University Times

Two regional campuses have announced winners of annual staff awards.

Janet Hoffman

At Pitt-Johnstown, Janet Hoffman and Carrie Owens are this year’s recipients of the President’s Staff Awards for Excellence in Service.

Hoffman, a financial aid assistant, has been a staff member for 23 years. She received the President’s Staff Award for Excellence in Service to the Community.

She volunteers at the Women’s Help Center, the “Pitt-Johnstown @ Your Service” Week-Humane Society clean up and the Salvation Army red kettle campaign. She also has been a Bethel United Methodist Church volunteer for more than 20 years.

Carrie Owens

Owens, who has been a member of the UPJ staff for 33 years, received the President’s Staff Award for Excellence in Service to Pitt-Johnstown. Owens is the Business Office student account specialist who handles student transactions and bank reports. She is involved with students and parents, helping them with their accounts and tuition payments. She also assists various Pitt-Johnstown offices with their cash deposits, including training staff members on these reports.

At Pitt-Greensburg, Cynthia Genard, administrative secretary of the Natural Sciences Division, received the 2010 President’s Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes staffers who have demonstrated dedication to the campus above and beyond their job responsibilities.

Cynthia Genard

UPG President Sharon P. Smith called Genard calm, cheerful, steadfast and an inspiration to her colleagues. “She never treats her job as routine; she always is looking for ways to improve and she never sees any challenge as too great to overcome. She is building a better world.”

—Peter Hart