OTHELLO and PULLMAN, Wash. – Five staff members will receive 2016-17 President’s Employee Excellence Awards at the Celebrating Excellence Recognition Banquet on March 31, part of Washington State University’s annual Showcase celebration of faculty, staff and student achievement.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Nominations for the 2016-17 President’s Employee Excellence Awards will be accepted until 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Five staff members will receive 2015-16 President’s Employee Excellence Awards at the Celebrating Excellence Recognition Banquet on March 25, part of Washington State University’s annual Showcase celebration of faculty, staff and student achievement.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Nominations for the 2015-16 President’s Employee Excellence Awards will be accepted until 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9. Since 1990, 53 WSU employees have received the award.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Five staff members will receive 2014-15 President’s Employee Excellence Awards at the Celebrating Excellence Recognition Banquet on March 27, part of Washington State University’s annual Showcase celebration of faculty, staff and student achievement.
Sometimes people put down roots where they least expect it. Veterans Affairs Coordinator Charii Higgins did not think in 1982 that Pullman would become her permanent place of residence. But 24 years later, she is still here.“I learned how to do wheat weaving when I came here,” said Higgins. “I never would have done that […]
For 10 years he worked in construction, operating his own business for three of those years. That is, until knee surgery left few options other than going back to school. Tom Johnson, scientific instructional technician supervisor for the Department of Physics and Astronomy, landed his dream job through a simple twist of a knee.After earning […]
When you have a telephone or technical problem in your office, what do you do? Some people resort to the hitting technique — similar to playing pinball; some use the restart technique. Those on the WSU Tri-Cities campus call IT Systems Specialist Don Frame.“Don is called the ‘phone guy’ but he does much more than […]
Not many people actually end up with the job they say they are going to have as a child. When Dana “DeeDee” Torgeson was little, she would come to work at WSU with her now retired mother, Diane Clark.“She would let me help her and I loved it; I told her that this is what […]
Large, rolled-up sheets containing project plans and piles of papers and journals cover his desk. A constant frenzy of people come in and out asking for advice. The phone is ringing while he responds to an e-mail. This is everyday, organized chaos, and Keith Bloom, assistant director for Capital Planning and Development (CPD), loves it.After […]