Service

 The Office of Research Administration (ORA) serves as a central resource to faculty and staff of both the Oklahoma City and Tulsa campuses for all aspects of research and for processing service contracts. The office provides information regarding funding sources, assistance in the submission of proposals to external sponsors, review of budgets and other form pages for compliance with University, federal, state and sponsor requirements, and negotiation of research and service contracts. ORA reviews, negotiates, and executes all basic research, clinical research, public service, professional service agreements and most provider and affiliation agreements. ORA serves as the institutional liaison with external agencies and organizations on all research administration and service contract matters. ORA has Institutional signature authority for submission of grants and execution of research and service-related contracts.

ORA Staff

Each department, center or college on the Oklahoma City and Tulsa campus is assigned to a professional staff member as well as a member of our administrative team. Click here for a comprehensive list of ORA staff assignments.

Contact Information

Phone: (405) 271-2090 ♦ Fax: (405) 271-8651

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. M-F (Holiday Schedule)

Office of Research Administration
1000 Stanton L. Young Blvd., LIB 121
Oklahoma City, OK 73117-1213

ORA Employee Spotlight

^{Mitzi Jones, our Staff Assistant, recently celebrated her 7th year anniversary with the ORA.  Mitzi provides administrative support to the management team for ORA, and her long and varied experience has afforded her the opportunity to train most of the new administrative secretaries for many years. As a seasoned member of the ORA administrative staff, she is also integrally involved with many special projects often regarding file maintenance and storage, and database maintenance. Mitzi was an OUHSC Employee of the Month in FY 2008,  is a loyal employee to the OUHSC, and is a huge OU fan. Boomer!}