Maureen Langlois, MS

Associate Director and Research Development Specialist

Unit Liaison: Colleges of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Public Health; Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center, Sustainability Institute 

Interdisciplinary Topics: Climate Change, Mobility, Transportation, Sustainability*, Water

*Led by the Sustainability Institute.


Maureen serves as Associate Director for the Research Development Office, responsible for building processes and skills for effective support of large-scale, complex proposal development, supervising Research Development Coordinators, and helping to lead the team’s complex topical, agency, and mechanism strategy development. Maureen also supports faculty teams in the sustainability, climate change, and resilience space. She works with multidisciplinary teams to identify opportunities, strategies and elements that will enable their proposals to be successful and their research to be impactful. Maureen’s background is in science communications, from the K-12 science classroom to the Science Desk at National Public Radio to the Global Water Institute at Ohio State. She holds an MS in environmental science from The Ohio State University and a BA in biology and philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis. Maureen joined Research Development Office in January 2018. 

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