Student Involvement would like say congrats and kudos to the following RSO Advisors and student members for making outstanding contributions to their field of study, campus, and/or the Lincoln community. Way to #LevelUp!
Tyler White – Advisor to Motive & United Methodist Campus Ministry
Tyler, along with colleague Elsbeth Magilton, was awarded one of three Inclusive Excellence Development Grant proposals for their work on “Recruiting, Retaining, and Supporting Women in the Security Field”.
Chris Proctor – Co-Advisor to the Agronomy Club
Chris, along with several colleagues that are Nebraska Extension faculty were honored with the Excellence in Extension team award for “Hail Know”, a project launched in January 2018 which creates timely and relevant programming to answer growers’ questions when hail storms strike.
Charlie Foster – Advisor to Active Minds, Afrikan Peoples Union, Out of Darkness UNL, & Resilient Women
Charlie was awarded a 2019 Chancellor’s Fulfilling the Dream award. Created in 1997, the award honors those who have contributed to the university or broader Lincoln community by promoting the goals and vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The honor was presented during Nebraska’s MLK Week keynote address on Jan. 23.
Tyler Barker – Undergraduate student and member of the National Society of Leadership and Success and the Computer Science and Engineering Ambassadors
Gabe Astorino – Undergraduate student and member of the Alzheimer’s Association
Nicholas Kite – Undergraduate student and member of the Biochemistry Club
Tyler, Gabe, and Nicholas, along with fellow student team members, took home a silver medal and nomination for best poster at the 2018 International iGEM Competition. The team's award-winning project involved engineering a strain of E. coli to control the emerald ash borer, an invasive species of insect killing off ash trees in Nebraska.
Megan Jespersen – Undergraduate student and member of National Association of Home Builders
Megan, along with fellow student team members advanced to the final round of the Big Ten Student Design Challenge. The contest allows students to remake a space on campus for a chance to win a fully-funded redesign this summer. Nebraska's team will travel to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in February to pitch final proposals.
Victoria Davis – Student and member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Campus Red Cross, Sigma Alpha, and Family Science Organization
DeVanee Lasley – Graduate student and President of the Black Graduate Student Association
Britton Lyon – Student and President of the Sports Officials Association and member of the Sport Clubs Council
Megan Wynn – Graduate student and co-advisor to UNL Sport Clubs
All will receive the William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Award at the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association annual conference in Boston. The award recognizes outstanding undergraduate students who are active participants and employees in collegiate recreational sports departments. Nebraska leads the nation with 85 recipients since the award’s inception in 1993.
Public Relations Student Society of America
The PRSSA chapter attended the Paper Anvil Awards on Jan. 23 and received 10 honors for their public relations work in 2018. Along with winning Best of Show, the team took home six Awards of Excellence for their projects involving Huskers Helping Huskers Pantry+, organ donation and cancer awareness.
Our goal at Student Involvement is to get students connected and involved, and to provide them opportunities to make a positive impact on campus, in the community, and beyond. Those impacts, whether big or small, are worth celebrating and we want to help you and your organization do just that. We at Student Involvement want to share with the campus community all the great ways the students, faculty and staff #LevelUpUNL to make themselves and our Husker community better. Has someone recently taken on a leadership position or additional responsibilities within their club? Volunteered to help when it wasn’t expected? Gone above and beyond to mentor a friend, co-worker, roommate, etc? We want to hear about it! Nominate the transformational leaders in your life so that we can recognize and highlight their grit, initiative, and/or achievement, as well as present them with a token of our appreciation for making UNL the vibrant hub we know it to be.
To nominate someone for Leveling Up, please complete the form found at this link: https://involved-apps.unl.edu/a/LevelUpUNL/
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/hpgr