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BY RAY DELGADO Anne Hannigan, senior associate dean for finance and administration in the School of Engineering, has been tapped to lead the university's Office of Research Administration. Hannigan, a 20-year veteran at the university, will assume the role of associate vice president of research administration beginning Oct. 20, according to Randy Livingston, vice president for business affairs and chief financial officer. "I'm very pleased that she's taking on the role," Livingston said. "Her extensive managerial experience at Stanford will be a valuable asset in her new position." Hannigan steps into a role recently vacated by Geoff Grant, who led a successful restructuring of the university's research administration during his five-year tenure. Grant left the university early last month to head up a special project for the Arlington, Va.-based National Science and Technology Council. At Stanford, Hannigan has served as a division administrator in the Department of Medicine, a director in the Office of Student Affairs and the Office of Medical Education, and an associate dean for administration in the School of Education. In her most recent position in the School of Engineering, Hannigan oversaw the school's research administration group, which handles about $100 million in grant expenditures annually. She takes over administrative responsibility for a program that has enjoyed improving relationships with the federal government after disputes in the early 1990s over the billing and payment of indirect costs of federally sponsored research projects. Hannigan said she would like to maintain the good relations by further streamlining administrative functions for university researchers as a way of encouraging compliance. "It's not for lack of effort or lack of desire on anybody's part, but the systems supporting research administration are not as good as they could be," Hannigan said. "I'd like to create an environment where it's easier for people to comply. If we can find a way to do more of [the paperwork required] online, that would help everybody out." Hannigan also said she would look into developing better data and reporting systems for researchers so that they can spend the majority of time on their projects or working on new proposals. "Those are the kinds of things that I'd like to understand a lot more," Hannigan said. "We are a major research university and we need to work with our faculty researchers and school colleagues to better support the research enterprise."
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Anne Hannigan
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Stanford Report, October 1, 2003
