The Proposals and Award Acceptance Team provides both pre- and post-award support to the Northwestern research community including, but not limited to, proposal review and submission, award negotiation and acceptance and post-award non-financial management. The team is comprised of Sponsored Research Officers, who also serve as official administrative points of contact at Northwestern University.

Andrea Zakrzewski, Senior Director, Proposals & Award [email protected]

Sam Mombou, Assistant Director, Proposals & Award [email protected]                                                                                                                                            

Aaaron Sklar, Assistant Sponsored Research [email protected]

Adrienne Simms, Sponsored Research [email protected]

Alyssa Morren, Associate Sponsored Research [email protected]

Carrie Holbo, Sponsored Research [email protected]

Jason Hawkins, Sponsored Research [email protected]

Daniel Johnson, Associate Sponsored Research [email protected]

Lindsay Haukebo, Associate Sponsored Research [email protected]

Mary Rosenthal, Sponsored Research [email protected]

Mike Dibiccaro, Associate Sponsored Research [email protected]

Nadine Killick, Sponsored Research [email protected]

Pamela Hawkins, Senior Sponsored Research [email protected]

Rommie Khalifeh, Assistant Sponsored Research [email protected]

Stephanie Logaras, Sponsored Research [email protected]

Taylor Carl, Sponsored Research [email protected]

Trinity Adamsel, Assistant Sponsored Research [email protected]

Vianey Rodriguez, Assistant Sponsored Research [email protected]

The Contract and Negotiations Team drafts, reviews, and negotiates agreements and contracts for sponsored research projects, and ensures that all contracts and agreements comply with Northwestern University policies and processes. The team consists of Contracts and Negotiation Managers, Contracts Officers, and Contracts Coordinators.

Clay Arnett, Senior Director, Contracts & [email protected]

Adrienne Lundquist, Assistant Director, Contracts & [email protected]

Avril Xinyi Liu, Contracts & Negotiations [email protected]

Bria Daily, Contracts & Negotiations [email protected]

Debbie Thomas, Associate Contracts [email protected]

Gary Adams, Contracts [email protected]

Hannah Johnson, Contracts [email protected]

Jacob Roehm, Contracts [email protected]

Marlene Isom, Contracts [email protected]

Maureen McCabe, Contracts & Negotiations [email protected]

Olivia Kappers, Associate Contracts [email protected]

The Awards Management Team provides pre- and post-award support, including establishing awards in Northwestern enterprise systems and processing post-award management reporting and requests. The Awards Management team consists of Awards Management Associates. 

Michael S. Ferguson, Director, Awards [email protected]                                                                                                                                            

Amelia Weiss, Awards Management [email protected]

Christian Zavala, Awards Management [email protected]

James Godowic, Awards Management [email protected]

Joshua Katsimpalis, Awards Management [email protected]

Julius Alexander, Awards Management [email protected]

Nino Campos, Awards Management [email protected]

Trin Kitisoontornpong, Awards Management [email protected]

Vanessa Santamaria, Awards Management [email protected]

The Subcontracts Management Team drafts, issues, negotiates, and executes outgoing subcontract agreements, conducts subrecipient risk assessments, and completes post execution activities such as federal FFATA reporting. The team consists of Sponsored Research Officers and a Subcontracts Coordinator.

Tyra Darville-Layne, Director, Subcontracts [email protected]                                                                                                                                            

Bonnie Cairns, Assistant Sponsored Research [email protected]

Danielle Giddens, Assistant Sponsored Research [email protected]

Jeri Gann, Assistant Sponsored Research [email protected]

Lora Zygman, Sponsored Research [email protected]

Max Gordon, Assistant Sponsored Research [email protected]

Natalie Corbin, Assistant Sponsored Research [email protected]

Tiffany Gregory, Sponsored Research [email protected]

The Business Systems and Operations Team supports Sponsored Research’s electronic research administration initiatives, ensures the highest quality sponsored projects data, and communicates timely information to the research community. BSO consists of two groups: a systems and data group that provides functional support to InfoEd users, analyzes and reports research data, and ensures data integrity for proposal and award activity, and a communications, administration and training group that manages the sponsored research website and listservs, provides support for office operations and develops training resources.

Kimberly Griffin, Senior Director, Business Systems & [email protected]

Sara Krentz, Assistant Director, Systems and Data [email protected]

Alexa Palmero, Data [email protected]

Luke Miller, Sponsored Research Senior [email protected] 

Michael Scherer, Sponsored Research Senior Analyst [email protected]

Yongming Deng, Sponsored Research Senior Analyst   [email protected]

Melissa Mizwa, Assistant Director, Administration & Strategic Communications [email protected]

Lia Floreno, Training Specialist [email protected]

Karen Richardson, Administrative Assistant [email protected]

Monique Drones, Coordinator Team [email protected]

Anthony Williams, Sponsored Research [email protected]

Art Miranda, Sponsored Research [email protected]

David Adduci, Sponsored Research [email protected]

Melinda More, Sponsored Research [email protected]