OSP Staffing Updates

Happy Friday UMBC!

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is happy to announce that we will be having two new OSP Grants and Contracts Managers joining our team within the next two weeks.

Ms. Taylor Shortt will be joining OSP as a Manager on Monday September 30th. Taylor will be the new OSP Manager for the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS). Taylor has spent the past several years as a Grants and Contracts Specialist in the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) here at UMBC.

Ms. Aimee Howell will be joining OSP as a Manager on Monday October 7th. Aimee will be the new OSP Manager for the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT). Aimee most recently was employed as the Director of Finance in the Department of Pathology at UMB, but many here at UMBC will remember her as the former Assistant Director of the UMBC Office of Contract and Grant Accounting (OCGA). 

Taylor and Aimee will be joining our other recent late-July hire, Grants & Contracts Specialist Julia Kuhlman, on our re-vamped and re-staffed OSP Team.

With these new hires and assignments, Jamie Cole will now assume the role of OSP Manager for the Office of Earth and Space Research Administration (ESRA) and will also lead the OSP Subawards Team.  Additionally, our OSP Assistant Director Cameron McAdams will now be the OSP Manager of The Hilltop Institute and Central Units (Academic Affairs and Other Units).

OSP will be updating our roles and responsibilities webpage for your future reference in the coming days. Please do not hesitate to reach out to OSP (ospa@umbc,edu) or to OSP Director Michael Walsh (mwalsh3@umbc.edu) if you have any questions.

Please join us in welcoming our new team members! And we all look forward to helping and assisting UMBC with their research proposals and awards.