Plant and Soil Sciences Support Staff Roles

Plant and Soil Sciences Support Staff Roles

Plant and Soil Sciences Support Staff Roles

Suzette Walling

s.walling@uky.edu
Department Manager
105 Plant Sciences Building
(859) 218-0793

• Assist Coordinators of Instruction, Extension and Director of Graduate Studies
• Manage faculty distribution of effort (DOE) and faculty appointments
• Assist with faculty tenure and promotion process and evaluations
• Compile various annual reports
• Assist with reviews and tracking of extension publications 
• Chair support - meetings, approvals, etc.
• Building maintenance
• Inventory
• Administrative support for undergraduate and graduate programs
• Manage visa requests and requirements for visiting scholars and students
• TA assignments and course schedules

Sarah Hewlett

sarah.hewlett@uky.edu
Human Resources Manager
105 Plant Sciences Building
(859) 218-0709

• Hiring
• Position updates
• New employee onboarding and separation procedures
• Departmental contact for HR policy questions
• Departmental contact for staff performance evaluation questions
• Graduate students - GSAS form
• Payroll
• Pay account distributions
• Staff - time sheets
• Post-doc appointments

Zoe Womack

zoe.womack@uky.edu
Administrative Assistant
105 Plant Sciences Building
(859) 218-0742

• Travel authorizations, reservations, reimbursements (Concur)
• Building, room and departmental vehicle keys
• Manage PSS social media
• Event support: invited seminar speakers, graduate student symposia, S.H. Phillips and Outstanding Alumnus, department functions and meetings
• Reservations for PSB conference rooms, Cameron Williams and AGN N-224
• Create/assist/maintain PSS, IPSS, individual, lab, and group websites
• AGN Building PSS Support – mail, printers, copiers, and supplies
• Seminar speaker schedules/announcements/reimbursement

Ellen Weisenhorn

ellen.weisenhorn@uky.edu
Business Officer
320 Plant Sciences Building
(859) 218-0710

• Oversee all business and financial operations
• Handle all budgeting, forecasting, and reporting
• Complete JVs and Business Procedures Exceptions
• Approve all Concur reports for PSS accounts
• Department contact for grant expense management
• Distribute monthly account ledgers and grant reports
• Monthly reconciliations for all PSS accounts and grants

Cheyenne Davis

cheyenne.davis@uky.edu
Purchasing Specialist
320 Plant Sciences Building
(859) 218-0711

• Employee reimbursements/PRDs
• Procard delegate/editor/send reminders (Concur)
• Receive and deposit all cash/checks including gifts
• Purchasing equipment and supplies that can't be purchased with Procard
• Goods confirmations - collects packing slips for punch out orders
• Process office supply orders through Office Depot
• Minor equipment data entry

Bill Bruening

bruening@uky.edu
Property Specialist
425 Plant Sciences Building
(859) 218-0802

• Inventory property numbers for new and existing equipment
• Assist with annual inventory of equipment (UK property and FEPP) 
• Federal Excess Property Program (FEPP) departmental coordinator
• Processing (acquiring and removal of) UK surplus equipment
• Equipment location and tracking, including Off-Campus Equipment Requests
• Equipment external sales and transfers to/from other departments
• Work orders for equipment repair

Jim Nelson

jim.nelson@uky.edu
Facilities & Safety Specialist
N-222P Ag. Science Building
(859) 257-4150

• Annual department space inventory
• Work orders for campus facility repairs
• Facilitates campus space assignments/management
• Coordinates laboratory safety inspections
• Manages Chematix database inventories
• Coordinates building safety training

Sara Carter

sara.carter@uky.edu
Property & Facilities Specialist - North Farm
Weeds Lab, Agronomy Field Lab, North Farm
(859) 259-1914

• Monitors department vehicles and trailers
• Work orders for department vehicles
• Spindletop Farm Fuel Service
• Spindletop Farm Facilities - buildings, utilities, dryers
• Spindletop Farm Facilities - safety

Brian Lauer

brian.lauer@uky.edu
IT AGN, Seedhouse, Greenhouse & Spindletop Farm
S-205 Ag. Science Building
(859) 257-7470

• Creating AD accounts
• Internet connections
• Computer consulting, installation, repair, anti-virus
• UK site-licensed software
• SAS
• Graduate student laptop assignment
• Processing surplus computers
• Web support
• Help with using the Content Management System (CMS)

Shawn Simpson

shawn.simpson@uky.edu 
IT Specialist, Plant Science & KTRDC
421 Plant Sciences Building
(859) 562-2084

• Create AD accounts
• Internet connections
• Computer consulting, installation, repair, anti-virus
• Install UK site-licensed software
• Install SAS software
• Graduate student laptop assignment
• Processing surplus computers
• Distance learning