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February employees of the month

Cindy Bracciano Unclassified employee

Cindy Bracciano

Current title: Programmer I, KU Continuing Education.

What that means: Bracciano develops and maintains customer, events and business management systems and user and technical documentation.

Quotable: A colleague says, "Cindy's dedication and work ethic are immeasurable. Her can-do attitude is a constant. Continuing Education is a large department with approximately 100 employees using the systems that Cindy helps to program, support, and maintain."

Betty Vincent University Support Staff

Betty Vincent

Current title: Administrative associate, Hall Center for the Humanities.

What that means: Vincent greets and assists visitors to the Hall Center, gives tours of the facility, and provides administrative assistance for program planning and event implementation.

Quotable: "Her work ethic, dedication, efficiency and continuous efforts to expand and improve her technical skills guarantee her a place among the best employees at KU," said Jasonne Grabher O'Brien, associate director of the Hall Center.

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.