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
Emily Hill
Human Resources Manager
320 Plant Sciences Building
(859) 257-7570
- 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
318 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