Mission
The Office of the Vice President for Research advances the university’s land-grant research mission by enabling and facilitating exemplary research, scholarship, and creative artistry. Together, we advance knowledge and creativity, fostering high-impact solutions that improve our communities and the world.
Vision
We are united in discovery. We envision a research enterprise at Colorado State University that has the talent, skills culture, capacities, and infrastructure to conduct exemplary collaborative, interdisciplinary, and disciplinary research, scholarship, and creative artistry that improves our communities, Colorado, and the world.
Values
Collaboration: We partner within our division, across campus, and externally to continually scale up and enhance our robust research ecosystem.
Service: We serve CSU’s research mission and the research community. We leverage our professionalism, expertise, and solutions-oriented approaches to support our research partners in achieving their transformative goals.
Community: We actively foster an inclusive and respectful community, creating fair, and equitable teams where individuals are empowered to be their best selves, knowing their diverse experiences, values, skills, and ideas are welcome, appreciated, and contribute to our collective success.
Integrity: We are committed to integrity in our personal conduct, and in our support of research, scholarship, and creative artistry. We create an environment where research is conducted in a compliant and ethical manner.
Transparency: We are transparent in our dealings with each other and with the larger research CSU community. We engage in dialogue with our partners through active listening; joint problem solving; and frequent, and respectful communication.
Leadership
Cassandra Moseley
Vice President for Research
Cassandra Moseley is Colorado State University’s Vice President for Research. She oversees the research, discovery and creative artistry portfolio at Colorado State, which is consistently ranked among the country’s top performing research universities. In her role, Moseley leads a robust research enterprise that has increased by 46% in the past decade. She works in partnership with the president, provost, deans, vice presidents and the campus community to expand CSU’s research portfolio and advance CSU’s research and innovation goals as a top-tier research institution. Moseley previously served for more than 20 years as an accomplished administrator and research professor at the University of Oregon. Her positions there included vice provost for academic operations and strategy and interim vice president for research and innovation. Moseley’s academic expertise is in wildfire and climate resilience, rural communities and national forest policy. She earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and government from Cornell University and her master’s degree and doctoral degree in political science from Yale University.
Meg Suter
Assistant VP for Research & Chief of Staff
Meg Suter serves as the Assistant Vice President for Research at Colorado State University, where she supports strategic planning, research development, research analytics, defense sector engagement, and research communications within the Office of the Vice President for Research. Prior, Suter served as the founding director of CSU’s research development office, working closely with faculty, researchers, students, staff, and university senior administration to create a proactive research culture on campus and to promote excellence along the entire extramural funding life cycle. She has more than 15 years of experience in research development, translation, and commercialization. Prior to joining CSU, she worked as a senior research engineer at Ohio State University, where her efforts focused on agricultural waste conversion technologies and bioproduct cluster development. In the private sector, she founded and provided technical leadership to several startup companies focused on bioproduct commercialization, ranging from the creation of drug-eluting contact lenses to bio-asphalt made from swine manure. She holds a doctorate and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Case Western Reserve University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, respectively.
Lori Ann Shultz
Assistant VP for Research Administration
Lori Ann Schultz is the Assistant Vice President for Research Administration at Colorado State University and Co-Director of the NSF SECURE Center SW Region. She has worked in research administration for over 30 years, and supports faculty researchers through policy, process, research security, and a host of topics related to external funding. She works on evidence-based policies, marshaling research data in the service of the institution and the faculty who do research, and using data to forecast and plan strategies for a resilient future for research. Lori has conducted presentations and training on research, data, and technology topics at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, AAU, APLU, NCURA, SRAI, FDP, COGR, and Educause. Lori is on the Board of Directors of ORCID, COGR, and NCURA. Lori has many years of experience in research, software development, non-profit board leadership, and data management and analysis. She has a particular passion for using data to improve the working lives of the researchers who help us understand the world.
Mark Hubbard
Assistant VP for Research Integrity & Compliance
Dr. Mark Hubbard oversees Colorado State University’s research compliance portfolios encompassing animal care and use, biosafety, conflict of interest, export control, human research protections, export control, responsible conduct of research, and research integrity. His previous roles higher education includes director of Research Services and assistant dean for research in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and senior manager of Research Advancement with Washington State University’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. In the private sector, Mark was a founding member and principal scientist at DxDiscovery in Reno, Nevada, a university start-up company that develops rapids diagnostics for disease and has received funding through multiple federal agencies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and a doctorate in cellular and molecular biology both from the University of Nevada-Reno.
Melissa Reynolds
Assistant VP for Research Facilities
Dr. Melissa M. Reynolds is a distinguished leader, researcher, and educator whose multifaceted career bridges academic excellence, translational science, and strategic university administration. Currently serving as Assistant Vice President for Research Facilities at Colorado State University (CSU), she also directs the Panacea Life Sciences Cannabinoid Research Center and holds professorships in Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. A Boettcher Investigator and founder of multiple research initiatives and companies, Dr. Reynolds has a proven track record in advancing interdisciplinary collaboration, biomedical innovation, and research infrastructure. With a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Michigan, she has held leadership roles across CSU, including Associate Dean for Research in the College of Natural Sciences and Associate Chair of Chemistry. Her impact spans the development of major research cores, pandemic response coordination, and securing millions in research funding. Dr. Reynolds exemplifies a commitment to inclusive excellence, scientific advancement, and empowering the next generation of innovators.
Alyson Rome
Director, Strategic Financial Planning & Resource Management
Alyson Rome leads strategic financial planning and resource management for the Office of the Vice President for Research. She has more than 20 years of experience in higher education and non-profit finance and administration including human resources, budgeting, accounting, purchasing, grants and contracts. Rome has served as the vice president of finance and administration at a local non-profit organization and as the director of fiscal services at Kansas State University Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus. She holds a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Lon Kendall
Attending Veterinarian & Director, Lab Animal Resources
Lon Kendall serves as the Director of Laboratory Animal Resources and Attending Veterinarian for CSU animals used in research and teaching. His team provides the highest standard of care for animals in support of the CSU community, collaborating with investigators to meet their research and teaching needs by providing a full-spectrum of animal care and related services. He is actively involved in research, primarily in the areas of infectious diseases, pain management, and recognition in laboratory animals, and science-based animal welfare standards. Lon has served in leadership roles for the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, and as a specialist for AAALAC International.
Hillary Galey
Director, Federal Research Relations
Hillary Galey serves as the Director for Federal Research Relations in the CSU Office of the Vice President for Research. She works in coordination with campus leadership and the CSU System office to inform and shape federal policies and funding strategies in support of CSU faculty, staff and students. Hillary has more than a decade of experience working for and with the federal government, most recently as a director of federal relations at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She’s also worked for advocacy foundations and the U.S. Senate, including legislative positions with former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and several Senate committees. Her work has been recognized by national higher education associations, receiving awards and serving in various leadership roles.
Amber Krummel
Director, Deep Tech Initiatives
Dr. Amber Krummel is Professor of Chemistry and Director of Deep Tech Initiatives in the Office of the Vice President for Research at Colorado State University, where she leads university-wide strategy for the ATLAS laser facility and coordinates innovation ecosystems in fusion energy and quantum technologies. Her research in ultrafast spectroscopy, quantum chemical dynamics, and imaging has garnered over $12M in competitive funding from NSF, DOE, and DOD, yielding more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and 6 issued patents. A national leader in research translation, Dr. Krummel serves as Faculty Lead for the NSF I-Corps Hub and has collaborated with CSU STRATA to secure EDA funding for the Lab-to-Life commercialization program. Her honors include the NSF CAREER Award, DOE Early Career Award, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and CSU’s Monfort Professorship. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and held a Harvard Postdoctoral Fellowship before joining CSU in 2010.