Welcome to your OSP team, we strive to provide the highest quality research administration at all stages of the grant lifecycle. We are here to help you distill your ideas into a fundable application to realize your dream projects.
Granting activities can be divided into four main stages, two of which are pre-award and two that are post-award. The pre-award process starts with the writing of all of the pieces of your project application. This will often mean that you might need help from the office of finance for your budget, from our grant writing/editing team and also perhaps from our sub-contracts, sub-awards and student internship specialists. There are so many moving parts to a good grant application and we are here to help you with them all. Once the grant is submitted and if you have a wonderful application and have some luck you will win an award. If this happens we will help you navigate the award negotiation phase. This will entail making sure that all parties are familiar with the funding regulations and requirements and that the University is ready to accept the award and act as its custodian on your behalf. All awards are given to the university to manage regardless of who the Principal investigator (PI) is.
Now you have your award, you enter post-award territory. We will do our best to help ensure that the PI remains in compliance but the ultimate responsibility for running the grant always falls to the PI. We recognize that every grant and funder are unique, and therefore we will follow a tailored approach to ensure the success of your granting activities. We will be there to help you to keep on track by working with you to develop a timeline of administration and investigator activities that are complementary to your goals. We will also help you with your interim reporting responsibilities, both financial and grant progress. When the duration of the grant funding period is complete you will enter the final phase of granting, where we will help you ‘close’ out your grant. This will typically mean submitting the final grant reports and outcomes to the funder. We hope that even though this grant cycle is complete that we have already started working with you to leverage your hard won data from this grant, into the next.
We look forward to supporting your innovative ideas and helping you win external funding to provide opportunities for us to increase our scholarship, to better serve our community and to provide the best student experience that we can.
Emily Pujadas Liwag, Ph.D.
Managing Director Sponsored Programs & Compliance
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (808) 735-4865
Dr. Pujadas Liwag oversees all activities of the Office of Sponsored Programs. She manages compliance through updated policies, training, communication, and grants software. She is also an adjunct professor of biology in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
Lynn Haff
Director of Grant Writing
Email: [email protected]
Lynn is our private funding specialist but she helps to identify and match grant seekers with potential funding sources of all kinds. She also helps to craft ideas/concepts for proposals, editing and drafting of proposal narratives, and the gathering of additional materials for submission (eg., bio-sketches, letters of support etc). If the proposal submission is from a private source, she will also help with the submission process and the reporting requirements during the award period.
Chrystie Naeole, Ph.D.
Grants Management Director
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (808) 739-8368
Dr. Naeole is a faculty member of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and she is our federal grants specialist. She has undergone extensive federal training to be able to assist grantees with the development, interpretation of federal language, and submission of these grant applications. She also helps with the execution of grant subcontracts, subawards and also the management of grant maintained studentships.
Andrew Perez
Grants Financial Manager
Email: [email protected]
Andrew is a staff member of the Business office of Chaminade University. He has over 10 years of experience of Grants Financial management for both private and federal grants. He helps grantees generate grant budgets for application submission and assists with the management of all financial reporting and compliance issues.
Helen Turner, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor on Sponsored Projects
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (808) 739-8399
Dr. Turner has a wealth of experience and knowledge about all aspects of the grant lifecycle through her own success of winning grants, from private and federal sources ($50,000 to $10 million). She acts as an ad-hoc consultant for complex procedural administration tasks but also as an ‘external’ grant reviewer or writing specialist, to help refine grant proposals.
