Staff & Other Offices
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Chair’s Office
Michael P. Doyle
Professor and Chair
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1788
0107H Chemistry Building
Web Link
Group Website
Responsibility
Department Chair and Head of Administration
Herman Ammon
Professor & Associate Chair, Undergraduate Program
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1824
B-0123 Chemistry Building
Web Link
Ann Donnellan
Administrative Assistant II
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1813
0107 Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Twice daily distribution of mail
- Maintenance of mail room
- Process and distribute all key requests
- Process request for building electronic access
- Department Telephone Representative (DTR)
- Scan, copy, mail documents upon request
Daniel Falvey
Professor & Associate Chair, Facilities and Instruction
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1808
3371 Chemistry Building
Web Link
Cathy Fisanich
Executive Administrative Assistant
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1795
0107 Chemistry Building
Responsibility
- Provides secretarial support to Chair
- Schedules standing departmental meetings
- Oversight of Chair’s calendar (note: Dr. Doyle primarily manages his calendar)
- Makes travel arrangements for Departmental visitors (not seminar speakers)
- Filing
- Back-up to Ann for key distribution
Dolores Jackson
Director, Administrative Services
Email:
Phone: 301-405-4530
0107B Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
Administrative Leadership
- Accountable for overall performance of day to day operations of department
- Work closely with Chair on departmental budget, staff issues and physical plant matters
- Manages departmental resources
- Ensures appropriate internal audit controls
- Provide professional development opportunities for staff
- Point person for most departmental activities and concerns
- Manage leave and time-reporting for staff and faculty appointments (includes appointed researchers)
- Oversees performance management process of administrative staff
Garyk Papoian
Monroe Martin Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Graduate Programs & Director of Admissions and Recruiting
Email:
Phone: 301-405-8667
2216A Chemistry Bldg. 091
Web Link
Group Website
Administrative Support
Krystle Chick
Coordinator (Undergraduate Services Office)
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1793
1206 Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Oversight of the day-to-day operations of the UG program office. Serves as primary liaison with internal and external customers.
- Collect, compile and organize data as requested of Director and Associate Chair of UG programs.
- Work with Director and/or Associate Chair of UG programs to assign teaching assistants, make-up exams, and other student oriented scheduling tasks such as course and room assignments, discussion pairings.
- Coordinates the book orders for department, obtains desk copies from publishers, work with Library for reserve copies.
- Maintains department archive of syllabi, exams, and final grades in accord with University policy. And other miscellaneous duties as assigned
Paulette Frazier
Coordinator
Email:
Phone: 301-405-2416
1115 Biomolecular Sciences Building
Responsibility
- Provides administrative support to researchers in Biomolecular Sciences Bldg
- Process Procurement and reimbursements.
- Travel arrangements and requests
- Manages facilities Issues in Bldg 296
- Manages Key and Building Access
- Equipment repairs
Cathy Rosenfelder
Program Management Specialist (UG Office)
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1791
1206 Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Manage the day-to-day operation of the UG Programs serving as the primary source of information regarding requirements for a degree in Chemistry or Biochemistry and direct more specific inquires to supervisor or others as appropriate.
- Schedule appointments with Undergraduate Director.
- Maintain majors’ listserve and send out periodic announcements of summer internships, job opportunities and grad school information.
- Maintain advising database
- Clear advising blocks and prerequisite checks in SIS
- Coordinate outreach events
- Organize Undergraduate awards reception
Business Operations
Ruth Boone
Accounting Associate
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1882
0104C Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Reconciliation and reallocation of FedEx charges
- Processes Miscellaneous Payment Requests (MPRs)
- Process Foundation Reimbursements
- Check deposits
Joe Borromeo
Accounting Associate
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1065
0104A Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Process purchase requisitions
- Reconciliation and reallocation of Purchasing Card charges
- Process miscellaneous JV’s
Ernest Chang
Accounting Associate
Email:
Phone: 301-405-8538
0101F Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Process purchase requisitions
- Reconciliation and reallocation of Purchasing Card charges
- Process billing to ACS for journal accounts
Sarah Gebremicael
Grants and Contracts Coordinator
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1880
0104D Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Faculty and Shared instrumentation account reconciliations
- Facilities Billing (external and internal)
- Journal vouchers
Joyce Madoo
Payroll Coordinator
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1877
0104E Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Processes all appointments
- Coordinates and processes immigration applications
- Liaison to OIS (Office of International Studies) and UHR Benefits
Monique Prince
Accounting Associate
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1878
0104B Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Process purchase requisitions
- Reconciliation and reallocation of Purchasing Card charges
- Process ChemStores billing
- Process Travel Approvals and Expense Statements
- Process Miscellaneous Payment Requests
Carl Womack
Director of Finance
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1879
0104G Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Departmental Liaison to ORAA,OCGA, Accounts Payable and Procurement
- Responsible for reconciliation of accounts
- Assist with pre-award budget development, grant submissions and close-outs
- Departmental approver for most financial transactions
Computing Services
Angel Grant
I.T Assistant
Email:
Phone: 301-405-8553
3222A Chemistry Building
Responsibility
- Provides helpdesk support to users on all hardware, software and network
- Maintains OWL lab
- Maintains and set-up video-conferencing
Caedmon Walters
Director of Information Technology
Phone: 301-405-1404 3222A Chemistry Bldg. 091Responsibility
Provides leadership and coordination of department technology and information systems activities and establishes technology aimed at furthering the efficiency of the department in Instruction and Administration
- Departmental liaison to College IT group and Division of Information Technology
- Supervises IT Associate
- Department DDR with OIT for all network and hardware concerns
- Ensures smooth operation of data and telecommunication assets.
- Has primary oversight of all departmental websites and relational database systems.
- Develops, deploys and manages software distributions and application packages.
- Manages departmental helpdesk support for users on all hardware, software and network
Editorial Offices
Sara Moran
Program Administrative Specialist (Analytical Chemistry)
Phone: 301-405-8614 1504 Chemistry Bldg. 091Responsibility
- Manages the day-to-day operations of the Journal of Analytical Chemistry Editorial office under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Fenselau
- Facilitates the preparation of annual Associate Editor’s report.
- Provides administrative support to Dr. Fenselau and her research group
Shirl Phelps
Coordinator (Journal of Physical Chemistry)
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1327
2363 Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Manages the day-to-day operations of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Editorial office under the supervision of Dr. John Fourkas
- Administrative support to Dr. Fourkas
- Manage the Fourkas Research Group website (editing text and directing the updating of layout and images)
- Compose Fourkas Group documentation, press releases and correspondence
- Coordinate submissions of multi-investigator grant proposals
- Provides visual documentation of Fourkas Group research through use of photography or videography
- Working with department IT group produces the quarterly
Facilities/Operations
Levi Gayatao
Storekeeper II (Chemistry Receiving)
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1841
0203 Chemistry Bldg. 091
Web Link
Responsibility
- Receipt, verification, and logging in of all incoming packages
- Issuing Inventory control tags on all new equipment
- Picks up discarded lab glass boxes
- Maintains liquid nitrogen manifold and refills tanks
- Collects surplus equipment to go to Terrapin Traders
- Reclaims refrigerant from discarded equipment, air conditioners or refrigerators/freezers
- Maintains distilled water system in Wing 5
- Changes water filters in ice machines (6)
William Griffin
Storekeeper II (Chemistry Stores)
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1838
0202/0205A Chemistry Bldg. 091
Web Link
Responsibility
- Maintenance of ChemStores Inventory
- Includes ordering inventory
- Maintenance of compressed gasses
- Processing Customer sales
- Maintains alcohol control log
Scott Taylor
Engineering Technician III
Phone: 301-405-1806 B0122 Chemistry Bldg. 091 Web LinkResponsibility
- Provides support and repair of UG lab instrumentation
- Provides support to NMR facility (filling LN2 tanks and LN2 and He fills for magnets)
- Provides maintenance to common research equipment such as autoclaves
- Billable repairs to research laboratory equipment per the request of faculty
Linda Zappasodi
Director of Operations
Email:
Phone: 301-405-5463
0107C Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
Provides leadership and coordination of department physical plant, renovation and material handling activities
- Oversees facility maintenance, construction and renovation projects
- Maintains department space utilization information
- Works with department safety committee to ensure compliance
- Department Liaison to Departments of Facilities Management and Environmental Safety.
Graduate Program Office
Diane Canter
Administrative Assistant II (Biochemistry Graduate Program)
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1028
0129 Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Manage the day-to-day operation of the Biochemistry Graduate Program serving as the primary source of information regarding admission and program requirements.
- Maintains Department webpage for seminar series and distribution of announcements through various medias
- Responsible for travel arrangements and reconciliations of department seminar speakers.
- Manages admissions application pool and provides assistance to admissions committee
- Assist with organization of Visit Maryland Day, Graduate Awards ceremony and other graduate program events
- Back-up department contract for University’s Maryland Electronic Graduate System (MEGS) database
Elizabeth Hontz
Program Management Specialist (Chemistry Graduate Program)
Email:
Phone: 301-405-7022
0129 Chemistry Bldg. 091
Responsibility
- Manage the day-to-day operation of the Chemistry Graduate Program serving as the primary source of information regarding admission and program requirements.
- Liaison between the Department and other offices within and outside the University. Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with them.
- Clear course blocks in SIS
- Primary department contact for the University’s Maryland Electronic Graduate System (MEGS) database
- Manages admissions application pool and provides assistance to admissions committee
- Assist with organization of Visit Maryland Day, Graduate Awards ceremony and other graduate program events
Lyle Isaacs
Professor & Director of Chemistry Graduate Program
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1884
3341 Chemistry Building
Web Link
Group Website
Douglas Julin
Associate Professor & Director of Biochemistry Graduate Program
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1821
3505 Biochemistry Building
Web Link
Lower Division Stockroom
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Shared Instrumentation
Karen Gaskell
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Email:
Phone: 301-405-4999
B0127/B0129 Chemistry Bldg. 091
Web Link
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Yiu-Fai Lam
NMR & EPR Facilities
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1869/51870
B0130B Chemistry Bldg. 091
Web Link
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Peter Zavalij
X-Ray Crystallography
Email:
Phone: 301-405-1861
B0127/B0129 Chemistry Bldg. 091
Web Link
