solutions within development coordinator for the largest of the Cayuse Research Suite system, an ProQuest. Serving as a senior product school at Harvard University, the Faculty electronic research administration which management leader for Pivot, a ProQuest of Arts and Sciences (700+ faculty). She allows system-to-system submission service, Marie Linvill has been involved provides customized funding searches to grants.gov. She led the transition in with accelerating the research process as well as proposal development advice Sponsored Programs to become a pre- through workflow solutions that promote and support for faculty who are seeking award office with an increased emphasis funding and collaboration discovery in extramural funding. With expertise in on proposal development. In addition, a more efficient and intuitive manner. utilizing commercial funding databases, she serves on a number of university Prior to working on scholarly profile data she delivers workshops on how to use committees including the University integration, Marie worked in academic funding database tools to find funding. Research Council and Institutional Review publishing with a specific focus on Allied McDermott-Murphy provides logistical Board. Merrill has served as a member Health textbooks and professional and communications support for campus of the NCURA Education and Professional references. workshops and visits from federal Development Committee, and has led and private foundation sponsors. She sessions at the NCURA Pre-Award developed web and print materials to Research Administration Conference, raise awareness and promote utilization of Council for Advancement and Support of Sarah Koerber began her professional services and resources, thus contributing Education and Decision Sciences Institute. career as an environmental consultant, significantly to research development Merrill has over 10 years’ experience performing site assessments, outreach efforts. She is an active member in grants and contracts administration, environmental monitoring, and of NORDP Northeast (NORDP NE) and organizational management and post- remediation. In 2001, her interests recently co-authored an article for the award compliance. She holds a master’s shifted to proposal writing, and she joined NORDP national newsletter on the NORDP degree and a certificate in research the University of Idaho Environmental Northeast regional group. administration. Biotechnology Institute as a science and engineering proposal writer. From there, she migrated to the University’s Office of Research and Economic Development, Nathan Meier is director of research Anita Mills, as a Solutions Consultant at where she shaped her position more strategy within the Office of Research Evisions, works in a variety of capacities towards university-wide proposal and and Economic Development at the to support the advancement of the Cayuse research development, collaborating with University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He Research Suite. She serves as a Subject faculty and staff from all disciplines. She provides comprehensive research Matter Expert for the Sales team and is supports the University’s competitiveness development support to individuals and responsible for tailoring demos of the for grant funding by helping faculty, staff, teams. This includes working to enhance Cayuse Research Suite. She is passionate and collaborative teams improve the the narrative quality and readability about customer service and serves speaks quality of their proposals. She has worked of proposals, leading brainstorming Geek fluently. Using her knowledge of on hundreds of proposals, preliminary sessions to conceptualize and refine geekology and research administration proposals, and letters of intent in the past project plans and to develop responsible she works with Developers to translate 10 years, and has contributed to successful project budgets, and monitoring emerging customer needs into system functionality proposals totaling well over $100M. Her funding opportunities to help grant for the Cayuse Research Suite. Mills graduate degrees are in geology and in applicants locate funding sources. has over 20 years of research and environmental science Nathan’s expertise is in shepherding research administration experience. As a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary groups Research Psychologist she has conducted through the proposal development process research in University and Department – frequently with multi-million dollar of Defense environments. In her 16 years Dawn McArthur, Ph.D., is a zoologist/ results. He has helped secure more than of Research Administration she has physiologist who has held senior research $201 million in grants for research, formal been responsible implementing a variety development positions for 15 years. and informal education, and facilities of Electronic Research Administration Following postdoctoral research, she took projects from federal agencies (e.g., DoD, tools to improve the business practices on the role of Senior University Grants DoE, ED, NIH, NIST, NSF, USDA, and of Sponsored Programs offices. She Facilitator at Simon Fraser University. USAID) and private foundations (e.g., Bill holds a Master’s degree in Research After four years at SFU, she was recruited and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sherwood Psychology and is a Certified Research in 2003 to establish and lead the Research Foundation, etc.). Administrator “CRA”. Mills has served is & Technology Development Office actively involved in both NCURA and SRA (RTDO) at the Child and Family Research a presenter. She is a graduate of NCURA’s Institute, University of British Columbia, Leadership Development Institute. She has British Columbia Children’s Hospital. The Traci L. Merrill, as Director for the volunteered in a variety of capacities and RTDO mandate is to enhance research Office of Sponsored Programs at the been as part of the Program Committee’s excellence, capacity and competitiveness University of San Diego, is responsible for both Regional and National Meetings. of the Institute’s large multi-disciplinary for the direction and overall management health research community. Since 2003, of all pre-award grant and contract the RTDO has helped bring in nearly $300 administration and post-award non- million in external research funding. Dr. financial administration. She provides Conrad Monson, Ph.D., before returning to McArthur has worked with researchers leadership for incorporating national academia in 2012, spent over 25 years in from all fields, with an exceptional record best practices into institutional policies research and development at NASA Ames for success of individual grants and and procedures to ensure compliance Research Center, Boeing and Northrop major collaborative proposals. She gives with agency terms and conditions and Grumman. He conducted research in workshops in Canada and abroad on university policy. Merrill creates and thermoregulation, gravitational physiology, topics related to research facilitation and conducts campus wide training programs aerospace physiology and human factors development of competitive proposals. on a variety of research topics. Merrill engineering. He has been a Technical
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Fellow at Boeing, was part of Boeing’s developed on-campus workshops for Laura Paller is Contract & Grants Global Technologies Collaboration group higher education institutions nationally Specialist in the Office of Sponsored and led Northrop Grumman’s Human and internationally in a variety of areas Programs at the University of Delaware. Systems Integration Community of for Academic Impressions (AI). She also In this role, she supports proposal Practice. He has led business capture served as AI’s instructional design and submission and award management and research and development efforts in facilitation lead, training and supporting for the College of Health Sciences and human factors engineering and human the instructional program development eight departments and centers within the systems integration for aircraft and team. Naomi has been an adjunct faculty College of Engineering. Ms. Paller has satellite systems. In 2012, Conrad started member at the University of Denver for been in this role for over five years. Prior the Research Development effort for seven years. Prior to this, Naomi was a to this she was a Project Manager for the two of BYU’s colleges. He has over 25 proposal writer. Naomi holds a BS from State of Delaware, Division of Substance publications and 4 patents. He earned a Michigan Technological University and an Abuse and Mental Health for three years. PhD in Physiology from the University of MA from the University of Denver. She is In her role at UD, she has submitted many California, Davis and MS and BS degrees currently working on her PhD in Education large interdisciplinary, multi-institutional from Brigham Young University. Studies and Research at CU Denver. proposals and manages several awards of this nature. Ms. Paller has her Master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA) and is a Certified Research Administrator Tisha Mullen is director of proposal Helen Page, Ed.D. is a higher education (CRA). development within the Office of Research professional with 25 years of diverse and Economic Development at the experience. As Assistant Dean for University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Research Administration, she partners She provides leadership for UNL’s Office with the Harvard Graduate School of Laurel Passantino is currently a Program of Proposal Development, a team of five Education faculty and leads the Office Manager for engineering research at proposal development professionals of Sponsored Projects to provide full Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton charged with delivering comprehensive life cycle support for a varied funding Schools of Engineering. She supports proposal development services to portfolio of federal, non-federal, and ASU’s research mission by working closely UNL faculty, administrators, and staff for-profit sponsors. Her focus within with faculty in all five engineering schools submitting grant proposals to external research development includes junior to develop large, multi-disciplinary grant funding agencies. Services the Office of faculty development and university- proposals and manage projects after they Proposal Development provide range from wide collaboration through Harvard’s are awarded. Prior to her current position, idea development and proposal planning to Research Development Coordinating Laurel worked for more than 11 years as a funding source identification to hands-on Committee. Prior to HGSE, Helen served water treatment engineer and consultant. guidance in proposal preparation for both as Associate Director at Tufts University’s She is a licensed Professional Engineer individuals and teams of investigators. central research administration office and a certified Project Management Tisha is particularly skilled at assisting and Executive Director of a non-profit Professional. Laurel holds BS and with the development of large multi- higher education collaborative supported MS degrees in civil engineering from institutional, interdisciplinary proposals primarily by grant funds. In addition, she Duke University and University of New and at guiding early career faculty through directed all academic support services for Hampshire, respectively. the proposal development process. Over a private liberal arts college and served the last 13 years, she has helped secure as an adjunct lecturer in the master’s more than $100 million in grants from program in higher education at Salem federal agencies and private foundations State University. Jane Payumo, Ph.D., is a Faculty Research Development Specialist at Washington State University’s Office of International Dianne Nagy, Ed.D., coordinates grants for Kimberly Page is the Associate Director Programs. She helps develop programs South Dakota State University’s College of the Office of Sponsored Programs in to promote international research of Engineering. Her career in higher the Division of Research and Economic partnerships between WSU and research education has focused on helping faculty Development at Boise State University. institutions overseas, which include finding make a difference, providing support that She has twenty years of experience international funding opportunities, writing enables them to serve the public good in sponsored project administration grants, and facilitating interdisciplinary through innovative teaching and research. and in 2012 started a central research discussion among faculty members. She Dianne’s research interests include development initiative at Boise State has written and co-written more than 45 engaged scholarship, campus/community University. She has held research technical and popular papers on IP rights connection, and the broader impacts of administration positions at Boston and biotechnology and co-proponent of sponsored research. University and San Diego State University various international grants. Dr. Payumo Research Foundation. She has served is also an affiliate assistant professor at as Member-at-Large for Region VII WSU’s Crop and Soil Sciences department of the National Council of University where she teaches a class on scientific Naomi Nishi develops and facilitates the Research Administrators and is a member grant writing. Her research is currently faculty seminar series for the Office of of NORDP’s Effective Practices and focused in understanding IPR policies of Research Development and Education Professional Development Working Group. universities in developing countries and (ORDE), as well as develops resources for Kimberly earned her BA in economic and measuring the impact of international faculty at the University of Colorado Denver political history at Bowdoin College. research collaborations. She obtained her | Anschutz Medical Campus to support Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary them in positioning their research and Sciences (Molecular Biosciences, grant proposals to be more competitive Economics, and Rural Sociology) at WSU. for funding. Prior to joining ORDE, Naomi
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Marjorie Piechowski, Ph.D., Emerita and has published prize-winning articles Jessica Robins is a Certified Research Director of Research Support in the in the Journal of Research Administration Administrator (CRA), with over nine years College of Engineering & Applied and Research Management Review. Dr. of experience working with faculty to Science at the University of Wisconsin- Porter has previously taught at Virginia prepare and submit compliant, competitive Milwaukee, has 30 years of experience Tech, Swarthmore College, Susquehanna proposals for funding. She has extensive in grant development and research University and Eastern Washington experience with federal sponsors (e.g., administration. She also conducts University. He holds graduate degrees National Institutes of Health, National proposal development workshops in Speech Communications from the Science Foundation, National Endowment across the United States and presents University of Michigan. for the Humanities, U.S. Department of on proposal development at professional Energy, U.S. Department of Defense, and conferences. As an independent grant the United States Agency for International writer she has written over twenty three Development), as well as many private and million dollars of successful grants for Sharon Pound has worked in the philanthropic organizations. In her current colleges and universities, primarily from University of Tennessee’s Office of role, she works one on one with faculty the U.S. Department of Education. She has Research and Engagement since 2009. members to identify funding opportunities, served in leadership roles in the National She began her work as an Editor for the develop budgets, coordinate institutional Organization of Research Development Proposal Development Team, supporting approvals, and complete non-financial Professionals, National Council of PIs in their proposal development. She post-award actions. She has taken a lead University Research Administrators, was recently promoted to Manager of role in mentoring, training, and process and the International Society of Strategic Research Initiatives when improvement in research administration Research Administrators, including SRA the Research Development Team was across campus. International and Midwest President. Her reconstituted, and she now focuses her degrees include a B.A. and M.A. in English proposal development support on large, from Marquette University and a Ph.D. in multi-million-dollar proposals. In addition American Literature from the University of to editing documents, she also facilitates David W. Robinson, Ph.D., is currently Wisconsin-Milwaukee. team development, faculty collaborations, Professor and Executive Vice Provost at and early identification of funding Oregon Health & Science University in opportunities. She has also coordinated Portland, Oregon. UT’s undergraduate research activities Michelle Popowitz, J.D., is Assistant Vice across all disciplines since 2010. Prior David was born and raised in rural North Chancellor for Research and Executive to joining the University, Sharon spent Yorkshire, England, before obtaining a Director of UCLA Grand Challenges. As 27 years in marketing communications, B.Sc. in Physiology at University College Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research (a including 12 years as a freelance writer London and a Ph.D. at Cambridge position that she began in 2011), Michelle and public relations/marketing consultant. University. In 1992 he moved to the United shepherds various initiatives designed She received her bachelor’s degree in States to do post-doctoral training at the to enhance research opportunities Communications from the University of University of California at Davis, where he on campus. In spring 2012, with her Tennessee. subsequently became a research track colleague, Jill Sweitzer, she started UCLA faculty member before moving to Oregon Grand Challenges as a pilot project to Health & Sciences University (OHSU) in determine the feasibility of bringing the 1997. campus together to work on significant Michael Preuss, Ph.D., has held faculty societal issues. Michelle began working positions, worked in institutional research, David holds a faculty appointment as at UCLA in the School of Dentistry in administered large grant-funded Professor in the Department of Physiology 2001, focused on administration, conflict programs, served as an external evaluator and Pharmacology with joint appointments resolution, external affairs and facilities. of grant projects, worked in research in the Department of Ophthalmology and Prior to joining UCLA, she practiced law administration, and been the director of the Oregon Institute of Occupation Health and worked in hospital administration international non-profits. He has extensive Sciences. David’s research interests in the Southern California area. She is a experience related to all aspects of and have been directed toward gaining a graduate of UCLA (BA-Sociology), Loyola considerations regarding externally funded better understanding of the role retinal Law School (JD) and UCLA School of Public programs. He is particularly adept at development plays in the maturation of Health (MPH-Health Services). program planning and has the ability to the circadian and visual systems. More apply these skills across a broad number recently David led the OHSU participation of academic disciplines (i.e. the sciences, in the NCRR funded eagle-i Consortium, nursing and allied health, humanities, made up of nine member institutions, Robert Porter, Ph.D., has presented social sciences, business, and education) which was established to build a prototype grant writing workshops at leading as well as in a variety of settings (i.e. of a national research resource discovery universities and medical schools higher education, K-12 education, network to help biomedical scientists internationally. Formerly Director of continuing and community-based search for and find previously invisible, but Research Development at the University education, healthcare, and international highly valuable, research resources. His of Tennessee, Dr. Porter has received programs). His grant writing experience research has been published in multiple the Distinguished Faculty Award by the includes applications to NIH, HHS, HRSA, academic journals, most recently in the Society of Research Administrators AHQR, NSF, DOE, ED, USDA, IMLS, DOI, Journal of European Neuroscience (2009), International. With thirty years’ experience DoD, NEH, NEA, the US Fish and Wildlife Behavioral and Brain Functions (2010) and as a tenured professor, private consultant Service, and a variety of local, community, Database (2011). and research administrator, his proposals regional, national, and international have won more than $8 million in awards foundations. Dr. Robinson’s responsibilities as an from government agencies and private educator have included teaching and foundations. A national leader in the directing courses in the Department growing field of research development, of Physiology and Pharmacology and he has presented papers and workshops Allied Health programs, serving as on grant writing at national conferences
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advisor to three graduate students in Rockey leads or is active on a number of Leslie Rae Schmitz has over 17 years OHSU’s Neuroscience Graduate Program Federal committees related to science, of Program Management /Operations/ and Integrated Biomedical Sciences research administration, and electronic Portfolio Management expertise as a program, and leading the selection government. She works most closely Senior Project Manager. She is a team and implementation of an OHSU-wide with other Federal science and university player who takes a hands-on approach learning management system (Sakai) and administrators, small businesses, with extensive experience overseeing the establishment of the Teaching and professional societies and the scientific project and financial management. Leslie Learning Center at OHSU. communities here and around the world. demonstrates outstanding interpersonal She co-chairs the NSTC Committee and communication skills, possessing At OHSU, Dr. Robinson’s administrative on Science Research Business Models a solid work ethic. One who views work began as the Senior Technology and serves as the Vice President of the challenges as pure opportunities and acts Advisor for Research and Education in Human Frontiers of Science Program, with rapid initiative to assume additional 2000. Subsequent to that, he served as Vice an international program for life science responsibilities. Provost for Academic Technology (2006), research support. In 2012 Dr. Rockey Director of Educational Communications co-led a groundbreaking effort on the (2006), Interim University Librarian (2008), biomedical workforce. Rockey is a Vice Provost for Academic Technology skilled public speaker, giving countless Charlie Senn brings 20 years of software and Information Services (2008), Interim presentations on research administration, development and 8 years of project Provost for Education and Research (2009), workforce and policy. She is the author management expertise to world of and Interim Provost and Vice President for of the widely read “Rock Talk” blog and funded research. Charlie joined the Academic Affairs (2010) before receiving has been recognized for her numerous University of Tennessee’s Office of his current appointment as Executive Vice professional accomplishments including Research and Engagement in 2009 and Provost (2011). receiving the Presidential Rank Award in is currently serving as the Director, 2004, and the Joseph F. Carrabino Award Research Development Team. As Dr. Robinson has also been the OHSU in 2013. Director, he supervises a staff of 3 whose faculty representative to the Federal responsibilities range from early warning Demonstration Partnership (http://www. on funding announcements, to federal thefdp.org/) since 2002. The FDP is a agency engagement to proposal support 25 year old association that presently Joana Rosario, MD, MPH, is an and development. Charlie’s varied career comprises 10 Federal Agencies and 119 internationally recognized medical includes 10 years with IBM, 10 years at academic institutions with more than professional with over 35 years of Software Earnings, Inc. and 7 years in $15 billion in federal research grants. In experience as a biomedical entrepreneur, the United States Marine Corps, where 2008 David was elected for a 3-year term educator, researcher, and senior executive he served as a Naval Flight Officer, to the position of Vice Chair and works at the National Institutes of Health, US. accumulating 1000 hours of flight time closely with senior staff members from She is widely respected for her leadership in the F4 Phantom jet. Charlie graduated the FDP’s Federal Agency partners (NIH, in strategic biotechnology development, from the United States Naval Academy in NSF, ONR, UDSA, AFOSR, ARO, AMRMC, and in rigorous biomedical research and 1973 and received his Master’s Degree in NASA, EPA and DHS), the Office of Science training. Computer Science from the University of and Technology Policy, and the National Tennessee, Knoxville. Academies to improve the administrative processes involved with receiving funding from the Federal Government. Julia Rudolph is a Proposal Development Manager (PDM) in the Office of Research Allison Shannon works with faculty and and Project Administration at Memorial administrators to build relationships, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), pursue partnerships and develop Sally Rockey, Ph.D., National Institutes New York, NY. She received her MPA proposals that advance the strategic of Health (NIH) Deputy Director for in health policy and management from priorities of the Global Institute of Extramural Research, leads the NIH New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Sustainability. Looking beyond traditional extramural research activities. Her Graduate School of Public Service in 2006 funding mechanisms, Allison identifies role is to oversee the development and and received her BA in European History links between internal resources and implementation of the critical policies from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in the needs of partners and funders, and and guidelines central to the successful 2002. Julia is a founding member of the supports the development and distribution conduct of NIH supported biomedical Funding Development Team and one of of concept notes, white papers and research. two PDMs serving the institution, working proposals. She has extensive experience with basic scientists and clinicians and working with researchers in the areas Rockey has Ph.D. in Entomology from administrators, at all career stages, to of energy and energy efficiency, water The Ohio State University, and has spent identify appropriate funding opportunities, resource development, small-scale the majority of her career in the area of provide resources to enhance proposal agriculture and food security, and has research administration and information fundability, and develop and coordinate drafted highly competitive, multimillion technology. In 1986 she joined the US proposal submission in the ever dollar proposals for USAID, The United Department of Agriculture, and soon challenging federal funding landscape. States Department of Energy, The National becoming the Deputy Administrator of the She lives in Manhattan with her husband Science Foundation and a number of US Cooperative State Research, Education and two young sons. private foundations. and Extension Service, overseeing the USDA extramural competitive grants program and served as the Agency’s Chief Information Officer. In 2005, Dr. Rockey moved to NIH as Deputy to her current position and became the DDER in 2008.
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Terri Soelberg is Director for the College research portfolio. Under Amanda’s Boston University, and NIU. He published of Health Sciences Office of Research direction, the office synchronizes and two articles in the Chronicle of Higher at Boise State University. She has targets investments across the School’s Education on the concept of positioning twelve years of experience in research corporate and foundation relations, to help research development staff work administration and development. In 2012, technology development, and sponsored with faculty. His current area of research she moved into a small, newly formed research functions and executes strategies explores the nature of interdisciplinarity research development office. Recently, to grow and diversify research and applied and ways of enhancing our ability to she was promoted to Director of the newly training resources. The Office coordinates collaborate across disciplines. expanded unit that now houses both academic & administrative efforts to research development and post award advance cross-cutting, multidisciplinary functions for the college. Previously, research opportunities; enhances faculty she was a program coordinator for a competitiveness for extramural support; LaVonne Sumler is Senior Sponsored National Science Foundation STEM and oversees institutional initiatives to Programs Coordinator, Physical grant and for a Health Resources and optimize operational systems. Since its Therapy Department, at the University Services Administration grant. Terri has inception in 2010, the office’s research of Delaware. She supports proposal also served as a co-investigator on pilot development programming has supported submission and award management studies examining the health of African federal and non-federal proposals for all faculty members, post-doctoral refugees post-resettlement. She has a BS generating over $68.4M to advance the researchers and fellows, and graduate in Business Administration, a Masters of School’s research and training initiatives. students in PT. LaVonne has served in Education in Human Relations Counseling, Amanda earned her Master’s in Public this capacity for over 3 years. Prior to and is a Certified Research Administrator. Policy from Johns Hopkins University and UD, she held various positions within a Bachelor of Arts from Earlham College. a 13-year period at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Office of Research Administration Amanda Spickard is the Director of and the Department of Population, Family Research Strategy and Development at Michael Spires recently joined the Office and Reproductive Health. Over the course the Harvard University School of Public of Contracts and Grants at the University of 16+ years of research administration Health. After completing her graduate of Colorado Boulder as a senior proposal experience, she has submitted several work in Public Policy at the Johns Hopkins analyst. Michael has been in research large interdisciplinary, multi-institutional University, Amanda has spent over a administration for nearly eight years, proposals and managed a few awards of decade promoting translational research first at Northern Illinois University, this nature. LaVonne holds a BS degree within federal and university-based then at the Smithsonian Institution, and in Interdisciplinary Studies from Johns research institutions. Amanda began her now at CU-Boulder. While most of his Hopkins University and attended the research development career in the US work experience has been in the fields Southern Association of College and Department of Labor’s Office of Policy and of the physical and life sciences, his University Business Officers (SACUBO) Research, where she conducted national academic background also encompasses College Business Management Institute. research and demonstration projects the humanities. He holds a bachelor’s focusing on workforce development degree in chemistry and classics, and and training approaches for special master’s degrees in classics, library populations. In addition to managing a and information science, and modern Jann Marie Sutton, M.Ed., is the $35.5 million national employment-based European history. In addition to NORDP, he Coordinator of Research Development community reentry project for youth is also a member of the National Council Education at the University of Delaware offenders, Amanda helped set research of University Research Administrators, in Newark, Delaware. New to the priorities for the federal Employment and the Society of Research Administrators research development world, her initial Training Administration, chaired federal International, the American Association responsibilities support employee grant review committees, worked with for the Advancement of Science, and training and the dissemination of funding federal leaders to develop multi-agency the American Historical Association. In opportunities. Her current projects include demonstration programs, and assisted addition to several scholarly works and a evaluating online proposal management senior policy makers in the development book on web design, Michael has published tools, supporting UD’s funding database, of national employment and training two articles on research administration in and developing an online training strategy legislation. In 2003, Amanda joined Ohio the Chronicle of Higher Education. for the Research Office from pre-award University’s Voinovich School of Leadership to post-award activities. Jann previously and Public Affairs. As Senior Leader of played a strategic role in the UD Online the School’s Government Development Distance Education Program which Group, Amanda directed multidisciplinary David A. Stone, Ph.D., is Associate Vice provided training and support to faculty research teams, overseeing a large President for Research and Associate members. She also worked with the portfolio of applied research and technical Professor of Public Health at Northern Sarajevo Graduate School of Business, assistance projects. As a member of Illinois University. As AVP, Dr. Stone a partnership between the University of the School’s Senior Leadership Group, manages large and multidisciplinary Delaware and the University of Sarajevo. Amanda helped design and execute the proposal development and submissions Her research interests include the School’s research development strategies, and works closely with developing effectiveness of online learning, social led external relations efforts, and multidisciplinary teams and centers. presence in online environments, and loci developed federal, state, foundation and He also directs the PI Academy, which of control. higher education collaboratives resulting provides professional development in millions of dollars in sponsored for junior faculty. Dr. Stone holds two research. In 2010, Amanda joined the interdisciplinary degrees; he led centers at Harvard School of Public Health to create the Fenway, Tufts Medical School, and the Kay Tindle currently serves as the the Office of Research Strategy and South-East European Research Centre, Lead Senior Proposal Development Development, which provides catalytic and served as a researcher at Harvard’s Administrator for the Research support of the School’s $229M sponsored schools of Medicine and Public Health, Development Team (RDT) in the Office of
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the Vice President for Research at Texas and collaboratively developed policies and University Edwardsville. He holds a B.S. Tech University. In this role, she works agreements focusing on expanding and in nursing from Indiana State University, with local, regional, state and national improving the scope and mission of RAP. a B.S. in computer science from the partners to develop collaborative teams Currently, Emy is involved in furthering University of South Carolina, and M.S. to advance and achieve the strategic goals development of RAP to create a one-stop- and Ph.D. degrees in computer science championed by the university. Tindle is shop for intramural funds at UCSF. Her from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Weinberg pursuing her Ph.D. in Higher Education at main focus targets improvements in the administers pre- and post-award services Texas Tech University. program’s electronic submission and review as well as ethical compliance. He is process. She is first author on a Journal of responsible for promoting scholarship and Research Administration article describing external sponsorship across the university. RAP in press. Dr. Weinberg serves on the Master’s Paul Tuttle, before coming to Hanover Committee of the Council of Graduate Research, worked in central university Schools and is President Elect of the research administration offices at three Illinois Association of Graduate Schools. public universities in North Carolina, Barbara L.E. Walker, Ph.D., is the Director He conducts research in Mobile Robotics, including two Historically Black Colleges of Research Development for the Social Human-Computer Interaction, and STEM and Universities (HBCUs). At the first Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts at Education. HBCU, he identified appropriate funding UCSB. She is responsible for catalyzing opportunities for the entire campus; at research innovation and excellence the second, he managed university-wide through faculty mentoring, proposal sponsored program proposal development consultation, forming and facilitating J. Quyen Wickham is an Interdisciplinary while also providing significant input into interdisciplinary research teams, teaching Program Consultant at the Center for university-level strategic planning and workshops and seminars for faculty Research Program Development and reaccreditation efforts. As Hanover’s and students, and administering seed Enrichment (CRPDE) at the University first Managing Grants Consultant, Paul grant programs. She promotes broader of Oklahoma. He consults with Center supervises the grants team, supports the participation in higher education through staff and University faculty on emerging company’s marketing and development several initiatives, including an Elsevier and ongoing cross-disciplinary activities, functions, and participates in statewide New Scholars Grant to develop a series of investigates communication resources and national professional associations Team Science retreats for the UC system for collaborative, and provides technical of research administrators while also to increase diversity on interdisciplinary support for the Center. Quyen received assisting members with proposal teams. Walker has a Ph.D. and M.A. in his B.S. in Microbiology and M.A. in development via writing and revision. He Geography from UC Berkeley and a B.A. Communication from the University of specializes in Federal opportunities for in Anthropology and African Studies from Oklahoma. His previous work has included higher education institutions, particularly UCLA. Her research has been funded research positions in molecular and those from NSF, ED, HRSA, NIH, DOJ, by NSF, MacArthur, and NOAA, among cellular biology, directing an NSF PFI HUD, and DOD. others. She served on the founding Board STEM grant, and as an academic writing of NORDP from 2009-2013, and as NORDP fellow. He is currently working on an PhD Treasurer from 2010-2012. in Interdisciplinarity and the Science of Team Science. Emanuela (Emy) Volpe, J.D., earned a Law Degree at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where she was born and raised. She Jennifer Webster joined the Office of completed her forensic training in Civil Law, Sponsored Programs at the University Anna Thomas Young joined the National and worked as a consultant for the National of Tennessee in 2009. As a Sponsored Wind Institute team in 2012 and currently Association of Professional Education in Programs Administrator, her primary holds the title of Associate Managing Rome, teaching Hygiene and Safety in the function is to assist researchers by Director. She is responsible for effective Workplace and Laws in Favor of Young reviewing, revising, and approving, and management of the administration and Professionals for Building Enterprises. Emy submitting proposal documents, and by business functions of the NWI. Anna is also travelled extensively abroad and lived in maintaining familiarity with the myriad responsible for managing the Scaled Wind Africa for a time before moving to the United requirements and procedures of various Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility, and States. In San Francisco, she taught Italian federal and non-federal sponsors. She works closely with TTU administration and at the Italian Cultural Institute and at the is frequently on loan to the Research general counsel to execute agreements for Italian American Museum at Fort Mason. Development Team to provide Sponsored the project. Additionally, her role focuses Programs assistance on large proposal on multidisciplinary collaborations that Emy joined the University of California, submissions. Before joining the Office of include (and also extend) beyond SWiFT San Francisco, 13 years ago and managed Sponsored Programs, she worked with to support the overall wind enterprise at several student programs and academic/ grant-seeking nonprofits in France and the TTU. She specializes in research proposal educational activities before becoming Czech Republic, and she was a bilingual development and assists in maintaining involved with the research enterprise. risk analyst for a company in the United critical relationships regarding wind for Currently, she is a manager in the Research States. Jennifer holds a BA in Philosophy the institute. Anna is in the process of Development Office and leads the Resource from the University of Tennessee and an completing her Ph.D. in Higher Education Allocation Program (RAP), a campus-wide MA in International Relations from the Administration from TTU, and plans to intramural funding program, awarding University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. receive her doctoral degree in 2015. $5 million per year to UCSF faculty. She Ms. Young’s passion for multi‐, trans– performed a key role in the launch, growth, and interdisciplinary teams is evident and continued success of RAP, having through her current work in identifying developed the program from the ground Jerry B. Weinberg, Ph.D., is Associate empirical links between interpersonal and up and facilitating the harmonization of Provost for Research, Dean of the intellectual dimensions in multidisciplinary 13 funding agencies. She designed the Graduate School and Professor of the research work. funding website and application process, Computer Science at Southern Illinois
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