Administrative Core

行政核心将协调项目和动物核心的活动。它将负责鼓励探索新的研究方向，并安排与内部和外部咨询委员会进行协商。它将负责准备科学进展报告和更新申请。它将组织每月的项目会议，在会议上展示研究进展。它将负责预算分配和监测费用。它将分配旅行资金。PPG的两个项目位于芝加哥和西班牙马德里。因此，行政核心的重要职能将是通过安排爱荷华、洛约拉和马德里项目之间的视像会议来促进项目之间的讨论，并协调所有项目主任每年在爱荷华大学举行的两次会议。总而言之，行政核心将在确保PPG的有效组织和尽可能高产方面发挥关键作用。

The Administrative Core will coordinate the activities of the Projects and Animal Core. It will be responsible for encouraging the exploration of new research directions and for arranging consultations with the Internal and External Advisory Committees. It will be responsible for preparing scientific progress reports and renewal applications. It will organize the monthly meetings of the Projects at which research progress is presented. It will be responsible for budget allocation and for monitoring expenses. It will allocate travel funds. Two of the projects of the PPG are located offsite, in Chicago and in Madrid, Spain. Thus, important functions of the Administrative Core will be to facilitate discussions between the Projects by arranging videoconferences between the lowa, Loyola and Madrid projects and to coordinate two meetings per year at the University of lowa of all of the Project Directors. In summary, the Administrative Core will have a critical role in making sure that the PPG is efficiently organized and is productive as possible.