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Employees of the month

Kandi White, Unclassified employee

Kandi White

Started at KU: 1985.

Current title: Business manager, Division of Biological Sciences.

What that means: White oversees accounting, personnel management, graphics, IT, Jayspace, building remodels, equipment repair, the Biostore, the electrical and wood shop, and a budget of approximately $7 million.

Notable: White is the editor of the BioHawk, a full-color magazine that is mailed to over 7,000 alumni each year and generates funds to support biology students and the graduate program.

White also works closely with the Biology Alumni Advisory Board, a group of successful KU graduates from around the country. She makes all of the arrangements for the board's annual meeting in Lawrence and also oversees the Biological Sciences space in Haworth Hall and the equipment housed there.



James Anguiano, University support staff

James Anguiano

Started at KU: 1990. Current title: Community services/training supervisor, Public Safety Office.

What that means: For many, Anguiano is the face of the Public Safety Office, as he presents most of the education and safety programs to student organizations and university offices as well as the New Student Orientation programs for parents and students. In his role as training supervisor, he is responsible for ensuring that every officer gets the required training hours (300 for new officers, 40 hours annually for others) and for maintaining departmental training records.

Notable: Anguiano creates and produces literature on safety topics, assists with background checks on new employees, oversees the department's lost and found service and maintains the departmental Web site.

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The steam-tunnel repairs on the front lawn of Watson Library overlap the site of the first Snow Hall, the natural history building that opened in 1886. By the 1920s, the classroom and lab facility had deteriorated so badly that its stone walls had "quivering tendencies" in high winds, among other failings. New Snow Hall opened in 1930, and the old building was demolished. Its stone was saved and recycled to face the Military Science Building, completed in 1943. For more, visit www.buildings.ku.edu.