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We promote excellence and professionalism among those who write, edit, design, and publish magazines, e-newsletters, social media, and multimedia about research at a university, nonprofit research center, agency or institute.

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URMA Live: Management Platforms, Tricks and Tips

Our panelists for our next URMA live will discuss their top project management platforms and the problems they are built to solve in our universities. We’ll talk about tips for building out and scaling up a platform, things to keep in mind when managing a team’s work, and what kinds of metrics you can derive from your investment in some of these platforms.

Tuesday, Nov. 17
2-3 p.m. ET

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Nov
17

November URMA Live!

Project Management Platforms, Tricks and Tips

DATE: November 17, 2026

TIME: 2:00 pm—3:00 pm EST

FORMAT: On-Line

From content and news creation to social media management to events, there’s a platform to manage the chaos. Our panelists for our next URMA live will discuss their top project management platforms (Read More…) and the problems they are built to solve in our universities. We’ll talk about tips for building out and scaling up a platform, things to keep in mind when managing a team’s work, and what kinds of metrics you can derive from your investment in some of these platforms. Join us with your questions about managing projects and moving them through from staging ideas to finished and archived work.

Panelists:
Catherine Zandonella is the News Editor at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. She works with researchers and communicators to ensure that SLAC’s externally focused stories are clear and engaging, which includes moving each story through the editorial process using Trello.

Christina Dierkes is the Content Strategist for The Ohio State University’s College of Arts and Sciences, where she leads a team of storytellers. Christina recently reviewed enterprise-level solutions for project management at The Ohio State University and is a dedicated Asana user for project management.

Beth Potier is Director of Research Communications at the University of New Hampshire, where she uses Basecamp to manage content to promote university research to a variety of audiences.

Jen Humphrey is Associate Director for Strategic Communication at the University of Kansas Life Span Institute. To manage content creation on a small but mighty team of two full-time staff, she depends on Monday.com.

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Sep
15

September URMA Live!

Bringing Science Stories to Life

DATE: September 15, 2026

TIME: 2:00 pm—3:00 pm EST

FORMAT: On-Line

Speakers: Joe Fassler and Sam Apple, director and assistant director of the MA in Science Writing program at Johns Hopkins

Science and health stories come ready-made with human drama — (Read More…) the researcher’s quest to solve a longstanding puzzle, the patient’s search for a life-saving treatment. Yet telling these stories in a captivating way can be challenging, even for skilled journalists. In this interactive presentation, the leaders of the Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing program will discuss how to bring science and health articles to life. Topics covered will include how to distinguish between a “topic” and a “story,” how to tell a great story in your lede, and how to write a nut graph that leaves readers hungry for more information. 

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