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2025 ACOR Retreat Recordings
- September 9, 2025 – (Robin Riglin WELCOME, Dr. Andrew Read Opening Remarks, ACOR Award Recipients, John Hanold Updates, Foreign Gift & Contract Reporting, and NSF Foreign Financial Disclosure Report)
- F&A in SIMBA- A Technical Review
- SIMS Modernization: SIMS Central
- RA-UD Collaborative Procedures – A Refresher
- Deep Dive into GL Codes
- An Award with Subs – managing the lifecycle of a subaward from award inception to closeout
- Advanced Fund Accounts: Managing Risk, Enabling Research
- Deep Dive into F&A Rate Development
- Grants Management Reporting: Tips and Tricks
- Faculty Speaker (Christina Grozinger) Pollinators, plants and people: Building networks for resilience
- Streamlining Compliance: Using the New SIMBA Grant Non-Personnel Cost Transfer Tile
- International Collaboration and Activities, What to Know
- Cost Share Best Practices
- Investing in Yourself Through Continuing Education for Research Administrators
- Working with the Commonwealth presents unique challenges. In this session we will discuss the lifecycle of working with the Commonwealth, the challenges, and provide guidance, making it a more fluid process
- Lifecycle of a Purchase Order (PO)
- Working with Office of Foundation Relations
- Internal Controls: Balancing Compliance and Efficiency
- Intro to New Contract Management Platform: PSUcontracts
- Faculty Speaker (Swaroop Ghosh) Quantum AI approaches towards drug design
2024 Virtual ACOR Retreat Recordings
- September 10, 2024 – (John Hanold WELCOME, Dr. Andrew Read Opening Remarks, ACOR Award Recipients, Coins Transformation Update and New SACO & FACO Offices/Other Updates)
- Using SIMBA Reports to Improve Your Grants Management
- When does the Office of Sponsored Programs need to review the Request for Proposal (RFP)
- Navigating Post-Award Success: Roles, Responsibilities and Best Practices for the Post Award Administrator
- Navigating SIMS Negotiation/Proposal Manager – The College Perspective
- Partnering for Success: Penn State Office of Foundation Relations and You
- PSUbuy: A Sneak Peek at Penn State’s New Procurement Tool
- Cost Share Best Practices – A Step-by-Step Guide from Proposal Submission to Award Closeout
- Faculty Speaker (James Adair) Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacology
- Research Administration Ancillary Offices – Who we are and how we can help
- Budget Building Basics for Beginners
- Compliance with Sponsored Research Agreement Terms and Conditions
- Workday to SIMBA Integration: Unlocking the Mysteries of HCM Mini-Master and Labor Distribution
- Cayuse Tips and Tricks
- Cost Transfer Requirements and Best Practices
- Internal Approval Form (IAF) Demonstration
- Stick A Bow On It: Best Practices for a Timely Closeout of your Sponsored Program
- Interviews Insights. How to give yourself the edge
- Submission/Reporting Systems Overview (PRE and POST)
- Faculty Speaker (Sheridan Miyamoto) Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Telehealth (SAFE-T) Center: Enhancing Access to Expert Care
2023 Virtual ACOR Retreat Recordings
- September 11, 2023 – (John Hanold WELCOME, Dr. Andrew Read Opening Remarks, ACOR Award Recipients, Identifying Rogue Government Markings wiht Natalie Mansell & Kris McNitt, and Research Admin Inter Program with Rashonda Harris)
- “Bayh-Dole” Reporting Requirements for Federally Sponsored Inventions
- MyFunds PI Report and export budget demonstration
- SIMS Budget Export Demo
- Onboarding: Help your new hires engage, perform, and stay (Sorry, no recording available)
2022 Virtual ACOR Retreat Recordings
- September 27, 2022 – (John Hanold WELCOME, ACOR Award Recipients, Dr. Lora Weiss Opening Remarks, Chad Simpson on Compensation/Modernization Project
- Reading Notices of Funding Opportunities should not be rocket science!
- Pay and Effort: Overview, Certification, and New Labor Reports
- GAME Changers for Pre-Award Beginners: Success tips for your new career
- GM Master Data Reporting – Helpful Tips for Research Administrators
- Where Drone Operations and Export Controls Intertwine
- Dr. Orfeu Buxton – Work, Sleep and Wellness
- Current and Pending and Other Support Compliance: 2022 Summary of Changes
- Subaward/Subcontract Tracking within SIMBA
- SIMS Overview for New Research Administrators
- Award closing using SIMBA
- Department PAG: Balancing the Life Cycle of Research Admin ad the Department Level
- Cost-Share – Back to Basics
- Successful Collaborations Outside of Penn State: Federal Directions in Research Security
- Dr. Steven Loerch – Impact of the Land-Grant University
2021 Virtual ACOR Retreat Recordings
- September 9, 2021 – (John Hanld WELCOME, ACOR Award Recipients, Dr. Lora Weiss Opening Remarks, SIMBA Update, Intellectual Property Update)
- SIMBA Labor Distribution/Effort Certification
- Trust and Respect Me: Communicating with PIs Effectively on Their Level
- SIMBA Procurement and Shop OnLion
- Disclosure of International Collaborations
- It Doesn’t Have to be Torture! RACC Certification Made Simple
- SAP Concur Q&A
- Subagreements – Back to Basics
- Success in Research: How data analytics builds a story of research endeavors in the College
of Engineering - SIMBA GM from A–Z
- Data Security is a Journey
- SIMBA Reporting
- What OSP Needs to see at time of RFP
2020 Virtual ACOR Retreat Recordings
- September 15, 2020 – (John Hanold WELCOME, ACOR Award Recipients, Dr. Lora Weiss Opening Remarks, SIMBA Update, Federal Procurement Compliance Program)
- GAME Changers for Pre-Award Beginners: Success tips for your new career
- Cost Transfers – Policies, Practices, and Challenges
- Competitions and Challenges (No recording available)
- Universities & UARCs – Understanding and Leveraging Capabilities
- Life after ACES, What’s Next?
- Civil Rights, Civil Unrest – Dr. Clarence Lang
- Post Award 101: An Overview of Post Award for New Administrators
- Your best you: resume and interview tips for success (No recording available)
- Data Visualization for Research Administration (Fast forward to 14.29 for the start of the presentation)
- Training for Success as a Research Administrator
- Having Our Lunch and Eating it Too: Opening the Launchboxes and Leveraging Opportunity