Shipping and Receiving
Life Sciences shipping & receiving staff provides services for the following departments: Molecular Biosciences, Neurobiology, IBiS, Biological Sciences, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Center for Reproductive Sciences, and Center for Circadian Biomedicine.
- Receive orders placed by faculty, staff and students of the departments.
- All packages are delivered to labs and offices the same day they are received.
- Receivers are entered into the online purchase order system and the NU Financial system accordingly.
- Ship packages and freight as requested by various means such as UPS, FedEx and other trucking companies.
- We prepare all UPS shipments for pick up and shipping by UPS.
- We will pack, secure and band all packages and crates.
- Provide manageable interdepartmental moving services.
- We will move office furniture and equipment as well as laboratory appliances and equipment upon request (All moving jobs request will be subject to approval based on the size of the moving job).
- Maintain liquid nitrogen inventory.
- The shipping and receiving staff will refill the liquid nitrogen tanks as needed to ensure that it is available for the departments.
- Maintain copy paper inventory to ensure that copy paper is available for the departments.