202F Keim Hall
1825 North 38th Street
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln NE 68583-0915
Business Manager: Teresa Loseke
Phone: 402-472-7916
Regular Office Hours: Monday though Friday – 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
General Information
The HAPPI Business Center is a unit within the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR), that performs specialized business services in financial and human resource management for our departments: Agronomy & Horticulture, Plant Pathology, and Doctor of Plant Health. We also support the Center for Grassland Studies.
The HAPPI team works together to provide excellent, high-quality professional services with the highest levels of integrity, accountability and customer focus for the departments and their faculty, staff, students and clients. Major activities include budget development and administration, financial management services, human resources and payroll management, and grant development and management.
HAPPI staff encourages you to utilize our talents and skills to assist you in your business processes and to provide us with feedback about your needs, questions, and concerns.
HAPPI Personnel
- Provides overall management to the Business Center staff in Finance, Grants, Accounting, Procurement, Travel and other Business related administration actions.
- Provide overall guidance to unit administrators, faculty, staff, and students in fiscal management, human resources and grants/contract administration.
- Serves as liaison to IANR Finance & Personnel, IANR Deans & VC
offices, CAS Dean’s office, VC for Research, the VC for Academic Affairs, and all
other university functional offices in the management of fiscal issues.
Financial Staff
- Provide portfolio fiscal coordination and management for grants, state funds,
revolving and foundation accounts. - Acts as a liaison between the department, IANR Finance & Personnel, and the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP).
- Monitor accounts and support financial planning through projections, budget
tracking, and reporting to support grant management and decision-making. - Provides Fee-for-service agreement review, coordination and management.
- Contract Management and processing
- Account management for departmental accounts of Agronomy
- Provide portfolio fiscal coordination and management for grants, state funds,
revolving and foundation accounts. - Acts as a liaison between the department, IANR Finance & Personnel, and the
Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) - Monitor accounts and support financial planning through projections, budget
tracking, and reporting to support grant management and decision-making - Provides Fee-for-service agreement review, coordination and management.
- Provide portfolio fiscal coordination and management for grants, state funds,
revolving and foundation accounts. - Acts as a liaison between the department, IANR Finance & Personnel, and the
Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP). - Monitor accounts and support financial planning through projections, budget
tracking, and reporting to support grant management and decision-making - Contract Management and processing.
- Provides Fee-for-service agreement review, coordination and management.
- AgHort Pre-/Post Award Grant Development including grant proposal review, budget development, confirming cost share documentation and match commitments, processing and routing.
- Provides fiscal coordination and management for grant cost objects.
- Provides Fee-for-service agreement review, coordination and management.
- Foundation and 27-WBS account management to include industry and charity donations