Staff

Jenny Claire Carey

Grants Manager
jccarey@uga.edu
252F Brooks Hall   |   706-542-6027

As Grants Manager, Jenny Claire’s primary responsibilities include assisting Principal Investigators with administrative aspects of awards including: serving as petty cash custodian for research incentives; coordinating payroll for PIs, support staff, and GRAs; processing reimbursements; purchasing; and monitoring budgets.

Jenny Claire graduated from Emmanuel College in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.  Jenny Claire joined OIBR in April 2018, and she has been with UGA since September 2015.

Kimberly Silvis Cherewick

Assistant Director
ksilvis@uga.edu
255D Brooks Hall   |   706-542-6078

Kim is the Assistant Director of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research and a Decentralized Limited Signatory Authority for the University of Georgia Research Foundation. Kim is responsible for assisting the Director in overseeing all operations of the Institute: Research, Personnel, Financial, Strategic Planning, and Faculty Development Programs.  Kim supervises both pre- and post-award activities, working closely with the OIBR Grants Coordinator and Business Managers, and she remains proactively involved throughout the life of the research projects.

Kim takes great pleasure and pride in the opportunity to provide extensive service to University of Georgia faculty, both emerging and eminent scholars, in pursuing their goals of inquiry. She enjoys leading the OIBR team as we implement new ideas to increase interdisciplinary collaboration and outreach across the University of Georgia and beyond.

Andrea Horsman

Outreach and Communications Manager
ahorsman@uga.edu
255C Brooks Hall  |  706-542-6074

Andrea is the Outreach and Communications Manager for OIBR. Her primary responsibilities include facilitating communications effort, including the OIBR website, Twitter page, newsletter and OIBR printed/promotional materials to provide up-to-date and accurate information about the organization.

She works with OIBR Directors to enhance the organization’s outreach across campus and develop new, creative bench-marking methods for providing our faculty with interdisciplinary research opportunities and to stimulate collaboration.

Andrea also plans and coordinates events and meetings for the institute and provides support to the management team. She has been with OIBR since October 2016 and has worked within the university system since 2010.

Paula McIntyre

Business Manager III
paulamc@uga.edu
252G Brooks Hall   |   706-542-2841

Paula serves as Business Manager for OIBR. She is the primary post-award service departmental contact for an assigned group of sponsored projects. She is responsible for assisting Principal Investigators with all administrative aspects of an award to include: coordinating the hiring and payroll processes; serving as petty cash custodian for research incentives; processing reimbursements; purchasing; monitoring budgets; reconciling expenses; processing sub-contract invoices and consulting agreements; assisting with submitting progress reports and no-cost extensions; and helping ensure all account financial activities are in compliance with UGA and external funding agencies’ requirements. In addition, she provides budgeting and accounting support for OIBR’s departmental state accounts.

Paula received a B.B.A in Finance from North Georgia College and State University. She has been a part of OIBR since January 2014 and has worked with UGA since May 2009.

L. Renee Moore

Senior Accountant
reneemoore1@uga.edu
252E Brooks Hall   |   706-542-7202

Renee joined OIBR in June 2019. She is our Senior Accountant and her primary responsibilities include performing grant-related post-award functions, including: serving as payroll coordinator for all positions managed by OIBR; initiating payment and purchase requests; and monitoring sub-award & consulting agreements. She serves as departmental p-card cardholder and petty cash coordinator for externally and internally funded projects.

Renee has many years of accounting experience and has been with UGA since 2016.

Cabe Mottley

Business Manager II
cmottley@uga.edu
252B Brooks Hall   |   706-542-6100

Cabe is a Business Manager at OIBR. His primary responsibilities are maintaining ten grant accounts and one Endowment account; purchasing; travel reimbursement and payment processing; as well as personnel and payroll processing.

Cabe received a BA in History from the University of Georgia in 2005. He started his career at UGA in 2000 and has been a member of our team since 2014.

Mysti Scheuer

Grants Coordinator III
mysti@uga.edu
255B Brooks Hall   |   706-542-2983

As the Grants Coordinator for the institute, Mysti’s duties are primarily oriented to pre-award support including finding funding, coordinating grant proposals, drafting non-scientific components, and ensuring adherence to organizational and sponsor-related administrative guidelines. She also assists with Just In Time requests, award budget revisions, project progress reports, no-cost extensions and other administrative responsibilities.

Mysti graduated from the University of Georgia in 2008 with a B.A. in Political Science and has five years of experience in research administration. She joined OIBR in September 2019 and has been employed with UGA since 2014.