Office of Research and Creative Activity Contacts

Mailing Address
NDSU Dept. 4000
P.O. Box 6050
Fargo, ND 58108-6050

Delivery Address
1735 NDSU Research Park Dr
Fargo, ND 58102

Phone
701.231.8045

Location Map

 


Office of the Vice President

Colleen Fitzgerald
Vice President for Research and Creative Activity
701.231.6542
colleen.fitzgerald@mumalake.com

Amy Kain
Assistant to the Vice President
701.231.6542
amy.kain@mumalake.com

Fred Hudson
Communications Manager
701.231.5174
fred.hudson@mumalake.com
RCA Faculty Partnerships
Undergraduate Research Director

Ying Huang
NDSU Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Welch Faculty Fellow Professor
ying.huang@mumalake.com

Uncrewed Autonomous Systems (UAS) Fellow

Xin (Rex) Sun
NDSU Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering associate professor
xin.sun@mumalake.com

North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute

国家水资源研究所是被称为国家水资源研究所(NIWR)的54个研究所之一。. Founded in 1965 by authority of Congress (Water Resources Research Acts of 1964, 1972, 1984, and 1990), the NDWRRI is administrated through the United States Geological Survey.

Learn more about the NDWRRI

Xinhua Jia
Director
NDSU Professor AES Ag & Biosystems Engineering
(701) 231-6453
xinhua.jia@mumalake.com
Becky Hellman Tangen
Business Manager(also serves NDSU RCA and ND EPSCoR)
701.231.5872
becky.hellman@mumalake.com
North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute Fellows

Trung Le
NDSU assistant professor civil & environmental engineering

Shuning Lu
NDSU assistant professor communications

Dane Mataic
NDSU assistant professor sociology and anthropology

Travis Seaborn
NDSU assistant professor, applied ecology
Core Research Facilities

核心研究设施团队为RCA管理的设施提供监督,包括研究1, Research 1 Addition, and Research 2 buildings.RCA核心研究设施代表了两套不同的设施和能力, the EMC and the Materials, Fabrication Analysis and Fabrication Core, the latter formerly known as Research Operations. The EMC houses and provides services for the university's electron microscopy, micro computed X-ray tomography, and imaging equipment used for teaching, research, and industry activities.

The Materials Characterization, 分析和制造核心(MCAF)服务包括130多种材料的合成和表征, microfabrication, device packaging, and testing equipment sets used by NDSU faculty, staff, students, and external academic and industry users (instrumentation description below). The MCAF Core is staffed by three highly skilled technicians and engineers (James Bahr, Fred Haring and Greg Strommen), 仪器位于NDSU研究中心的Research 1 add (R1A)和Research 2 (R2)大楼 & Technology Park.

Scott Payne
Executive Director of Core Research Facilities
(701) 231-8234
scott.payne@mumalake.com

Greg Strommen
Engineering Technician
701.231.5339
greg.strommen@mumalake.com
Cleanroom Microfabrication, Materials Characterization
Fred Haring
Fabrication Technician
Class 10k Cleanroom Operations, MCAL
701.231.5336
frederik.haring@mumalake.com
Cleanroom Device Packaging/Assembly, Testing
Jim Bahr
Senior Engineer
Materials Research Operations, MCAL
701.231.5927
james.bahr@mumalake.com

MCAL Materials Synthesis, Scale-up, and Characterization

Becky Hellman Tangen
Business Manager
(also serves ND EPSCoR and ND Water Resources Research Institute)
701.231.5872
becky.hellman@mumalake.com

Angela Evans
Building Operations Coordinator
701.231.8045 
angela.evans@ndus.edu

Electron Microscopy Core

Scott Payne
Director
(701) 231-8234
scott.payne@mumalake.com
操作和维护微型ct和扫描和透射电子显微镜, 包括专门的分析技术,如用于元素分析的能量色散光谱和电子能量损失光谱(EELS)。.

 

Jayma Moore
Laboratory Manager
(701) 231-8435
jayma.moore@mumalake.com
Instrument operation, 光镜和电子显微镜用生物和材料样品的制备(包括固定), dehydration, critical point drying, embedding, staining, and sputter coating), 超微切片(60- 80nm的超薄切片)用于透射电镜, as well as office management, scheduling, and billing.

Innovation and Economic Development

Designs, leads, and manages economic development; leverages opportunities for industry partnerships; and develops and delivers programming that nurtures and grows the region’s entrepreneurial startup ecosystem.

Contact this office at ndsu.businessdev@mumalake.com.

Cindy Graffeo
Innovation and Economic Development Director
(701) 231-6441
cynthia.graffeo@mumalake.com

Strategically leverages and aligns campus and regional resources, opportunities, and assets in order to foster and support economic development, startups, entrepreneurship, and innovative efforts campus- and state-wide.

 

NDSU Research Foundation

Established on May 30, 1989, NDSU研究基金会促进NDSU教师开发的知识产权商业化, students, and staff. The Foundation supports NDSU in teaching, research, and public service missions by enabling NDSU faculty to become involved in research, product, 通过与商业和工业的互动,扩大NDSU与国内和国际营利性商业组织将研究发现商业化的能力.

Learn more about the NDSU Research Foundation

Zane Gernhart
Executive Director
(701) 231-6743
zane.gernhart@mumalake.com
管理由NDSU发明人产生的技术转让活动的整个生命周期, including managing, encouraging, and supporting the development, disclosure, and protection of NDSU’s intellectual property, technology transfer, and patent applications. Manages the NDSURF intellectual property portfolio and liaises with local, state, regional and national technology organizations.

Josie Hayden
Business Development and Licensing Manager
(701) 231-8173
josie.hayden@mumalake.com
Receipt and recording of invention disclosures, federal compliance for reporting and tracking of inventions developed with federal funds.

McKenna Tysdal
Business Development and Licensing Administrator
(701) 231-6681
mckenna.tysdal.1@mumalake.com
Receipt and recording of invention disclosures, federal compliance for reporting and tracking of inventions developed with federal funds.

 

North Dakota EPSCoR

ND EPSCoR provides leadership and coordination to broaden and diversify ND's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce pathway from elementary through graduate school; supports and grows statewide STEM research efforts and competitiveness at participating institutions of higher education; and conveys the impact of STEM research, outreach, and workforce efforts to ND stakeholders.

Learn more about ND EPSCoR

General email: ndepscor@ndus.edu

Jolynne Tschetter, Ph.D.
Executive Director
(701) 231-7516
 jolynne.tschetter@mumalake.com

Sheridan McNeil
Director of Tribal Partnerships
(direct report of VPR Fitzgerald)
(701) 231-8606
sheridan.mcneil@mumalake.com

James Doolittle
Project Manager/Administrator
(701) 231-8264
james.doolittle@mumalake.com

Kathleen Wahlberg, MBA
Programs Coordinator
(701) 231-8618
kathleen.wahlberg@mumalake.com

Becky Hellman Tangen
Business Manager
(also serves NDSU RCA and ND Water Resources Research Institute)
(701) 231-5872
becky.hellman@mumalake.com

Jennifer Connell
Project Coordinator
(701) 231-1048

POSITION OPEN
Communications Specialist
Research and Faculty Development

研究和教师发展部门的任务是通过提供资源来提高新大竞争外部资金的能力, training, and assistance related to developing successful research programs.  Activities of the research development office include announcing funding opportunities, 管理SPIN数据库订阅,并为系统用户提供培训和支持, 发展和协调拨款写作研讨会和教师的专业发展机会, managing internal funding programs such as travel awards and research support services, support for broader impacts, and developing proposal writing resources and tools.

Contact this office at ndsu.researchdev@mumalake.com.

Heidi Grunwald
Associate Vice President for Research Development
heidi.grunwald.1@mumalake.com

Research Development Coordinator

Research Integrity and Compliance

Research Integrity supports Institutional Review Board (IRB), Institutional Animal Care and Use (IACUC), Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) operations; oversees financial conflicts of interest reviews; provides veterinary animal care and consultation; and subject matter expertise on promoting research integrity and compliance with federal regulations.

Kristy Shirley
Research Integrity and Compliance Manager
701.231.8995
kristy.shirley@mumalake.com
Maintenance and assessment of RIC activities, Conflict of Interest Committee, Unmanned Aerial Systems compliance, Responsible Conduct of Research questions.

Neil Dyer
Attending Veterinarian
701.231.7830
neil.dyer@mumalake.com
IACUC protocol development, animal procedure and surgical consultation, animal health monitoring, training oversight & development.

Tania Molden
Research Integrity and Compliance Administrator - IACUC and IBC Administrator
701.231.8114
tania.molden@mumalake.com
IACUC and IBC protocol development and processing, animal facility oversight, animal welfare education.

Andrea Ludwig
Research Integrity & Compliance Administrator - IRB
701.231.8908
andrea.ludwig@mumalake.com
Contact for questions and matters relating to the IRB protocol development and processing, and human subjects protections education. Provides back-up support for other Research Integrity & Compliance needs, including the IACUC, IBC, and COIC.

Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA)

赞助项目管理(SPA)办公室是研究和创意活动部副总裁下属的中央行政支持办公室.  该办公室鼓励并支持大学教职员工寻求外部资金进行研究或其他学术活动, 强调行政职能,促进遵守适用法规的文化. SPA为所有外部提案提交提供预算审查和机构签名, manages electronic application submission processes, 并代表学校协商从外部来源获得的赞助项目活动的奖励.  The office also assists in non-financial post award administration matters.

Contact this office at ndsu.research@mumalake.com.

Val Kettner

Associate Vice President 
701.231.9608
val.kettner@mumalake.com
Authorized signature for proposals/awards (AOR); provides overall leadership for SPA; policy development; non-industry award negotiation; sponsor liaison.

Amy Scott
Assistant Director
701.231.8976
amy.scott@mumalake.com
Novelution system sponsored research module implementation lead; Authorized signature for proposals/awards (AOR); non-industry award negotiation; assistance with pre-award and non-financial post-award issues; sponsor liaison.

Cindy Eleson
Budget & Program Officer
701.231.5259
cindy.smelsereleson@mumalake.com
Budget review; assistance with proposal forms; electronic proposal submission; guidance on federal submission portals.

Shelly Sandstrom
Award and Proposal Officer
701.231.7258
shelly.sandstrom@mumalake.com
Authorized signature for proposals/awards (AOR); non-industry award negotiation; assistance with pre-award and non-financial post-award issues; sponsor liaison.

Rebecca Sandell
Award & Budget Officer
701.231.8898
rebecca.sandell@mumalake.com
Budget review; assistance with proposal forms; electronic proposal submission; assistance with budget revisions and PI changes; assistance with no-cost extensions and advanced spending requests.

OPEN POSITION
Award Intake Officer
Facilitate award processing; assistance with no-cost extensions and advanced spending requests; resource for proposal/award processes; webpage maintenance.

Christy Gallagher-Lein
Research Informatics Analyst
(701) 231-8573
christy.gallagher-lein@mumalake.com
Statistical proposal/award reports; Power BI interactive report creation/maintenance; NSF HERD Survey data collection and reporting.

 

Joycelyn Lucke
Assistant Director for Business Development
(701) 231-5624
joycelyn.lucke@mumalake.com 
Authorized signature for industry sponsored awards, non-financial agreements, and subawards; industry-sponsored award negotiation; industry sponsor liaison.
Sharon May
Export Control Administrator
(701) 231-6455
ndsu.exportcontrols@mumalake.com
Strategic Research Initiatives

The Strategic Research Initiatives team provides proposal development services support to faculty developing large collaborative and multi-stakeholder proposals; manages the research recognition program; implements strategic programs and the deployment of resources to help build NDSU’s research portfolio; advances R&D efforts through programming such as research leadership, team science, and convergence; and assists with federal relations that advance NDSU’s research mission.

Sheri Anderson

Associate Vice President for Strategic Research Initiatives
701.231.6573
sheri.anderson@mumalake.com

Cassie Johnson
Proposal Development Manager
701.231.9490
cassandra.j.johnson@mumalake.com

Kirstin Saulsbury
Project Coordinator
701.231.7041
kirstin.saulsbury@mumalake.com

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