Research and Facilities
The Office of Research and Facilities functions as the clearinghouse for all matters relating to research activities and facilities projects in the college. This group manages all space in the college and oversees and approves all college-related renovations and building projects, including faculty recruitment space needs, teaching and research labs, and shared facilities.
The Strategic Research Initiatives arm of the office provides grant proposal development support to faculty college-wide. It coordinates several internal funding programs supporting faculty, graduate students, and postdocs in CNS. It also works with teams of faculty to identify and develop multi-investigator center grant and institutional training grant proposals. And it offers one-on-one consultations for individual investigator grant proposals. Finally, SRI coordinates the nomination process for limited submission research awards throughout the year.
Building Manager List
Contact | Building | Phone number |
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Mark Pena | PAI, PAT | 512-769-9009 |
John Estes | BIO, PMA | 512-785-5115 |
Cody Seaton | NHB, FNT | 512-748-0129 |
Casey Seaton | MBB, NMS | 512-599-0682 |
Elena Yujuico | WCH | 512-232-1047 |
Zarco Vukovich | AHG, WEL | 501-554-4588 |
Our Team

Emily Cole
- Director of Strategic Research Initiatives
- College of Natural Sciences

Ann Harasimowitz
- Director III for Facilities and Safety
- College of Natural Sciences
Maria Elena Yujuico
- Senior Administrative Associate
- College of Natural Sciences
Jacob Brennan
- Assistant Director
- College of Natural Sciences
Supervisor of College of Natural Sciences Building Managers

Lesley Bruner
- Senior Administrative Program Coordinator
- College of Natural Sciences
Internal Funding Programs, Research Community
John Estes
- Facility Manager
- College of Natural Sciences

Anise Hawkins
- Program Manager, Strategic Research Initiatives
- College of Natural Sciences
Internal funding programs; Research operations support; Research administrator resources and programs
Mark Pena
- Project Specialist
- Facility Manager
- College of Natural Sciences
Casey Seaton
- Facility Manager
- College of Natural Sciences
Rose Sheridan
- Project Specialist
- College of Natural Sciences

Angel Syrett
- Research Development Officer
- College of Natural Sciences

Zarko Vukovich
- Facility Manager
- College of Natural Sciences
- Chemistry