Undergraduates Lauren Hunt, Paulina Guzek, Rebekah DeFusco and Jordan Bothern are serving as ambassadors in the Biological Systems Engineering Department under the leadership of Jenna Hefley. They work with social media and help recruit and give tours to prospective students.
Lauren Hunt
Hailing from Overland Park, Kansas, Hunt is a senior in BSE with minors in biomedical engineering and French. At Nebraska, she has participated in undergraduate research and served on the executive team of the Engineering Student Advisory Board and Biomedical Engineering Society. She has also studied abroad in France. Planning to pursue a physician’s assistant school, Hunt works as a CNA at Tabitha Health and volunteers at a domestic violence shelter. When not studying, she keeps busy at the Catholic center on campus, plays volleyball, travels, explores the outdoors, reads and attends concerts.
Paulina Guzek
A senior in BSE with an emphasis in environmental and water resources engineering, Guzek comes from Palos Hills, Illinois. She has been involved at Nebraska in the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, Engineering Student Advisory Board, National Association of Engineering Student Councils, Fountain Wars design team and Society of Women Engineers. Outside school, she works as an engineering intern for JEO Consulting Group and has studied abroad in Spain. She says she would eventually like a job that allows her to travel and put her Spanish skills to the test.
Rebekah DeFusco
Native to Lincoln, DeFusco is a senior working toward a BSE degree with an emphasis in environmental and water resources engineering and a minor in mathematics. She has held office in the university's branches of the Society of Women Engineers and American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. She is active in the Navigators campus ministry and Tau Beta Pi. She studied in Lille, France, after her sophomore year and was a Partners in Pollution Prevention intern at an animal pharmaceutical manufacturer in Grand Island last summer. In her free time, she volunteers at the Lincoln Children’s Museum.
Jordan Bothern
The only junior, Bothern is working toward a degree in Mechanized Systems Management and works at the Nebraska Tractor Test Lab. She has taken part in a quarter-scale tractor team, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Nebraska’s agricultural boards and her sorority, Delta Gamma. This past summer she interned at Cargill in Burns Harbor, Indiana, to learn about grain elevators and how they market and export grain by barge. She is carrying on the generations-long tradition of her family coming to the university and plans to work in Nebraska after graduation.