by Chandra Spangler | IANR Media
A friendship sparked by a scholarship has led to Nebraska’s Angela Pannier being named the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s inaugural Swarts Family Chair in Biological Systems Engineering.
Celebrated July 13, the named chair is an honor decades in the making, taking root in 1997 when a scholarship gift sparked a friendship between Pannier (then an engineering student) and Dr. Carol Swarts, a pioneering Nebraska physician.
That initial connection has grown through the years as the two women have shared similar career paths, opening doors and achieving success in male-dominated fields. The University of Nebraska Medical Center accepted very few women when Swarts attended. And Pannier, now a professor of biological systems engineering, was the first female faculty member to earn tenure in her department.
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