OHIO names Kimberly Littlefield associate vice president for research administration

Ohio University’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity has named Dr. Kimberly (Kim) Littlefield as the associate vice president for research administration.

Littlefield comes to OHIO after serving as the associate vice chancellor for research and engagement at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) and rotational program director for the National Science Foundation’s GRANTED initiative. 

“I am very excited that Kim is joining our team,” said Vice President for Research and Creative Activity Eric Muth. "Kim brings a wealth of research, research development, and research administration experience to our team. I am confident that she will help faculty achieve success in their research, in turn growing the OU research enterprise.”

A cardiovascular physiologist, Littlefield earned her Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and did postdoctoral work at the University of Vermont, San Diego State University, and The Scripps Research Institute. She received her B.S. in Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Littlefield has worked in key research and leadership positions around the country, including serving as the managing director of a National Institute of Health (NIGMS) sponsored P20 Center at the University of Washington (UW) Friday Harbor Laboratories. 

Littlefield also worked as a senior compliance analyst in the UW Office of Sponsored Programs, and launched the first formal, centralized, research development resource, the Complex Proposals Management Group, at UW.

Her career has advanced through research leadership roles at the University of South Alabama where she established the Office of Research Development, Communications, and Learning, and at UNCG where her portfolio included building research data management and research data assets and supporting the business units within the Office of Research and Engagement.

Littlefield will begin her new role at OHIO on April 14.