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  • Pre-Award Services provides proposal and budget development support services to faculty and staff necessary to identify, develop, and submit external grant and contract applications, and administers internal funding opportunities (UMRB). 
  • Post-Award Services provides fiscal support necessary to responsibly manage funds awarded, consistent with University policy, requirements of funding sources, and federal regulations and time/effort reporting.
  • Research Compliance provide information and training for successful preparation for and ethical implementation of research within federal, state, local and institutional regulatory practices including, but not limited to, protection of human and animal subjects, hazardous materials, biosafety and HIPAA.
  • Office of Technology Transfer helps UMKC researchers share their discoveries with the world.
  • LARC is one of the facilities operated by ORS to support university research.

Pre- and Post-Award Contacts

Pre-Award
Lora Owens

SSE Pre/Post Award Research Administrator

owensl@umkc.edu

816.235.5621

  • School of Science and Engineering

 

Erin Liljequist

HSD Pre/Post Award Research Administrator

liljequiste@umkc.edu

816.235.1306

  • School of Dentistry
  • School of Pharmacy
  • School of Nursing and Health Studies/Collaborative

 

Chi Johnson

Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator

johnsonchi@umkc.edu

816.235.5219

  • Missouri Institute for Defense & Energy
  • Henry W. Bloch School of Management
  • Healthcare Institute for Innovations in Quality
  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center

 

Lucy Bahner

Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator

lbahner@umkc.edu

816.235.5220

  • School of Medicine
  • School of Education, Social Work and Psychological Sciences
  • Radio Station
  • Finance
  • Student Affairs
  • Student Financial Aid

 

Jeremiah Graham

Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator

jgraham@umkc.edu

816.235.5168

  • Conservatory
  • Provost Office
  • Innovation Center
  • Institute for Human Development
  • School of Law
Post-Award
Arminta Brown

Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator

brownarm@umkc.edu

816.235.1302

  • Innovation Center
  • Institute for Human Development
  • Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center
  • Outgoing Subcontract Negotiation

 

Diana C. Jones

Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator

jonesdc@umkc.edu

816.235.5607

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Conservatory
  • Healthcare Institute for Innovations in Quality
  • Missouri Institute for Defense & Energy
  • Henry W. Bloch School of Management
  • School of Medicine

 

Lora Owens

SSE Pre/Post Award Research Administrator

owensl@umkc.edu

816.235.5621

  • School of Science and Engineering

 

Mallory Snyder

Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator

snydermm@umkc.edu

816.235.5444

  • School of Education, Social Work and Psychological Sciences
  • Radio Station
  • Student Affairs
  • Provost Office
  • School of Law
  • Finance
  • Student Financial Aid
  • Outgoing Subcontract Negotiation

 

Erin Liljequist

HSD Pre/Post Award Research Administrator

liljequiste@umkc.edu

816.235.1306

  • School of Dentistry
  • School of Pharmacy
  • School of Nursing and Health Studies/Collaborative

 

Amir Ayoub

Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator

ayouba@umkc.edu

816.235.1304

 

Sheela Perumalla

Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator

perumallaj@umkc.edu

816.235.6054