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Administrative Office

Welcome to the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Administrative Office.  If you have any special requirements, please contact Business Manager Marva Anderson.

Location: 569 Dabney

Phone: (865) 974-3065

Fax: (865) 974-3067

Office hours: 8:00am – 5:00pm, Monday – Friday

EEB is supported by four administrative staff members.  They are listed below, along with their job titles.



Marva Anderson
Business Manager
mander16@utk.edu

Duties:

  • Annual budget setup
  • Monthly budget reconciliation
  • Staff recruitment – Taleo
  • Faculty search and leave requests – Interfolio
  • Course banking
  • Ledger approvals
  • HR – Prepare and/or submit paperwork (pay funding changes, terminations, new hires, transfers, etc.)
  • Space inventory (annual update of space list in IRIS)
  • Contracts and subcontracts
  • Additional pay and certifications
  • Summer pay
  • Grad recruitment waiver assistance
  • Proposal submissions
  • Faculty F&A balances
  • Office staff reviews
  • Annual merit raises
  • Grant closeouts
  • New account requests
  • Effort certification

Mia Manire
Accounting Specialist II

mmanire@utk.edu

Duties:

Lisa Stalnaker

Administrative Specialist II &
Undergraduate Coordinator

ldutton@utk.edu

Duties:

  • UG curriculum changes and updates
  • Timetable, curriculum changes, overrides, registration, class setup
  • EEB email
  • Equipment inventory
  • EEB Department website updates
  • Room Reservations
  • EEB social media updates
  • EEB marketing
  • Purchasing
  • Procurement Card Reconciliation
  • Donation letters
  • Biweekly Payroll (Biweekly Timesheet Excel file)
  • Departmental Parking Representative
  • Biology Field Station reservations

Chrisanne Romeo
Administrative Specialist III & Graduate Coordinator
cromeo@utk.edu

Duties:

  • Grad student recruitment / insurance / annual reviews / management
  • Internal account balances (graduate students)
  • Timetable, curriculum changes, overrides, registration, class setup
  • Listservs
  • HR – Prepare and/or submit paperwork (pay funding changes, terminations, new hires, transfers, etc.)
  • Sponsorships
  • Monthly payroll and monthly leave
  • Tenure and promotion submissions – Interfolio
  • Visa submissions
  • IRIS reviews
  • Department Event Coordinator