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- Oversees departmental financial operations
- Manages administrative staff and HR related matters for the department
- Administers department space and coordinates facility requests
- Manage department purchasing/invoices
- Employee/Visitor Expense Reports
- Parking passes
- Manages pre-and post-award activities
- Acts as liaison with Office for Sponsored Research
- Supervises MSE research administration team
Molli Connell
Program Assistant-Space & Special EventsPhone: 847-491-3533
Office: Cook 2035A
Email Molli
- Special Events & Lectures
- Space, Renovations, & Repairs
- Special Projects
- Payroll for postdocs, temps, graduate and work-study students.
- Appointments, VISA and health insurance for postdocs and visiting scholars.
- Reconcile payroll transactions.
- Department accounts management and reconciliation; NUFs Level 1 approver
- Subcontract management
- Payroll
- Assists the Department Chair and faculty (Haile)
- Maintains website
- Assists with purchasing
- Administrative & academic support for Prof. Stupp
- Administrative & academic support for Stupp Group
- Manages day to day operations
- Support for faculty (Barnett, Bedzyk, Chang, Chung, Joester, Marks, Olson, Olvera, Rogers, Snyder)
- Special Events & Lectures
- Provides assistance with daily office tasks and walk-in requests
- Manages graduate applications, admissions and recruitment
- Graduate student contact
- Registration and enrollment (permission numbers, textbook ordering, and quarterly class schedules)
- Manages pre-award activities
- Assists with post-award management
- Liaises with Office for Sponsored Research
- Assists Faculty with post award management and close out of awards
- Analyzes data to locate errors and completed corrections
- Manages projections for sponsored and non-sponsored faculty accounts (Luijten, Marks, Olson, Olvera, Rondinelli, Shah, Shull, Snyder, Vaynman, Voorhees, Wessels, and Wolverton)
- Assistant to faculty (Dunand, Emery, Hersam, Huang, Lauhon, Mason, Rondinelli, Seidman, Shah, Shull, Voorhees, Wessels, Wolverton)
- Manages key requests and space assignments
- Room reservations (outside of course schedule)
- Research Associate to Professor Monica Olvera de la Cruz
- Oversees day-to-day operations for the Dravid group
- Manages grants and financial accounts
- Program Administrator for SHyNE and NUANCE
- Assist Faculty with Post Award administration
- Projections
- Department Level 2 Approver