At the end of September the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's office held its annual staff appreciation luncheon and recognized nineteen staff members who have reached milestone years at UVM:

10 Years:

  • Molly Nilan, CAS Dean’s Office
  • Andrew Fletcher, Consulting Archaeology Program
  • Holly Brevent, English
  • Tilza Buschner, English

15 Years:

  • Margaret Gilman, Anthropology (We forgot to mention her last year.)
  • Jennifer Jany, Biology
  • Charles Knight, Consulting Archaeology Program
  • Carol Tank-Day, Political Science
  • Susan Martel, Psychological Science

20 Years:

  • Hollis Robinson, Chemistry
  • Kathleen Kenny, Consulting Archaeology Program
  • Douglas Gomez, Physics
  • Diana St. Louis, Psychological Science
  • Salli Griggs, Sociology

25 Years:

  • Geoffrey Mandel, Consulting Archaeology Program

30 years

  • Kathy Floyd, CAS Dean’s Office
  • Holly Olmstead, Psychological Science

35 years

  • Patty Corcoran, CAS Dean’s Office
  • Angela Gatesy, Chemistry

After the luncheon, Dean Falls presented the Dean’s Staff Awards for Superior Performance, recognizing outstanding effort and achievement in the support of the mission of the College. There are two award categories: one for superior administrative support and one for superior technical support. Each award winner receives a personal cash award of $250.00 from the Dean’s office, and has his or her name engraved on a commemorative plaque displayed in the reception area of the Dean’s office. Copies of the nomination letters are also sent to each of the recipients.

Beth Wilkins, IT assistant for the College of Arts and Sciences, was the recipient of the award for superior technical support. Beth has served her department for the past 14 years and is frequently the first person to arrive and often the last person to leave the office. Colleagues found her to go above the duties of her job while she continued to take on new tasks on top of continuing to support her previous duties. During the summer she ensures that the labs she oversees are stable and requested software is installed.

She cares deeply about supporting the mission of the College by providing outstanding support for our faculty, staff, and teaching facilities in a way that goes far beyond what could or should be reasonably expected. And she is an encyclopedia of Windows and application knowledge. As one colleague mentioned, “It is because of her skill, dedication, and commitment to CAS that we have such a reliable computing infrastructure in the College.”

Chemistry Department Lab Coordinator Christine Cardillo was the recipient of this year’s award for superior administrative support. Christine coordinates the lab experiences of more than 3,800 undergraduates each year and is invaluable when it comes to making sure that laboratory experiments envisioned by the faculty come to fruition, and that these experiments accurately illustrate the topics from lecture.

In her four years at UVM she has worked directly with the department chair to guarantee that there are enough TAs to staff all laboratory settings. She has continued to work closely with each TA during the academic year, actively participating in TA training exercises and weekly meetings.

Her department chair also noted that he enlisted her to assist him in the planning of the Chemistry move to the new STEM building in 2017, specifically in organizing the relocation of the chemical stockroom, prep room, and storage room--not an easy feat given chemical safety concerns.