Custodial Award Winners

2022 Custodial Award Winners

These annual University Facilities awards recognize individuals who have gone above and beyond in demonstrating the custodial commitments — safety, hospitality, quality, and efficiency.

CUSTODIAL SAFETY AWARD

Champions safety through their actions and commitment to themselves, their fellow staff, and the entire UR community

DEARDRE COLEMAN, TEAM LEADER

CUSTODIAL HOSPITALITY AWARD

Demonstrates a positive attitude and an ability to build lasting relationships

MARY OTTO, CUSTODIAN

CUSTODIAL QUALITY AWARD

Displays exemplary attention to detail and exceptional service

CASSANDRA HARTRIDGE, CUSTODIAN

CUSTODIAL EFFICIENCY AWARD

Displays creative thinking, provides innovative suggestions, and continually seeks ways to improve the operation

DAMYAN DAMYANOV, RETHINK WASTE ASSOCIATE

CUSTODIAL COMMITMENT AWARD

Most exemplifies all four commitments of the custodial department

GORDANA SIPOSOV, CUSTODIAN

CUSTODIAL LEADERSHIP AWARD

Demonstrates dedication to the team’s success, develops those around them, and serves those they lead

ED JONES, TEAM LEADER studies for his book Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century (University of Virginia Press).

MARUTI MISHRA, Trawick Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, was awarded a scholarship and travel award from the National Science Foundation to attend the 2022 ERP Bootcamp at the Center for Mind and Brain and a travel scholarship to present work at the Psychonomic Society’s 2022 Leading Edge Workshop. Mishra published “Not so fast! Response times in the computerized Benton Face Recognition Test may not reflect face recognition ability” in Cognitive Neuropsychology and was selected as a board member for the Vision Science Student Postdoc Advisory Committee, part of the Annual Vision Science Society meeting.

KEITH “MAC” MCINTOSH, vice president for information services and chief information officer, received the 2022 Educause DEI Leadership Award for promoting and advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

BRITTANY NELSON, assistant professor of photography, presented her work in a solo exhibition, “Meet Me At Infinity,” showing at Fotogalleriet in Oslo, Norway.

BRANDON NG, visiting assistant professor of psychology, published “Over-Rating Pain is Overrated: A Fundamental Self-Other Bias in Pain Reporting Behavior” in The Journal of Pain.

MICHAEL NORRIS, assistant professor of chemistry, and Julie Pollock, associate professor of chemistry, in collaboration with undergraduate students, published “Unravelling the role of [Ru(bpy)2(OH2)2]2+ complexes in Photo-Activated Chemotherapy” in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. Norris and undergraduate students published “SixElectron CO2 Reduction Involving Participation by Benzimidazole-Derived Bidentate Ligands in Ruthenium Complexes” in ACS Applied Energy Materials.

CAROL PARISH, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry and associate provost for academic integration, published “Words Matter: On the Debate over Free Speech, Inclusivity, and Academic Excellence” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

JULIE POLLOCK, associate professor of chemistry, was awarded a National Institutes of Health research enhancement grant with professors at High Point University for “Use of a novel tricyclic Stk1 inhibitor to uncover molecular mechanism in clinically relevant strains of S. aureus.” Pollock and Michael Norris, assistant professor of chemistry, in collaboration with students, published “Unravelling the role of [Ru(bpy)2(OH2)2]2+ complexes in Photo-Activated Chemotherapy” in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry.