This week’s ‘Thumbs Up’ recipients
Academic advisors
Academic advisors: Huge thank you to each and every academic advisor for all of the hard work that you do! Thank you for all that you do for your students! — Katie May (College of Pharmacy)
Kelsey Jordan
Kelsey Jordan (Testing Center): Kelsey continues to be a great campus partner and is always willing to come together to get new projects done! — Mandie Greiwe (Disability Resource Center)
Bryan Dispennett and Robin Sipes
Bryan Dispennett and Robin Sipes (both College of Science Administration): Kudos to Bryan Dispennett and Robin Sipes for serving as the frontline coordinators to move the College of Science Student Success team from MATH to HAAS. I appreciate your planning, patience and flexibility during this detailed process! You both are valued! — Connie Kaspar (College of Science Administration)
Ally Goodrich
Ally Goodrich (Office of Vice Provost for Student Life): Thanks to Ally for almost immediately taking time out of a busy day to jump on a call with me and walk me through a student hiring procedure. She is always ready to help, and I appreciate it so much! — Mollie Siu-Chong (Purdue Convocations)
Niraj Menon and ECE 27000 Summer Team
Niraj Menon (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and ECE 27000 Summer Team: Thank you for the emergency redeploy of the test server for the ECE 27000 exam. — Ryan Beasley (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Yolanda Robertson
Yolanda Robertson (Finance and Business Operations): A big thank-you to Yolanda for making sure all of the vendor data requests are completed quickly, even with the department being short-staffed. She has gone above and beyond to handle special situations and always answers questions knowledgeably and with patience. — Megan Llamas (Finance and Business Operations)
Lisa Geisler
Lisa Geisler (Accounting Services): Thank you for offering a helping hand via a Microsoft Teams call when I was a little confused about a property accounting form. Your positive attitude and willingness to always help are appreciated! Thank you, Lisa! — Bre Cory (Student Life Business Office)
Purdue IT staff who helped deploy computers
Purdue IT staff who helped deploy computers: I want to say thank you and great job to Brandon Butram, Charlie Fultz, Rob Meagher, Greg Oertel, Jack Perun, Josh Cevela, Samuel Fultz, Sawyer Fultz, Steve Plite, Tanner Buffenbarger, Thomas Franks and Thomas Bayley. These Purdue IT staff from Purdue University in Indianapolis and Purdue West Lafayette pulled together in a short amount of time to deploy over 140 computers in one day. Their dedication to the success of Purdue University is something I have seen personally in this instance as well as in many others. Thank you, team! — Dwight Snethen (Purdue IT)
