Category: SOT

  • ORA Boot Camp Session Overview: PI Financial Portal

    Overview On Wednesday, March 8, Susan Cooper, Enterprise Data Analytics and Strategic Support, provided an overview of the PI Financial Portal. For those unable to attend, the recording can be accessed here. The PI portal is one tool Emory investigators have for transparency into expenses posted to their sponsored and non-sponsored accounts. The PI Financial…

  • SOT Staff Highlight – Heather Lennon

    The Research Training Team under Strategic Operations & Training (SOT) is pleased to welcome Heather Lennon as a new Training Design/Communications Manager. Heather joins us from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) where she served as the Director of the Sponsored Programs Office for the College of Humanities & Sciences (CHS SPO). As the Director of the…

  • SOT Staff Highlight – Ashley Myers

    This month we celebrate Ashley Myers and her 12-year work anniversary at Emory University. Ashley started her Emory career in the ORA Office of Technology Transfer, managing and marketing projects, events, conferences, and training related to research faculty and staff education. From there, she moved to Research Business Operations where she spent three years as…

  • ORA Process Improvement Initiative: OTT to Handle Outgoing DUAs 

    In FY22, Robert Nobles launched an effort to review and improve the management of data use agreements (DUAs) through a process improvement initiative lead by the ORA Strategic Operations (Dragon) Team.  The OTT team is pleased to announce that effort to improve DUAs has led to the creation/expansion of an electronic submission process that reduces…

  • ORA Staff Spotlight – Inger Garnett

    Inger Jackson Garnett is a skilled leader of quality and improvement and currently is the Director of Strategic Operations for the Office of Research Administration at Emory University.  She is an enthusiastic people and process leader with over 25 years of experience with delivering innovative solutions to improve the needs of constituents in military, corporate,…

  • Research Training and Quality Improvement Unfold in the Office of Strategic Operations and Training

    With new staff on board and in the pipeline for this fiscal year, the Office of Strategic Operations, led by Senior Director, Lisa Wilson, builds momentum in expanding research training, communications, quality improvement, and project management services to help ensure operational excellence, research administrators’ success, and maximize ORA’s contributions to the research enterprise. Research Training…