Our Staff

Maggie Bryan-Peterson, CRA, Director

E230A Thompson Hall
(716) 673-3528
FAX (716) 673-3802
E-mail: petersmb@fredonia.edu

Maggie came to Fredonia in June of 1989 as Associate Director of Research Services. Maggie holds a Bachelor's in Liberal Arts English from SUNY Potsdam and a Master's degree in Creative Arts/Theatre from Purdue University. In 1995, with a combination of her education and experience, she passed the national research administrators certifying exam and attained certification as a Research Administrator (CRA). She was re-certified in 2000 and that year was also the recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service. In 2003, she earned her Certificate of Compliance from the Society of Research Administrators (SRA). Active in her profession, Maggie is a member of the SRA and National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) and Chair of the statewide University Colleges Research Council. She is a member of the Chautauqua Leadership Network (Class of 2000), and serves on the state-wide Human Subjects Forum and the Export Control Team. Maggie is Secretary of the FSA Board, Chairs the Faculty and Professional Affairs Committee and the Research and Creativity Committee, and is the Human Subjects Administrator on campus. In 2006, Maggie was selected and attended Harvard University Graduate School of Education Management Leadership in Education. Popular as a seminar instructor in grant writing, faculty motivation and public speaking, Maggie has presented at national, state-wide and on and off-campus venues. She is co-author of three studies: Out of Sync?: SUNY Priorities and the Research Foundation Assessment Process, A Discussion of Central Office Campus Assessment Costs in the Context of the Current SUNY Research and Sponsored Program Growth Plan, February 2006; Revisiting Research Administration Functions: Campus Comparisons, An Update to the 1995 Study in the Oracle Environment, Spring 2005; and Research Administration Functions: Campus Comparisons, Fall 1995. In 2006, Maggie was appointed as Associate Editor in Pre-Award, Society of Research Administrators International, Body of Knowledge.

Cathe Kilpatrick, CRA, Associate Director

E230 Thompson Hall
(716) 673-3528
FAX (716) 673-3802
E-mail: Catherine.Kilpatrick@Fredonia.edu

Cathe came to the GA/RSO in 1994 as a part-time Research Assistant and is now Assistant Director. She holds degrees in English from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and in Elementary Education from SUNY Fredonia. In 2003 Cathe passed the national Research Administrators certifying exam that, along with education and experience, earned her the Certified Research Administrator (CRA) designation. In 2004 she earned the Certificate of Compliance from the Society of Research Administrators (SRA). Cathe is a member of SRA, the University Colleges Research Council, (UCRC), the Chautauqua Leadership Network Class of 2005, and is chair of Fredonia's College Review Panel. She is currently coordinator of a conference organized by Fredonia, Chautauqua Institution, and the Robert H. Jackson Center to be held at Chautauqua Institution in September entitled "Sixty Years after the Nuremberg Trials: Crimes Against Humanity and Peace." Her office responsibilities include funding searches, information management, traditional/electronic proposal submission, Research Foundation liaison and account establishment, and Human Subjects Review Committee administrative support.

Heidi Marie Moldenhauer, Grants Management Specialist

E230 Thompson Hall
(716) 673-3528
FAX (716) 673-3802
E-mail: Heidi.Moldenhauer@fredonia.edu

Heidi joined the Sponsored Programs Office in June of 2007 as the new Grants Management Specialist. A native of Fredonia, she graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and a B.S. in Business Administration from SUNY Fredonia and earned an M.B.A. with a concentration in Accounting and Finance from St. Bonaventure University. Heidi has worked in the accounting profession for the past fourteen years, with twelve of those years spent working in certified public accounting firms. She has most recently worked for Bahgat & Laurito-Bahgat, a CPA firm in Fredonia. Previous positions include working as an audit manager with the CPA firm of R.A. Mercer & Co. in Cattaraugus, New York and as an audit manager with the CPA firm of Johnson, Mackowiak, Moore & Myott, LLP in Fredonia for nine years, specializing in grant audits for governmental and nonprofit entities. Prior work experience also includes working as an assistant accounting supervisor for a local bank and as a financial accountant for a long-term health care facility. Her experience includes project administration, financial analysis and reporting as well as budgeting. Her responsibilities include the administration of sponsored projects in accordance with federal, sponsor, Research Foundation, SUNY and campus guidelines. In addition, Heidi supports investigators and others on campus in the administration and reporting of research projects funded from extramural sources from the account establishment phase of a project through project close-out and required records retention support.

Amy Cuhel-Schuckers, Grants Development Specialist

E231 Thompson Hall
(716) 673-3528
FAX (716) 673-3802
E-mail: schuckac@fredonia.edu

Amy came to Fredonia as a three-quarter time Institutional Grant Writer and is now the Grants Development Specialist. She had previously served a stint at Chautauqua Opportunities, a local community action agency, as the Assistant Grant Writer.

Amy is a graduate of SUNY Brockport with a B.S. in Geology, and did her graduate work at the Unification Theological Seminary in Barrytown, NY earning a Diploma in Divinity Studies. The former National Coordinator for Unification Campus Ministry and Assistant Director of Ecumenical Affairs for the Unification Church, Amy lived in the Czech Republic for five years where she taught English as a Second Language, and served the Czech church movement as Education Director, Family Department Director and interim Vice-President. Amy has traveled to a number of countries overseas, has spoken internationally, and has wide-ranging interests in international affairs, world religions and culture, ecumenism, youth and adult education, martial arts, public speaking, writing, institutional development, and science. At SUNY Fredonia, she assists faculty and staff in all aspects of grant preparation and submission, and in writing and submitting large, institutional and/or public service grants. Amy additionally supports faculty by teaching grant writing classes in graduate and undergraduate courses. She is a member of the Society of Research Administrators (SRA) International, The Chautauqua Leadership Network (Class of 2004), the Women's Federation for World Peace, the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, and is an alumna of The Grantsmanship Center (TGCI). She has completed her Departmental Administrator's Certificate from the Society of Research Administrators, and is preparing to take the Certified Research Administrator examination.