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!
Brian Waters – Advisor to the Agronomy and Horticulture Graduate Student Association
Brian Waters, associate professor of agronomy, received an AHGSA Faculty Appreciation award. Waters was recognized for his commitment and dedication to AHGSA as faculty advisor for the past three years.
Sam Wortman – Advisor to Student Organic Farm RSP and member of the Horticulture Club
Sam Wortman, assistant professor of agronomy, received an AHGSA Faculty Appreciation award. Wortman was recognized for donating his entire sweet corn experiment to AHGSA for a fundraising event.
Kolby Grint – Treasurer of the Nebraska Soil Judging Team and member of the Agronomy Club
Kolby Grint, a senior horticulture major, was awarded the Martin Massengale Outstanding Senior Award during the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture Awards Banquet.
Zhengxiong Li – Member of the Chinese Student & Scholar Association
Zhengxiong (Mike) Li, a graduate student specializing in plant nutrition, was honored with the Agronomy and Horticulture Graduate Student Association Outstanding Member Award for his enthusiastic attitude and significant involvement and contributions to the success of AHGSA and the department.
Ben Searl – Member of the Horticulture Club and Phi Alpha Xi
Ben Searl, a senior horticulture major, received the Pi Alpha Xi Scholarship. Searl served as president for University of Nebraska–Lincoln chapter, Alpha-Gamma, for 2018-2019.
Jessica Walnut – Member of the Plant Pathology Graduate Student Club
Jessica Walnut received the Plant Pathology Graduate Student Association Outstanding Member Award for her work scheduling the monthly Plant Pathology Department's faculty-student engagement lunches and helping to coordinate the Elevator Speech Contest.
Alexander Christensen – Member of Sigma Iota Rho
Liam McChristian – Member of Amnesty International and Young Americans for Liberty
Jared Noetzel – Member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Honors Program Student Advisory Board, and Pi Kappa Alpha
Gregory Tracey – Member of Mortar Board and Model UN
Cooper Wright – Member of Mortar Board and Pi Sigma Alpha
The students mentioned above have been awarded Critical Language Scholarships to study a language abroad this summer. The Critical Language Scholarship program, run by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is part of a U.S. government effort to expand the number of Americans studying critical foreign languages. Scholars gain language and cultural skills that enable them to contribute to U.S. economic competitiveness and national security.
Agronomy Club
Nebraska's Agronomy Club recently received the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Week Outstanding Undergraduate Student Organization Award. The club was honored for its recent increase in active membership and service-learning events at the university.
Engineering Student Advisory Board
Nebraska's Engineering Student Advisory Board was named Most Outstanding Large Council at the National Association of Engineering Student Councils’ Engineering Leadership Summit March 15 and 16 in Fort Collins, Colorado. The conference gathered engineering students from across the country to learn how to better connect with administration, gather event ideas and improve their councils.
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://involved-apps.unl.edu/a/LevelUpUNL/