The Post-Award Team oversees the final phases of the grant life cycle. The team\u2019s mission is to ensure streamlined financial and administrative management, regulatory compliance and responsible stewardship of funds. Through collaboration with business units across campus, post-award staff facilitate efficient financial project management, empowering principal investigators to concentrate on their research objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Calley\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019s degree in accounting and public administration from Doane University. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abbey\u2019s 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\u2019s degree in English, with a minor in Spanish, from the College of Saint Mary. She is also a notary public in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019s 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\u2019s degree in studio art from Nebraska. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019s 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\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in management and marketing from Krakow University of Economics in Poland. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cassidy launched her career in government grant management, then transitioned to the university\u2019s College of Engineering as a grants manager. She joined Sponsored Programs in July 2020. She has bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in accounting from Carroll College in Helena, Montana, where she was a student-athlete in basketball. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Terri\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019s College of Engineering. Terri has a bachelor\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Marie focuses her post-award work on budget entries, donation letters, subaward payments and various special projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before joining the university, Marie spent much of her career working for Lincoln Public Schools in various capacities. In one role, she was responsible for the enrollment of more than 400 students, which involved working in multiple systems simultaneously. Marie holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in business administration from UNL.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t