Pre-Award + Post-Award staff assignments
Pre-Award and Post-Award specialists are assigned to teams and manage projects for designated units.
Pre-Award teams
Team One
Team Two
Team One
Team Two
- Aerospace Engineering
- Agile Technology Solutions
- Applied English Center
- Architectural Engineering
- Architecture, Design & Planning, School of
- Center for Education Testing & Evaluation
- Center for Educational Opportunity Programs
- Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis
- Center for Public Partnerships & Research
- Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets
- Center for Research Methods & Data Analysis
- Center for Sustainability
- Center for Teaching Excellence
- Chancellor's Office
- Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
- Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
- Continuing Education
- Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute
- Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center
- Dole Institute of Politics
- Education, School of
- Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
- Department of Educational Psychology
- Department of Curriculum & Teaching
- Department of Special Education
- Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
- Energy Research Council
- Graduate Studies
- Office of Graduate Military Programs
- Health, Sport & Exercise Science
- Information & Telecommunication Technology Center
- Institute for Bioengineering Research
- Institute for Policy & Social Research
- Intercollegiate Athletics
- International Programs
- International Short Programs
- Journalism
- Kansas Geological Survey
- Law, School of
- Learning Communities
- Legal Services for Students
- Libraries
- Lied Center
- McNair Scholars Program
- Mechanical Engineering
- Music, School of
- Office of Research
- Pharmacy, School of
- Professional Studies, School of
- Provost's Office
- Center for Online & Distance Learning
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
- Sexual Assault Prevention & Education
- Dole Institute of Politics
- Psychological Research in Education
- Social Welfare, School of
- Spencer Museum of Art
- Student Affairs
- Counseling & Psychological Services
- Student Health Services Administration
- Transportation Research Center
- Undergraduate Studies
- University Career Center
- University Press of Kansas
- Vice Provost for Student Success
- American Studies
- Applied Behavioral Sciences
- Audio Reader
- Biodiversity Institute
- Biomedical Services Laboratory
- Biotech Innovation & Optimization Center
- Business
- Center for East Asian Studies
- Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
- Center for Online & Distance Learning
- Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
- Center for Science Education
- Chemistry
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Computational Biology
- East Asian Languages & Cultures
- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
- Geography
- Geology
- Global & International Studies
- Hall Center for the Humanities
- High Throughput Screening Laboratory
- Institute for Advancing Medical Innovation
- Kansas African Studies Center
- Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research
- Kansas Applied Remote Sensing
- KANU Radio
- KU Memorial Unions
- Latin American Studies
- Linguistics
- Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
- Mathematics
- Microscopy & Analytical Imaging Laboratory
- Molecular Biosciences
- Molecular Graphic/Modeling Laboratory
- Molecular Structures Group
- NMR Laboratory
- NSF EPSCoR
- Physics & Astronomy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public Administration
- Public Safety Office
- Sociology
- Spanish & Portuguese
- Speech, Language & Hearing
- Transgenic Gene Knockout Laboratory
Any unlisted College of Liberal Arts & Sciences departments are assigned to Team Two.
Post-Award teams
Post-Award teams handle award management, billing and invoicing, payroll and tuition, and award processing.
Award Management Team
Contact Award Management at pas@ku.edu. Staff areas of responsibility are listed alphabetically by project prefix, which corresponds to one or more sponsoring entities.
DED, IND
- Department of Education; For-profit/Industry sponsors
- Staff contact: Jun Fu
FED
- Federal agencies without separate prefix, including Departments of Defense, Energy, Justice, Labor, and State + NASA
- Staff contact: Tracie Watkins
FND, NFP
- Foundations + nonprofit entities
- Staff contact: Michael Blocker
FOR, INS
- International + institutional (KU/KUCR)
- Staff contact: pas@ku.edu
KAN (LSI, SW, AAI, EDU) + SKS
- State of Kansas awards to PIs affiliated with LSI, SW, AAI, & School of Education; and to KU
- Staff contact: Aletha Beard
STE
- State of Kansas awards to non-Kansas states
- Staff contact: Taylor Wilson
KAN – OTHER
- Other State of Kansas awards
- Staff contact: Betty Scheetz
NIH
- National Institutes of Health
- Staff contact: Shelley Gehrke
NSF
- Associated sponsors: National Science Foundation
- Staff contact: Matt Dollar
UNI
- Associated sponsors: Universities
- Staff contact: Grant manager who manages the flow-through sponsor as listed above
FEE projects are handled by the award management staff managing the sponsored portion of the award. Please include the prefix/project number in the email subject line, if applicable.
Other Post-Award teams
Find your future Award Management Services staff
AMS staff members will support the following portfolios of principal investigators. The new assignments will begin Nov. 1, 2021, when the AMS unit officially launches.
| Future AMS contact | Principal investigators |
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| Akers, Shelby |
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Bell, Chris |
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| Benfield, Beth |
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| Blocker, Michael |
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| Chilcoat, Jessica |
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| Conard, Kim |
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| Conley, Chelsea |
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| Delaney, Kelli |
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| Ding, Chenglan |
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| Dollar, Matt |
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| Fehr, Rachel |
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| Ferguson, Marshall |
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| Fu, Jun |
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| Gehrke, Shelley |
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| Hinman, Robin |
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| Lang, Sheryl |
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| Lanpher, Brad |
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| Lee, Eun Jee |
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| Leite, Rebecca |
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| Lytle, David |
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| Mathews, John |
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| Ogundolani, Sara |
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| Russell, Mindy |
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| Scheetz, Betty |
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| Schneider, Alec |
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| Spainhower, Denise |
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| Stella, Elise |
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| Tomlin, Criss |
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| Trammell, Cat |
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| Unruh, Isley |
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| Watkins, Tracie |
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| Wilson, Taylor |
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| Zeigler, Amy |
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