Ruth Jeffries
Director, Research and Sponsored Programs
Phone: (509) 963-2640
E-mail: ruth.jeffries@cwu.edu

Ruth serves as the university’s Director of Research and Sponsored Programs (teaching, research and other activities supported by external grant funds).  As an experienced grants professional, she assists faculty and staff in identifying, securing, and managing grants.  She enjoys engaging with a diverse range of scholarly and creative ideas while working with faculty from across all disciplines, and then seeing those transformed into funded projects that make a meaningful difference at the university and beyond.

Dawn Anderson
Program Support Supervisor 2
Phone: (509) 963-3108
E-mail: AndersonDL@cwu.edu

Dawn serves as the admissions and post admissions program support supervisor in the Graduate School. She assists master's students with the policies and procedures, required forms, graduation, posting degrees and thesis processing. She also handles the graduate faculty recommendation process and assists the Graduate Council committee.

Justine Eason
Communications Consultant 
Graduate Admissions
Phone: (509) 963-3103
E-mail: EasonJ@cwu.edu

Justine serves as the Communications Consultant in the Graduate School and is involved with marketing and recruitment of the graduate programs.  She also serves as the Graduate Student Association Advisor. 

Leslie Lotspeich                                                        Grant and Contract Specialist, Research and Sponsored Programs
Program Coordinator, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
Phone: (509) 963-3111
Email: llotspeich@cwu.edu

Leslie serves as the Grant and Contract Specialist and works with the Director of Research and Sponsored Programs to identify new funding opportunities for faculty and staff. She works with external funding agencies preparing proposals, coordinating contracts/subcontracts, and processing awards. She also provides administrative support to the campus Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). Leslie brings years of grant writing experience from the private sector to her position with Graduate Studies.

Sandy Martinez                                                                            
Human Protections Administrator (HPA)
Phone: (509) 963-3115
Email: martines@cwu.edu

Sandy is the administrator responsible for screening and
reviewing all Human Subjects Review applications and Requests for Exemption. Sandy also serves as an ex-officio voting board member. Additional duties include preparing for full board meetings, taking meeting minutes, corresponding with and providing support for investigators and reviewers, developing policy and procedures, and educating the CWU community about ethics of human subjects research.

She has been employed at CWU since 2008. Sandy received her M.A. in Sociological Practice from Cal State San Marcos in 2003.

Lynn Niemi
Program Coordinator
Phone: (509) 963-2243
E-mail: NiemiL@cwu.edu

Lynn provides administrative support to the Director and office staff and assists with pre and post admission processes. She also helps coordinate the internal faculty and student award competitions and nonresident tuition waivers.

Diane Houser
Fiscal Specialist / Graduate Assistantship Coordinator
Phone: (509) 963-3102
E-mail: HouserD@cwu.edu

Diane is a fiscal specialist in the School of Graduate Studies and Research. She has been an employee of the university since 2002. She coordinates graduate school financial affairs and the graduate assistantship program.

Lila Harper
Program Assistant
Phone: (509) 963-1793
E-mail: HarperL@cwu.edu

Dr. Harper serves as the thesis editor. She has taught at Central for 20 years in the English department and also teaches in Computer Science and in the Douglas Honors program. Her job is to provide documentation and writing guidance to the graduate students and review the theses once they are completed for adherence to the thesis regulations, along with documentation, formatting, research methodology, and writing correctness. She completed her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1996 with a focus on Victorian science and literature.

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