The annual Employee Benefits Fair for the Pullman campus was on Wednesday, Oct. 29 in the French Ad/Lighty second floor atrium. More than 30 vendors were available to answer questions about plans and changes. A Group Health representative explains one of their benefits plans. The Washington State Department of Retirement Systems display table. A […]
The annual Employee Benefits Fair for the Pullman campus will be noon-3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, French Ad/Lighty second floor atrium. More than 30 vendors will be available to answer questions about plans and changes. For more information, contact Human Resource Services at 335-4521.
Each January, eligible Plan 2 members of three state retirement systems may transfer to Plan 3 under certain conditions. Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS), Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) and School Employees’ Retirement System (SERS) members who joined Plan 2 before March 1, 2002 and who earn service credit in January 2008 can opt to transfer […]
Washington State University Cougar baseball team, in conjunction with Washington state’s Public Service Recognition Week 2007, the is offering a State Employees Day with Cougar Baseball. WSU employees are invited to watch the Cougs as they take on the UCLA Bruins, beginning 2 p.m. Saturday, May 19, at Bailey-Brayton Field. Each employee can buy up […]
Photo: Michael Di Filippo with Terry Shultz. Though he was hired in fall 2006 to do basic lab maintenance chores, Washington State University junior Michael Di Filippo’s extra hard work paid off when he was named not just the “Best Student Employee” at the university, but also in the state. Di Filippo, 25, from Spokane, […]
Richland, Wash. — Fluor has pledged a $6,000 scholarship package for an incoming freshman at Washington State University Tri-Cities and the Fluor Foundation is announcing a dollar-for-dollar matching program for employee donations to WSU Tri-Cities. The Fluor freshman scholarship is donated on behalf of the Fluor Corporation, Fluor Hanford and the Fluor Government Group. In […]
Quality service. Positive. Sensitive to others’ needs. These are just some of the accolades people use when describing Gary Frost. A Pullman native, Frost attended Pullman High School and Washington State University before taking a job with WSU facilities operations. “If you like the town, like the people, like the environment, then why not stay?” […]
Lynn Buckley’s office is located on the top floor of Cleveland Hall with a window overlooking campus. “I call it the penthouse,” she says with a smile. Buckley, a principal assistant in the department of educational leadership and counseling psychology (ELCP), came to WSU the summer of 1978, beginning as a time-slip employee in the […]
Sometimes staying in the place you love requires a career change. After 13 years as a human resources director for an aluminum smelter, 2006-2007 President’s Employee Excellence Award recipient William “Bill” Kelley made the switch to WSU Vancouver when nine smelters closed in the Pacific Northwest. “It was obvious that, if I wanted to continue […]
When you love what you do, life is a whole lot easier — and more enjoyable. For the past 15 years that love has taken Sandi Brabb from department manager to assistant director of veterinary and comparative anatomy, pharmacology and physiology (VCAPP). “I love my job. I love what I do,” said Brabb. “My job […]