Regional Events and Activities at NCURA' s 66th Annual Meeting
Listed below is the most updated list of the regional events. As events are confirmed, over the coming weeks, this list, along with online registration will be updated. Regional Business Meetings are open to all Annual Meeting registrants, no registration needed! To register for any other regional events, please select them during the Registration Process!
****If you need to use a personal credit card to register for any regional event, please see this video to show you how to easily process the payment: https://youtu.be/a2ImmmJhCrs ****
Monday Night is Regional Networking Night!
Each of our regions will be hosting a Regional Hospitality Suite or a Regional NetZone Room on Monday evening. Take this opportunity to meet your colleagues.
For information on additional activities hosted by your region, you will be hearing directly from your regional officers in advance of the Annual Meeting and volunteers will be available during registration on site to connect with you.
Additional regional events at this year's meeting are below:
Region 1
Region 1 Business Meeting- Monday, August 5th 2:45-3:45pm
Region 2
Region 2 Business Meeting- Monday, August 5th 2:45-3:45pm
Region 3
Region 3 Business Meeting- Monday, August 5th 2:45-3:45pm
Region 4
Region 4 Business Meeting- Monday, August 5th 2:45-3:45pm
Region 5
Region 5 Business Meeting- Monday, August 5th 2:45-3:45pm
Region 6
Region 6 Business Meeting- Monday, August 5th 2:45-3:45pm
Region 6 & 7 - Washington DC Night Trolley Tour!
Region VI and VII Exclusive Trolley Tour: Experience the beauty and awe of our country's most stirring monuments in a whole new way...by moonlight. When the sun goes down, Washington turns into a different city. Old Town Trolley Tours professional tour guides will take you right to some of the city's most popular monuments and let you see the city in a different light.
Monday, August 5th - Hotel Pick up & Drop Off - 7:30-10:30pm
Price: $50.00
Region 7
Region 7 Business Meeting- Monday, August 5th 2:45-3:45pm
Region 8
Region 8 Business Meeting- Monday, August 5th 2:45-3:45pm
Region VIII Welcome Event - Monday, August 5th from 6:00-8:30pm
A Region VIII welcome reception will take place on the evening of Monday 5th August. This is an excellent opportunity to network with other Research Administrators/Managers from across the globe, and to celebrate our hard work and impact on creating a supportive global research administration and management community.
Cost: $60
Region 8 Workshop: US Grant Compliance for International Institutions - Thursday, August 8th from 8:30am - 4:00pm
Region VIII is partnering with the University of Maryland’s administrative training program, Borderless Research Administration Knowledge Exchange (BRAKE), to deliver this workshop on US grant compliance for international institutions. This workshop is designed to provide foreign research administrators with important information on the requirements surrounding the development of related internal controls, as well as the implementation of policies in the areas of conflicts of interest, including the NIH Financial Conflict of Interest, misconduct in science, use of human subjects in research, animal welfare, and interpretation of Uniform Guidance. This is a great opportunity for research administrators and managers to improve grant compliance practices.
Workshop Speakers:
Rebecca Hunsaker
Rebecca Hunsaker is the Executive Director for Research Management in the Dean’s Office of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS) at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her primary responsibilities involve compliance and reporting activities on sponsored projects. She reviews each proposal from departments before they reach the sponsored research office, manages human subjects incentives/compensation for the College, oversees the Dean’s annual seed grant program, and ensures ethical stewardship of sponsored funding. She regularly develops and conducts training sessions and workshops for the College and the University on budgeting, departmental sponsored project management, data management tools for research management, and federal compliance issues as they arise. Rebecca has been at the University of Maryland since 2003 when she started as a research assistant in a federally-funded research center, and has worked at the departmental and central levels on budget development and management, proposal development and submission, and a variety of compliance issues at every level.
Beth Brittan-Powell
Beth began her career as a researcher in a well-funded NIH psychoacoustics lab at UMD: she has a PhD in Neuroscience, over 20 years of research experience, and managed a large research lab for 8 years before shifting to research administration. As an administrator, she worked as a grants development specialist for the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science graduate program for 5 year before joining the Office of the Vice President for Research within the Division of Research at UMD in 2012. As Director of Research Collaborations within the Division, Beth has been responsible for the management of Joint Research Collaborations, promoting the research partnerships between the College Park and Baltimore (professional schools) campuses, College Park and International Strategic Partners, and the Brain and Behavior Initiative. She is also a member of the Borderless Research Administrator Knowledge Exchange (BRAKE) team, a unique, proactive program designed to help build global research partnerships by sharing knowledge with international peers on the oversight of U.S. federal funding and streamlining administrative functions. Beth is a sitting member of the Conflict of Interest, Research Safety and Operations, and Laboratory Operations Committees. As of July 2021, she became the Director of Research Compliance in the Division of Research.
Location: Meeting at the Terrace Level of the Washington Hilton (meet between 7.30am and 8.00am for transportation to University of Maryland College Park Campus)
Cost: $150 Early Bird Rate; $200 Regular Rate. Due to the availability of spaces, numbers may be limited.