President Peter Salovey congratulated 34 staff members representing seven key initiatives, who received the first-ever President’s Award for Staff Excellence on Nov. 12.
The awards honor staff members who demonstrate Yale’s spirit of leadership, innovation, and collaboration at its best, Salovey presented honorees with framed citations for their achievements.
This year’s awardees were:
The Drupal Website Tool Creation Team
Andrea MacAdam
Nancy Flowers-Mangs
Vincent Massaro
Victor Velt
Kimberly Pasko
JoAnn Piscitelli
Jessica Greer
Tenyo Grozev
Working across departments and disciplines, this team collaborated to introduce a flexible and highly learnable web publishing tool, YaleSites, that has enabled Yale to cost effectively update and enhance thousands of pages of Web content across the university.
Damage Containment at the Environmental Science Center
Richard E. Boardman
When sprinkler heads burst during the winter recess, Boardman quickly pulled the right group of expert colleagues together and led the effort, which prevented catastrophic damage to one of Yale’s treasures, the Yale Peabody Museum’s collections.
The Clerical & Technical Summer Training Collaboration Team
Cathy Vellucci
Andrea C. Hart
Marcy Kaufman
Susan Z. Hart
Ann DeLauro
Denise D. Scott
Daria Vander Veer
Erica Sayers
Yvette C. Barnard
This team developed a Summer Training Program that has helped to expand the perspective and skills of more than 1,000 Yale staff who have participated. Their efforts reinforce Yale’s commitment to staff development and career progression.
At the Yale Health Pharmacy
Peter Steere
Demonstrating consistent innovation and excellence in patient responsiveness, Steere has made the Yale Health Pharmacy one of the lowest-cost and highest-service quality operations in the industry.
The Expansion of Internal Millwork Capabilities Team
Michael J. Pizzella
Gabriel Esposito
Kevin Gardner
Barry J. VanSteenbergen
This team recognized that millwork projects, which in the past were handled by outside experts, could be done differently and less expensively through the acquisition of a few additional pieces of equipment and the development of the millwright team.
For the advancement of Digital Learning for Yale
Lucas Swineford
Swineford helped to cultivate donors and recruit faculty to teach online courses and led the effort to overhaul and rebuild Yale’s digital learning presence. His leadership is helping to transform Yale’s digital efforts and the global accessibility of its courses.
The Yale Pathology Tissue Services Team
John McGuire
Yan S. Song
Amos Brooks
Rebecca Melucci
Deirdre H. Salemme
Laura Ann Johnson
Lori A. Charette
Lisa Gras
Joseph R. Salemme III
Sudha Kumar
This team created a resource lab that provides researchers with tissue types vital to their work and helps translate research findings into diagnostic tools, medicines, and more. Their efforts have helped expand Yale’s annual research revenues by $1 million.
