# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P42** · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $373,140

## Abstract

The Administrative Core is the formal and central framework for support, oversight, and planning for the Duke
University Superfund Research Center’s (DUSRC’s) research, events and activities. The Core also provides for
coordination among the Center’s research projects and cores. As such, lines of accountability are clearly
established and defined. This fundamental organizational component serves to monitor scientific progress,
ensure quality control, manage budgetary and operational issues, and assist in coordinating research translation,
outreach, and training functions. The Administrative Core also serves as the interface between the Center, the
Superfund Research Program, NIEHS, and other organizational entities at Duke and constitutes the primary
mechanism for sharing information or resources with stakeholders, the general public, and investigators at other
institutions. The organizational plan of the Center consists of direct reporting lines from Project and Core PIs to
the Center’s Director (Richard Di Giulio) and Co-Director (Heather Stapleton). The Administrative Core itself
provides a structure for assimilation of this information and the dissemination of findings among Center
Investigators, students, researchers and staff via monthly Center-wide research discussion meetings, trainee
chalk talks, weekly seminars and bi-annual symposia, annual External Advisory Committee meeting, and an
annual two day retreat. As a result of such frequent connections and the constant exchange and linkage of
research results, the Center is able to assimilate findings, further foster collaborations, and innovate at an agile
pace. Weekly Center emails, frequent website and social media updates related to research, new publications,
and training events, as well as blog posts created by the Research Translation Core all play an essential role in
the internal and external dissemination of the Center’s findings. In conjunction with bi-annual Center website
profile updates for all Investigators, trainees, and staff, the Center Administrative (Eve Marion) works with the
Training Core to ensure the completion of NIH CareerTrac Database trainee updates twice a year (July and
January). The Administrative Core is also the central hub for responding to NIEHS and university reporting
requirements. The Center Administrator works with the Center Director and Deputy Director to continually
educate and advise the Center’s investigators, trainees and staff, and provides foundational and ongoing
programmatic support that includes Duke and NIH systems training. In addition to regularly communicating with
the Center’s Investigators, trainees, and staff, the Center Administrator works closely with Duke’s Business
Managers, grant administrators, Office of Research Support, and Office of Sponsored Programs staff to ensure
an integrated system of fiscal oversight and compliance that is responsive to both Federal and Institutional
regulations.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9942429
- **Project number:** 5P42ES010356-18
- **Recipient organization:** DUKE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Richard Di Giulio
- **Activity code:** P42 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $373,140
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9942429

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9942429, Administrative Core (5P42ES010356-18). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9942429. Licensed CC0.

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