Erin Wallace provides high-level administrative oversight for Materials faculty, including updating project plans, timelines, coordinating resources, and assisting with financial and logistics support. She independently manages a diverse range of tasks to coordinate the unit’s day-to-day operations, special events, and seminars.
Prior to joining the University of Chicago Erin was the executive assistant to the senior vice president and director of IIT Research Institute, where she initiated software integrations and customizations and redesigned the corporate intranet site. The assistant to the vice president for research at Northwestern University for over a decade, Erin arranged complex engagement opportunities, managing events and communications, budgets, surveys, and live multi-site town halls, while providing day-to-day support to sponsored research, compliance, and development constituents. Erin was the pre-award and post-award program administrator for a $2M Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) award to the university.
Erin received a Master of Science Communication from Northwestern University in 2019, focusing on visual communications and the U.S. healthcare system and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California at Berkeley with studies in post-colonialist literature.