Jeremy Hiller describes himself as "kind of a mystery" in the School of Natural Resources and says, "Nobody really knows who I am."
His coworkers beg to differ. They recently recognized him with two awards at the school's spring banquet, the Staff Inspiration Award and the Staff Recognition Award. Hiller had also won the Staff Recognition Award years ago. Students nominate staff for the inspiration award, and faculty, staff or students nominate staff for the recognition award.
Hiller has worked 25 years at the university as a research manager setting up and carrying out projects of professors, mainly Tala Awada, Dave Wedin and Jim Brandle. Although professors can hire graduate students to work on projects, students may leave a project after a couple of years. In contrast, Hiller can stay with projects many years and keep continuity in experiments.
Part of his position involves supervising one to three graduate students each year and four student workers from May to August in the field. He observes and measures plant growth, records data and analyzes trends.
Read the full article about Jeremy at https://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/what/newstory.aspx?fid=1273