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Department Assignments - Sponsored Programs Administration

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Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) is divided in five teams that handle grants and contracts according to school, department, or division. In addition, the Subcontract Team manages outgoing subrecipient agreements that are issued under UMB awards. Each team has an e-mail distribution address, provided below. For routine matters, please use the team e-mail. For those times when you need to speak to someone on the phone immediately, contact the head of the team for help and guidance. In general, work is distributed as follows:

Proposal receipt and approval:  Proposals will be distributed to the administrators within each team based on complexity. The individual who receives the proposal will e-mail the Principal Investigator and the unit administrator informing them of the assignment. Please allow at least 24 hours for proposal distribution, unless the proposal is due that day. 

Negotiation of award terms and conditions:  All award documents that must be negotiated, signed by Office of Research and Development and returned to the Sponsor will be handled by the Manager of the team or assigned to an administrator on the team with the appropriate level of training and expertise. The individual who is assigned to handle the award document will notify the Principal Investigator and the unit administrator as to the assignment and/or status of negotiating and signature.

Award set-up:  All staff will work on awards from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM every day. We have reserved this time to focus solely on award processing. Therefore, during this time each day, please contact SPA team members using the team e-mail address or call the main Office of Research and Development line, 6-6723.

When contacting SPA about issues related to a specific proposal, award or agreement, please provide the team with the following information: Principal Investigator's name, unit (school, department, division, institute, center or program), Sponsor, and other information that will help us to identify the correct proposal or award (such as the project title or the Sponsor award number).

Team A  team-a@ordmail.umaryland.edu
   Dennis Paffrath  6-6723
   Amanda Snyder  6-5590

Team B  team-b@ordmail.umaryland.edu
   Greg Sorensen, Manager  6-1186
   Towanda Gilliam  6-0013
   Marie Coolahan  6-0011

Team C  team-c@ordmail.umaryland.edu
   Joan Kanner, Manager  6-1939
   Denise Meyer, 6-0644
   Dawn Swierczewski  6-5908

Team D  team-d@ordmail.umaryland.edu
   Leerin Shields, Manager  6-5542
   Debbie Griffith  6-0012
   Stacey Boyd  6-0639

Team E-1  team-e@ordmail.umaryland.edu
   Danielle Brown, Manager  6-0476
   Shelley Tiemann  6-5605
   Venzula Harris  6-1938

Team E-2  team-e2@ordmail.umaryland.edu
   Jeanne Galvin-Clarke  6-3615
   Dinnise Felder  6-5624
   Cynthia McKoy  6-3805

Subcontract Team  Subteam@ordmail.umaryland.edu
   Carli Rae Bernal, 6-7836
   Richard Ingrao  6-8054
   Beverly Law  6-5903

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