14th Annual NORDP
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Noon - 4:00 pm ET
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WORKSHOP: Leading Complex Collaborations with Strategic DoingPresenters: Jeff Agnoli, The Ohio State University; Liz Nilsen, Agile Strategy Lab and University of North Alabama; Sarah James, AtKisson Training Group RD professionals routinely collaborate with individuals on research proposals or multidisciplinary teams. Are you interested in improving your facilitating skills? Would you like to learn how to use your convening power to build action-oriented collaborations that lead to accountability and measurable outcomes? This four-hour workshop is an additional $100 for members/ $120 for nonmembers and is limited to 30 registrants. |
Noon - 2:00 pm ET |
WORKSHOP: Finding Competitiveness in Proposal Ancillary DocumentsPresenters: Emily Devereux and Rebecca Wessinger, University of South Carolina Supplementary proposal documents are often put off till last minute in the proposal development process. As RD professionals, we can help PIs make these documents a competitive piece of their proposal to signal credibility and capacity for sponsor investment. Participants will work through interactive activities by identifying opportunities in and revising documents during the workshop. We will navigate roles of these documents across various agencies and go over ways to help PIs cut and expand to meet section requirements. The goal is to help RD professionals identify ways to make each of these documents count in the proposal review process. This two-hour workshop is an additional $50 for members/ $70 for nonmembers and is limited to 30 registrants. |
2:00 - 4:00 pm ET |
WORKSHOP: Video Marketing—the RD tool you didn’t know you neededPresenters: Evangeline Coker and Mike Mitchell, Florida State University Video communication should be a part of every RD professional’s toolbox. You don’t need fancy equipment or expensive software to create powerful and motivating content. Join us for a two-part hands-on intensive where you will develop, film, and edit your own advertising video! Bring a laptop and your cell phone, and we’ll make a filmmaker out of you! This two-hour workshop is an additional $50 for members/ $70 for nonmembers and is limited to 20 registrants. |
4:15 - 5:45 pm ET |
NORDP Committee ROund-RObinTake advantage of this annual opportunity to explore NORDP's various committees and find ways to engage more deeply in your association. Following brief presentations from each committee, attendees will have the opportunity to explore various committees via breakout rooms. |
Day Two begins in the GTR/Pathable platform, where conference will remain until it closes. A few days before conference registrants will receive an email from pathable.com containing a link and your personal access code. You won't need to wait until Monday to set up your account, access agenda building tools, take a look at session handouts and more; go explore!
10:00 - 10:55 am ET |
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11:00 am - Noon EDT |
Opening Keynote: Susan Renoe, University of Missouri This presentation will focus on how the National Science Foundation (NSF) Broader Impacts criterion can be used as a strategy for research development. It will also include a brief overview of the Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS), an NSF-funded center that focuses on building individual and institutional capacity for research impact and is home to a thriving community of practice with more than 1,200 members worldwide. It will highlight the ARIS-NORDP partnership that began last fall and explore an example of how universities is using broader impacts to support proposal development and expand societal impact. |
12:15 - 1:45 pm EDT |
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1:45 - 2:15 pm ET | Yoga Break featuring Jamie Leigh Hines |
2:15 - 3:15 pm ET |
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3:30 - 4:30 pm ET |
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5:30 - 7:00 pm ET |
Trivia Night: By popular demand trivia emcee Tim Fulton is back this year! Tim has been hosting trivia for organizations ranging from funeral home directors to contemporary art museums for over ten years. While you may not be able to match his knowledge of the Back to the Future trilogy, you’re sure to have a good time. |
Tuesday, April 26 | Day Three
10:00 - 10:55 ET |
Coffee Hour in the Lobby, hosted by Member Services Committee |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET EST |
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12:30 - 1:00 pm ET |
Mindfulness Break with Dr. Kelcey Stratton Yoga Break with Jamie Leigh Hines |
1:00 - 2:15 pm ET |
The scientist is a man who wears a white coat and works in a laboratory.” In a 1980s study that asked participants to draw a scientist, of over 5000 drawings, only 28 described female scientists, all drawn by girls. Almost 30 years later, studies still suggest that women in biology are still heavily discriminated against. It is not only a gender issue. The practice of othering is quite strongly reflected in the bias against minorities in STEM. This presentation explores professionalized white supremacy practices, bias against minorities, and how white privilege and/or elitism translate in a lack of inclusion of minorities in STEM. We will explore the needed spaces of discomfort and, and using the case of colonization in conservation, unlearn some normalized discriminatory practices that we all carry, in order to be more inclusive in STEM. Dr. Dyhia Belhabib is an environmental scientist and researcher specializing in crime, conservation, and technology. She is currently the principal fisheries investigator for Ecotrust Canada, and the Director and confounder of Nautical Crimes Investigation Services, where she develops ethical technologies to combat crime. Her research has investigated the knowledge frontier between maritime criminality, ethics, and inclusion, and explored the concept of conservation justice. She has also advocated for decolonization and greater equity in ocean science. Sponsored by: |
2:30 - 3:30 pm ET |
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3:45 - 4:45 pm ET |
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5:00- 6:00 pm ET |
InfoReady's Wildlife Happy Hour |
6:00 - 7:00 pm ET |
Artistic Meditation: Melissa Kowal, owner of the Beeble Art Center. Kowal owns an artistic enrichment company called Beeble Art and was a public school art teacher for many years before starting her company after noticing that students had a sense of ease when they were in the art room. They would spend extra time in that room whenever they could and soon fellow teachers would start coming by room after school just to find peace in their day with a little paint. This fostered the idea that there aren’t many places all types of people can converse and create together in our world today. She started giving classes over zoom during the pandemic, and then started giving private lessons to people who were missing art in their lives. Eventually, she started Beeble Art which created a gallery to help fund a local charity, designed an art studio with the community’s Recreation Center, and offered numerous art classes and parties all around New England. With this artistic enrichment company Kowal has the opportunity to teach art but more importantly she gets to teach people how to enrich themselves through the arts. This "Artistic Meditation" session focuses on the act of using art to relax your mind while keeping your hands busy. During our hour session we will use different drawing and breathing techniques in addition to learning how to create a “grounding tree.” Don’t worry if you're not a practicing artist, this is a course that uses art to relax, not to judge. This session will be filled with laughter, gratitude, and a new way to look at meditation. Suggested Supplies: Four pieces of paper, a pencil, a black marker and coloring or painting supplies. |
Wednesday, April 27 | Day Four
10:00- 10:55 am ET |
Coffee Hour in the Lobby, hosted by Member Services Committee |
11:00 am - Noon EDT |
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12:15 am - 1:45 pm ET |
NORDP Awards & Meet the Candidates |
2:00 - 3:00 pm ET |
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3:00 - 3:30 pm ET |
Mindfulness Break with Dr. Kelcey Stratton |
3:45 - 4:45 pm ET | Concurrent Sessions 8
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5:00 - 6:00 pm ET |
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6:30- 7:30 pm ET |
Escape the Basement! There's only one way out... will your team find it first? This interactive, team-based game will stick with you long after it ends. |
10:00- 10:55 am ET |
Coffee Hour in the Lobby, hosted by Member Services Committee |
11:00 a.m.- 12:15 pm ET |
There is an ongoing tension between breaking apart and coming together that happens at every level of the biosphere, including among people. The health of our relationships with each other depends on this negotiation of independence and connection, which can be impacted by our ancestry, cultures, family of origin, and personal experiences. With all this in mind, Dr. Estrada will describe the findings from her research program in which she has longitudinally tracked and examined what types of mentorship and supports are more likely to result in students persisting in STEM career pathways, particularly persons excluded because of ethnicity and race (PEERs). Her research includes studies with first-generation, African American, Latino/a and Native scholars as they navigate their professional training. Further, she will talk about how institutional policies and climate that support mentors in providing kindness cues that affirm social inclusion may impact the integration experience for historically underrepresented college students, faculty and administrators. Mica Estrada received her doctorate in Social Psychology from Harvard University and now is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research program focuses on social influence, including the study of identity, values, kindness, well-being, and integrative education. Currently she is engaged in several longitudinal studies, which involve implementing and assessing interventions – such as science training programs, mentorship and curriculum changes -- aimed to increase student persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers (funded by NIH, NSF, and HHMI). Dr. Estrada’s work focuses on ethnic populations that are historically underrepresented in higher education, most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and are providing diverse and creative solutions to the pressing challenges of our day. As a leading scholar on issues of diversity and inclusion, she serves on National Academies’ committees, was a Leadership Institute Fellow with the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) in 2013 and received the Adolphus Toliver Award for Outstanding Research in 2016. Sponsored by: |
12:30 - 1:30 pm ET |
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1:45- 2:45 pm ET |
NORDP Regional Meetings |
3:00 - 4:00 pm ET |
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