Our Team

• Saeedah Hickman - Director

  e-mail: saeedah.hickman@lehman.cuny.edu (ext. 8357)

• Valerie Luria - Grants Finance Officer

  Please direct your questions regarding Proposal Budget Preparation, Summer Salary, Release Time, Finding Funding, and the Graduate Research Technology Initiative (GRTI) to Valerie's attention at valerie.luria@lehman.cuny.edu (ext. 8093)

• Donnaree Smith - Grants and Contracts Administrator

  Please direct your questions regarding Cayuse Support, Finding Funding, and Proposal Data Requests to Donna's attention at donnaree.smith@lehman.cuny.edu (ext. 7456)

• Cynthia Muhammad - Research Development Specialist

  Please direct your questions regarding Finding Funding and Proposal Development to Cynthia at cynthia.muhammad@lehman.cuny.edu (ext. 8108)

• Carolina Geronimo - Administrative Assistant

  Please direct your questions regarding Scheduling, Workshop Reservations, and E-Verification to Carolina at carolina.geronimo@lehman.cuny.edu (ext. 8107)
  

Services

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) is Lehman College's pre-award hub. We assist with all aspects of proposal development from conception to post-award administration. ORSP also serves Lehman College as the official liaison to the Research Foundation of CUNY. Our goal is to alleviate the administrative burden associated with proposal preparation and support Lehman faculty in finding funding for their research. Specifically, we provide the following services:

• Budget Preparation
• CV Conversions to Biosketches
• NIH/NSF Templates and Outlines
• Compliance Review
• Submission
• Cayuse Support
• Finding Funding
• Liaise with Program Officers
• Facilitate collaborations between internal and external faculty
• Data collection and metrics

 

 

 

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