UA Office of Research Administration

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The ORA staff is available by phone, email, Teams chat, or in-person by appointment. If visiting in-person, we are located in Leigh Hall, 5th floor.  ORA's mail code is +2102.  

Who are your Sr. Grant Coordinator and Grant Accountant? Look up by College/Department

College/Unit Department(s) Pre-Award Post-Award
BCAS Biology Kate Homonai Vacant covered by Taylor Maiher
All others Kate Homonai Taylor Maiher
BUS All Vacant covered by Mike Hewitt Taylor Maiher
CEPS Biomedical

Vacant covered by Mike Hewitt 

 Taylor Maiher
CBCE

Vacant covered by Mike Hewitt

 Taylor Maiher
Civil

Vacant covered by Mike Hewitt

 Ceana Glover
Computer Sci & CIS Mike Hewitt  Taylor Maiher
Dean's Office Mike Hewitt  Taylor Maiher
Electrical & Computer Mike Hewitt  Taylor Maiher
Mechanical 

Vacant covered by Mike Hewitt

 Ceana Glover

Polymer Sci/Polymer Eng

Lead PI Last Name A-D

Vacant covered by Mike Hewitt

 Vacant covered by Taylor Maiher

Polymer Sci/Polymer Eng

Lead PI Last Name E-L

Vacant covered by Mike Hewitt

 Vacant covered by Valerie Henry

Polymer Sci/Polymer Eng

Lead PI Last Name M-Z

Vacant covered by Mike Hewitt

 Vacant covered by Ceana Glover
CHHS All Mike Hewitt  Ceana Glover
LAW All

Vacant covered by Mike Hewitt

 Taylor Maiher
Student Success Academic Achievement, Upward Bound Mike Hewitt Vacant covered by Valerie Henry
Other Units OAA, ZipAssist Mike Hewitt  Ceana Glover
Athletics, Medina, Wayne

Vacant covered by Mike Hewitt

  Valerie Henry
Archives, Libraries, Honors

Vacant covered by Mike Hewitt

 Taylor Maiher
For other units not listed, contact: Mike Hewitt Valerie Henry
COVID-19 Relief Funding  Lois Smith COVID Expenditures

Office of Research Administration Directory - All Staff

Name                                                                                Phone
Bausch, Suzanne, Vice President, Research and Business Engagement, and Dean, Graduate School  330-972-4688
Jana, Sadhan, Associate Vice President, Research and Business Engagement  330-972-8293
Julie Burns, Administrative Coordinator ORA & Assistant to Dr. Bausch 330-972-8579
Henry, Valerie, Director, Financial Research Administration 330-972-5246
  • CEPS: PSPE
  • BCAS: Biology
  • Other Units: Academic Achievement 
  • CIGAs for the above units
  • ecrt (contact: ecrt@uakron.edu)
Hergenrather, Diane, Research Billing System Analyst (post award) 330-972-6816
Hewitt, Mike, Manager, Pre-Award Research Administration 330-972-5741
  • BCAS: All
  • Other Units as needed
  • Limited Submissions
  • NDAs & CDAs, MTAs, TSAs
Jentner, Carolyn, Accounting Specialist & IRB Secretary 330-972-2461
Glover, Ceana, Sr. Grant Accountant (post award)  330-972-3643
  • CEPS:  Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Maiher, Taylor, Sr. Grant Accountant (post award) 330-972-4673
  • BCAS: with the exception of Biology
  • BUS:  All
  • CEPS:  Biomedical, CBCE, Dean's Office, Comp Sci/CIS, ECE
  • LAW:  All
  • Other Units: Archives, Libraries, Honors
  • CIGAs for the above units

Homonai, Kate, Sr. Grants Coordinator (pre award)

College and departmental assignments coming soon.

 330-972-4535

Krstich, Kelley, Sr. Grants Coordinator (pre-award)                                                                                                 330-972-4759

College and departmental assignments coming soon.

Black, Terri, Sr. Grant Accountant (post award)

College and departmental assignments coming soon.

  330-972-4735
Watkins, Katie, ORA Special Assistant (special projects)                                                        330-972-6764
 

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