Core A

The Administrative Core (Core A) guides and supervises the overall Program Project research effort.

Core A organizes and schedules bi-monthly meetings of all Program Project personnel and maintain written records of these meetings.

Core A communicates with the Internal and External Advisory Committees. These committees monitor Program Project research progress and provide evaluations and critiques of the group effort.

Core A is responsible for monitoring Program expenditures, including travel by Project Leaders, and routine bookkeeping. Publication costs arising from Program Project-funded research will be processed through individual projects.

Core A handles assembly and submission of annual progress reports with continual encouragement for investigators to be active at scientific meetings that helps promote and integrate their findings into scientific knowledge.

Core A is overall responsible for the service to, training of and development of PPG personnel.

Mission

The Specific Aim of Core A (Administrative Core) is to guide and supervise the overall Program Project research effort and the people that realize this effort. This guidance can be broken down into the following elements of service, training and development and are depicted in the figure below:

Service

Organization and scheduling of bi-monthly meetings of all Program Project personnel, including maintenance and distribution of written records of these meetings.
Communication with the Internal and External Advisory Committees.
Monitoring Program expenditures, including travel by Project and Core Leaders, and routine bookkeeping.
Assembly and submission of annual progress reports.
Foster active participation in the most appropriate meetings for the work generated from this Program, to the benefit of the scientist and the science.
Creation of a website (this one!) to share commonly used protocols with the goal that this aids rigor, transparency and reproducibility.
Connection to CSTAT for statistical help, Technology at MSU and Contracts and Grant Administration.