"The staff at OIBR have the knowledge and skills needed to help researchers attend to grant submission details faculty may otherwise neglect as they focus on the science. Roberta’s attention to the detailed requirements of the proposal call substantially decreased the stress associated with submitting a grant."

"Over the course of my career, I have experienced both the best as well as the worst of grant management support, and my experiences with OIBR are clearly among the best. Every OIBR staff member I work with is professional, timely, thorough, and accurate in their work. Not only that, but all the OIBR staff have exactly the right attitude, which is they are committed to helping you, the researcher, figure out how to make the bureaucracy of grants management work in a way that supports the research. I can’t overstate how rare yet so valuable that attitude is. I have no doubt that I wouldn’t be successful in my research program without the excellent support provided by OIBR."

"The OIBR grant management team has provided me flawless pre and post award support for 10 years now. The pre-award team goes way beyond the call of duty offering expert guidance on even the most obscure and novel funding mechanisms, and they do it on time and without error. On the post-award side, I have benefitted greatly from the remarkable patience, flexibility, and professionalism of the team dealing with multiple accounts and multiple lines of effort that are constantly changing. This team is a real asset to UGA that should be recognized as outstanding."

"The most important part of my faculty position is applying for and managing grants. I can’t do my work without the grants. Getting grants is one thing, managing the finances is quite another. I can’t successfully apply for grants, or manage the finances, with the expertise and professionalism of the OIBR staff. This is not an exaggeration. I consider the OIBR grants team among the most competent (maybe the most competent) outfit at UGA. That is also not an exaggeration."