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Amy Bossaer

Senior Grants & Contracts Specialist
Research Support Services (Grants and Contracts)
Email: 

abossaer@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
University Centre, Room 437

Responsible for administrative review of research proposals, as well as negotiation of research agreements for agencies and sponsors such as NSERC (Alliance – Advantage, Society and joint opportunities with Mitacs, OCI, and special calls), Mitacs, producer organizations, industry partners, and non-standard collaborative or service research agreements, sub-agreements, and amendments.

Ariah Easley

Awards & Agreements Officer
Research Support Services (Grants and Contracts)
Email: 

aeasley@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
University Centre, Room 437

Responsible for administrative review of research proposals and finalization of research awards and agreements for agencies and sponsors such as SSHRC (external and internal grants), NSERC USRA, sub-agreements and amendments, and other standard agreements.

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Laurie Green

Awards & Agreements Officer
Research Support Services (Grants and Contracts)
Email: 

lagreen@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
University Centre, Room 437

Responsible for administrative review of research proposals and finalization of research awards and agreements for agencies and sponsors such as CIHR, agricultural organizations and commodity organizations, transfer agreements and amendments, and other standard agreements.

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Kersty Kearney

Awards & Agreements Officer
Research Support Services (Grants and Contracts)
Email: 

kearneyk@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
University Centre, Room 437

Responsible for administrative review of research proposals and finalization of research awards and agreements for agencies and sponsors such as Mitacs, NSERC (Research Tools and Instruments (RTI), Discovery, PromoScience), and animal-focused commodity organizations, sub-agreements and amendments, and other standard agreements.

Rachel Lee

Senior Grants & Contracts Specialist
Research Support Services (Grants and Contracts)
Email: 

rachell@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
University Centre, Room 437

Responsible for administrative review of research proposals, as well as negotiation of research agreements for agencies and sponsors such as NSERC (Alliance, CREATE), CIHR Team Grants, and interdisciplinary calls (New Frontiers in Research Fund – Exploration Grants, special calls), and non-standard collaborative or service research agreements, sub-agreements, and amendments.

Carolyn Osborn

Director, Research Support Services
Research Support Services (Grants and Contracts)
Email: 

cosborn@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
University Centre, Room 437

Administrative leadership for the Research Support Services (Grants and Contracts) unit. Responsible for managing all aspects of pre-award and non-financial post-award grants and agreements, including developing and recommending policies/guidelines for an efficient administrative operation. Responsible for oversight of pre-award compliance with federal, provincial and private agency guidelines and regulations.

Devon Staaf

Senior Grants & Contracts Specialist
Research Support Services (Grants and Contracts)
Email: 

dstaaf@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
University Centre, Room 437

Responsible for administrative review of research proposals, as well as negotiation of research agreements for agencies and sponsors such as Ontario Centres of Innovation (OCI), Genome Canada/Ontario Genomics, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and other federal government units, and non-standard collaborative or service research agreements, sub-agreements, and amendments. 

Sonia Volder

Grants and Contracts Coordinator
Research Support Services (Grants and Contracts)
Email: 

svolder@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
University Centre, Room 437

Responsible for the administrative processing of proposals and funded and non-funded research agreements, agreement finalization support (certificates of insurance, data verification, record maintenance), as well as the initiation of research account set up for activation by Research Financial Services.

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Kristin Zimmermann

Senior Grants & Contracts Specialist
Research Support Services (Grants and Contracts)
Email: 

kristin5@uoguelph.ca

Office: 
University Centre, Room 437

Responsible for administrative review of research proposals, as well as negotiation of research agreements for agencies and sponsors such as SSHRC (Partnership Engage, Partnership Development), US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other US sub-grants, OMAFRA and other provincial government units, and non-standard collaborative or service research agreements, sub-agreements, and amendments.