AI
Policy Development & Uniform Guidance
Conference Potpourri
Leadership, Mentoring and Professional Growth
Understanding ramifications of political decisions, policy and FAIR
100

In the basic principles of AI: The principle that follows the LLM (Large Language Model)

What is an Algorithm?

100

According to the updated Uniform Guidance, indirect costs (IDC) can be charged on this portion of a subaward.

What is the first $50,000?

100

NCURA stands for this organization that supports professionals in university research administration.

What is the National Council of University Research Administrators?

100

This exam is divided into four parts — 25% Governing Framework, 35% Project Costs, 25% Reporting, and 15% Fiscal Compliance.

What is the CFRA Exam?

100

This branch of government oversees Office of Management and Budget. 

What is the Executive Branch?

200

The name of the property compliance bot.

What is AssetAce?

200

This engagement strategy is used to guide discussion and make stakeholder engagement more meaningful and relatable.

What are real-world scenarios?

200

After a day of conference sessions, SPS attendees strolled through this famous area that houses the Lincoln Memorial, the Reflecting Pool, and several Smithsonian museums.

What is the National Mall?

200

This is the educational and professional eligibility criteria for the CFRA Exam

What is a bachelor’s degree and three years of substantial experience in research or sponsored program administration?

200

This type of reimbursement is negotiated with the federal government, and helps cover shared expenses like libraries, administrative support, and building depreciation.

What is F&A (Facilities and Administrative)?

300

The Physicist from George Washington U known for his work in Complexity and Data Science.

Who is Dr. Neil Johnson?

300

The revised Uniform Guidance allows recipients to keep unused supplies under the $10,000 threshold for future projects or a portion of sales, however, this remains a major administrative concern.

What is challenging to track and account for unused supplies?

300

This tool used for the NCURA Annual Conference lets attendees browse sessions, choose vendor demos, and access presenters’ slides.

What is the NCURA app?

300

ChatGPT joked, “If you want to not go at all, form this kind of group.”

What is a committee?

300

This new financial model proposes to provide more transparency to the usages of F&A, along with funding the actual costs of research.

What is the FAIR (Financial Accountability in Research) model?

400

Name one benefit of being polite to your AI.

What is: Improved Quality of Responses, Positive Interaction Patterns, Reduced Bias and Errors, or Triggering Human-Like Communications?

400

Raising this threshold under Uniform Guidance means that fewer purchases now meet the criteria for a specific category of long-term assets.

What is the capital equipment threshold?

400

This is one of the biggest benefits of attending the Annual NCURA Conference, where you can meet fellow RAs, vendors, and colleagues from other institutions.

What is Networking or Professional development? (We will take either)

400

This term refers to both an undersea invertebrate and a technique for absorbing new ideas.

What is a sponge?

400

This collection of professional associations has banded together to propose a new financial model for F&A reimbursement.

What is the Joint Associations Group (JAG)

500

The title of the second section of the Property Bot Instructions

What is The Comprehensive Table Section?

500

In policy development, this quality ensures understanding, while staying active, relevant and proactive.

What is clarity?

500

Conference attendees can visit these types of sessions to learn about products, services, and tools that support research administration.

What are vendor demos?

500

This writer stated, "I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Who is Maya Angelou?

500

These four federal sponsors have proposed a 15% cap on F&A reimbursement.

Who are NIH, NSF, DOD and Dept of Energy?