Research Administration Community Forum
Meeting for Research Administrators on the Berkeley Campus
Upcoming Meetings
Please save the dates for the RAC Forum meetings below. All meetings will be held from 10:30 to noon. Virtual meetings will be conducted via Zoom. These are planned dates; check back for the final schedule or sign up for the mailing list.
- Wednesday, March 1, 2023 (virtual meeting)
- Wednesday, April 19, 2023 (virtual meeting)
- Wednesday, June 14, 2023 (virtual meeting)
Past Meetings
- November 30, 2022 Sponsored Projects Office; Other Campus Announcements; Promoting Safe and Respectful Environments: NSF & NIH Supported Conferences, Workshops & Symposia; Berkeley’s Composite Benefit Rates; Cost Principles for Industry Awards
- September 21, 2022: Sponsored Projects Office; Other Campus Announcements; UC's Research Data Policy; Heads Up! NSF Changes Are Coming; RAPDP Overview 2022-23; The NIH Data Management Sharing Policy: What We Need to Know by January 2023
- June 8, 2022: Other Campus Announcements; The Berkeley Research Development Office (BRDO) and Limited Submissions; Introducing S2C: SPO’s Service to Campus Model; Off Campus F&A; Next RAC Forum Dates and Poll; The Science of Persuasion; New DOE COI Requirements
- April 13, 2022: SPO Announcements; Other Campus Announcements; Cyber/Data Security; Taking the Mystery out of Costing Policy: CBRs, Vacation Accrual, and F&A Categories; Who “is” RAC IT?; Overview of Export Control in Phoebe
- February 23, 2022: SPO Announcements; Other Campus Announcements; Phoebe Enhancement: Award Actions and Pilot; BRS Guidance: New NIH Other Support Requirements and Resources; Working with the State of California: Updates and a Refresher
- December 1, 2021: RAC Announcements; SPO Announcements; Other Campus Announcements; The Gift Conflict of Interest Process; Navigating PPPs, Grant Administration and Fundraising at Berkeley: A Faculty Perspective; What Is Your Compliance Risk Level
- September 29, 2021: SPO Announcements; Other Campus Announcements; Conflict of Commitment v. Conflict of Interest; Gifts v. Grants; Subaward Website “Face Lift”
Contact
RAC Forum meetings are sponsored by the Research Administration and Compliance Office. All are welcome!
- Please contact Liana Simmons (3-2836, lianasimmons@berkeley.edu) with questions.
- To subscribe to the mailing list for RAC Forum announcements, email racnews+subscribe@lists.berkeley.edu, or go to the bConnected page to join the group.
- To subscribe to the SPO mailing list for announcements and news related to research administration, email sponews-l+subscribe@lists.berkeley.edu, or go to the bConnected page to join the group.