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About ORSP
Our Mission
We safeguard and advance U-M’s research enterprise by providing our partners with effective and efficient pre-award and non-financial post-award services for the compliant administration of externally sponsored grants, contracts, and ancillary agreements.
Our Vision
We aspire to be recognized within U-M and across the globe as the leading provider of authoritative, innovative, and high value guidance on the conduct of sponsored research and other funded activities.
Our Core Values
Balance
Respect
Integrity
Teamwork
Excellence
Our Motivation
We are motivated by the transformative research outcomes we enable, the positive role we play in sustaining U-M’s reputation for excellence, and the knowledge that our efforts are helping to create a better world and a more promising future.
Our Guiding Principles
1. We serve three customers with every transaction. Our success lies in how well we: (a) advocate for our research community in its pursuit of scholarly excellence, (b) protect our university from financial and reputational harm, and (c) help our sponsors achieve their scientific and programmatic goals.
2. We act ethically and with integrity at all times. Upholding this principle is the right thing to do. It promotes the public’s trust in the wisdom of funding research, enables us to responsibly reduce administrative burden and manage risk, and encourages effective research administration throughout U-M.
3. We treat others with kindness, dignity, and respect, and we have a right to expect the same in return. We demonstrate this principle most clearly by how we interact with our colleagues and customers, and how we promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within ORSP and across the U-M research ecosystem.
Office of Research and Sponsored Projects
Address:
3003 South State Street
First Floor, Wolverine Tower
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1274
Main Phone: (734) 764-5500 Answered 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday-Friday
Fax: (734) 763-4053, 764-8510
Campus Drop Boxes: For any deliveries to Wolverine Tower, you can use one of the Wolverine Tower Mail Expedited Service drop boxes placed at locations around campus.
The ORSP Organization Chart
ORSP is a unit of the Office of the Vice President for Research.
The ORSP Team
- Assistant Vice President for Research-Sponsored Projects: Shandra White (shandraw@umich.edu)
- Executive Director, Sponsored Projects: Andrea Anderson (anandrea@umich.edu)
See full Alphabetical Staff Listing below, or view all staff and lookup ORSP Teams.
Alphabetical Staff Listing
- Alameddine, Karen - Director, Proposals and Award Management
- Anderson, Andrea - Executive Director, Sponsored Projects
- Baxter, Emily - Director, Contracts
- Bohensky, Christy - Senior Project Representative
- Bowker, Luke - Administrative Assistant Associate
- Brady, Zach - Associate Pre-Award Officer
- Burns, Joseph - Project Representative
- Buss, Kellie - Assistant Managing Project Representative
- Case, Patrick - Project Representative
- Chie, Katherine - Senior Project Representative
- Chimienti, Fabio - Project Manager Senior
- Chowfin, Sunita - Project Representative
- Colthorp, Constance - Communications Manager
- Curry, Dawn - Administrative Assistant
- Dames, Cindy - Project Support Specialist
- DeVries, Christopher - RAAC Project Manager
- Dickey, Laura - Manager, Business Intelligence and Analytics
- Dill, Debra - Senior Project Representative
- Donald, Justin - Assistant Project Representative
- Fletcher, Leigh - Associate Pre-Award Officer
- Floreno, Lia - Training Specialist Lead
- French-Gilmore, Jelly - Administrative Assistant Associate
- Hammoud, Gabrielle - Project Representative
- Haunert, Lark Ann - Assistant Managing Project Representative
- Haynes, Patricia - Senior Project Representative
- Hogg, Austin - Assistant Project Representative
- Howard, Lizzie - Project Representative
- Jackson, Tonia - Associate Director, eRA Systems
- Javarinis, Arielle - Senior Project Representative
- Johnson, Joe - Assistant Managing Project Representative
- Kiel, Lisa - Executive Secretary
- Kingsley, Erin - Manager, Pre-Award
- Kissell, Ashley - Administrative Assistant Intermediate
- Krasa, Rob - Associate Pre-Award Officer
- Lankton, Ryan - Assistant Managing Project Representative
- Larkin, Tracey - Senior Project Representative
- Lester-Pelham, Shannon - Assistant Project Representative
- Longe, Jeffrey - Senior Project Representative
- Lowery, Ute - Project Representative
- Marchelletta, Daniela - Assistant Managing Project Representative
- Martell, Reynaldo - Senior Project Representative
- McAllister, Mike - Senior Project Representative
- Nagler, Caitlin - Project Representative
- Pascual, Kim - Administrative Assistant Intermediate
- Paluchniak, Thomas - Senior Project Representative
- Pinchem, Priscilla - Administrative Assistant Intermediate
- Quick, Michele - Project Representative
- Reel, Amanda - Senior Project Representative
- Reeves, Kristy - Assistant Project Representative
- Sampson, Karen - Project Representative
- Sanders, Sara - Assistant Project Representative
- Santoro, Jane - Administrative Assistant
- Satkowiak, Andy - Director, Operations and Administration
- Schwab, Tracy - Support Staff Manager
- Simms, Polly - Business Intelligence Analyst - Intermediate
- Smithers, Tiffany - Assistant Project Representative
- Spurgeon, Jessica - Administrative Assistant Associate
- Strzempek, Kate - Project Senior Manager
- Timmermans, Rebecca - Project Representative
- Tulk, Shelby - Administrative Assistant Associate
- Ward, Eric - Assistant Managing Project Representative for Data Use Agreements
- Waterbury, Kristin - Associate Pre-Award Officer
- Watkins, Kristy - Assistant Project Representative
- White, Shandra - Assistant Vice President for Research-Sponsored Projects
- Wiggins, Elaina - Assistant Project Representative
- Wilson, Sabrina - Administrative Assistant Intermediate
- Williams, Patti - Administrative Assistant Intermediate
- Woods, Patrick- Managing Project Representative
FAQs
Visit our Communications page at orsp.umich.edu/news. You'll be informed of business and system updates, sponsor updates, policies and procedures, professional development opportunities and more that affect work in sponsored projects.
The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) primarily handles pre-award activities and is part of the Office of Research.
Sponsored Programs primarily handles financial post-award activities, and is part of Finance.
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Media may contact public.affairs@umich.edu.
Research and internship opportunities are available for enrolled students. You can find graduate program application materials on the Rackham website (http://rackham.umich.
Check the U-M Library's http://funding.
Leverage the Research Development and Proposal Services from the U-M Office of the Vice President (OVPR) for Research along with:
- Research Commons, a website that promotes internal funding opportunities.
- View archives or subscribe to the Research Blueprint, a newsletter that shares funding announcements, workshops, Limited Submissions opportunities, and more. (If you have an opportunity for OVPR to share, send it to fundingopps@umich.edu(link sends e-mail).)
U-M LIBRARY - RESEARCH FUNDING AND GRANTS GUIDE
The U-M Library's Research Funding and Grants Guide indexes university-wide listings of funding opportunities and resources with content from all units, schools, and colleges. Utilized databases such as ProQuest's Pivot to create email alerts to keep you informed of new opportunities in your research area.
Schedule a consultation with the exceptionally skilled Informationists of the U-M Library, who offer personalized, expert funding and grant search consultations to U-M faculty and staff.
Contact Tricia McCain Ebright at UMORlimitedsubmissions@
Your first point of contact should be your department's research administrator. You can find that person here: Find a Research Administrator (Blue Pages) You can use our Project Representative lookup table here.
You can look up your ORSP Project Representative here.
We do not keep research publications for loan or purchase. If published, it may be available via the National Institutes of Health PubMed Central or our U-M library. For citations, please use standard citation methods.
Jobs and internships are arranged through the academic department or posted on http://careers.umich.edu.
Your first point of contact should be your department's research administrator. You can find that person here: Find a Research Administrator (Blue Pages).
Unfortunately, we cannot accept résumés and applications for graduate programs or research opportunities. Find application materials on the Rackham graduate programs website or follow the employment application procedures on the University of Michigan careers/job postings site. Do check the eligibility requirements for any programs you see. Many summer research opportunities are only available to U.S. Citizens.
Visit the Responsible Conduct page: http://research-
Be sure to register your travel and check any policies here: http://global.umich.edu/
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References and Resources
Questions?
For questions about our staff, please call (734) 764-5500 between 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday-Friday.