Department Resources

Who Can Help You in the Department?

Our staff is happy to help you with anything that you might need. Listed below is the specialty areas for each out of our staff members. Please reach out to them if you need assistance. 

Tanie Boeddeker, Graduate Program Coordinator

  • Advancing to Candidacy
  • Graduate Admissions Questions
  • Clinical Accreditation support
  • Clinical Open House Support
  • CRN for Thesis or Dissertation Credits
  • Graduate Curriculum Coordinator
  • Graduate Orientation Questions
  • Graduate Program Support
  • Student Handbook Questions

Rana Harb, Graduate Finance Administrator

  • PhD and MA admissions offer and financial support processing
  • GTA training, language testing, and compliance tracking
  • Graduate student credentialing and GA benefit eligibility management (In-state tuition and subsidized health insurance)
  • GTA semester assignments, onboarding, and contract creation
  • Graduate student travel, dissertation, and thesis funding coordination
  • Scholarship, tuition grant, and waiver tracking (including Ellucian and college workflows)

Dave Cerri, Department Lab Manager

  • Lab Management
  • Equipment inventory
  • Printer Mapping
  • IT support
  • Facilities Requests

Kevin Clendening, Undergraduate Program Coordinator

  • Advising Appointments
  • Adjunct Contracts and Hiring
  • Awards Ceremonies
  • Background Checks
  • Course Evaluations
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant Hiring
  • Grading coordinator
  • On-boarding
  • Scantron Support
  • Summer Hiring
  • Syllabus Validation
  • Textbook Coordinator
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator
  • Undergraduate Committee Support
  • Website Coordinator
  • Copy Requests

Catharine Forst, Business Administrator

  • Catering
  • Contact list
  • Equipment Checkout
  • Key Requests and Codes
  • Mail
  • Office Supplies
  • Room Reservations and Access
  • Poster Printing
  • Telecom Orders
  • Undergraduate Newsletter
  • Social Media Coordinator
  • Department HR Liason
  • Personnel Hiring 

Deirdre Ward, Grants & Budget Administrator II

  • Students and Faculty in Applied Developmental, Cognitive/Behavioral Neuroscience, and Human Factors 
  • All Grant and Indirect Account-Related Activity Including Start Up and Research Accounts
  • Consultant in eVA
  • Cash receipts
  • Check requests
  • Grants, Budgets, and Associated Indirects
  • Internal Research Account
  • Non-Grant Accounts
  • OSCAR
  • OSP-Related Contracts and Personnel
  • Petty Cash
  • Purchasing 
  • Purchasing for Dr. Chaplin's Lab 
  • Purchasing for Dr. Dumas's Lab
  • Recharge sim & fMRI Accounts

Andrew Allen, Grants & Budget Coordinator

  • Students and Faculty in Clinical and Industrial/Organizational
  • All Grant and Indirect Account Related Activity Including Start Up and Research Accounts
  • Consultant in eVA
  • Cash receipts
  • Check requests
  • Grants, Budgets, and Associated Indirects
  • Internal Research Account
  • Non-Grant Accounts
  • OSCAR
  • OSP-Related Contracts and Personnel
  • Petty Cash
  • Purchasing
  • Recharge sim & fMRI Accounts

Jada Khochareun, Fiscal Technician

  • Purchasing and invoice processing (lab supplies and equipment, computers, trainings, conferences, etc.) 
  • Processing journal vouchers
  • Screening of vendors and conferences 
  • Travel for students or faculty(reimbursements, conference screening and purchasing, flight purchasing, pre-approval help, etc.)
  • Petty cash (The current supervisor of this right now, but this will change)
  • Telecom Coordinator
  • Print hub jobs, business cards, catering orders
  • eVA purchases