Employee Recognition Awards Ceremony 2018

Staff Assembly recognizes Citations of Excellence recipients and staff and staff dependents scholarship winners

The annual Staff Assembly Awards ceremony was held on September 10th at the Walter Buehler Alumni Center Moss Patio. Brian Wadell, chair of Staff Assembly, opened the award ceremony and welcomed Chancellor May to his first Staff Assembly Awards Ceremony. Chancellor May spoke to the attendees and was joined by Provost Hexter in congratulating the recipients for their achievements.

Citations of Excellence

Staff Assembly’s annual Citations for Excellence awards program provides recognition for individual staff and staff teams. Thanks to generous support from the Office of the Chancellor, Staff Assembly awarded more than $15,000 to eleven individual staff members and three staff teams.

The Citations of Excellence awards program provides recognition for individual staff and staff teams, who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in one of the following areas:

Innovation
Research
Service
Supervision
Teaching

Citation of Excellence Recipients

Innovation

Chris Loza

Application Director, Financial Aid & Scholarships

Research

Seth Watkins

Staff Research Assistant, Plant Sciences

Service

Charlene Green

Director, Office of Student & Resident Diversity, School of Medicine

Lee Riggs

Library Assistant, UC Davis Library Research Support Services

Supervision

Heavenly Clegg

Chief Administrative Officer, Languages & Literature

Brendan Livingston

Director, Enrollment Management Analytics

Kellie Sims Butler

Assistant Dean, Graduate Studies

Teaching

Leanna Friedrich

Undergraduate Advisor, Blue Cluster

Rosa Rodriguez

Associate Director, CANDEL Program, School of Education

Joanne Snapp

Director, Health Professions Advising

Citation of Excellence Honorable Mention

Innovation

Daniel Ransom, Application Developer, Financial Aid & Scholarships

Supervision

Kathy Miner

Chief Administrative Officer, Division of Social Sciences, Blue Cluster

Team Campus Community Contributions

Aggie Desktop Development Team

Dean Bunn, Janine Carlson, Ben Clark, Scott Dyer, Ken Jones, Sam Mosher, Brian Rose, Anthony Shriver, Chuck Sievers, Jeff Trask, Kevin Vellanoweth, & Ian Wright

Chicana and Chicano Studies Academic Support Team

Alma Martinez & Alyssa West

University Library Study Space Team

Cesar Gomez, Robin Gustafson, Jose Gutierrez, Alain Javier, Rajendra Singh, Derek Sisneros, & Daniel Villanueva

Scholarships

Staff and staff dependents were awarded $37,000 in scholarships. These included the Larry N. Vanderhoef Endowment Scholarship, Kathleen Moore Endowment Scholarship, Latino Staff and Faculty Association Scholarship, the UC Davis Retiree Scholarship, and the Staff Assembly Scholarships funded by the TGFS Vendor Showcase.