Melinda Akins

Please contact Melinda Akins for assistance at (614) 292-4876 or melinda.akins@osumc.edu for assistance with the following issues:

Grant Financial Management
  • Training in reconciliation procedures and grants management
  • Assistance with complex financial corrections
Personnel (including GRA) Appointments to Projects
  • Entering personnel appointments for sponsored projects, including cost share
  • Salary capping, practice plans
  • Modifying appointments
  • Personnel expense transfers (PETs)
Complex or Large Proposals

Transferring a PI to OSU
  • Coordination of transfer of all aspects of a research program with other onboarding staff
PA005 (Request to Seek Off-Campus Funding)
  • Requests for cost share from the College of Medicine
  • Assistance in determining expenditure and award credit allocations among departments
  • Facilities and administration (F&A) questions