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The Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) assists faculty in the review, submission, negotiation, and acceptance of extramural grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for research, training, and other sponsored programs. OSR is part of a larger organization, Office of Research Administration, headed by Richard P. Seligman, Associate Vice President for Research Administration. 

OSR works closely with the other Research Administration units, Project Accounting, Export Compliance and Financial Compliance and Training. In carrying out its mission, OSR also relies on other administrative units, namely the Office of Research Compliance, the Office of the General Counsel, and the Office of Technology Transfer.

Following is a list of OSR staff:

Organizational Chart of OSR

David Mayo, Director
(626) 395-6219

Gayle Lund, Associate Director
(626) 395-8705

Mary Gibson, Assistant Director
(626) 395-2494

Gaylene Ursua, Contract and Grant Officer
(626) 395-3353

Jenny Mercado, Contract and Grant Analyst
(626) 395-2115

Lisa Miller, Contract and Grant Analyst
(626) 395-3339

Lucy Molina, Contract and Grant Analyst
(626) 395-2372

Lois Sierra, Contract & Grant Assistant
(626) 395-3408

OSR is organized into teams, and each academic division within Caltech has been assigned to a particular team. This structure is intended to provide more continuity of service to the divisions, so that one group of individuals will be responsible for a particular division's transactions, from proposal submission to award closeout. Each team is comprised of at least one Contract and Grant Officer and one Contract and Grant Analyst. Primary contact points for the academic divisions are as follows:

NSF STScI Everything
Else
BIO   Lois 
  Jenny 
Jenny
CCE   Lois 
Lois Lucy
EAS   Lois 
Lois Lisa
GPS
   Admin   Lois 
  Jenny 
Jenny
   Geology/Geochem   
  Lois 
Lois Lisa
   Planetary   Lois 
Lois Lisa
   Seismo   Lois 
Lois Lisa
HSS   Lois 
  Jenny 
Jenny
PMA
   Astro   Lois 
  Jenny 
Jenny
   IPAC   Lois 
  Jenny 
Jenny
   LIGO   Lois 
  Jenny 
Jenny
   Math   Lois 
  Jenny 
Jenny
   Physics   Lois 
Lois Lucy