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2023 SRAI Award Winners

It is that special time of year again to recognize our 2023 SRAI honorees chosen by their peers. Let’s come together to celebrate this year’s SRAI award winners! SRAI acknowledges individuals who inspire others and serve as models for the profession of research administration. The Awards Committee was excited to consider the many worthy nominees and the winners are truly deserving and at the top of their field. Click here to read more about this year’s winners and what this honor means to them. Please plan to join us in Seattle at the 2023 Annual Meeting and cheer loudly for these distinguished research administrators! 

The Herbert B. Chermside Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research Administration
This award is named after an SRAI member who first joined only two years after the Society was formed and then spent the rest of his career working towards the advancement of the profession of research administration. He was known as a mentor to many, and a dedicated research administrator to all. 

J. Michael Slocum, President, Slocum & Boddie, PLLC

Hartford-Nicolsen Award
This award was established to recognize SRAI members whose services demonstrate leadership in the Society, and who have made a major, distinguishable contribution which has been of benefit to the entire Society. Until 1973, this award was entitled the Distinguished Service Award and is still rooted in the critical importance of SRAI as a group of volunteers. Individuals who are nominated for this award have contributed their professional expertise to the Society in an important and fundamental way. 

This year’s recipients are: 
Kim Carter, MPA, CRA, CPRA, CFRA, Associate Vice President for Research, Executive Director, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, University of Kentucky
Dara C. Little, Associate Vice President for Research/Executive Director Sponsored Programs, Northern Illinois University 
Renee J. Vaughan, MDiv, MA, CRA, CRU Financial Practice Manager, Duke University School of Medicine

 
Excellence Award
This award was established in 1977, in honor of the Society’s 10th anniversary. It recognizes up to three SRAI members who have excelled in meeting the Society’s purpose of expanding the knowledge and tools of research administration. Winners of this award have made contributions to the field of research administration within SRAI and their own institution and/or outside organizations through development and expansion of methodology, working applications and tools in an important and fundamental way.  

This year’s recipients are:
Jose G. Alcaine, PhD, MBA, CRA, Director of Research Services and Affiliate Faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University
Terri Bigham, Associate Director, University of Central Florida Research Foundation
Susan Wyatt Sedwick, Senior Consulting Specialist, Attain Partners

John Robinson Travel Scholarship
The John Robinson Travel Scholarship was established in 2012. The award is given each year and supports travel arrangements for speakers accepted to present at the SRAI Annual Meeting. Through this scholarship, SRAI acknowledges an endowment from John Robinson to honor his contributions to the Society by encouraging active participation of current SRAI members in the conference agenda. 

This year’s recipient is:
Ellen R. Auriti, Senior Principal Counsel, University of California

Annual Meeting Scholarship 
The Annual Meeting Scholarship was established in 2016 and given for the first time the same year. Through different initiatives by SRAI and donations by members, the Annual Meeting Scholarships allows two (2) recipients to benefit from leading edge education and networking opportunities offered at the Annual Meeting each year. 

This year’s recipients are:
Stefanie Blackmore, CRA, Research Administrator Lead, University of Michigan
Gen Clark, Research Facilitator, University of Saskatchewan

Congratulations to all our winners! Join us in Seattle at the 2023 Annual Meeting as we honor this year’s awardees. 

Authored by Cynthia Morin, Senior Administrative and Business Manager
Johns Hopkins University
SRAI Awards Committee Chair