Staff Contacts

Michael Witherell

Vice Chancellor for Research

witherell@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-8270

Karen Hanson

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research

hanson@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-2757

Celia Estrella

Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Research

estrella@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-7149

• Administrative and analytical support for the Vice Chancellor for Research and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research
• Manages appointment calendar for the Vice Chancellor
• Coordinates travel arrangements for the Vice Chancellor and the Office of Research staff
• Provides back-up support and assistance to the Research Issues Analyst regarding tasks related to the Organized Research Units

Kathy Graham

Human Subjects Committee Coordinator/Academic Personnel

graham@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-3807

• ORahs
• Academic Personnel for all Colleges

Bruce Hanley

Director of Research Compliance

hanley@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-5292

• Conflict of Interest
• Responsible Conduct of Research
• Export Control
• General Research Compliance

Beverly Lutz

OR/ORU Budget Analyst

lutz@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-8316

• Office of Research Budgets

Norma Marquez

Organized Research Unit Analyst

marquez@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-4180

• Stem Cell Research
• Liaison to the Organized Research Units
• Academic Personnel - ORUs

IACUC Coordinator

IACUC@lifesci.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-5855

• Protocol submission, processing, review, and approval
• Researcher training and Occupational Health and Safety enrollment
• Schedules IACUC meetings and records minutes
• Semi-annual inspections of animal facilities and program review
• Submits and completes government reports for USDA and OLAW
• Reports non-compliance issues to applicable parties
• Creates, maintains, and updates standard operating procedures and guidelines for implementation in animal research

Melissa Warren

Administrative Assistant/Compliance Coordinator

warren@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-4188

• ARRA Coordinator
• Conflict of Interest, Status of Positive Disclosure

Virginia Anders

Director of Sponsored Projects

anders@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-4036

Cora Diaz

Associate Director of Sponsored Projects

diaz@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-4035

Kevin Stewart

Senior Sponsored Projects Officer

stewart@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-4034

• Responsible for reviewing and endorsing all proposals
• Responsible for negotiating and executing all contracts and non-Research Terms and Conditions grants (including incoming subawards)
• Oversees award administration

Cara Egan-Williams

Sponsored Projects Officer

eganwilliams@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-8809

• Responsible for reviewing and endorsing all proposals
• Responsible for negotiating and executing all contracts and non-Research Terms and Conditions grants (including incoming subawards)
• Oversees award administration
• Electronic Research Administration

George Hopwood

Sponsored Projects Officer

hopwood@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-5530

• Responsible for reviewing and endorsing all proposals
• Responsible for negotiating and executing all contracts and non-Research Terms and Conditions grants (including incoming subawards)
• Oversees award administration

Lynne Van Der Kamp

Sponsored Projects Officer

van@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-5687

• Responsible for reviewing and endorsing all proposals
• Responsible for negotiating and executing all contracts and non-Research Terms and Conditions grants (including incoming subawards)
• Oversees award administration

Daniela Gallardo

Subcontracts Project Analyst

gallardo@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-7027

• Primarily responsible for outgoing subawards
• Oversees and coordinates campus training
• Ensures timely receipt, analysis, review, processing and submission of proposals for extramurally funded projects
• Responsible for executing all grants issued under the Research Terms and Conditions (RTC) and post-award transactions
• Initial review of all non-RTC awards
• Primary contact for proposal and award status

Alexa Greco

Sponsored Projects Analyst

greco@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-3890

• Ensures timely receipt, analysis, review, processing and submission of proposals for extramurally funded projects
• Responsible for executing all grants issued under the Research Terms and Conditions (RTC) and post-award transactions
• Initial review of all non-RTC awards
• Primary contact for proposal and award status

Jessica Sanchez

Sponsored Projects Analyst

sanchez@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-4763

• Ensures timely receipt, analysis, review, processing and submission of proposals for extramurally funded projects
• Responsible for executing all grants issued under the Research Terms and Conditions (RTC) and post-award transactions
• Initial review of all non-RTC awards
• Primary contact for proposal and award status

Jamie Sprague

Sponsored Projects Analyst

sprague@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-8503

• Ensures timely receipt, analysis, review, processing and submission of proposals for extramurally funded projects
• Responsible for executing all grants issued under the Research Terms and Conditions (RTC) and post-award transactions
• Initial review of all non-RTC awards
• Primary contact for proposal and award status

Hilda Vasquez

Sr. Sponsored Projects Analyst

vasquez@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-7360

• Ensures timely receipt, analysis, review, processing and submission of proposals for extramurally funded projects
• Responsible for executing all grants issued under the Research Terms and Conditions (RTC) and post-award transactions
• Initial review of all non-RTC awards
• Primary contact for proposal and award status

Nan Capelle

Sponsored Projects Assistant/Closeout

capelle@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-7008

• Close-Out of Awards, Collection of Final Reports
• ARRA reporting
• Preparation of ARRA workbooks; other ARRA-related duties
• Log in proposals

Meredith Murr

Director, Research Development

murr@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-3925

• Faculty consultation on proposal development
• Limited submissions coordination
• New faculty orientation
• Research development workshops
• Assistance with multidisciplinary and multi-investigator partnering

Barbara Walker

Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts

walker@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-3576

• Faculty consultation on proposal development for the social sciences, humanities, and fine arts
• Research development workshops
• Assistance with multidisciplinary and multi-investigator partnering
• Administration of ISBER intramural grants

Maria Napoli

Research Development Specialist for Science and Engineering

napoli@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-7345

• Proposal development for Science and Engineering (S&E)
• Facilitation of large scale, multidisciplinary and/or multi-investigator projects for S&E
• Advice on funding sources and opportunities for S&E
• Responsible for RD electronic publications

Chris Sneathen

Director, Information Systems

sneathen@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-3726

• Provides Information Systems strategic planning for the Office of Research (OR)
• Manages software development team
• Manages desktop, web and network support teams
• Responsible for data integrity and reporting of all OR business systems (Contract/Grant and Compliance)

Brett Fortier

Programmer/Analyst

fortier@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-4584

• Administer ORBiT, the online Contract and Grant database
• Administer ORahs, the online Human Subject database
• Responsible for software and database development for these online systems

Chris Lauw

Systems Administrator

lauw@research.ucsb.edu

• Administer OR computing infrastructure systems
• Inter-office systems and networking
• Website programming

Mark Yukelson

Systems Administrator

yukelson@research.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-4526

• Office of Research Systems Administrator
• Active Directory / Firewall Admin
• ORBiT help
• Filemaker Pro