Please join us for RAS Fridays this week on September 16th. Be sure to come a few minutes early to grab some pastries and coffee during the breakfast reception. Below are the topics and speakers. Please find the attached agenda for full details.

• Welcome and RAS Updates - Patrick Fitzgerald, Associate Dean for Research Administration
• GMAS 2.0 Release - Simone Alpen, Associate Director (HUIT) and Andrew Malone, Senior Systems Operations Analyst (HUIT)
• SEAS Update - Pamela Baker-Webber, Senior Director of Research Administration
• PI Dashboard Implementation - Tanya Sukharenko, Manager of Application Security, Data Integration and Reporting (FAS Financial Office) and Kathleen McCloskey, Department Administrator; Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science

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.  They are open to all Harvard administrators and registration is not required.  Meetings take place the third Friday of every month, September-May.

Links referenced during the 9/16/16 meeting:

• Internal Controls Focus Groups 
• Funding Announcement: Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship