Plant and Soil Sciences Support Staff Roles

Plant and Soil Sciences Support Staff Roles

Plant and Soil Sciences Support Staff Roles

Suzette WallingSuzette 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 HillEmily 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 WomackZoe 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 WeisenhornEllen 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 DavisCheyenne 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 BrueningBill 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 NelsonJim 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 CarterSara 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 LauerBrian 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 SimpsonShawn 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

Contact Information

Rebecca McCulley, Ph.D.
Department Chair

105 Plant Sciences Building Lexington, KY 40546-0312

(859) 257-5020