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Unit Research Administrators (URAs) provide essential pre-award and post-award support for CAS faculty.

Let your URA know as early as possible in the pre-award process that you are planning or developing a grant proposal as s/he can assist  you with many of the pre-award activities to include checking compliance requirements, reviewing agency guidelines, linking you to the ORS proposal narrative review assistance, preparing the budget, completing the proposal form set, collecting supporting documents, assembling the complete application package, and submitting the proposal to Sponsored Research. 

Your URA can also provide post-award support to include completing the Grant Budget Release (GBR), coordinating the receiving of the award number, completing and submitting a FAST Workflow Request, completing compliance forms. managing the budget, and completing the final award closeout.  

Oversight, training, and support for CAS URAs are provided by Director, Research Administrator Erin Jensen, MBA and Senior Research Administrator Karissa Dailey. Both serve as liaison support to URAs.    

CAS URAs are listed alphabetically by department. 

ANTHROPOLOGY

Liliya Martsynyuk, Pre-Award & Post-Award URA                                          liliya1@usf.edu  Tampa campus                                                                                     

Chemistry                                                                                          

Allison Torress-Sabetti, Pre-Award & Post-Award URA                                            allisont2@usf.edu  Tampa campus                                                                     

centers & institutes

• Center for Advancement of Food Security & Healthy Communities

• Center for Justice Research & Policy (CJRP)

• Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies (CSDS)

• Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture & the Environment

• Institute on Black Life (IBL) 

• Institute of Forensic Anthropology & Applied Science

• Humanities Institute 

• USF Institute of Russia

• Institute for the Study of Latin America & the Caribbean (ISLAC)

URA TBD

Molecular biology

Lisa Clark, Pre-Award URA                                                                                                Laclarke1@usf.edu,  Tampa campus

Shae Krispinsky, Post-Award URA                                                                                  skrispinsky@usf.edu  Tampa campus                                                            

Geosciences

Rachel Douberly, Pre-Award & Water Institute URA                                                  redouberly@usf.edu  Tampa campus     

Christiana Giles, Post-Award URA                                                                          clgiles@usf.edu Tampa campus                                                                                     

Integrative biology (IB)

Jessica Wilson, Pre-Award & Post-Award URA                                                              normanj@usf.edu  Tampa campus                                              

mathematics & Statistics

Matthew Harris, Pre-Award & Post-Award URA                                                          remington2@usf.edu  Tampa campus                                                                            813-974-9530

physics

Nirmala (Sharon) Joseph, Pre-Award & Post-Award URA                                          nirmala@usf.edu  Tampa campus                                                                                  813-974-7284

psychology

Jessie Kobiolka, Pre-Award & Post-Award URA                                                            jkobiolka@usf.edu  Tampa campus                                                                                813-974-9168

school of humanities (shum)

Adriana Martinez, Pre-Award & Post-Award URA                                                    adrianam1@usf.edu  Tampa Campus                                                    

School of social sciences (SSS)

Adriana Martinez, Pre-Award & Post-Award URA                                                      adrianam1@usf.edu  Tampa Campus                                                                          

St. petersburg cas campus

Diana Scarpa, Pre-Award & Post-Award URA                                                    dscarpa@usf.edu  St. Pete Campus 

Rachel Clark, Pre-Award & Post-Award URA                                                  reclark@usf.edu  St. Pete Campus