OPD Personnel

Disciplinary backgrounds of OPD staff members include engineering and the physical sciences; earth, ecological, and environmental sciences; health and biomedical sciences; and social/behavioral sciences and the humanities. Staff members have a broad range of expertise related to proposal development and writing, proposal strategic planning, identification of funding opportunities, knowledge of funding agency culture and investment priorities, and successful research and education models that can enhance proposal competitiveness. Several OPD staff members have experience working as researchers in engineering, earth sciences, and health and biomedical sciences, or have held engineering or scientific positions in industry where the development and writing of research and/or technical proposals was a significant component of their responsibilities. Other staff members have extensive experience working in proposal development, editing, production, and management positions at foundations, private industry, publishing, and at Texas A&M.

Jean Ann Bowman
Research Scientist
Earth, ecological and environmental sciences/agriculture-related proposals and centers
305I Administration Building, jbowman@tamu.edu (979) 458-1140

Libby Pasciak
Administrative Coordinator
Scheduling, resources, training workshop management, project coordination
305K Administration Building, libbyp@tamu.edu (979) 845-1811

Mike Cronan
Director
Center-level proposals, new proposal and training initiatives
305N Administration Building, mikecronan@tamu.edu (979) 845-1811

Lucy Deckard
Associate Director
New faculty initiative, graduate and post-doctoral fellowships, physical science-related proposals, equipment and instrumentation, interdisciplinary materials group
305J Administration Building, l-deckard@tamu.edu (979) 458-4290

John Ivy
Research Development Officer
Biomedical and health-related sciences proposals and interdisciplinary research collaborations across the Health Science Center and Texas A&M University.
305A Administration Building, johnivy@tamu.edu (979) 458-4280

Phyllis McBride
Assistant Director
15-week grant-writing workshops and craft of proposal writing training, NIH and related agency initiatives in the biomedical, social and behavioral sciences; editing and rewriting
305L Administration Building, p-mcbride@tamu.edu (979) 862-4183

Robyn Pearson
Senior Research Development Officer
Education, liberal arts, social & behavioral sciences, and humanities-related proposals, support for interdisciplinary research group development, educational proposals, editing and rewriting
305M Administration Building, rlpearson@tamu.edu (979) 847-9363