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Name Contact Info Can Assist With:
Anderson, Amy
Senior Accountant
621-3700
akanders@email.arizona.edu
BSW 362B1
  • Purchasing office and lab supplies
  • Monthly financial reports
  • P-Card Departmental Liason
  • Travel, FRS orders and check requests
  • Grant/Proposal policy & routing
  • Online liaison to VWR, Buyways
  • Barriga, Irene
    Administrative Assistant
    621-5110
    ibarriga@email.arizona.edu
    BSW 362B3
  • Reconcile and maintain all purchasing card transactions
  • Provide administrative support to department, including department head and faculty members
  • Process department payroll
  • Maintain all personnel files
  • Prepare new hire packets
  • Prepare grad student Notice of Appointments (RA/TA)
  • Post student jobs in the UA job posting section
  • Processing visas
  • Issue room and building keys for BioSciences West building
  • Schedule and coordinate department meetings to include reserving BioSciences West Conference Rooms 257 and 347
  • Set up department golf cart calendar and issue keys for the use of it
  • Human resource/payroll operations
  • UA policy and procedure advice
  • Dugas, Jane
    Program Coordinator
    621-9687
    jdugas@email.arizona.edu
    BSW 524
  • Departmental seminars
  • BCP Journal Club seminars
  • Biochemistry Dinner Theatre
  • Grant applications and budgets
  • Event planning
  • Travel coordination
  • Processing of graduate application materials
  • Student database
  • Preparation of FedX shipments
  • Room reservations BSW 257 and 347
  • Classwork prep for faculty
  • Special projects
  • Gomez, Margaret
    Executive Assistant
    621-5672
    mlgomez@email.arizona.edu
    Old Chemistry 221A
  • Human resource/payroll operations
  • Processing visas
  • Processing merits, promotions, appraisals, increases
  • Annual performance evaluations, promotions, and tenure
  • Faculty searches
  • UA policy and procedure advice
  • Leon, Vince
    Senior Accountant
    621-4951
    vleon@u.arizona.edu
    BSW 362B1
  • Monthly financial reports
  • Photocopier accounts
  • Blanket purchase orders
  • Travel, FRS orders and check requests
  • FRS training
  • Online liaison to VWR
  • Routine hardware and software technical support
  • Mendoza, Olivia A.
    Program Coordinator
    621-3868
    omendoza@u.arizona.edu
    BSW 362B4

    website
  • Department's laptops and projectors
  • Scheduling of Biochemistry computer lab (room 243)
  • Student registration and grade changes
  • Student Ambassadors
  • Event planning
  • Visitor coordination
  • Undergraduate and graduate records
  • Monitoring of student progress and grades
  • Student registration, degree certification, grade and schedule changes
  • Information about requirements, courses, student profiles, advising materials and handbooks
  • Student research activities
  • Preparation of senior thesis
  • Student statistics
  • Student clubs
  • Student alumni data
  • Student peer mentoring
  • Courses: creation, modifications, schedules, evaluations, cancellations, and text book ordering
  • Miller, Rachel
    Senior Academic Advisor
    626-0605
    rahughes@email.arizona.edu
    BSW 358
  • Assignment of Faculty Advisors
  • Student statistics
  • Monitoring of student progress and grades
  • Information about requirements, courses, student profiles, advising materials and handbooks
  • Student peer mentoring
  • Student registration, degree certification, and schedule changes
  • General education and pre-major coursework
  • Schedule/course planning
  • Transfer evaluations, change or add majors and minors
  • First and final stop for senior degree check
  • Processing of all course substitutions and waives once approved.
  • Probation advising
  • Interpretation and advice of policy and procedure for drop deadlines
  • Signatures
  • Neal, Cindy
    Program Coordinator, Sr.
    621-4667
    cjneal@u.arizona.edu
    BSW 202A
    Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC program)
    Quintero, Sylvia
    Manager, Business & Personnel
    621-1250
    squinter@email.arizona.edu
    BSW 362B4
    Ryan, Cheryl
    Senior Graphic Designer
    626-5628
    cherylr@u.arizona.edu
    BSW 251

    website
  • Websites and pages, including BMB Department; internet troubleshooting
  • llustrations and graphics
  • Logos and website banners - department, UA
  • Branding requirements - department, UA
  • Poster and slide presentations
  • Printing
  • Image correction; image library
  • Application assistance - Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Acrobat, HTML, CSS, browsers, search engines
  • Starkey, Douglas
    Applications Systems Analyst, Senior
    626-7828
    dstarkey@u.arizona.edu
    BSW 251
  • Technical desktop support for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix OS
  • IT network management including wireless access
  • Programming
  • Recommendations for hardware, software, peripherals and supplies
  • Configuration of new computers
  • IT security
  • Biochemistry computer lab - hardware and software management
  • Server administration
  • Stotler, Bryn
    Administrative Associate
    626-9760
    bstotler@email.arizona.edu
    BSW362
  • Grant/Proposal preparation and routing
  • Grant/Proposal policy and regulatory updates liaison
  • Grant/Proposal file maintenance and tracking
  • Business office team support
  • BSW building and room key card issuance
  • BSW conference room reservations
  • Vinson, Beth
    Administrative Associate
    621-9185
    vinson@email.arizona.edu
    BSW362A
  • Human resource/payroll operations
  • Processing visas
  • Processing merits, promotions, appraisals, increases
  • Annual performance evaluations, promotions, and tenure
  • Faculty searches
  • UA policy and procedure advice
  • Warder, Ellie
    Program Coordinator
    621-5903
    warder@u.arizona.edu
    BSW 270
    General Biology Masters Program for Teachers
    Arizona Science Teacher Advancement and Research Training Program
    Yslas, Max
    Materials Supply Storekeeper/Courier
    626-4939
    405-4523 (cell)
    mgyslas@email.arizona.edu
    BSW 362B
  • Courier - campus wide, including daily trips to UMC and AHSC
  • Mail distribution