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March employees of the month


Elaine Warren, Unclassified employee

Elaine Warren

Started at KU: 1999.

Current title: Director of public relations, KU Edwards Campus.

What that means: Warren is responsible for promoting the campus, its programs and its activities to the greater Kansas City metropolitan area and internal and external audiences.

Notable: For several years Warren has organized Edwards Campus participation in the annual Day of Caring sponsored by United Way. She was also selected for the Overland Park Chamber Foundation Leadership class.

Jo Nell Proctor, University support staff

Jo Nell Proctor

Current title: Accountant III, KU Libraries.

What that means: Proctor is the primary resource for the libraries and the Vice Provost for Information Services for operation, management and review of the budget/financial systems.

Notable: Proctor compiles, reviews and distributes reports for an annual budget of more that $20 million. She oversees a myriad of databases — financial, payroll, student payroll, travel and telephone, among others — ensuring that the information is accurate and correcting any problems that she identifies. She also serves as the Web site manager for the Libraries administrative office, and is responsible for reconciling and reporting on the libraries' endowment resources.

NOTABLE ALUMS

Ruth Patrick has been called the "den mother of ecology." Patrick has worked for decades with diatoms, which are single-cell algae that are present in nearly every body of water. She discovered diatoms can be the prime indicator of water quality, because the cells readily absorb pollutants. She also devised a well-known model, the Patrick Principle, for determining a body of water's health by evaluating all life in it.