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ARRA ORS Submission Process

For more information on the submission of grant or contract research proposals, contact a member of ORS.

The Office of Research Services (ORS) will observe UIC's 2009-2010 Reduced Services Schedule. As such, ORS will be closed from 5:00 PM on Wednesday, December 23, 2009, and will reopen at 8:30 AM on Monday, January 4, 2010.

To ensure timely review and processing of sponsored project activities applications and related documents, please be advised of the following internal deadlines:

For all documents that require Board of Trustees signature, please submit the package no later than 5:00 PM, Monday, December 14, 2009.
For all Grants.gov submissions, please submit your Proposal Approval Form (PAF) package along with the completed Grants.gov adobe application no later than 5:00 PM, Monday, December 14, 2009.
For all other proposals and/or Request for Action Forms, please submit no later than 5:00 PM, Thursday , December 17, 2009

Mailing Address - ORS
310 Administrative Office Building - M/C 672
1737 West Polk Street
Chicago, Illinois 60612

Reception: 312.996.2862
Fax: 312.996.9005

Luis R. Vargas, Executive Director
E-mail: lrvargas@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.6150

Patti Manheim, Associate Director
E-mail: pmanheim@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.9405

Amneh Kiswani, Assistant Director
E-mail: akiswani@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.9406

Patricia Pfister, Assistant Director
E-mail: pfister@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.9235

Jennifer Rowan, Assistant to the Director
E-mail: jrowan@uic.edu
Phone: 312.413.8191

Technical Development

Cennetta Burwell Walker, UI eRA Module Administrator
E-mail: cbwalker@uillinois.edu
Phone: 312.996.1488

Proposal Specialists

Michael Anderson, Sr. Research eRA Coordinator
E-mail: ander020@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.2243

Gwen Daniels, Research Coordinator
E-mail: gdaniels@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.9407

Margo McCoy, Research Coordinator
E-mail: margomc@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.0783

Brian Shim, Research Coordinator
E-mail: bshim2@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.1975

Megan Konley, Research Coordinator
E-mail: mkonley@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.7751

Contract Negotiators

Brenda Barrie, Negotiator (Clinical Trials and MTAs)
E-mail: bbarrie@uic.edu
Phone: 312.355-3372

Lisa Cruz, Negotiator (Clinical Trials and MTAs)
E-mail: elicruz@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.2862

Jason Hawkins, Negotiator
E-mail: jasonh@uic.edu
Phone: 312.413.1501

Kenneth Moore, Negotiator
E-mail: kenm@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.7044

Karyn Nash, Negotiator
E-mail:knash@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.4244

Karen Pickett, Negotiator
Email: kpickett@uic.edu
Phone: 312.355.0446

Adrienne Simms, Negotiator
Email: asimm@uic.edu
Phone: 312.413.8058

Darlene Tovar, Negotiator
Email: dtovar@uic.edu
Phone: 312.413.7922

Awards Processing Staff

Erika Lopez
E-mail: vivian@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.3138

Maria De La Paz
E-mail: mdelapaz@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.5617

Rosie Delgado
Email: rosied@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.1817

Support Staff

Dee Alexander
Email: dalex@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.2862

Rafaela Garcia
Email: garciar@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.9895

Linda Hale
Email: lhale@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.4477

Adrienne Lee
Email: alee@uic.edu
Phone: 312.413.7454

Jacqueline Rosa-Ramirez
Email: josie@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.6158

Cheryl Ann Sigsbee
E-mail: sigsbee@uic.edu
Phone:312.996.2862

Diane Underwood
Email: dianeu@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.4477

Catherine Williams
E-mail: cwill@uic.edu
Phone: 312.413.7454

Julie Wozniak
Email: jawoznia@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.4477