As the nation’s largest public research university, the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) aims to catalyze, support and safeguard U-M research and scholarship activity.
The Office of the Vice President for Research oversees a variety of interdisciplinary units that collaborate with faculty, staff, students and external partners to catalyze, support and safeguard research and scholarship activity.
ORSP manages pre-award and some post-award research activity for U-M. We review contracts for sponsored projects applying regulatory, statutory and organizational knowledge to balance the university's mission, the sponsor's objectives, and the investigator's intellectual pursuits.
Ethics and compliance in research covers a broad range of activity from general guidelines about conducting research responsibly to specific regulations governing a type of research (e.g., human subjects research, export controls, conflict of interest).
eResearch is U-M's site for electronic research administration. Access: Regulatory Management (for IRB or IBC rDNA applications); Proposal Management (eRPM) for the e-routing, approval, and submission of proposals (PAFs) and Unfunded Agreements (UFAs) to external entities); and Animal Management (for IACUC protocols and ULAM).
Sponsored Programs manages the post-award financial activities of U-M's research enterprise and other sponsored activities to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws as well as sponsor regulations. The Office of Contract Administration (OCA) is also part of the Office of Finance - Sponsored Programs.
Joseph Fraley, MAIA, comes to ORSP from U-M's School of Information, where they worked as a research administrator and are currently pursuing a Master's in Applied Data Science from UMSI. They previously earned a Master's in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in May of 2023.
Joseph brings experience from the Brussels Office of the think-tank GLOBSEC, the Bologna Institute for Policy Research, and the Farmington Hills-based law firm Antone, Casagrande, & Adwers P.C.
Their interests lie in the interaction between research and policy and their impact on one another.
Given this interest, they are very excited to get started in this new role. They love learning new things and meeting new people. Joseph will report to Shandra White.