238 Food Innovation Center
1901 N 21st Street
Lincoln, NE 68588-6205
FAX:402-472-3924
Business Manager II: Sarah Stehr
Phone: 402-472-5882
Regular Office Hours: Monday though Friday – 7:30am to 5:00pm
General Information
The Nebraska Innovation Campus Business Center (NICBC) is a unit within the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR) with key services that include budget development and administration, financial management, and grant development and support responsibilities for multiple University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL) departments and units. The NICBC supports Food Science & Technology, the Food Processing Center, the Dairy Store, Food Allergy Research & Resource Program, the Nebraska Food for Health Center, the Nebraska Gnotobiotic Mouse Program, Consolidated Greenhouses, Daugherty Water for Food Institute, Nebraska Water Center, Water Sciences Lab, Biological Systems Engineering, and the Industrial Agricultural Products Center.
Located on Innovation Campus in the Food Innovation Center, this unit has the unique opportunity to provide not only the highest level of professional services to the departments and their faculty, staff, and students but also interacts with a customer focus with clients, businesses, and the surrounding community. This team is dedicated to quality, efficiency, and professional development with a focus on collaboration and continuity of process.
NIC Personnel
- Leadership and oversight for budget, financial management, and grant operations
- Strategic advisor of business processes, policies, and strategic planning
- Support of business center staff through guidance, engagement, and development
- Service Center rates management/financial reporting for FST and BSE
Financial Staff
- Primary grant proposal submission and post-award portfolio management for FST
- State and revolving cost object management
- Funding changes and summer salary processing for 9/12 faculty
- Foundation reimbursement requests
- Invoicing for Food Processing Center
- Accounts receivable collections, cash posting/deposits, journal entries, and PO approvals
- Reconciliation for revolving and state accounts
- Foundation reimbursement requests
- Primary support and post-award portfolio management for DWFI, NWC, and WSL
- State and revolving cost object management
- Foundation reimbursement requests
- Contracts management
- Primary grant proposal submission and post-award portfolio management for BSE
- Funding changes and summer salary processing for 9/12 faculty
- Pre-award training for new employees/management of grant workload
- Primary support and post-award portfolio management for BSE
- Service Center set-up and management/Invoicing for Tractor Test Lab
- Foundation reimbursement requests
- FARRP invoicing/aging reports and statements
- Accounts receivable collections, cash posting/deposits, journal entries, and PO approvals
- NIC sublease invoicing and statements
- Account reconciliation