{"id":100996,"date":"2025-03-18T17:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=100996"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:41:53","slug":"uri-honors-employees-years-of-service-with-milestone-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/uri-honors-employees-years-of-service-with-milestone-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"URI honors employees\u2019 years of service with milestone celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of the URI community came from far and wide to gather in the Memorial Union Ballroom in a celebration honoring our dedicated employees for their years of service.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 18, 2025 \u2013 The University of Rhode Island recently honored 150 staff and faculty members for their years of URI service at the second annual Employee Milestone Celebration in the Memorial Union Ballroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Marc Parlange, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Barbara Wolfe, and Vice President for Human Resources Becky Hill greeted the honorees who reached a milestone anniversary \u2013 5 to 50 years \u2013 in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat makes URI so special is its people, and there\u2019s no better example of how incredible our people are than this celebration,\u201d said Parlange. \u201cYou have all chosen to bring your talents to URI and to work every day alongside your colleagues to serve our students, advance our mission, and educate the next generation of Rhode Islanders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday is all about you\u2014our dedicated, hardworking, and truly remarkable employees\u2014the faculty and staff that make URI an incredible place to study, teach, research and work,\u201d said Hill. \u201cThis event is a chance to come together, celebrate your service milestones at URI, and show our deep appreciation for everything you do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among those honored were Gordon Dash, professor of finance in the College of Business, who marked 50 years of service last year, and Michael McDonald, a building construction inspector with Housing and Residential Life and a 45-year veteran of URI. Dash was honored with an armchair engraved with the University\u2019s emblem, and McDonald received a silver-framed mirror with a photo of URI\u2019s Green Hall inset at the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 18, 2025 \u2013 The University of Rhode Island recently honored 150 staff and faculty members for their years of URI service at the second annual Employee Milestone Celebration in the Memorial Union Ballroom. President Marc Parlange, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Barbara Wolfe, and Vice President for Human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":100999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100996"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101089,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100996\/revisions\/101089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}