Faculty/Researcher Lists

Research Contact

Shannon Cronin, Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: shannon.cronin@austin.utexas.edu

Ali Meurer — Research Personnel Coordinator
Email: alison.meurer@austin.utexas.edu
Human resource services

Research Website
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Research Contact

Erica Alvarez — Department Manager
Email: erica.alvarez@austin.utexas.edu
Post-award support, including account management, human resources support for employees paid on grant funds, and assistance with travel, purchasing, cash advance, and other processes required for post award spending.

Faculty/Researcher Lists

Research Contact

Katie Beth Willis — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: katiebeth@austin.utexas.edu
Research administration support

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Research Contact

Tony Araguz — Department Manager
Email: araguzt@austin.utexas.edu
Provides research support for investigators in IUPRA, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, and John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies in the College of Liberal Arts.

Associate Dean for Research

Frances Champagne, Ph.D.
Email: fchampagne@utexas.edu

Associate Dean for Research Website
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Research Support Office

Research Contact

Lindy Aleshire — Manager, Award Services
Email: melinda.aleshire@austin.utexas.edu

Brook Davis — Manager, Proposal Services
Email: davis@austin.utexas.edu

Sheena Moore — Grants Administrator
Email: sheena.moore@austin.utexas.edu

The Research Support Office provides support at the central college level for the entire lifecycle of the sponsored research award from Pre-Award (research and proposal development/submission) to Post-Award (awards set-up/management and post-award oversight and compliance) while serving as the principal investigator’s liaison with OSP.

Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Academic Affairs

Lisa B. Thompson, Ph.D.
Email: lbthompson@austin.utexas.edu

Associate Dean Website
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Research Contact

Tim Creswick — Director of Faculty Advancement
Email: timcreswick@austin.utexas.edu
 

Kaitlyn DeLiso — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: kaitlyn.deliso@austin.utexas.edu
Pre and Post Award Services

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Research Contact

Vickie Grier — Pre-Award Grants and Contracts Coordinator
Email: vgrier@austin.utexas.edu

Derek Lopez — Post-Award Financial Analyst
Email: derek.lopez@austin.utexas.edu

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Research Contact

Mychael (Myke) Solis-Wheeler — Manager of Research Administration
Email: msoliswheerl@utexas.edu

• Pre-award support: proposal submission tasks and documents, requests for information, budget preparation and revision, just-in-time information, assistance with the awards process.
• Post-award support: no-cost extension and other post-award requests, budget forecasting/spending, subaccount transfers, cost share reports.

Research Website
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Research Contact

Carlos Alonso — Faculty Accounts Coordinator
Email: bme-faculty-accounts@utexas.edu

WEP Initiatives

Research Contact

Tricia Berry — Executive Director, Women in Engineering Program
Email: triciaberry@utexas.edu
Broader Impacts consulting: expertise in public and K12 outreach and STEM education efforts, access to events and initiatives for broadening participation efforts, connections across the STEM educational and outreach community (schools, districts, teachers, camp programs, informal STEM organizations, Greater Austin STEM Ecosystem, etc.). WEP proposal examples