Dear Colleagues,
As we head into the summer months, I want to take a moment to thank you. It was clear to me and many others who attended commencement that your attention to detail, effective coordination, and efficient resource management ensured that everything ran smoothly from start to finish! It’s also exciting to hear that during the next couple of weeks our division will receive a number of awards.
On May 30, the Medical Center Flood Response Team, will be honored with the Team Excellence Award from the URMC Quality Institute. A&F staff who worked on the flood response team:
- EH&S: Michael Liberty, Carolyn Place, Mark Militello and Justin Carlson
- Facilities: Mark Schwartz, David Featherman, Matthew Faulks, Richard Bassney and Willie Bullard
- DPS: Michael Epping
On June 7, Michael Chudyk will receive the President’s Spotlight Award, which recognizes an individual who has spontaneously gone above and beyond in an exceptional act of kindness or service to our University. In April, Michael, who works as a groundskeeper for Facilities, jumped into the frigid Genesee River to rescue a man struggling in the water. He was aided by teammates Larry Steele, DeJuan Carroll and Noah Paterson from Facilities as well as Department of Public Safety Officer Louis DiPrima.
And the U.S. Small Business Administration recently honored Carl Tietjen as a “Minority Small Business Champion” representing the work our Purchasing & Supply Chain and Facilities organizations do to increase supplier diversity.
These achievements and many others (budget work, audit reviews, financial statement prep and audits, S&P overview, car theft investigations, contributions to the HCM project – to name just a few) are the fabric of what our division delivers every day and make a profound difference in the success of our University as a whole. Thank you!
Meliora,
Liz
Elizabeth Milavec
Executive Vice President for Administration & Finance, CFO and Treasurer
University of Rochester