Meet the team

Portrait of Carmen Langel

Carmen Langel

Title/Position
Director, Grant Support Office
Portrait of Molly Buhrow

Molly Buhrow

Title/Position
Associate Director, GSO Pre-Award Lead
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Bethany Cornwell

Title/Position
Research Support Specialist
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Melissa Eckrich

Title/Position
GSO Post-Award Lead
Portrait of Kristi Fitzpatrick

Kristi Fitzpatrick

Title/Position
Pre-Award Grant Manager
Portrait of Isabelle Hardy

Isabelle Hardy

Title/Position
Post-Award Grant Manager
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Kyle Schaefer

Title/Position
Pre-Award Grant Manager
Portrait of Tammy Smith

Tammy Smith

Title/Position
Post-Award Grant Manager
Portrait of Gizem Uyumaz

Gizem Uyumaz

Title/Position
Post-Award Research Support Specialist
A portrait of Logan Volkert

Logan Volkert

Title/Position
Research Support Coordinator

Other grant support personnel in CLAS

Portrait of Kris Ackerson

Kris Ackerson

Title/Position
Grant Development Manager, Center for Social Science Innovation (CSSI)
Portrait of Kate Gloer

Kate Gloer

Title/Position
Grant Development Specialist, Center for Social Science Innovation (CSSI)
Portrait of Ann Knudson

Ann Knudson

Title/Position
Grant Administrator, International Program
Marcia Rogers

Marcia Rogers

Title/Position
Research Support Manager, Physics and Astronomy
Learn more about Andrea Shaevitz

Andrea Shaevitz

Title/Position
Senior Financial Analyst, Physics and Astronomy

CLAS Grant Support Office

General CLAS Grant Support Office inquiries should be sent to: CLAS-GSO@uiowa.edu.

About the grant support staff role

The profession of research administration is often one that people fall into, rather than one they formally train for throughout their education. Although post-secondary institutions are starting to recognize the need for this type of training, many Research Administrators working in academia today landed in their role simply because their personality and skill set were well suited to the work.

To be successful in this field, you must have a passion for providing excellent customer service, a willingness to learn on the job, the ability to be flexible as you work with investigators that have different needs and work styles, and strong communication and organizational skills. And a high tolerance for paperwork doesn’t hurt anything!

This often results in a workforce that has mostly taken different paths to arrive at the same destination and the CLAS grant support staff is no exception. We are fortunate to have skilled teams of pre-award and post-award staff, with decades of experience among them, all working towards the common goal of supporting investigators in successfully seeking and managing external funding.