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Acknowledging the everyday excellence and hard work of our colleagues is very important. You can nominate a colleague<\/a> for a Ross Star at any time. A certificate will be sent to their inbox with a message from you acknowledging how they have shined and made a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to our latest Ross Star recipients!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ali Abou-Zahr
Julie Akin
Riquele Barranger
Eric Borges
Ella Carvalho
Allison Correll
Susan Edwards
Amanda Gates
Derrick Glahn
Hannah Glodich
Patti Lamparter
Lindsey Lulek
Ashley Neubecker
Karen Phelps
Tamara Ratcliffe-Giacci
Sidney Richardson
Gabriella Ring
Alyssa Romig
Sue Ruehle
Justin Shafer
Suzy Skrtic
Shawna Sloan
Jaclyn Smith
Tyrnn Smith
Jodi Smolek
Garrett Stephens
Alex Tang
Doug Thomas
Anna Trujillo
Claire Wagner
Kimberly Watson
Monica Worline
Chris Wunderlich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acknowledging the everyday excellence and hard work of our colleagues is very important. You can nominate a colleague for a Ross Star at any time. A certificate will be sent to their inbox with a message from you acknowledging how they have shined and made a difference. Congratulations to our latest Ross Star recipients! Ali…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4802,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"ep_post_type":[24],"class_list":["post-6097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff","ep_post_type-post"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Nicholle Cardinal","author_meta":{"display_name":"Nicholle Cardinal","author_link":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/author\/ndcard\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/Ross-Stars-300x169.jpg","taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":17,"label":"Staff News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/Ross-Stars-1024x578.jpg",1024,578,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Nicholle Cardinal","author_link":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/author\/ndcard\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":17,"name":"Staff News","slug":"staff","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":192,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":17,"category_count":192,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Staff News","category_nicename":"staff","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Staff News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Staff News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 months ago","modified":"Updated 2 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on January 23, 2026","modified":"Updated on January 23, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on January 23, 2026 1:40 pm","modified":"Updated on January 23, 2026 1:40 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6100,"href":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions\/6100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"ep_post_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/faculty-staff-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ep_post_type?post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}