Graduate Education

Contact Information for School of Graduate Education

Jim Ahern, Vice Provost & Dean, (307) 766-2897

• Provides leadership for the School of Graduate Education.
• Serves in a variety of UW roles supporting UW’s teaching, research, and inclusivity missions. Member of the Academic Affairs’ leadership team, Deans’ Council, UW’s Inclusion Council, among others.
• Point of contact regarding new graduate programs, graduate program reviews, graduate student issues, graduate regulations & policies.

• New program development
• Graduate regulations & policies
• Graduate education governance, including Graduate Council
• Graduate student concerns

Danette Altergott, Accountant, (307) 766-2839

• Provides accounting and HR support for the Transdisciplinary Programs (PhD programs; Biomedical Sciences, Hydrologic Science, Molecular & Cellular Life Sciences, Neuroscience, and Program in Ecology and Evolution) and Science & Math Teaching Center.
  
  
  Contact Danette if you have questions regarding:
• Transdisciplinary Program and Science & Math Teaching Center financial processing and DHR issues
• Graduate Assistant hires for the Transdisciplinary Program and the Science and Math Teaching Center

Michele Peck, Executive Business Manager, (307) 766-6430

• Manages the business and fiscal operations of Graduate Education.
• Oversees graduate assistant (GA) hire process, including GA requirements compliance.

• GA hires, including but not limited to; processes, stipend amounts, eligibility requirements, GA checks report
• School of Graduate Education GA allocations (base, URDM, WGE, LIFE)
• Internal – School of Graduate Education financial processing and DHR issues

Eric Penicka, Senior Information Specialist, (307) 314-4406

• Organizes, analyzes, interprets, and distributes data relevant to the School of Graduate Education.
• Oversees forms, surveys, and reports that assist in Graduate Education processes.

• Graduate student data and statistics
• Running a GRE Name Buy
• Generating a Graduate Student email list

Julie Sheldon, Enrollment Marketing Strategist, (307) 766-2846

• Ensures that the graduate school and all graduate programs are marketed effectively to prospective target audiences.
• Manages marketing and enrollment activities to continually grow the graduate student enrollment.

• Graduate Recruitment Initiative, graduate student recruitment,graduate marketing and SGE website content and updates
• General graduate marketing initiatives such as videos, email and digital marketing campaigns

Debbie Swierczek, Program Coordinator, Graduate Transdisciplinary Programs, (307) 766-4128 

• Manages the six transdisciplinary programs: Biomedical Sciences, Hydrologic Science (Water Resources/Environmental Sciences & Engineering), Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Program in Ecology and Evolution, and Science and Mathematics Teaching Center.
• Provides director support.

• Program concerns or updates
• Graduate student support
• Faculty support 
• Semester course offerings 
• Catalog reviews and updates
• Transdisciplinary graduate form processing

Sarah Wolverton, Office Associate, (307) 766-6478

• First point of contact for the School of Graduate Education, managing the school’s phone and email.
• Manages the school’s graduate form processing and committee inquiries.

• Graduate form processing
• Graduate committee formation
• Scheduling with the Vice Provost/Dean
• Graduate Coordinator list changes