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Research IT Services Contacts

eRA Help Desk
860.486.7944
eRA-support@uconn.edu
Self-Service Help Desk Portal: https://it.research.uconn.edu/SelfService/

Name Role Phone Email
Matthew J. Cook Director 860.679.3075 cook@uchc.edu
Paula Engler Reporting Services & Help Desk Support paula.engler@uconn.edu
eRA Help Desk Help Desk Support Email Account 860.486.7944 eRA-support@uconn.edu
Jennifer Lamontagne Reporting Services & Effort Reporting jennifer.lamontagne@uconn.edu
Andrew Rittner Information System Administration & Desktop Support 860.486.1864 andrew.rittner@uconn.edu
REDCap Support Team Assistance with REDCap 860.679.1120 redcap@uchc.edu
Charles Tuttle Oracle PL/SQL Developer, Senior Programmer/Analyst, & Help Desk Support charles.tuttle@uconn.edu

Research Finance

OVPR Research Finance is responsible for financial budgeting and reporting for Research mission of UConn Health, including the following core tasks:

  • administration of UConn Health’s policy and procedures related to Research Service Centers
  • annual rate setting for fringe benefit rates
  • the negotiation of UConn Health’s F&A rate agreement
  • management of gift and discretionary funds
  • fiscal management of internal awards
  • management of the UConn/UConn Health cross campus fund transfer (due to/from) process

Mailing Address:

UConn Health Research Finance
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030-5335

Name Title Phone Email
Julie Schwager Associate Vice President 860.372.2531 schwager@uchc.edu
Deanna Thibodeau Director 860.212.2365 dthibodeau@uchc.edu
Jessica Gust Supervising Accountant 860.679.6058 jgust@uchc.edu
Evelyn Grados Staff Accountant 2 860.679.1682 gradostorres@uchc.edu
Priscilla Arguello Staff Accountant 1 860.679.3714 parguello@uchc.edu
Uma Raghavan Staff Accountant 1  860.679.1944 uraghavan@uchc.edu
Marissa Wall Staff Accountant 1  860.679.1996 mwall@uchc.edu
Adrianna Lala-Kapusta Admin Fiscal Assistant 860.679.7185 lalakapusta@uchc.edu
Monika Kolacz Admin Fiscal Assistant 860.679.2566 mkolacz@uchc.edu
Cody Revicki Admin Fiscal Assistant 860.679.3855 crevicki@uchc.edu

 

EH&S Policies, Regulations and Guidance

Biological

General

Radiation Safety Training Requirements

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL AN INDIVIDUAL BE ALLOWED TO WORK WITH RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS PRIOR TO RECEIVING THE APPROPRIATE RADIATION SAFETY TRAINING

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s regulations mandate radiation safety training for all personnel working with radioactive materials. UConn Health is committed to providing a safe research and work environment to all our faculty and staff. The Office of Radiation Safety provides training lectures to meet this requirement.

It is the Principal Investigator’s responsibility to insure that:

  • New personnel who will be working with radioactive materials, using the
    Cs-137 Gammacell Irradiator or working in areas where radioactive materials are used and/or stored attend the four hour Initial training lecture.
  • Personnel who have received training over a year ago attend a Refresher lecture.

Other personnel wishing to review and update their radiation safety training are invited to attend.

Education and Information

The Office of the Vice President for Research is responsible for assessing and addressing the education and information needs of UConn staff and faculty involved in sponsored research and compliance activities across UConn’s schools and colleges on all University campuses.

This section of the website provides educational information and support including tutorials, manuals, job aides, videos, and other reference guides to help and support faculty, staff, and students.

Learn something new everyday!

Research IT eRA Help Desk

Research IT Services in the Office of the Vice President for Research supports a wide array of services and is a key player in shaping the future of research at the University of Connecticut.

We have embarked on a bold initiative to modernize and boost our portfolio of software solutions in an effort to reduce the administrative burdens on our researchers and make it easier for them to access and monitor their research activity and information.

A full suite of enterprise applications will provide a template for grant proposal development, automate routing and allow for electronic submission to certain sponsors. In addition, it will provide functionality for awards management; human and animal subjects protocol development and review; financial conflict of interest disclosures; effort reporting and commitment management; and core facility management (research store).

eRA Help Desk

Help DeskWe have coined our initiative to modernize our Enterprise Research IT systems and automate research administration functions the electronic Research Administration, or eRA. We have created the eRA Help Desk to assist you with your questions and technical problems. The eRA Help Desk’s contact information is listed below.

eRA Help Desk

Telephone: 860-486-7944
Email: eRA-support@uconn.edu
Staffed 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM Weekdays

Self-Service Portal: https://it.research.uconn.edu/SelfService (secured with UConn NetID) Don’t know your NetID?