ACOR Professional Development Opportunities

Professional Development Recordings/Documents:

2023 Virtual ACOR Retreat Recordings

• September 11, 2023 - (John Hanold WELCOME, Dr. Andrew Read Opening Remarks, ACOR Award Recipients, Identifying Rogue Government Markings wiht Natalie Mansell & Kris McNitt, and Research Admin Inter Program with Rashonda Harris)
• “Bayh-Dole” Reporting Requirements for Federally Sponsored Inventions
• MyFunds PI Report and export budget demonstration
• SIMS Budget Export Demo
• Working with Researchers: Strategies for Supporting and Building Relationships with PIs
• Onboarding: Help your new hires engage, perform, and stay  (Sorry, no recording available)
• Disclosure of Foreign Support and Affiliations
• Creating Value through Project Management: Best Practices for use in Research Administration
• New Grant/Account set up in SIMBA
• Dr. Cain Hickey - An Overview of The Penn State Grape and Wine Team and Pennsylvania Grape and Wine Industry
• Purchase Order Lifecycle
• Research.gov Demo: Navigating the Ins and Outs of an NSF Proposal from Start to Finish
• MTA Complexities
• Virtual Harmonizing: Cultivating Belonging in Research Administration through Diversity and Inclusion
• Documenting, Training, and Sharing…Oh My! Trying to manage training and knowledge transfer and keeping it consistent in an ever-changing environment
• Digital Literacy for Research Administration- How to Get Data, How To Use Data
• Virtual Tour of myResearch Portal
• Pre-Award Work on Grant Proposals Leads to A Post-Award Harvest
• Demonstration Post Award Management Database
• Uncrossing Wires - Streamlining Interactions with OSP
• Research and Tech Transfer Case Studies
• NIH’s Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy: What Research Administrators Need to Know
• Jordan Bisanz - Decoding Microbial Diversity in the Human Gut

   

2022 Virtual ACOR Retreat Recordings

• September 27, 2022 - (John Hanold WELCOME, ACOR Award Recipients, Dr. Lora Weiss Opening Remarks, Chad Simpson on Compensation/Modernization Project
• Reading Notices of Funding Opportunities should not be rocket science!
• Pay and Effort:  Overview, Certification, and New Labor Reports
• GAME Changers for Pre-Award Beginners:  Success tips for your new career
• GM Master Data Reporting - Helpful Tips for Research Administrators
• Where Drone Operations and Export Controls Intertwine
• Dr. Orfeu Buxton - Work, Sleep and Wellness
• Current and Pending and Other Support Compliance:  2022 Summary of Changes
• Subaward/Subcontract Tracking within SIMBA
• SIMS Overview for New Research Administrators
• Award closing using SIMBA
• Department PAG:  Balancing the Life Cycle of Research Admin ad the Department Level
• Cost-Share - Back to Basics
• Successful Collaborations Outside of Penn State:  Federal Directions in Research Security
• Dr. Steven Loerch - Impact of the Land-Grant University

2021 Virtual ACOR Retreat Recordings

• September 9, 2021 - (John Hanld WELCOME, ACOR Award Recipients, Dr. Lora Weiss Opening Remarks, SIMBA Update, Intellectual Property Update)
• SIMBA Labor Distribution/Effort Certification
• Trust and Respect Me: Communicating with PIs Effectively on Their Level
• SIMBA Procurement and Shop OnLion
• Disclosure of International Collaborations
• It Doesn’t Have to be Torture! RACC Certification Made Simple
• SAP Concur Q&A
• Subagreements – Back to Basics
• Success in Research: How data analytics builds a story of research endeavors in the College
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• SIMBA GM from A–Z
• Data Security is a Journey
• SIMBA Reporting
• What OSP Needs to see at time of RFP

2020 Virtual ACOR Retreat Recordings

• September 15, 2020 - (John Hanold WELCOME, ACOR Award Recipients, Dr. Lora Weiss Opening Remarks, SIMBA Update, Federal Procurement Compliance Program)
• GAME Changers for Pre-Award Beginners:  Success tips for your new career
• Cost Transfers – Policies, Practices, and Challenges
• Competitions and Challenges (No recording available)
• Universities & UARCs - Understanding and Leveraging Capabilities
• Life after ACES, What’s Next?
• Civil Rights, Civil Unrest - Dr. Clarence Lang
• Post Award 101:  An Overview of Post Award for New Administrators
• Your best you:  resume and interview tips for success (No recording available)
• Data Visualization for Research Administration (Fast forward to 14.29 for the start of the presentation)
• Training for Success as a Research Administrator
• Having Our Lunch and Eating it Too:  Opening the Launchboxes and Leveraging Opportunity  

2018

• PAG Career Ladder Slides (From 2018 ACOR Retreat)
• Pre-Aces (10/26/2018)
• Cost Share Workshop (06/26/2018)