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The 2004 Satellite Broadcast Series for the National Council of University Research Administrators will kick off in January

Please read below for conference and registration information.

Topic: Cost Sharing Management
Date: January 21, 2004
Time: 11:30 am – 3:30 pm
Location: Psychiatry Auditorium (1st floor)
Details: When an institution makes a commitment to share in the costs of a sponsored project it assumes an obligation to the sponsor and accepts certain responsibilities for tracking and reporting cost sharing expenditures. This program will discuss the various aspects of cost sharing, from proposal to award and through the project closeout. The session will also discuss the expectations of the project sponsor regarding the documentation and reporting of cost sharing commitments and will describe the cost sharing policy of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The presenters will describe several institutional systems for tracking cost sharing expenditures.

Topic: Research Records Management
Date: March 9, 2004
Time: 11:30 am – 3:30 pm
Location: Library/Administration Building -Room100
Details: Does your institution have a clearly delineated policy regarding ownership or retention of research records? What should your policy include and why? This broadcast reviews the basics and then tackled the tough issues facing many institutions. How do we deal with new forms of records or even research materials (electronic data sets and cell lines, for example)? How are records stored and who pays the cost? How can we work with faculty to bring about an understanding of the importance of maintaining records? And, finally, what happens to the records when your faculty member moves to another institution?

Topic: Project Management
Date: June 15, 2004
Time: 11:30 am – 3:30 pm
Location: Psychiatry Auditorium (1st floor)
Details: Project management includes many levels. How do you step up to organize a major multidisciplinary project, program project or center grant and, if you're in a department, how do you assist a faculty member to do so? Whether you're in a school, department business office or a sponsored project office, do you know what is needed to manage a project? What needs to be organized in addition to: budgets and project expenditures; issuance of subawards with specific budgets and deliverables; tracking of performance expectations; foreign sites with varying scientific disciplines and a culture different from ours; monitoring research subjects issues including IRB authorization agreements and HIPAA; publications and invention reporting.

Topic: Conflict of Interest Management
Date: September 14, 2004
Time: 11:30 am – 3:30 pm
Location: Psychiatry Auditorium (1st floor)
Details: Getting disclosures of financial interests from researchers is the first step in addressing real or perceived conflicts of interest. Managing the conflict is more difficult since there is no one model that fits the variety of financial relationships, research areas, sponsor types, and student involvement that may be encountered. This Video Workshop expands on COGR's "Recognizing and Managing Personal Financial Conflicts of Interest" by offering the audience tested methods of conflict of interest management with guidance on how to evaluate the effectiveness of each.

Continuing Education Units (.35 per conference) will be offered for all participants. To Register contact Jennifer Hutson at 792-2696 or register online at the following address: http://research.musc.edu/gca/ncura_signup_form.html