Your dedication strengthens our community, your talent advances our mission and your commitment shapes our future. Today and every day, we celebrate you — and we remain deeply committed to supporting you.
– President Reginald DesRoches
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CELEBRATING MILESTONES
| Years of Service | Number of Staff* |
|---|---|
| 5 | 92 |
| 10 | 95 |
| 15 | 42 |
| 20 | 38 |
| 25 | 21 |
| 30 | 9 |
| 35 | 5 |
| 40 | 4 |
*Staff who celebrated service milestones in calendar year 2026
- 5 YEARS OF SERVICE
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- Matthew Abbatessa
- Juliana Acevedo
- Sahmeen Ali
- Jacob Amador
- Williams Baah
- Chase Baber
- Milton Baines
- Jenna Banks
- Shanshan Bao
- Frederick Bard
- Scott Batchelder
- Craig Beach
- Jennifer Branson
- Shannon Burnett
- Joseph Cardenas
- Pamela Castro
- Troy Christmas
- Tracy Cook
- Ruth Dannenfelser
- James Dekan
- Bethany Denton
- Nora Dethloff
- Pearlin Devasahayam
- Sara Dickens
- Samuel Dike
- Deanna Doheny
- Carol Dorothy
- Thomas Doser
- Cynthia Evans
- Cecilia Fernandez
- Heather Ferreyra
- Artemis Flores
- Samuel Folkman
- Avery Franklin
- Leslie Aguilar Frazier
- Naomi Fuentes
- Ingrid Garcilazo
- Bryson Grover
- Leah Hester
- Matthew Hockett
- Portia Hopkins
- Ian Housman
- Mark Jernigan
- Kyle Judah
- Karen Kassekert
- Kelly Keyes
- Kesia Knowles
- Steven Loyd
- Kandice Lozano
- Regina McKinzie
- Jonathan Meyer
- Elyse Miller
- Jessica Minskey
- John Moore
- Jessica Moreno
- Olivia Mulder
- Jessica Mullins
- Brittany Niziolek
- Caroline Noxon
- Opeyemi Odedere
- Antonio Bento de Oliveira Junior
- Gloria Osorio
- Parth Patel
- Roberta Perales
- Quoc-Khanh Pham
- Yen-Nhi Pham
- Jose Presas
- David Ramirez
- Gloria Ratliff
- Wendy Romero
- Jesus Salinas
- Andrew Sedlmayr
- Stephen Sherman
- Ronica Smucker
- Gabriela Sanchez Soto
- Nathan Stitt
- Kendra Swanson
- Sasathorn Tapaneeyakul
- Tori Thomas
- Trivia Thomas
- Huy Tran
- Roslynn Velasquez
- Kimberly Vetter
- Holly Walrath
- Mallory Welch
- Charlotte Wilkinson
- Mirela Willhelm
- Kim Woodruff
- Christina Woods
- Rene Yanez
- Fitri Yulianti
- Karina Zemel
- Yiwen Zhang
- Xinyuan Zou
- 10 YEARS OF SERVICE
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- Timothy Andrzejewski
- Ourania Archoleka
- Ana Arreola
- Delia Barrera
- Erin Baumgartner
- Lillian Besozzi
- Daniel Blacker
- Andrea Blackett
- Doris Boniaby
- Justin Bowyer
- Melanie Boyd
- Charles Brown
- Danika Brown
- Kirsten Bujosa
- Bradley Burgess
- Maria Candelario
- Adriana Campos Chiaramonti
- Brek Christensen
- Larissa Chu
- Kathleen Clark
- Alan Cooke
- Daniel Cortez
- Kristofer Cortez
- Gelu Costin
- Angelica Davis
- Benny de Los Santos
- Harshavardhan Deshmukh
- Heather Dugre
- Shannon Duncan
- Laurie Ebertowski
- Melissa Elias
- Kristi English
- Kenneth Evans
- Shawna Forney
- Claudia Garcia
- Maria Gimenez-Zapiola
- Joseph Goetz
- Corina Gonzalez
- Hua Guo
- Samantha Gutierrez
- Diana Heard
- Maria Gutierrez de Hernandez
- Lindsey Hodge
- Gloria Huerta
- Michael Hurd
- Adriana Jimenez
- Roy Johnson
- Ewart Jones
- Daniel Kirienko
- Adam Kuhn
- Lawrence Larsen
- Hien Le
- Jianhua Li
- Jing Li
- Zonghui Lian
- Thang Ma
- Christine Martinez
- Hae Hun Matos
- Keith McKay
- Ivette Mekdessi
- Rita Miller
- Francisco Monaldi
- Ricardo Mottu
- Michael Okullu
- Carlos Osorio
- Kimberly Parr
- Nancy Penner
- Malik Preston
- Jun Qian
- Kathleen Reiter
- Kim Richard
- Rebecca Riley
- Juliet Robson
- Rebecca Salinas
- Abigail Schuh
- Liz Scroggins
- Melissa Sibley
- Julian Smith
- Kerwin So
- Anuradha Srinivasan
- Troy Tabner
- Amy Tang
- Emalie Thok
- Amanda Thomas
- Yahaira Verdejo
- Heidi Vieira
- Alison Weaver
- Elena Webster
- Carrie Willard
- Robert Williams
- Kelcie Wold
- Nichole Wood
- Nebeyu Zerihun
- Linlin Zhang
- Armando Zyla
- 15 YEARS OF SERVICE
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- Juan Alejandro
- Giovanna Andreoli
- Eulalio Barboza
- Gigi Bryant
- Ronald Cabato
- Maria Calzada
- Tatianna Carr
- Elba Celis
- Javier Chavez
- Eliza Ching
- Saira Cooper
- Ruben Cortez
- Natalie de La Garza
- Guillaume Duret
- Diego Farciert
- Ruxin Feng
- Katherine Fletcher
- Richard Henricks
- Horn Horm
- Julia Jalbert
- Monique Krause
- Gang Liang
- Beata Loch
- Mary Lowery
- Jennifer Mashburn
- Phyllis McBride
- Richard Mello
- Clodin Mutombo
- Paulina Ortega
- Chris Palomarez
- Anne Papakonstantinou
- Kerry Park
- Melinda Pena
- Christopher Pennington
- Billy Perry
- Shannon Raffetto
- Stacy Ridling
- Andrea Rodriguez
- Susana Rodriguez
- Linda Ruiz
- Geoffrey Scott
- Gihan Semine
- Fatu Swaray
- Kristen Swartz
- Richard Swartz
- Chau Tran
- Sandra Wilson
- Larry Woods
- 20 YEARS OF SERVICE
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- Ali Aijaz
- Erminia Barrios
- Wiley Bennett
- Mikael Berhe
- Lisa Birenbaum
- Sidney Byrd
- Ceola Curley
- Andrew Damico
- Bethany Dylewski
- Elizabeth Eich
- Karen Ethun
- Louma Ghandour
- Christopher Heath
- William Heath
- Clinton Heider
- Maria Hernandez
- Ryan Kirksey
- Maria de La Luz Ortiz
- Jacqueline Limbaugh
- Jinghua Liu
- Vivian Mack
- Antonia Marquez
- Christine Medina
- Yesenia Morales
- Bao Nguyen
- Arie Passwaters
- Hector Pineda
- Juan Prado
- Lisa Ross
- Ana Salazar
- Francis Schmidt
- Richard Schwarz
- Rebecca Sharp
- Anna Shparberg
- E Thompson
- Kiran Thyagaraja
- Jennifer Wilson
- Xuejie Zhao
- 25 YEARS OF SERVICE
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- Alicia Bradley
- Felicia Brooks
- Robin Bryant
- Kathryn Cervenka
- John Croft
- Troy Durden
- Gertrude Ealey
- Eric Granquist
- Thanh Hardy
- Alicia Herrera
- Frances Hicks
- Bernadette Jackson
- Yolanda Jara
- Kimberly Lawrence
- Linda Marquez
- Marisela Newton
- Maria Pedraza
- Sara Trejo
- Tina Villard
- Shiree Willson
- Michael Yeakel
- 30 YEARS OF SERVICE
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- Leticia Arriola
- James Barnes
- Geary Eppley
- Lisa Galloy
- Terrence Graham
- Terry Phillips
- Mauro Reyes
- Alex Stutler
- Jon Warren
- 35 YEARS OF SERVICE
-
- Suzanne Jung
- Malgorzata Michnicka
- Franka Moshiri
- Victor Owens
- Linda Torres
- 40 YEARS OF SERVICE
-
- Arazely Garza
- Amy Kan
- Sara Lowman
- Maria Maldonado
For all you do, we care for you.
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STAFF EXCELLENCE AWARD
In recognition of the outstanding contributions of Rice staff members, the Rice University Staff Council created the Rice Staff Excellence Award. Awardees exemplify the university’s core values of responsibility, integrity, community and excellence and make a positive impact to the Rice community.
Troy Durden
Campus Services and Sustainability
Tamara Jones
Office of the Division of Student Life and Undergraduate Education
Duc Hung Nguyen
Facilities, Planning and Capital Construction
Carlos Pacheco
Campus Services and Sustainability
Cindy Pierard
Fondren Library
BOARD OF TRUSTEES STAFF RECOGNITION
Congratulations to staff recognized by the Rice Board of Trustees in calendar year 2025–26:
ELIZABETH GILLIS AWARD
“In recognition of her dedication, the Board of Trustees of Rice University established the Elizabeth Gillis Award for Exemplary Service to Rice University, to annually recognize the outstanding achievements and services by a staff member in support of the mission of the university. Recipients shall, like the woman for whom the award is named, show consistently outstanding performance and embody an exceptional attitude of service”.
Resolution by the Rice Board of Trustees, May 2000
Brian Gibson
Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduates,
Clinical Professor of Kinesiology
Division of Student Life and Undergraduate Education
Kinesiology Department, School of Natural Sciences
Y. PING SUN AWARD
“The Y. Ping Sun Award for Outstanding Community Engagement was established to honor members of the Rice community who have provided unusually devoted service to the city of Houston. The award is named after Y. Ping Sun to recognize and honor her service to Houston as an ambassador of Rice and as a person of thoughtful leadership and engagement with her community.”
Resolution by the Rice Board of Trustees, May 2022
Greg Marshall
Director of University Relations
Rice graduate and director of University Relations since 1992, Greg oversees community and local government relations and the Welcome Center. He represents Rice on multiple local boards, serves on the Incident Management Team command staff and leads the university’s United Way campaign. A longtime campus leader, he helped found the Rice Historical Society and Rice Vote Coalition, contributed to major university milestones, and has deep ties to Baker College.
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