Pre-Award and Post-Award Staff Assignments
Pre-Award and Post-Award specialists are assigned to teams and are organized on a departmental basis for project management. Other staff listings are located in the staff directory.
Pre-Award team assignments by department 
| Team One | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fawn Weber (lead) | fawn.weber@ku.edu | 785-864-9829 |
| Brad Banks | brad.banks@ku.edu | 785-864-3441 |
| Cynthia Beall | beall@ku.edu | 785-864-3674 |
| Leigh Sands | lsands@ku.edu | 785-864-6581 |
| Lacie Turner | lacieturner@ku.edu | 785-864-1094 |
| Kimberly Wittman | kwittman@ku.edu | 785-864-7442 |
| Team Two | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cynthia Walker (lead) | cwalker@ku.edu | 785-864-7404 |
| Brett Bias | bdbias@ku.edu | 785-864-0296 |
| 785-864-6411 | ||
| Stephanie Phan | sphan@ku.edu | 785-864-7818 |
| Tina Roberts | tinar@ku.edu | 785-864-7705 |
| Award Management Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pas@ku.edu | ||||
Project Prefix |
Associated Sponsors |
Staff |
|
Phone |
| DED, IND | Department of Education; For-Profit/Industry Sponsors |
Jun Fu |
junfu@ku.edu | 785-864-6845 |
| FED | Includes Federal Agencies without separate prefix. Inlcudes Departments of Defense, Energy, Justice, Labor, and State; NASA |
Tracie Watkins | twatkins@ku.edu | 785-864-7288 |
| FND, NFP | Foundations, Non-Profit Entities | Michael Blocker | mblocker@ku.edu | 785-864-6160 |
| FOR, INS | International; Institutional (KU/KUCR) | Krista Benton | kbenton@ku.edu | 785-864-5113 |
| KAN (LSI, SW, AAI, EDU) | State of Kansas awards to PIs affiliated with LSI, SW, AAI, & School of Education | Betty Scheetz | betty.scheetz@ku.edu | 785-864-0182 |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health | Shelley Gehrke | sgehrke@ku.edu | 785-864-1267 |
| NSF | National Science Foundation | Matt Dollar | matt@ku.edu | 785-864-0563 |
| SKS, STE | State of Kansas awards to KU; Non-Kansas States | Aletha Beard | abeard@ku.edu | 785-864-6144 |
| UNI | Universities | Linda Bruce | lkbruce@ku.edu | 785-864-7468 |
| Email; Backup | Krista Benton | kbenton@ku.edu | 785-864-7468 | |
FEE projects are handled by the award management staff managing the sponsored portion of the award.
Please include Prefix/Project number in the email subject line (if applicable)
| Billing/Invoicing Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RGS-PAS5@ku.edu | ||||
| Jhunu Thapa | jthapa@ku.edu | 785-864-7467 | ||
| Breanna Jones | breanna.y.jones@ku.edu | |||
| Mandy Kelly | mjkelly@ku.edu | 785-864-8277 | ||
| Payroll/Tuition Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tuitionkucr@ku.edu fellowshipskucr@ku.edu |
||||
| Kara McDowell | kemcdowell@ku.edu | 785-864-7428 | ||
| Rensi Yu | yurensi@ku.edu | 785-864-6387 | ||
| Award Processing Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rgsaps@ku.edu | ||||
| Elena Semyonova-Smith, Manager | elenas-s@ku.edu | 785-864-7435 | ||
| Richard Lin | r790l830@ku.edu | 785-864-6832 | ||
| Jim O'Malley | jomalley@ku.edu | 785-864-4302 | ||
| Bruce Montrose | bmont@ku.edu | 785-864-1274 | ||
| Joyce Williams | jwilliams68@ku.edu | 785-864-7771 | ||