Kristin Picardo

Assistant Provost, Office of Sponsored Programs and Foundation Relations, and Director, Center for Student Research and Creative Work
Sponsored Programs and Foundation Relations

Kristin Picardo

Areas of Expertise

  • Higher Education
  • Undergraduate Research
  • Grants and Sponsored Research

Bio

Kristin Picardo currently serves as assistant provost at St. John Fisher University, providing leadership for promoting, securing, and administering external public and private grant funding to support teaching, outreach, and research activities.

As a member of the faculty, she achieved the rank of professor demonstrating her commitment as a teacher and scholar. Most notably, Picardo drove the creation of the Center for Student Research and Creative Work, which supports student scholarly work in all disciplines, offers research funding and training to both students and faculty, hosts the 10-week intensive Summer Research Fellows program, and plans an annual campus-wide symposium.

Picardo is a thought leader in efforts to drive curricular revitalization through both Fisher’s general education curriculum revision and through the equity initiative bringing iPads to all undergraduate students. She regularly serves as a panel reviewer for the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education. As a member of this community of experts, she play a critical role in supporting grant programs that seek to support students in a multitude of ways in order to drive the development of the STEM workforce in our country.

Additionally, Picardo is an independent grant consultant with the firm McAllister & Quinn. In this role, she serves as an expert in reviewing proposed projects and their adherence to grant solicitations. On a national level, she is an elected councilor with the Council on Undergraduate Research, leading as a co-chair of the organization-wide finance committee and as an inaugural associate editor for the academic journal, SPUR: Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research.