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Our team supports the scholarly and creative pursuits of faculty, students, and staff as well as the strategic priorities of the institution across the funding lifecycle. This includes:
- Collegial advice on seeking funding
- Facilitating grant-related internal and external collaborations
- Interpreting funder guidelines for proposals
- Conceptualizing and helping prepare grant and fellowship proposals
- Providing grant-related data and institutional information
- Assisting budget development/management
- Supporting award set-up and close-out
- Functioning as a liaison to administrative departments
- Staffing IRB, IACUC, and COG committees
- Administering internal research funds
- Assisting with renewals/resubmissions
- Resourcing senior staff
To effectively serve grant and fellowship seekers, the Office of College Grants houses staff from multiple divisions in one location.
Core Values
Staff members in the Office of College Grants, a collaboration between College Advancement and the Office of the Provost, are committed to the following set of operating principles:
- Working hand-in-hand with grant and fellowship seekers to leverage internal funding sources and secure external funding to ensure F&M’s position on the leading edge of liberal arts education
- Relying on core, shared values of education, quality, integrity, service, collegiality, responsibility, and accountability to expand grant-seeking capacity campuswide
- Providing the College community with the services and resources required to seek and secure funding for scholarly, creative, service-related, curricular, and other efforts related to student success, scholarship, and F&M's overarching mission
- Adhering to and advancing relevant best practices among national liberal arts colleges
Staff Areas of Expertise
Amy Cuhel-Schuckers (717-358-4697)
· Faculty grant & fellowship developmentGrant budgets & proposal submission
· Proposal conceptualization
· Proposal editing and targeted feedback
· Compliance resourcing
Molly Dellinger (717-358-4517)
· Grant budgets & proposal submission
· Subawards
· Grant management (bridge to post-award)
· Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC) Coordinator
Janeen Maxwell (717-358-5918)
· Institutional grant proposals
· Institutional grant reports
· Collaborative proposal development
Kathy Hertzler (717-358-3982)
· Faculty Research/Prof. Dev. Fund (FR/PDF)
· Committee on Grants (COG)
· Office of College Grants Resource Fund (OCGRF)
Andrea Sherman (717-358-4220)
· Faculty liaison to Business Office
· Portfolio Manager: Granted Funds
Ryan Sauder (717-358-4271)
· Office of College Grants leadership
· Institutional grant proposals & reports
· Advancement liaison
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