Nearly 300 researchers and grant-and-contract officers from colleges and universities throughout the United States were on campus July 13-14 for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Regional Seminar on Grants Administration, hosted by the Cornell Office of Sponsored Programs.
Traveling "faculty" from NIH led sessions in funding opportunities and grant applications, rule compliance, scientific peer review, intellectual property and research tools, project monitoring, clinical trials, human subjects, animal welfare and other topics of interest to the grant administrators and researchers. The NIH administrators were assisted by J. Robert Cooke, professor of agricultural and biological engineering and dean of the university faculty; Tadhg Begley, professor of chemistry and chemical biology; and Jun-Lin Guan, associate professor of molecular medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
The campus visitors were treated to what Cornell Vice Provost for Research Robert C. Richardson, in his welcoming remarks, called "faculty-recruiting weather."
Richardson added that, as a scientist, he has "enormous respect for what you (grants administrators) do to make it possible for a research university to do its job."
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