Meg Patterson Rogers
Assistant Director
Meg Rogers directs the interdisciplinary research administration and development activities for the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy (ISTPP) in the Bush School of Government and Public Service. She also provides funding search assistance and analysis, identifies research opportunities, oversees institute IRB compliance and assists with IRB development, advises on federal rules, regulations and guidelines, and tracks institute performance measures. She serves as liaison with funding agencies and Texas A&M offices of sponsored research (TAMRF, TEES, TAES, TTI, and TAMU VPR OSP/Contract Administration), and assists with partnership building and endowment efforts.
Ms. Rogers manages and facilitates pre- and post-award activities. She coordinates proposal development, preparation and submission activities and provides expertise in proposal budget development and strategic team development and facilitation. On ISTPP's funded projects, she assists with supervision of post-award implementation and management in collaboration with principal investigators. This includes budget oversight, payroll review, monitoring staff percentage of effort on grants and project expenditures, compliance, subawardee oversight, work timeline planning and deliverables monitoring, team facilitation, research implementation, modifications and closeouts, negotiation of professional services agreements, and project report preparation and production.
Ms. Rogers is a budgeted member of research proposal teams as needed. To date, she has served as a Research Associate on nine Federally-funded projects.
Over the last ten years, Ms. Rogers has worked on over 200 proposals and assisted in the management of 23 federal and state funded projects totaling over $8.1 million. She is a member of the Society of Research Administrators (SRA) International and the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA).
In 2003-04, she served as the Associate Editor for the Journal for the Study of Food and Society. She has also worked for Texas A&M's Community Grant Support Initiative at the Public Policy Research Institute and the Texas A&M Research Foundation. Before coming to Texas A&M, Ms. Rogers headed up community relations for six years on a $154 million project siting a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility in the Midwest. Her responsibilities there included working with stakeholders in a public participation process, serving as liaison between company and project-impacted communities, development and management of the project's donation and scholarship program, and negotiation of the majority of off-site property access agreements for environmental monitoring activities.