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And the timing couldn’t be more fitting: September 25, 2025 marks National Research Administrator Day—a celebration of the important role research administrators play in sustaining the global research ecosystem, and driving new discoveries and innovations that will shape our collective future. This year, SRAI is honoring this day by highlighting the importance of research administrators everywhere who have learned to bend, pivot, adjust their stride, and manage increasingly complex realities with dexterity and poise (pages 30-31). In this constantly shifting research administration landscape, where new technologies using AI are contributing to this change, we must take this moment to recognize the sheer adaptability and resilience that defines our field. Research doesn’t stand still. 
Neither do we.

As always, I thank all of our feature and copy editors for their hard work in bringing this edition to fruition. I also want to express my gratitude to everyone who has submitted articles for publication in this magazine. Your contributions are a great way to share knowledge with research administration professionals worldwide. Finally, I invite you, the reader, to share your stories, knowledge and expertise by writing for the Catalyst. (To learn more about how to submit, click here.)

Here's to the ever evolving, problem-solving power of research administrators! 

 

Farida Lada
Chief Campus Compliance Officer
University of California San Francisco

 

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