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Grant Administration

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General Information

Email: snsgrants@ucmerced.edu

Website: naturalsciences.ucmerced.edu/grants


vacant, Grants Manager

  • Oversees entire grants portfolio for the school
  • Non-routine grants related issues
  • Provide Cayuse Training
  • Policy Guidance
  • Assist with audits
  • Summer Salary

Michelle Dutra, Research Administrator 
Supports the following faculty Bylaw 55 Units:
Molecular Cell Biology and Life & Environmental Sciences

  • Award Receipt/Allocation Set-up
  • Review terms & conditions
  • Award projection creation
  • Work with faculty on re-budget, if any
  • FAU/Allocation request
  • Award Administration
  • Approves purchases, travel reimbursements
  • Monitors expenditures, payroll/appointments, encumbrances
  • Monthly reconciling/projections
  • Payroll transfers/NPEARs/Journals
  • Assist with proposal budgets, budget justifications and Cayuse record
  • Notify faculty of account balances near end date (3 month, 1 month, 2 weeks, 1 week)
  • No-cost Extensions
  • Assists with Financial Progress Reports for faculty
  • Assists with effort reporting
  • Ensures awards are adhering to Federal, State, and UC policies]
  • Award Closeout
  • Complete grant closeout checklist
  • Tracking final expenditures/Closing encumbrances
  • Complete Accounts Receivable report
  • Complete IDC calculator to ensure correct amount was charged
  • Confirm with faculty Final reports have been sent to sponsor
  • Verify all appointments have ended or need to be moved
  • TOF cleanup
  • Confirm account closed in OASIS system

Lorena Magana-Aguilar, Research Administrator
Supports the following faculty Bylaw 55 Units:
Applied Mathematics, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, and Physics

  • Award Receipt/Allocation Set-up
  • Review terms & conditions
  • Award projection creation
  • Work with faculty on re-budget, if any
  • FAU/Allocation request
  • Award Administration
  • Approves purchases, travel reimbursements
  • Monitors expenditures, payroll/appointments, encumbrances
  • Monthly reconciling/projections
  • Payroll transfers/NPEARs/Journals
  • Assist with proposal budgets, budget justifications and Cayuse record
  • Notify faculty of account balances near end date (3 month, 1 month, 2 weeks, 1 week)
  • No-cost Extensions
  • Assists with Financial Progress Reports for faculty
  • Assists with effort reporting
  • Ensures awards are adhering to Federal, State, and UC policies]
  • Award Closeout
  • Complete grant closeout checklist
  • Tracking final expenditures/Closing encumbrances
  • Complete Accounts Receivable report
  • Complete IDC calculator to ensure correct amount was charged
  • Confirm with faculty Final reports have been sent to sponsor
  • Verify all appointments have ended or need to be moved
  • TOF cleanup

Joyce Yowell, Research Administrator

  • More information forthcoming
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