OFFICE OF RESEARCH SUPPORT
The Office of Research Support at the College of Health assists faculty and research students with securing external funding for their research activities. This office helps researchers identify funding opportunities, provides support for the grant application and submission process and manages awarded grants through their life-cycle.
Research Support Team
Julie Fritz
Associate Dean for Research
Tara Henderson
Mark Nielson
Pattie O'Kane
Wendy Speers
Grant Support
Assignments
Pre-Award
Pattie O'Kane
- Health & Kinesiology
- Nutrition & Integrative Physiology
- Physical Therapy & Athletic Training
Tara Henderson
- Communication Science & Disorders
- Parks, Recreation & Tourism
- Occupational and Recreation Therapy
Post-Award
Mark Nielson
- Health & Kinesiology
- Nutrition & Integrative Physiology
Wendy Speers
- Physical Therapy & Athletic Training
- Communication Science & Disorders: Kathy Chapman, Skylar Jennings, Sean Redmond
Tara Henderson
- Communication Science & Disorders: Tyler Chistopulos, Sarah Ferguson, Samantha Gustafson, Robert Kraemer, Kristine Tanner, Julie Wambaugh
- Parks, Recreation & Tourism
- Occupational and Recreation Therapy
Pre-Award
The main purpose of the pre-award phase is to provide support and guidance to researchers throughout the grant proposal process, from identifying opportunities to submitting a complete and compliant application package on time. The end goal is to give researchers the best chance of getting their projects funded.
We do this by:
- Identifying submission requirements outlined in program/funding announcement.
- Advising PI of internal deadlines for proposal review.
- Ensuring all applications meet agency and university guidelines, and published deadlines
- Initiating electronic proposal submissions (e.g. eProposal, Cayuse).
- Budget development, proposal and documentation formatting.
- Liaison to subcontract universities, department administrators and university research offices.
Post-Award
The purpose of the post-award phase is to ensure that awarded grants and sponsored projects are managed efficiently, compliantly, and in accordance with the sponsor's terms and conditions, enabling researchers to focus on their scientific or scholarly endeavors while maintaining proper stewardship of funding resources.
We do this by:
- Project set-up with Grants & Contracts Accounting, using approved amounts and account codes.
- Assisting with purchasing and payments, reviewing grant for appropriateness and verifying available funds.
- Coordinating faculty and personnel salary effort changes based on budget limits and condition of the award.
- Monthly report to PI of reconcile grant expenditures and advise on corrections as needed.
- Assisting with re-budgeting requests, no-cost extensions, and carry-forward requests.
- Reviewing NOA’s for next year’s funding and assist PI with rebudgeting if award amount has been reduced.
- As requested, provide financial information to PI for annual, and if needed, final reporting.
- Other grant related financial services as required.