{"id":100090,"date":"2019-07-18T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T21:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=100090"},"modified":"2024-03-15T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T01:49:06","slug":"xiao-cheng-presidents-maintenance-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/18\/xiao-cheng-presidents-maintenance-award\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Xiao Cheng honored for maintenance excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_100086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100086\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/system-award-cheng-x.jpg\" alt=\"three people, one holding award and wearing lei\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/system-award-cheng-x.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/system-award-cheng-x-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/system-award-cheng-x-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xiao Cheng, center, was presented the President\u2019s Award for Excellence in Building and Grounds Maintenance by Board of Regents Acting Chair Wayne Higaki and <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> President David Lassner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Xiao Cheng<\/strong>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> working janitor supervisor for the BioMed <abbr title=\"Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education\">C-MORE<\/abbr> buildings, has been honored with the President\u2019s Award for Excellence in Building and Grounds Maintenance. The award is given to an individual who has exhibited sustained superior performance in a maintenance, landscaping, custodial or trucking position.<\/p>\n<p>Although she has only been at BioMed for a short time, Cheng has made a huge impression among the faculty and staff there. They said that two things are clear about Cheng&#8212;she takes tremendous pride in taking care of her building and she is always smiling and laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what they have to say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&ldquo;In reality, we seldom need to tell her about facilities issues because she always takes care of things before they become problems.&ldquo;<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;She is always working\u2014always moving, doing one thing or another, putting the rest of us to shame.&ldquo;<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;She has cleaned things I never thought cleanable.&ldquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cheng is an effective leader who works hard alongside her team and inspires them to work just as hard as she does.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_22210\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w1y6QAiVP6E?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&start=811&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"President\u2019s July 2019 highlights and updates\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiao Cheng, a <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa working janitor supervisor for the BioMed <abbr>C-MORE<\/abbr> buildings, has been honored with the President\u2019s Award for Excellence in Building and Grounds Maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[142,1094,698,9,947,56,1626],"class_list":["post-100090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-award","tag-presidents-maintenance-award","tag-staff-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100090"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100340,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100090\/revisions\/100340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}