Current Position:

Staff Assistant to the Seminar Chairman.  Coordinate seminar activities.  Provide support for department faculty, web publishing, and room scheduling.

Major responsibilities include:

• Coordinate departmental seminars, invited lectures, endowed candidates, and graduate research seminars.  Interact with visiting professors.  Advise faculty/student hosts on policies.  Reporter for Science Seminars.  Prepare press releases, fliers, and brochures.  Reserve flights.  Schedule meetings and itineraries.  Arrange hotel accommodations and shuttle services.  Reserve audio/visual equipment and media technicians.  Prepare refreshments.  Compile information for annual report to Department Head.

• Manage department websites.  Create and/or update web pages for general department information, faculty publications, news and events, journal clubs/group meetings, seminars, course information, and department lecture hall.  Post course information for faculty.  Scan and post images as required.

• Provide staff support to faculty.  Assist with course work, exams/quizzes, correspondence, books, manuscripts, and grant proposals.  Technical typing of lab manuals with gene sequences, complicated diagrams, charts, and graphs.  Utilize ISIS for course count and class list information.

• Maintain schedule for department lecture hall.  Utilize ISIS to monitor room availability.  Monitor room usage and security after 5:00 p.m.  Schedule activities in general purpose classrooms.

• Provide staff support to the graduate program.  Utilize ISIS for course drop/add, transcript requests, and student schedules.  Schedule classrooms for comprehensive exams and final oral thesis defenses.  Type and distribute dissertation notices.  Assist with the Graduate Student Research Forum.  Assist with publication of department brochure.

• Distribute mail. Maintain mailroom.  Notify recipients of special packages.  Assign mailboxes.  Forward mail.  Maintain forwarding address files.