Vicki Krell has recently moved from 20 years in the Office for Research and Sponsored Projects Administration at Arizona State University to head up a new Research Advancement Office for ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Natural Sciences areas. Vicki's current areas of responsibility include working closely with faculty, graduate students, department research advancement staff and ORSPA to ensure that the highest quality proposals are developed, and to provide training, mentoring and coaching to new and current unit research staff. Vicki is a Certified Research Administrator, and has a bachelor's degree in Psychology which has come in handy in many ways! She brings as well 5 years of unit experience from her work at the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Vicki received a Governor's Award in Team Excellence in 1995.