The Wayne State University Sponsored Program Administration office is happy to announce its participation in The National Council of University Research Administrators 2006 Video Workshop Series, entitled “Sponsored Project Essentials.”

The session will be help on January 23, 2007, from 11:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m in the Bernath Auditorium of the David Adamany Undergraduate Library.

In an ever-changing environment, the core building blocks of sponsored project administration are essential. Whether you are new to the profession or a seasoned veteran, this workshop is intended to help you look at basic principles from a different perspective. Every time you approve or sign on the dotted line, you should be thinking about reasonable, allocable, allowable and consistent. And — if you have forgotten some of the basics and have fooled yourself into believing everything will be all right…it won’t.

This veteran workshop faculty will address due diligence when making decisions and, what the process should be. They will discuss the underlying themes that every research administrator (pre-award, post-award, departmental, costing, audit and compliance) should be thinking about with every transaction they process.

Areas to be covered include:

• Proposal Phase – Budget Development
• Revised Budget Phase
• Award Acceptance Review of Final Budget
• Sub-recipient Monitoring
• Purchase Orders
• Accounts Payment Vouchers
• Cost Transfers
• Financial Reporting
• Time and Effort
• Project Monitoring

This interactive workshop will provide a number of case studies that will cover the gambit of the good, the bad, and the ugly. You’ll hear about the best ways of ensuring compliance and…how to stay out of trouble.

To register for this session, Liane Lehto at llehto@med.wayne.edu.

For more information contact the pre-award office at 577-2294.