Post-Award Staff

Calley’s role involves a wide range of post-award activities, including invoicing, reviewing expenditures, ensuring compliance with financial aspects of an award and managing receivables. She collaborates closely with university departmental personnel and principal investigators to ensure efficiency and compliance after the university receives an award.        

Calley was a program coordinator at the Extreme Light Lab in the Department of Physics before joining Sponsored Programs in 2021. She has an associate degree in accounting from the Lincoln School of Commerce and a dual bachelor’s degree in accounting and public administration from Doane University. 

Abbey provides financial management for grants from a diverse range of departments, including mathematics, modern languages and philosophy. She analyzes and prepares financial reports and invoices for these grants and advises business center staff on compliance issues.    

Abbey’s first role at Nebraska was in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders, where she served as a student services associate for three years. She then joined the Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center as a finance coordinator before transitioning to Sponsored Programs in 2023. Abbey has a bachelor’s degree in English, with a minor in Spanish, from the College of Saint Mary. She is also a notary public in Nebraska.

Charley manages financial activities for gifts, grants and contracts received by the university. This includes processing new awards, reviewing project expenses for compliance, preparing and signing financial reports, ensuring proper project closeout and serving as a Sponsored Programs liaison to funding agencies and departmental administrative staff.

Charley joined the university in 2014 as an administrative support associate for the Department of Statistics. As she gained experience, she took on increasingly complex roles, including financial specialist in both the Natural Resources and Nebraska Innovation Campus business centers within the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, where she focused on pre- and post-award financial management. In 2021, Charley transitioned to IANR’s Finance and Personnel Office, where she focused on U.S. Department of Agriculture and Commodity Board proposals, no-cost extensions, budget reallocations and award management for USDA capacity funds. She joined Sponsored Programs in 2023. Charley has a bachelor’s degree in studio art from Nebraska.   

Belinda leads a team of five other project specialists in handling the post-award requirements of grants and contracts, including efficient financial and administrative management, compliance with regulations and responsible stewardship of funds. She also provides training and guidance to new and veteran members of the Post-Award Team.    

Belinda has worked at the university for 40 years, gaining a wide range of experience in grants and contracts. She’s been at the Southeast Research and Extension Center, the Industrial Agriculture Products Center, the Department of Biological Systems Engineering and the VBI Business Center.    

As a member of the Post-Award Team, Elzbieta manages financial accounts related to grants and contracts received by Nebraska researchers. She processes and closes awards, prepares financial reports and serves as a Sponsored Programs liaison to funding agencies.

Before coming to Nebraska, Elzbieta worked for a company that develops payroll and accounting systems for businesses. She then served as office assistant to a member of Poland’s legislature, participating in many election-related activities as well as the day-to-day operations of the congressional office. She joined Sponsored Programs in 2024. Elzbieta has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in management and marketing from Krakow University of Economics in Poland.  

Cassidy uses her accounting expertise to handle invoicing and reporting for sponsored projects at the university, which includes verifying expenses and ensuring that principal investigators post expenses that align with the terms and conditions of an award. She also completes all project closeout requirements. Beyond these financial management tasks, Cassidy collaborates closely with department liaisons on campus and individual award sponsors.

Cassidy launched her career in government grant management, then transitioned to the university’s College of Engineering as a grants manager. She joined Sponsored Programs in July 2020. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from Carroll College in Helena, Montana, where she was a student-athlete in basketball. 

Craig’s work focuses on the full range of post-award activities, including financial management of gifts, grants and contracts received by Husker researchers and lending expertise on compliance issues. He also offers specialized guidance to faculty and staff on managing and closing out projects; leads training sessions for departments; and provides mentoring for Sponsored Programs colleagues. 

Before joining the university in 2024, Craig gained extensive experience in post-award functions at Northern Illinois University, where he held multiple roles, including senior grants and contracts administrator. Craig holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from John Brown University and a master’s degree in management information systems from Northern Illinois University. He also earned a Foundation of Accountancy certificate from Northern Illinois and an associate in risk management designation from the Insurance Institute of America.   

Terri’s post-award work focuses on serving faculty in the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center, the Nebraska Center for Energy Science Research, the School of Computing and the dean’s office of the College of Education and Human Sciences. She also works on select other projects, including the National Science Foundation-funded U.S. CMS Operations Program and grants from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Before joining the Post-Award Team, Terri served as an awards coordinator and helped with pre-award tasks in Sponsored Programs. Before that, she was a faculty service representative with Nebraska’s College of Engineering. Terri has a bachelor’s degree in legal administration from the College of St. Mary-Omaha, as well as certificates from the Society of Research Administrators International in a variety of areas, including financial management, research administration and management, international research, leadership, post-award and research law.           

Ben monitors and manages a portfolio of post-award projects. He is responsible for invoicing, submitting financial reports, handling changes to funding, closing out projects and more.   

Ben served as a finance and grant specialist for the Nebraska Innovation Campus Business Center before transitioning to Sponsored Programs. In that role, he handled pre- and post-award tasks and monitored principal investigators’ cost objects and work breakdown structures. Ben has an associate degree and bachelor’s degree in accounting from Purdue Global.

Jenny, a certified public accountant, performs financial management activities for gifts, grants and contracts received by the university. She also advises and trains staff on compliance issues; provides guidance in managing and closing out projects; processes and closes awards; prepares and signs financial reports; and serves as a liaison between Sponsored Programs and funding sources.

Before joining Sponsored Programs, Jenny was housed in the BPAC Business Center in the College of Arts and Sciences, which provides business support for the School of Biological Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Chemistry. In that role, she was a finance and grants specialist lead, tasked with providing finance and grants support in a timely and accurate manner and in compliance with applicable regulations and policies. Jenny has a bachelor’s degree in advertising from Fudan University and a master’s degree in accounting and information systems from the University of Texas at Dallas.