About OSPA
OSPA Mission Statement (PDF)
Services:
A unit of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Dean, OSPA facilitates and promotes research and sponsored project activities on campus. (Research is defined broadly, to include research training, scholarship, and creative activities.) We are the official University agency through which faculty and staff submits external grant proposals and receive external grant awards. See below for services and staff contacts.
- help faculty find appropriate funding sources for their research.
- offer grant-related workshops to faculty and students.
- publish materials to aid researchers and publicize SIUC research.
- provide consultation on grant proposal development and budget preparation.
- review final grant proposal budgets.
- review, sign, and submit grant proposals to external agencies.
- negotiate award agreements and coordinate account set-up.
- set up subcontracts.
- handle post-award administrative matters such as budget revisions and no-cost extensions.
- administer several internal funding programs.
- administer REACH, SIUC's undergraduate research program.
- coordinate intellectual property disclosures and offer technology transfer services.
- coordinate research compliances (human subjects, animal care, etc.).
- administer centralized research support facilities.
- assist with grant audits.
- maintain a grants database and provide reports of grants activity.
Information:
Joel Fritzler, Research Project Specialist, 453-4530, Woody C-215
Proposal Submission/Account Set Up:
Agricultural Sciences, Liberal Arts, Applied Sciences and Arts, Dunn Richmond Center, Continuing
Education, Graduate School, Medicine, Provost, PSO, Touch of Nature
Joel Fritzler, Research Project Specialist, 453-4530, Woody C-215
Engineering, ICCI, Education
Steve Banker, Senior Research Development Specialist, 453-4540, Woody C-212
Science, Mass Communications, Law, Library, Business, Fisheries, Wildlife
Vanessa Sneed, Research Project Specialist, 453-4538, Woody C-213
Grant Management:
Post-Award Matters for These Units
Ashley Matzenbacher, Research Project Specialist, 453-4542, Woody C-216
Sonjie Schwartz, Senior Research Development Specialist, 453-4541, Woody C-217
Subcontracts/Audits
Sonjie Schwartz, Senior Research Development Specialist, 453-4541, Woody C-217