The Pre-Award Research Operations (PRO) team provides efficient, friendly, and professional proposal development and support services to the College of Engineering, the College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell Tech, Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell Law School, and CLASSE.
PRO's purpose is to reduce the administrative burden of proposal preparation so that researchers can focus on the technical or scientific components of their proposals, thereby increasing the chances of success.
Our Services
- Review and interpret sponsor solicitations for proposals
- Prepare summaries of required proposal documents and templates of common proposal elements
- Draft Current & Pending/Other Support documents
- Develop budgets, including detailed financial budget and narrative justification
- Prepare and assemble proposal packages, including completion of electronic applications
- Interface with internal and external collaborators to collect required documents (CV's, letters of support, subaward documents, etc.)
- Initiate RASS project record and route for approval
- Liaise and collaborate with the assigned Grant & Contract Officer through the successful submission of the application for funding
- Support revised budget requests, NIH Just-In-Time submissions, incoming sponsored award transfers, and complex research center proposals
- Identify and disseminate funding opportunities to supported faculty
Receiving Support
Our team is available to assist you Monday through Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm.
Researchers are invited to send proposal notifications to the PRO team by completing a short Proposal Notification form. A Pre-Award Specialist/Grant Coordinator will be assigned to the proposal within one business day and will follow up with the researcher and the researcher's department to provide proposal specific guidance and support.
Other requests for support or inquires can be directed to the PRO Team Inbox, osp-pro@cornell.edu.
Our Team & Assignments:
Su Ghosh Associate Director sg232@cornell.edu 607-255-6604 |
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Samantha Grace Team Lead skr54@cornell.edu (607) 255-2528 |
Shannon Finnerty-Pelto Team Lead srf63@cornell.edu (607) 254-3262 |
Alan Chen Pre-Award Specialist ac2459@cornell.edu (607) 255-1883 Engineering: MAE |
Roger Miller Pre-Award Specialist rdm285@cornell.edu (607) 255-4252 Engineering: BME |
Vince Dieffenbaugher Grant Coordinator vmd29@cornell.edu (607) 255-9985 |
Olivia Ohlsten Grant Coordinator oco5@cornell.edu (607) 254-5622 Engineering: BME |
Michael Doll Pre-Award Assistant mpd95@cornell.edu (607) 255-1802 |
Matthew Robinson Senior Pre-Award Specialist mlr323@cornell.edu (607) 255-9355 Engineering: MAE |
Nicholas Evanoski Pre-Award Specialist nme34@cornell.edu (607) 255-2543 Arts & Sciences: CCB |
Robin Tropper-Herbel Grant Coordinator rt222@cornell.edu (607) 255-0553 |
Danielle Lethbridge Grant Coordinator djl363@cornell.edu (607) 255-8218 |
Cindy VandeWall Pre-Award Assistant cv282@cornell.edu (607) 255-6038 |
Giselle Maira Pre-Award Specialist gm467@cornell.edu (607) 255-1238 Engineering: EAS; ORIE |
Ryan Vann, Associate Team Lead Senior Pre-Award Specialist rav68@cornell.edu (607) 255-4773 Engineering: MSE |
Mindy McGill-Carlison Senior Pre-Award Specialist mmc328@cornell.edu (607) 255-2942 Engineering: CBE |
Edgar VanScoy Senior Pre-Award Specialist eev28@cornell.edu (607) 255-4692 Engineering: CEE |