Research Administration Network meetings take place on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Please email Christy (crschulz@wisc.edu) or Trish (pbarribeau@wisc.edu) to suggest a topic or present at an upcoming meeting.
2023 RAN Meetings
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January 17, 2023
Please join in on a conversation with Kurt Zimmerman, SMPH’s COI representative, on helping get the COI training status up to date, a new COI lookup that RSP crated, and how this can help our award set up delays!
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February 21, 2023
Betsy Nugent, Director of Wisconsin Medicine Institute of Clinical Trials. Betsy will update us the upcoming increase in industry indirect rates and the change in nursing charges for the CRU.
Kate Mollen, Grants & Agreements Design Team Lead, Administrative Transformation Program (ATP).
Kate will talk about RAMPingUp where we are with RAMP
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March 21, 2023
First, we will have both Angie Johnson, Interim Associate Director, Research and Financial Services
Managing Officer of the Non-Federal Accountants
And Dorothy Johnson, CPA, CRA, CFRA, MSRA, Interim Associate Director, Research Financial Services
Managing Officer of the DHHS, NIH Accountants
They will discuss the current state of No Cost Extensions, and best practices to have these processed smoothly.
Next, Brenda Egan, Proposal Team Manager and Bridgett Molinar will provide NIH RPPR guidance and show us updated information available on the RSP website.
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April 18, 2023
Nick Novak, Amber Jensen and Steve Flaherty from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education will discuss navigation of limited submission opportunities for external funding. Procedure for external grant programs that limit the number of proposal submissions per campus will be reviewed. This will include discussion of what do to if your PI is interested in a limited submission opportunity, where these opportunities are posted and who is responsible for the process. Finally, we will discuss sponsor specific guidelines related to limited submission opportunities.
We will talk about RAMP, the RSP training website and resources, and open the conversation to you all.
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May 16, 2023
Calleen Roper, Associate Director for Research in the Dept of Medicine Demo a few features in RAMP. This will include seeing the dashboard and funding proposal dashboard features and to hold an open discussion with questions, share experiences, hear from those who have taken trainings, and other thoughtful discussions in the workspace.
Next, medRAMP office, reminders of the resources available online and the fee structure that applies for services
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June 20, 2023
1. Welcome!
2. Lynda Bader and Betsy Nugent will provide updates on UROC and Budget Template. (30 minutes)
3. Lori Uttech-Hanson will show the medRAMP website and services available (10-15 minutes)
4. Calleen Roper will demo the award setup and modification piece in RAMP (40 minutes)
recording.
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July 11, 2023
We will hold an open hour to bring up RAMP questions, tips, suggestions, etc.
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August 15, 2023
Research Administrators Network meeting, 9-10:30am
Calleen Roper, Associate Director for Research in the Department of Medicine, who has experience using RAMP at another Institution, will again provide a show-n-tell!
We will see an award set up process in RAMP and still have time to share tips and answer questions.
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September 19, 2023
Please join us for the September Research Administrators Network Meeting
Tuesday September 19
9-10:30am
Bethany Nelson, Export Control Manager
Export Controls are federal regulations that can impact projects in many ways including international travel, shipping, collaborations, with whom you can share certain technical information, and who you may be able to hire for particular projects. Anyone who could potentially have exposure to this situations, including faculty, PIs, lab staff, administrative staff etc. is encouraged to attend.
Cyndie Hopewell, Director of Clinical Trials Quality
Cyndie will share a short background of how the Quality Management Framework for CTI was developed and current strategies in the works with short /longer term future strategies.
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October 17, 2023
Please join us for the October Research Administrators Network Meeting
Tuesday October 17, 2023
9-10:30
Sue Carlson and Jeanne McCabe, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, will present information about how to include BMI faculty, staff, and students in proposals, and Biomedical Computing Fee policy and billing.
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November 21, 2023
Please join us on Tuesday November 21, 2023 9-10:30, for the November RAN meeting.
Heather Richter, CPA, Assistant Director of Finance, SMPH and Sheri Alexander, IT Manager, SMPH, will talk about the new HIPAA-compliant research participant payment system at UW.
Bob Gratzl, JD, Assistant Director of Contracts and Vasanthi Pillai, JD, Contracts Manager at RSP
Our RSP friends will be available for Q&A regarding all agreement related things and how-tos. PLEASE come with questions on ‘how to’ with RAMP Agreements. OR feel free to send me your questions ahead of time.
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December 19, 2023
2022 RAN Meetings
Scheduled the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 9-10:30
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January 18, 2022
Ryan Schryver, Public Access Compliance Lead, will introduce Hassan Hossayrami who joined Ryan at Ebling Library. They will talk about their roles and the resources to help SMPH researchers.
Lynn Haynes, Director, ORC will join us for a discussion on the attached advanced account request for CTAs. Please review the attached and send me any questions/scenarios you may want to discuss so we can prepare for a discussion.
February 15, 2022
Tom Demke will provide training on the key export control requestions. (https://uwmadison.box.com/s/f1stcef6jdl30tg1wmug8ou7n3qesdde)
The federal export control laws and regulations can impact many aspects of the research mission at UW-Madison, including from whom we buy items, who we collaborate with, where we can ship items, when we need to get export licenses and when to manage information for projects containing sensitive information. This training will discuss the key export control regulations, non-compliances, what contract clauses to look out for and what activities may require review from the Export Control Office.
Andy Chen, Senior Contracts Specialist at SMPH will provide a broad overview of the types of agreements he reviews and be available to answer questions regarding routing and his review. (https://uwmadison.box.com/s/sue7c6vke4ijwlsyu0bttvk063m2zqdu)
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March 15th, 2022
April 19, 2022
Mark Sweet, Director, Grant and Contract Services at RSP will talk with us about updates RSP
Kurt McMillen with ATP will explain the latest updates of the Administrative Transformation Process including a possible adjustment to the PI 1% rule.
Kelly Belshaw effort administrator at RSP will talk about some of the effort related changes.
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May 2022
Stephanie Leroy from the COI Office
Review COI training and the importance of it
Lori Uttech-Hanson from the medRAMP Office will provide a demonstration on how to use PIVOT for researching funding opportunity announcements, set up email notifications on specific search criteria, create a grants calendar, and create working groups.
medRAMP Services and website
July 19th 2022
Brenda Egan, Proposal Team Manager at RSP and Dorothy Johnson, DHHS, NIH Accounting Team Manager to hear updates on NIH and how UW is managing multiple requests
Karla Thompson, Associate Director for Finance and Budget in SMPH will discuss the topic of Expanding edits
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Other 2022 Dates
May 17
June 21
August 16
September 20
October 18
November 15
December, 21/2021
Mark Sweet and Brenda Egan will talk about the new Other Support Format and will share how UW is implementing the use of DocuSign to capture PI attestation on the form.
REMEMBER the timeline for use of this is just over a month away, January 25,2022.
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