Office of Grants & Sponsored Programs

Patricia Bossange has been the Acting Director of Grants and Sponsored Programs since 2018, previously she was the Development Officer, Corporate and Foundations Relations, since 2011. She received the undergraduate and graduate degrees in English Literature from Boston College and was an Orchestral Performance Major at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her work for the OGSP includes identifying private foundation funding sources, developing proposals, communicating with program officers, and managing progress reports on private foundation grants. Patti has worked as a grant writing consultant, a grants intern, a teacher, an assistant, a paralegal, and a legal secretary. She is associated with the Council of Advancement and Support of Education and the Association of Funding Professionals and has served on the Board of Directors for both the Performing Arts Center MetroWest and Framingham Centre Nursery School.

Jena Shepard has been the Administrative Assistant for the Office of Grants & Sponsored Programs and the Office of Institutional Effectiveness since July 2017. She received the undergraduate degree in Psychology from Salem State University. During her time at Salem State University, she was selected to represent the Psychology Department and present her research at the 2009 Annual Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior symposium. Jena has worked as a Data Analyst for Ives Group, Electro/Mechanical Assembler for Precision Digital, and as a Receptionist for Natick Animal Clinic.