Sponsored Programs activity at Western Kentucky University has increased in recent years and is recognized as an important element of this educational institution. Many people and departments contribute to supporting your sponsored instructional, research, and creative activities, and public service efforts that result from external funding. We hope that you will fully use the OSP's services so that we may continue to work together for Western Kentucky University. Feel free to contact us with your questions or for referral to a more appropriate office.

Questions related to cash and in-kind cost sharing, indirect costs, budget revisions, no-cost project extension, contracts, memoranda of agreement, policies and procedures, final technical reports, intellectual property (inventions and copyrights), supplementary pay, Form 16's, grant-funded Form 4's, animal subjects, WKU Research Foundation, and The Western Scholar:
Dr. Phillip E. Myers, Director, tel. (270) 745-6257, or email phillip.myers@wku.edu

Questions related to workshops and training sessions, as well as developing proposals, budgets, contracts, subcontracts, or agreements:
Pamela Napier, Associate Director, tel. (270) 745-5328, or email pamela.napier@wku.edu

Questions related to locating funding opportunities, developing proposal ideas and budgets, preparing your proposal for submission, electronic research administration, locating funding opportunities, using the OSP Web Site, Grants.gov, NSF FastLane, and internal grant programs:
Lindsey Hampton, Proposal Development Coordinator, tel. (270) 745-2160, or email lindsey.hampton@wku.edu and Molly Swietek, Proposal Development Coordinator, tel. (270) 745-2160, or email molly.swietek@wku.edu

Questions related to requesting an account for an awarded project, charts of accounts, and the proposals and awards database:
Regina Allen, Operations Coordinator, tel. (270) 745-5852, or email regina.allen@wku.edu

Questions related to human subjects of research:
Sean Rubino, Compliance Manager, tel. (270) 745-2129 or email sean.rubino@wku.edu

Questions about routing of proposals or other documents for internal signatures, general information about the OSP, and on who in the office can best answer your questions:
Office of Sponsored Programs, tel.(270) 745-4652, or email sponsored.programs@wku.edu

Questions relating to account numbers, the chart of accounts, invoicing sponsors, monthly ledger reports, closeout and final reports, any fiscal question associated with your award may be addressed to Grants and Contracts Accounting:
Sharon Young, sharon.young@wku.edu, tel. (270) 745-5338
or
Paula Mattison, paula.mattison@wku.edu, tel. (270) 745-5077
or
Dottie Lake, dottie.lake@wku.edu, tel. (270) 745-5340
or
Mary Nunn, mary.nunn@wku.edu, tel. (270) 745-8882