Main Office Staff

General Administrative Services

Rich Heuermann (5-4614 / Room 110-A)
Department funded expenses; administrative and student academic projects and problems; course schedules; mechanics of curriculum requirements; University and government policies.

Gail Hurt (5-5603 / Room 110)
Student academic administration, including academic progress monitoring, create/process office forms, maintain alumni database, exam results; graduate applications management; seminar planning; conference room and classroom scheduling; Supervise/train student pffice assistants, oversee distribution of incoming/outgoing mail; webmaster for the E&PS Main Office Website, office supply/equipment maintenance and inventory; telephone services (installation/problem reporting); paycheck distribution; publication of the E&PS Community Cookbook.

Chris Miller (5-5598 / Room 110-B)
Monthly and biweekly personnel processing; monthly employee payroll processing for non-Federal sources; incoming/terminating personnel; administration for international faculty, staff, students; job openings and hiring process; supervision of bookkeeping section.

Grant and Contract Administration

Marcia Holleran (5-7587 / Room 110-C)
Supervision of grant proposal submittals; grant budget preparation; grant and contract administration, including advance authorizations, closeout reporting, equipment screening; payroll-grant planning assistance; staff vacation and sick leave records; faculty search administrative coordination.

Beth Sparks (5-8826 / Room 110-C)
Payroll processing for sponsored research project sources; grant budget preparation; payroll-grant planning assistance; personnel activity reports (PARS), financial reports.

Bookkeeping

Lisa Klein (5-5692 / Room 110-D)
Check requests, travel (including travel advances, travel reports and budget adjustments); Procard; tracking of facilities billings including payment deposits and billing reminders; Whittemore House bills; fund balances, transaction inquiries.

Beth Sparks (5-8826 / Room 110-C)
Purchase orders and invoices; campus stores; budget adjustments; shipping invoices; petty cash; facilities billings; photocopy, fax, and phone billings for grants and personal usage; photocopier code numbers; monthly financial reports to PI’s; fund balances, transaction inquiries.

Computer Services

Hugh Chou (5-4012 / Room 289)
Ghassan Aleqabi (5-5817 / Room 389)

Computers - hardware, software, networking, printing, purchasing, installation, problems; upgrades. (Best reached via e-mail: support@levee.)

Laboratory Administration, Building & Maintenance

Bob Osburn (5-4555, Room 134)
Teaching labs; field trips; building maintenance problems; renovations; office furniture; lab equipment and supplies; keys, AV equipment, purchase orders for new teaching lab equipment and supplies.