Available free of charge to any Harvard-affiliated individuals, RCR is a course designed to fulfill the NIH and NSF requirements of formal RCR instruction for certain grants. It is also an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in a career in research.

You must attend all three sessions in order to receive a certificate. The course will be held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, August 10-14th from 9:00am-12:00pm.

Targeted to Harvard University Postdoctoral Scholars, this hands-on workshop demonstrates how to perform a basic funding search. Participants engage in interactive activities and experience how to:

1. Gather information to optimize a search
2. Find and navigate two funding opportunity databases—Community of Science Pivot & Foundation Directory Online; and
3. Set up funding alerts, save searches, and locate best funding matches.

Space is limited so...

Agenda Topics & Speakers:

• HMS Efficiency Project—Rachel Cahoon
• Office of Sponsored Programs Update—Cathy Breen
• Direct Charging of Faculty Academic Year Salary—Patrick Fitzgerald

These monthly networking meetings for departmental sponsored award administrators and managers are forums for discussing issues in research administration, highlighting new policies and procedures, and disseminating research administration best practices.  These meetings are open to all Harvard administrators and registration is not required.  Meetings take...