Tiffany Stauderman

• Provide post-award sponsored research administration for the Department of Natural Resources. Provide guidance to Principal Investigators (PIs) with interpretation of Cornell University policies and procedures as they relate to sponsored research administration.
• Monitor, investigate, and resolve account deficits for 466 accounts.
• Liaison between the department, OSP, SFS, campus-wide units/departments, and external agencies.
• Establish new awards including account setup and communication with PIs to plan salaries, effort allocations, set up cost share/salary recovery, subcontracts, consulting agreements, subaccounts, etc.
• Approve travel expense reports in Concur (500 FY24)
• Maintain R&B billings for facilities used for PIs
• Answering questions on policy related to grant accounts
• Execute bi-annual asset inventory
• Pay FedEx, UPS, DHL
• Internal billings for recharge accounts

Administrative Assistant

• Executed complex travel planning and expense reporting to align with projects and grants. Including NYS grants.
• Facilitated purchase order contacts from start to close of the purchase order.
• Assisting new faculty with onboarding in the department
• Direct support for the Center for Conservation Social Science.
• Support Grad Student Association with events and purchasing.
• Maintained department website and faculty people profiles ensuring strong adherence to ADA accessibility standards.
• Managed department seminar series every semester including foreign and domestic travel arrangements for visiting speakers.
• Served as backup for assistant to the chair for the departments.

Course Coordinator

• Submitted and curate new and existing course proposals to align with NYS requirements.
• Submitted grades, facilitate room allocations, and solve any problems that may arise during any point of the semester.
• Ensured the accuracy of the new semester roster with accurate editing in CCI (Class Course Interface tool).
• Maintained Courses of Study
• Created and coordinate waitlists for undergraduate classes.

• Sorted and distributed office mail and shipments.
• Monitored calendars and scheduled appointments, meetings and travel for faculty.
• Restocked supplies and placed purchase orders to maintain adequate stock levels for main office.
• Coordinate department seminar series
• Coordinated travel arrangements by booking airfare, hotel, ground transportation, and travel reimbursements for seminar series guest speakers.
• Supported most aspects of NTRES 4300, Cornell in Washington trip.
• Supported Conservation for Social Sciences group.

• Prepared, maintained, and ordered reagents, solutions, and laboratory supplies to support experiments
• Analyzed samples with confocal microscopy
• Operated laboratory equipment such as balances, pH meter, colorimeter, spectrophotometer, autoclave, centrifuges, and evaporator.
• Trained new members in laboratory procedures, standards, and safety protocols.
• Conducted analytical tests on in-coming raw materials prior to use in process.
• Stored, transported and submitted DNA samples for sequencing.
• Collaborated with faculty and undergraduate student on honors projects.
• Acted as the point of contact for EH&S.
• Maintained and ordered radioisotopes for lab experiments.
• Teaching assistant to PI during her classes for specialized analytical techniques such as southern, western, and northern blotting.
• Prepared purchase order requests for on-site repairs and maintenance.