Staff Directory
Amy Cook, J.D.
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Amy Cook, J.D. serves as Assistant Vice President for Research in the Office of Research and Innovation. In her role, she manages the Office of Research Services.
Colette Solpietro, CPRA
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Colette Solpietro serves as the Senior Unit Assistant Director for the Office of Research Services. In this position she manages the Cayuse Research Suite of products including Cayuse 424 and Cayuse SP. Additionally, she manages ORS website and the proposal and award data, including all standard and ad hoc reporting.
Emily Everette
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Emily Everette, Program Director, serves as a contract negotiator for the Office of Research Services. She primarily works with state and local agencies. In her role, she writes and reviews contracts and subcontracts, negotiates awards, and assists with questions from sponsors, principal investigators, and departments.
Cui Romo, J.D.
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Cui Romo, J.D. serves as the Associate Managing Director for the Office of Research Services. He manages the Contracting Team as well as primarily working with private industry and federal contracts. He drafts and reviews contracts and subcontracts, negotiates awards, and assists with questions from sponsors, principal investigators, and departments.
Camille Elsbecker
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Camille Elsbecker serves as Business Manager in the Office of Research Services. In her role, she provides administrative support to the Assistant Vice President for Research. She handles personnel action forms, budgets, and other various duties for ORS staff. Camille also manages the Sr. Business Assistant, and Student Assistants.
Sandra Gallegos
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Sandra Gallegos serves as Lead Specialist for the Office of Research Services. In this role, she inputs proposal and compliance information into the database, conducts monthly reporting, and maintains miscellaneous agreements. Additionally, she assists faculty members with inquiries and generating reports.
Proposal Services
Cory L. Blackwell, MBA, CPRA
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Cory L. Blackwell serves as Program Manager for the Office of Research Services. In his role as a Proposal Services Team member, he works with faculty/staff/students to develop budgets for their proposals, check proposals for completeness and prepare them for submission to different agencies.
Feroza Haq, MSS
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Feroza Haq serves as a Research Administrator II for the Proposal Services Team in the Office of Research Services. In this position, she assists faculty, staff, and students in preparing proposals for submission to various agencies. She provides support with budget preparation and checks to make sure proposals meet agency and university requirements before submission.
Kelsey Brunson
Kelsey Brunson serves as a Research Administrator I for the Proposal Services Team in the Office of Research Services. In this position, she assists faculty, staff, and students in preparing proposals for submission to various agencies. She provides support with budget preparation and checks to make sure proposals meet agency and university requirements before submission.
Amy Hoover
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Amy Hoover serves as a Research Administrator II for Proposal Team in the Office of Research Services. In this role, she assists faculty, staff, and students in preparing and submitting proposals for sponsored projects. She provides support in developing budgets for sponsored projects, reviews proposals for congruency with agency and university requirements, and prepares them for submission to various agencies.
Olivia Martinez
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Olivia Martinez serves as a Research Administrator I for the Proposal Services Team in the Office of Research Services. In this position, she assists faculty, staff, and students in preparing proposals for submission to various agencies. She provides support with budget preparation and checks to make sure proposals meet agency and university requirements before submission.
Shayne Sims, CPRA
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Shayne Sims serves as Assistant Director for the Proposal Services Team in the Office of Research Services. In this position she assists faculty, staff and students in preparing and submitting proposals for sponsored projects. She provides administrative support in completing the research proposal and provides budget support and review for proposals submitted.
Garry Wesner
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Garry Wesner serves as a Research Administrator I for the Office of Research Services. In his role as a Proposal Services Team member, he works with faculty/staff/students to develop budgets for their proposals, check proposals for completeness and prepare them for submission to different agencies. He obtains additional approvals, as necessary, from the Chancellor and the TTU Board of Regents.
Award Services
Jennifer Chavira
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Jennifer Chavira serves as Lead Administrator for the Award Services Team in the Office of Research Services. In this position she assists the Associate Director of Research Services in processing the award to enable Office of Research Accounting (ORA) to budget and process the funds. Her responsibilities include entering awards in ORS databases, processing PSAs and subcontracts, confirming all compliance issues are completed, initiating extensions, and assembling award packets for ORA. Jennifer also serves as the liaison between Texas Tech and the awarding agency when any communication is needed.
Jennifer Fidler
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Jennifer (Jenn) Fidler serves as a Research Administrator I for the Award Services Team in the Office of Research Services (ORS). Her responsibilities include entering awards in ORS databases, drafting and processing awards, subawards, and amendments, confirming all compliance issues are completed, initiating extensions, and assembling award packets for Accounting Services. Jenn also serves as the liaison between Texas Tech and the awarding agency when any communication is needed.
Kellee Smith
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Kellee Smith, Research Contract Specialist, serves as a contract negotiator for the Office of Research Services. In her role, she writes and reviews agreements and subcontracts, negotiates awards, and resolves questions from sponsors and investigators for federal and private sponsors.
Office of Research Services
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Address
Texas Tech University, 2625 Memorial Circle, Lubbock, TX 79409 -
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Email
ors@ttu.edu