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| Staff excellence celebrated with annual awards | | Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:51 PM |
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| The nominees and nominators for the 2012 Support Staff Awards of Excellence were honoured at a luncheon on April 30th. This is the seventh year of these awards, celebrating the contributions of support staff with four separate awards — the President’s, Service, Leadership, and Team Awards.
The prestigious President’s Award recognizes exceptional contributions throughout a support staff member’s career at the U of M. This year’s nominees are: Marcia Bryson, financial services/ROSE; Nancy Klos, office of research services; and Kali Storm, Aboriginal Student Centre.
The Leadership Award celebrates individuals who have led their teams in achieving exceptional results and maintaining positive morale. This year’s nominees are: Charles Burchill, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, department of community health services; Karen Friesen, Faculty of Education; Terry Hnatiuk, office of research services; Angel Kwan, circulation services, Elizabeth Dafoe Library; Andrea MacIntosh, pediatrics & child health; and Brigitte Wiebe, dean’s office, Faculty of Human Ecology.
The Service Award celebrates support staff members who have exhibited a high level of initiative, dedication, and cooperation in their service to students, faculty, staff, and the general public. This award category received the largest number of nominations, including the following: Barb Blackner, administrative services, physical plant; Norma Brown, Faculty of Nursing; Christine Cyr, enrollment services; Linda Eliuk, dean’s office, Faculty of Kinesiology & Recreation Management; Debbie Gajadhar, facilities department, Faculty of Kinesiology & Recreation Management; Crystal Jorgenson, dean’s office, Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences; Thayalan Karthigesu, Faculty of Law; Theresa Kennedy, department Of community health sciences; Carla Loewen, University 1; Michelle Lopes, department of mathematics; Trudy Lyttle, department of psychology; Andrea MacIntosh, pediatrics & child health; Scott McCulloch, dean’s office, Asper School of Business; Tom Millar, dean’s office, Faculty of Education; Bob Milne, Bannatyne plumbing shop, physical plant; Glenda Parsons, dean’s office, Faculty of Human Ecology; Gisele Perrault, School of Agriculture; Amber Skrabek, dean’s office, Faculty of Engineering; Debra Watson, biosystems engineering.
The Team Award recognizes significant work done by effective, collaborative teams, exceeding the expectations of the stakeholders, and leading to improvement in procedures, productivity, or service levels. To qualify for this award at least half of the team needs to be support staff. Teams being recognized with a nomination are: Active Living directors team; architectural services team for the Active Living Center & recreational infrastructure Canada project; Bison athletic facilities team; design engineering office staff team; graduate orthodontic clinic & graduate orthodontic department support staff team; Internationally Educated Engineers Qualification team (IEEQ); marketing communications office (MCO); department of physics & astronomy office team; purchasing services team; U of M Libraries, serials team, technical services.
Congratulations to all the nominees and thanks to the nominators and supporters. The awards were presented at the President’s reception on May 22. For more information, go to the learning and development services (LDS) website, recognition programs.
And the winners are ...
President’s Award: Kali Storm, director, Aboriginal Student Centre
Leadership Award: Terry Hnatiuk, research information systems manager, office of research services
Service Award: Trudy Lyttle, technician, department of psychology; Bob Milne, plumber/steamfitter, physical plant; Amber Skrabek, external communications coordinator, Faculty of Engineering; Tom Millar, database/web master, Faculty of Education; Christine Cyr, Aboriginal recruitment officer, enrolment services.
Team Excellence Award: architectural services team, physical plant); graduate orthodontic clinic team, Faculty of Dentistry; serials team, Libraries.
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Mariianne Mays Wiebe
Editor, The Bulletin
Marketing Communications Office
bulletin@umanitoba.ca
Phone: (204) 474-8111
Fax: (204) 474-7631
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