Center Symposia

The Administrative Core coordinates the center’s annual symposium held on the first Friday in December. This involves creating a program by contacting the center investigators, pilot project PIs, postdocs, and the Scientific Advisory Board members for their presentations, reserving the room and audiovisual system, and making travel and lodging arrangements for the Scientific Advisory Board, distributing the announcement of the symposium via e-mail, posting, and on-campus newsletter. During a lunch break, the Executive Committee members and the Scientific Advisory Board, have a 1-1.5 hr joint meeting. The members of the Scientific Advisory Board address to the Executive Committee, specific questions, critiques, and suggestions related to the center administration, research and education, and Core activities. After the symposium, the Pilot Program Committee and the Scientific Advisory Board will meet to go over the reviews of pilot project applications by the Scientific Advisory Board. The Administrative Core usually sends the pilot project applications to assigned members of the Scientific Advisory Board 3~4 wk before the annual symposium and receives their written reviews by the date of the symposium. This meeting thus serves as a study section to discuss the reviews for all applications and to achieve a consensus for the priority scores assigned to them. The Administrative Core handles and supports all logistic aspects of this review process.