2024 Award Winners
Being recognized by your peers is a great honor. 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 so many worthy nominees this year and the winners are truly 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 at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Chicago to help us celebrate the honorees!
The Herbert B. Chermside 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.
Debra Schaller-Demers, Senior Director, Research Integrity and Compliance, New York University
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:
Andrea Deaton, Consulting Specialist, Attain Partners
Pamela Montgomery, Assistant Director of Finance & Administration, Duke University
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:
Jason J. Claes, Oncology Clinical Research Manager, TriHealth Cancer Institute
Cindy Morin, Senior Administrative and Business Manager, Johns Hopkins University
Olumide A. Odeyemi, Research Integrity and Reporting Coordinator, University of Tasmania
The Technology Innovation and Application Award
This award was established in 2010 and is open to an individual or a team which showcases and recognizes technological innovations and applications to promote, process, or advance research administration operations.
This year’s recipient is:
Lisa Wilson, Interim Assistant Vice President, Research Administration & Director of Strategic Operations & Training, Emory University
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:
Saidina Babucarr Ceesay, Medical Research Council The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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:
Paricia Amoah Yirenkyi, Office of Grants and Research, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Viridiana Santillan, Director, Research Administration Services, Illinois Institute of Technology
Congratulations to all our winners! We invite everyone to join us at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Chicago to help us celebrate the recipients. Honorees will be recognized on-stage at the Award Ceremony Luncheon on Monday, October 28 at 11:30 am.
Authored by Luca Polizzi, Manager, Academic Review and Strategic Planning
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
SRAI Awards Committee Chair
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