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Join us for the 2025 NORDP Northeast Regional Meeting focused on sharing strategies for enhancing collaboration among research development and corporate and foundation relations teams, business development, and industry partnerships professionals. We want to hear about your experiences developing new models for supporting faculty, fostering intra-institutional coordination to secure private funding for research, and navigating issues related to science for public good in a severely disrupted federal funding environment.
9:00–9:45 am: Registration and Breakfast + Coffee
Room opens at 8am
9:45–10:00am: Conference Welcome
Christina McDonald, NORDP-NE Chair
Lisa D’Angelo, Associate Provost for Research, Office of the Provost
10:00–10:15am: Opening Keynote
Megan Ranney, Dean of Yale School of Public Health and C.-E.A. Winslow Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and Professor of Emergency Medicine
10:15–11:00am: Yale and UConn advance in NSF’s Regional Innovation Engine’s program: An Overview
Michael (Mike) Crair, Vice Provost for Research and the William Ziegler III Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Ophthalmology & Visual Science
11:00am–12:00pm: Lightning Talks
Kate Duggan, Northeastern University, "Overview of NORDP 2026 National Conference in Indianapolis"
Kim Holloway, UMass Lowell, "Communication and Collaboration with Faculty"
Amy Carroll and Karen Markin, University of Rhode Island, "Integrating Foundation Relations in Research Office Systems"
Loren Walker, UMass Amherst, "Impact Canvas Initiative for Proposal Development"
Vance Blankers, Northeastern University, "Finding Joy in the Current Research Development Landscape"
12:00–1:00pm: Networking Lunch
Enjoy a delicious lunch while getting to know your NORDP NE colleagues better. Networking table topics will be suggested to help people connect on fun hobbies, interests, and RD topics.
Table Topics include:
Pets
RD career pipelines
Book recommendations
TV series
Foodies
RD + teaching
Travel
Fill out this quick poll about RD at your institution during lunch!
1:00–2:00pm: Panel Discussion: Partnering to Support Science for Good
Christina McDonald, Director of Research Development
Kathy Lynch, Executive Director, Corporate Strategy & Engagement
Ann Rho, Director of Development, Science Strategy
Betsy Stubblefield Loucks, Associate Director, Research Strategy and Development (Brown University)
Zandra Ruiz, Director, Strategic Initiatives and Proposal Development
Yale staff share perspectives on how they coordinate support for researchers and opportunities to foster more effective information sharing and partnership development.
RD perspective (public funding focus)
Corporate relations perspective
Individual giving relations perspective
Industry partnerships perspective
Private foundations perspective
2:00–3:00pm: Roundtable Discussion: Enhancing Coordination and Collaboration
Facilitated conversations to build on what you heard during lightning talks and the panel discussion and identify strategies that you can deploy in your institution.
3:00–3:30pm: Closing
4pm onward: Attendees are invited to walk to a bar/restaurant for informal conversation with old and new RD friends.
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