AVE Business Center

120a Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Hall 
1880 N 42nd Street 
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln NE 68583-0905

Business Manager: Carrie Adams
Phone: 402-472-3025
Email: cadams59@unl.edu

Regular Office Hours: Monday though Friday – 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

General Information

The mission of the AVE Business Center is to provide efficient, thorough, and easily-accessible service in budgeting, accounting, purchasing, human resources, and grant management for our customers — the faculty, staff, and students —in the units we serve.

As part of IANR Heartland Business Center Group, the AVE Business Center is dedicated to serving the business administrative needs of the Animal Science Department, the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine, the Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center, and the Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center. By combining business functions from individual units into a central office, staff members are able to specialize in specific areas, which allow them to develop a high level of expertise. This is essential to meet the increasingly complex and demanding requirements of modern academic business administration. Additionally, the Business Center has adopted many of the electronic tools of the virtual office to assure easy access by customers, regardless of where they are located.

AVE Personnel

  • Provides overall guidance to Business Center staff in fiscal management, human resources and grants & contract administration.
  • Provides guidance to unit administrators, faculty and staff 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 & human resources issues.

Financial Staff

  • Provides fiscal coordination for the Animal Science Department.
  • Unit account reconciliation and monitoring.
  • Purchasing Card management and reconciliation
  • Accounts receivable and Accounts Payable.
  • Provides fiscal coordination for the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine, and the Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center.
  • Unit account reconciliation and monitoring.
  • Purchasing Card management and reconciliation.
  • Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.
  • Travel coordinator.
  • Develop financial reports for faculty and staff.
  • Overall supervision of the finance function.
  • Overall supervision of the grant management function.
  • Management of Grants and Contracts (Pre-Award).
  • Grant proposal Development (tracking, budgeting, review, match, and entry and routing in NUGrant).
  • Act as grant liaison with IANR Ag Finance and Personnel and the Office of Sponsored Programs.
  • Advise on university, State and Federal grants and contracts laws and regulations.

TBA

Finance Coordinator, 472-2327, C206k ANSC , EC 0908.

  • Monitoring grant awards and contracts (Post-Award).
  • Grant account reconciliation.
  • Processes Personnel Activity Reports.
  • Travel Coordinator.
  • Inventory Manager.
  • Develop financial reports for faculty and staff.

Human Resources Staff

  • Overall supervision of the human resources/payroll function.
  • Coordinator of all staff and student searches.
  • Guide the development of job descriptions.
  • Management of, and entry into, PeopleAdmin.
  • Manage the hiring function
  • Interpret and advise on university and federal personnel policies.

Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center (NVDC) Personnel

  • Provides fiscal coordination and account management for the Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center (NVDC).
  • Provides overall guidance to the NVDC administrators, faculty and staff in fiscal management/budgeting and development of operating procedures.
  • Serve as liaison to IANR Finance & Personnel, IANR Deans & VC Offices, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln functional offices in the management of fiscal and human resources.
  • Payment Processing, Monthly Statements, and Client Account management for Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center (NVDC).
  • Provides fiscal coordination of purchasing for NVDC.
  • Reconciliation of NVDC service center accounts.