February 21, 2002
- Money
maven goes to school
Penn's vice president for Budget and Management Analysis has been named by Philadelphia's mayor to the newly formed School Reform Commission.
- EVP John Fry to leave Penn
- University examines healthcare
- Political power, computer power
- Hail to 28 who broke the mold
- Yo Philly! Help is here
- They're off and shopping
- How to manage
- Out and About: Writers, no two alike, meet and read
Hail to 28 who broke the mold
The University has selected 13 employees as 2002 Models of Excellence Award winners for work above and beyond job expectations that made a significant contribution to the University. An additional 15 staff members will receive honorable mentions, the president, provost and executive vice president of the University announced. The awards, to be presented in April, were first introduced by Human Resources in 1999 in honor of people who cut through red tape, showed leadership and thought out of the box, to make things happen.
Patrick J. Carroll, Ph.D., director,
X-Ray Facility, Department of Chemistry for development of hardware and
software applications that revolutionized X-ray crystal structure analysis
and reporting, dramatically enhancing research activities in the Department
of Chemistry.
Members of the Penn Animal Blood Bank
Nursing Team Wendy L. Hatchett, Kym Marryott, and Donna Oakley,
in the School of Veterinary Medicine, for designing and implementing a
volunteer canine blood-donor program that overcomes significant challenges
in the field of veterinary medicine.
Public Safety’s Michael J.
Fink, Deputy Chief of Operations, and Lt. Gary Heller, Commanding
Officer, Accreditation and Training Unit, whose leadership in upgrading
directives, policies, procedures and training enabled the Penn Police
to become the first campus law enforcement agency in Pennsylvania to attain
national accreditation.
For applying vision in building on
existing billing software to develop a cost-effective, user-friendly,
web-based student tuition management system that serves the diverse needs
of our University environment, the members of the Student Financial Services
(SFS) “eBill” Team in Information and Computing Systems: Dennis
Dean, project leader; Regina Koch, director, Systems Development;
Michael Merritt, senior director, administrative support; Robert
Tisot, assistant director, Systems; and Berthilla Wiscount,
financial counselor; also, from ISC, Yan Teresh, senior programmer
analyst, and Estha Venter, senior programmer.
Honorable mention
Angela Iorianni-Cimbak, director,
Mathias J. Brunner Instructional Technology Center, School of Nursing,
for directing the transformation of the nursing instructional center to
a cutting-edge, interactive training laboratory.
Members of the Penn Children’s
Center Transition Team for managing the welfare of the center’s students
and their parents during a tumultuous time of moves to multiple interim
sites and finally to a new facility: Denise Brooks, pre-school
assistant teacher; Anjali Chawla, director; Diane Coleman,
assistant teacher; Elizabeth Gillard, administrative assistant;
Frances Jackson, infant teacher; Rita Kelly, toddler assistant
teacher; Dawn Klemash, pre-school teacher; Constance Lydon,
toddler teacher; Marie Moses, infant assistant teacher; Chris
Russell-Jordan, infant assistant teacher; and Marie Witt, associate
vice president, Business Services.
For developing a central administrative
team to support multiple School of Arts and Sciences departments, considering
cost restraints, and skills of each on the team, the members of the SAS
Regional Office Team: Maryellen Cook Malek, departmental administrator,
Music Department; Miriam Mann Guerrero, manager, Administration
and Finance, Bennett Hall Business Administration Services; and Elyse
Saladoff, Business Administrator, Bennett Hall Business Administration
Services.
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