Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies

John Richburg, Ph.D.
Email: john.richburg@austin.utexas.edu

Associate Dean for Research and Facilities Website
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Research Contact

Christi Fannon — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: christina.fannon@austin.utexas.edu

LaKesha Henry — Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: lakesha.henry@utexas.edu

Katie Traughber — Administrative Manager and Graduate Program Coordinator
Email: katie.traughber@austin.utexas.edu
Graduate student support

Dorothy Gillette — Administrative Services Officer
Email: dgillette@austin.utexas.edu
College-wide post award administration support

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Scott Webel — Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: swebel@austin.utexas.edu

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Mercy Cristina Avellan — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: grants@physics.utexas.edu

Lauren Constant — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: lauren.constant@austin.utexas.edu

• Development, preparation, budget creation and justifications, compliance verification, and submission of research proposals to federal, state, local, foundation, or industry sponsor agencies and organizations
• Office of Sponsored Projects liaison
• Effort certification assistance, no-cost extensions, credit requests
• Preparation of progress, performance, or ad hoc reports as requested by sponsor or PIs
• Assist in use of the following systems: Research Management System (RMS), eRA Commons, FastLane, ORCID, NIH Commons, Cayuse, SciENcv, etc.

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Note: This department routes all proposals through Dell Medical School

Sydney Bair — Program Manager, Office of Research, Dell Medical School
Email: sydney.bair@austin.utexas.edu

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Cindy Seiler — Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: cindy@utexas.edu
Pre-award grant support, and post-award consultation.

Angi Machos — Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: a.machos@austin.utexas.edu
Post-award Support

Niki Garcia-Holmes — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: niki.holmes@austin.utexas.edu

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Kyle D. Frasch — Assistant Director for Research
Email: kfrasch@austin.utexas.edu

Yvette Trujillo Canedo — Program Manager
Email: ybtrujillo@austin.utexas.edu

Jeremiah Paulus — Project Manager
Email: jdpaulus@utexas.edu

Kristen Bell — Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: kristen.bell@austin.utexas.edu

Clara Walsh — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: clara.walsh@austin.utexas.edu

Comprehensive research administrative support for the entire grant lifecycle is provided to Principal Investigators (PI).

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Angelica Morgan — Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: amorgan@austin.utexas.edu

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Sarah Durand — Assistant Director of Business Operations
Email: sarah.durand@utexas.edu

Joel Vinciguerra — Financial Analyst
Email: jvinciguerra@austin.utexas.edu

Research project coordination, pre- and post-award support, including: budget review, review of general grant requirements, OSP grant submission.

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Sean Ryan Schaffer — Administrative Manager, Contracts and Grants
Email: schaffer@austin.utexas.edu
Pre-award support for grant submission, mostly NSF, NIH (non-clinical trial), Texas Government sponsors, other small sponsors. Interface with OSP and sponsors on award negotiations, reporting, extensions. Advisory support for post-award administration (account administration, voucher payments, purchasing); Contracts and grants support.

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Note: This department routes most proposals through Population Research Center.