OUR Roles:

OUR Staff and Responsibilities:

Susan Black
Research Contracts Administrator
sblack@latech.edu
(318) 257-5075

• Contract review
• Interim and final financial reports
• Closing expired accounts
• Compliance of expenditures
• Amendments, extensions, or budget adjustments review
• Clarification of active accounts with agencies
• Review of monthly statements of fund balances and ledgers
• Preparation of Schedule 8 for Louisiana Tech financial reports
• F & A cost projections
• Maintenance of active accounts database

Beth Free
Pre-Award Coordinator
bfree@latech.edu
(318) 257-5075

• Information on RFP’s to Research Directors
• Resource library
• Narrative review/format of funding proposal
• Routing of funding proposals
• Submission of funding proposals, including electronic submissions
• Maintenance pre-award tracking database
• Development of newsletters, information packets, and promotional material
• Fastlane/LaGenius/LaSmarts System Administration
• Communication with PI’s, Agencies, RD’s
• Research Council
• Transition of grants to post-award
• Faculty training, special event planning, workshops, brown bag lunch presentations
• Web site development/management

Elizabeth Womack
Post-Award Coordinator
egwomack@latech.edu
(318) 257-5075

• Proposal review for budget revisions
• Set up of new accounts (budget, profile, matching) using Comptroller’s office guidelines
• Preparing and processing invoices and correspondence to funding agencies
• Inquiries regarding pre-award and post-award budgets and invoices
• Interaction with agencies regarding invoice payments

Sherry Jones
Account Technician
sherryj@latech.edu
(318) 257-5075

• Approval of expenditures for funded projects and communication with
  appropriate departments
• Post expenditures on database
• Reconciliation of accounts regularly to comptroller’s account
• Contact with PI’s regarding budget adjustments or expenditures
• Response to inquiries about accounts

Barbara Talbot
Secretary
btalbot@latech.edu
(318) 257-5075

• Routing of inquiries to appropriate staff
• Preparation of pre-award folders
• Invoice cover letters, campus mail, correspondence
• Handling of incoming and outgoing mail
• Supervision of student workers
• Routing of Human Use proposals