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Faculty Workshops

• Climate Information: Responding to User Needs
  UMUC Inn & Conference Center, October 22-23, 2007.
  
  This event will foster dialogue between the providers of climate information and its diverse user community to define specific measures needed to enhance the use of climate observations, data management, modeling, and predictions in support of business and policy decisions. To register, visit http://www.climateneeds.umd.edu
  
  

• Take it to the Next Level: Moving from Single Investigator to Multi-Investigator / Multi-Disciplinary Centers
  "Take it to the Next Level" is a half day workshop that discusses various strategies behind successful centres and institutes. UM Research Policies will be examined. Issues relating to Corporate and State support will also be discussed.
  
  

• HUMAN SUBJECTS RESEARCH
  All personnel submitting NIH applications or contract proposals, or receiving new or non-competing awards for research involving human subjects, must be certified as having completed an educational course or tutorial on the protection of human subjects from research risks. To complete this requirement and qualify for an NIH certification letter, please reference the procedures as posted on the IRB website.
  
  

• New Faculty Orientation
  Each year, at the end of August, an orientation program for all new university faculty is held. The program is for all new faculty (all ranks of professors, lecturers, research faculty, extension agents, visiting faculty) who have begun at the university in the past twelve months. Please visit the Office of Faculty Affairs to learn about the next orientation session.


• ORAA 2007 Presentation Slides - .pdf | .ppt