The Environmental Protection Agency named the UW a regional award winner for the 2021 Food Recovery Challenge. The award is given to the institutions most successful at reducing wasted food.
Moving out The Facilities Administration Building, the University Facilities Building and three of the Facilities annexes are making way for a new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building. The UWF staff now in these locations are moving this spring, with the majority headed to the University District Building next to the UW Tower. To learn more, check out the UWF relocation web page.
Garbage in, garbage abounds!
It's time to get down & dirty, sift through trash and turn it into art. Yes, it's UW Recycling's 2022 Trash Art Contest.
Open to all UW faculty, staff and students. Fun prizes await those who enter before March 11.
UW Carelink's valuable resources
UW CareLink is the employee assistance program provided for PEBB benefits-eligible UW employees and their dependents. Initial services are free, and so is the phone call. CareLink is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Join the Legion of Bloom and race, run, walk or stroll your way through campus to the cherry blossoms!
Coming soon ...
Husky Prevention & Response, the UW's Title IX online employee course that launched last October, is now a part of every new employee's initial training. The next stage is to ensure that every existing employee also completes the 90-minute online course, and UW Facilities will take part beginning in April. More details to come next month.
Recognition
Welcome Welcome to our newest employees: Deborah Garrison, Custodian Area E, Building Services; Garret Olsen, Construction Project Manager Shop 30, Project Delivery Group; Mary Ochoa, Sheet Metal Mechanic Shop 56, Maintenance & Construction; Mathew Faatili, Control Technician Shop 26, M&C; Matthew Parker, Electrician Shop 16, M&C; Michael Reed, Electrician Lead Shop 14, M&C; Michael Tillmon, Admin Specialist Shop 86, Transportation Services; Sydney Thiel, Construction Project Manager Shop 30, M&C; Veronica Childs, Administrative Assistant 3 Shop 86, Materials Management.
Promotions Congratulations to the following people on their new roles here in UW Facilities: Colleen McCumber, Electrician Lead Shop 53, Maintenance & Construction; Michael Wilson, Power Plant Mechanic, Campus Utilities Operations; Rodney Worden, Associate Vice President, Operations. For a complete list of employee moves, click here.
