UA Office of Research Administration

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The ORA staff is available by phone, email, Teams chat, or in-person by appointment. If visiting in-person, we are located in Leigh Hall, 5th floor. ORA's mail code is +2102.

Who are your Sr. Grant Coordinator and Grant Accountant? Look up by College/Department

College/Unit	Department(s)	Pre-Award	Post-Award
BCAS	Biology	Kate Homonai	James Ferrero
BCAS	All others	Kate Homonai	Taylor Maiher
BUS	All	Deborah Eshun	Taylor Maiher
CEPS	Biomedical	Deborah Eshun	James Ferrero
	CBCE	Deborah Eshun	Taylor Maiher
	Civil	Kelley Krstich	James Ferrero
	Computer Sci & CIS	Mike Hewitt	Taylor Maiher
	Dean's Office	Mike Hewitt	Taylor Maiher
	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Mike Hewitt	Taylor Maiher
	Mathematics Mechanical	Kelley Krstich Kelley Krstich	Taylor Maiher Ceana Glover
	Polymer Sci/Polymer Eng Lead PI Last Name A-D	Deborah Eshun	Terri Black
	Polymer Sci/Polymer Eng Lead PI Last Name E-L	Deborah Eshun	Terri Black
	Polymer Sci/Polymer Eng Lead PI Last Name M-Z	Kelley Krstich	Terri Black
CHHS	All	Kelley Krstich	Ceana Glover
LAW	All	Mike Hewitt	Taylor Maiher
Student Success	Academic Achievement, Upward Bound	Mike Hewitt	James Ferrero
Other Units	OAA, ZipAssist	Kelley Krstich	Ceana Glover
	Athletics, Medina, Wayne	Deborah Eshun	Valerie Henry
	Archives, Libraries, Honors	Deborah Eshun	Taylor Maiher
	Choose Ohio First	Mike Hewitt	James Ferrero
	For other units not listed	Mike Hewitt	Valerie Henry

Office of Research Administration Directory - All Staff

Name	Phone
Bausch, Suzanne, Vice President, Research and Business Engagement, and Dean, Graduate School	330-972-4688
Jana, Sadhan, Associate Vice President, Research and Business Engagement	330-972-8293
Julie Burns, Administrative Coordinator ORA & Assistant to Dr. Bausch	330-972-8579
Webmaster (contact: web@uakron.edu)
Henry, Valerie, Director, Financial Research Administration	330-972-5246
CEPS: PSPE BCAS: Biology Other Units: Academic Achievement CIGAs for the above units ecrt (contact: ecrt@uakron.edu)
Hergenrather, Diane, Research Billing System Analyst (post award)	330-972-6816
Hewitt, Mike, Manager, Pre-Award Research Administration	330-972-5741
BCAS: All Other Units as needed Limited Submissions NDAs & CDAs, MTAs, TSAs
Jentner, Carolyn, Accounting Specialist & IRB Secretary	330-972-2461
For IRB matters, contact: irb@uakron.edu or Jandy Hanna, Research Compliance Officer, at jhanna3@uakron.edu
Glover, Ceana, Sr. Grant Accountant (post award)	330-972-3643
CEPS: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Maiher, Taylor, Sr. Grant Accountant (post award)	330-972-4673
BCAS: with the exception of Biology BUS: All CEPS: Biomedical, CBCE, Dean's Office, Comp Sci/CIS, ECE LAW: All Other Units: Archives, Libraries, Honors CIGAs for the above units
Homonai, Kate, Sr. Grants Coordinator (pre award) College and departmental assignments coming soon.	330-972-4535
Krstich, Kelley, Sr. Grants Coordinator (pre-award) 330-972-4759 College and departmental assignments coming soon.
Black, Terri, Sr. Grant Accountant (post award) College and departmental assignments coming soon.	330-972-4735
Watkins, Katie, ORA Special Assistant (special projects) 330-972-6764






Student Assistants
Pre-Award: vacant Post-Award: Amid (sa_ab521@uakron.edu)