Campus Operations hosted a barbecue for all team members on Oct. 24 at the UFCU Disch-Falk Field Baseball Concourse to celebrate all the hard work accomplished over the last year. View photos from the event, including aerial group photos for both day and night shifts.

The energy at The University of Texas at Austin is electric with a thriving academic community. Beneath the surface, another energy is at work — the University's microgrid, a self-sufficient system that powers UT, ensuring reliable electricity, heating, and cooling. This microgrid also offers a unique opportunity: a living-learning laboratory for students across various majors.

Carin Peterson is no stranger to working with animals. A UT graduate, she has a background in zoology and wildlife biology that prepared her to work with bats, reptiles, and endangered birds as a field biologist and researcher. She also worked as a zookeeper, veterinary technician, technician with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and ranch hand before joining UT to develop Animal Make Safe, a program in the Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) department.

If you’ve met Julian Cantu, his positivity probably made an impression on you. As an administrative associate in Planning, Design and Construction, he juggles multiple priorities: welcoming guests, managing schedules, responding to emails, preparing reports, arranging travel plans, organizing documents, and much more. A true team player, he says one of his motivators is the success of others.

KVUE — Since 1937, the University of Texas at Austin has been the home to a 307-foot-tall structure: the UT Tower. With 27 floors, an observation deck, and a series of windows, this building is well-known even beyond the campus. Now a $70 million renovation project has been approved by the school's Board of Regents.

We often take comfortable room temperatures in our campus buildings for granted, but there’s an intricate system at the University that makes comfy conditions possible. As the assistant director of plant maintenance in Utilities and Energy Management (UEM), Chase Dube leads a team of team of 46 workers who ensure that heating, cooling and electrical needs are met for the Main Campus and the J.J. Pickle Research Campus.

“As a self-proclaimed people pleaser, I never thought my career would hinge upon the ability to say no, and say no often,” Ana Thiemer says. Thiemer is the person responsible for making decisions about where and how a limited amount of money is spent on UT buildings, which means she is in a position where she’s unfortunately practiced at saying no to requests.

What started as a hobby to help pay for college—cabinetry and furniture making—ended up becoming Zach LeBlanc’s career. Prior to joining UT in 2021, LeBlanc worked in residential cabinetry, and today he’s of two cabinetmakers currently working in the Campus Construction Carpentry Shop, building and installing everything from resilient countertops for research labs to ornate bookshelves for office suites.