A message from your NORDP President:
It is especially important during this time of uncertainty that we all remain focused and committed to our professional efforts to effectively support and advance the research enterprise at our own institutions and broadly. We are working to maintain and build NORDP as the go-to resource and community for your research development needs. Right now we’re working on several goals, including planning the conference and nurturing our strategic alliances.
Always high on the list of activities for the organization is our conference planning. We are in full-swing of planning an effective conference in Denver around the theme, “Creating Research Excellence through Strategic Research Development”. For those that don’t know, our NORDP 2017 Conference Co-Chairs are Michael Spires (University of Colorado Boulder), Kellie Dyslin (Northern Illinois University), and Karen Eck (Old Dominion University). We are definitely taking into account feedback that attendees gave on last year’s conference but if you have some input you’d like to give, please reach out to Michael Spires at rdconf@nordp.org.
In addition to the EPPD committee changes that I mentioned in September, our new Strategic Alliances committee (a refresh of the previous External Engagement committee) is working to further engage critical partners outside of NORDP and expand our sphere of influence and bring new and valuable resources to our membership. For example, since corporate relationships are often a part of our research development efforts, Strategic Alliances has reached out to NACRO (Network of Academic Corporate Relations Officers), inviting them to network with us at the Denver conference, where we also plan to have content that will be valuable to both NORDP and NACRO members.
Hopefully you’ve all seen the call for abstract that went out last Monday. If not, check it out at https://www.eiseverywhere.com/eselectv2/frontend/index/203635#44877. Abstracts are due on December 19th. As RD professionals, I know you all have an encyclopedia of strategies, ideas, practices, and tools that could benefit your colleagues and contribute broadly to research excellence. I challenge you to reach out to collaborators near and far to develop conference presentation ideas. We’re looking forward to seeing some great ideas for talks and posters!
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