Mark Pegg, fisheries ecologist and associate professor, has been named as the 2014 recipient of the Senior Faculty Holling Family Award for Teaching Excellence. Pegg will be presented with the award at 4 p.m., March 5 in the Nebraska East Union. All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.
The Holling Family Award Program for Teaching Excellence in Agriculture and Natural Resources was established to celebrate imaginative educational programming and innovations (presentation and delivery) in Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR) and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture educational programs. Teaching includes college campus, extended campus or community. This award program recognizes the full continuum of educational programming from college campus to youth, adult and community programming.
The Holling Family Award Program for Teaching Excellence was made possible by a gift from the Holling family to honor their pioneer parents. John Holling was a 1912 electrical engineering graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his brother, Gustave Holling, attended the College of Agriculture before farming the family's land in the Wood River Area.
The complete list of 2014 award recipients:
Senior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
-- Sarah Browning, Southeast Research & Extension Center
-- Deana Namuth Covert, Department of Agronomy & Horticulture
-- Mark Pegg, School of Natural Resources
-- Rick Rasby, Department of Animal Science
Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
-- Ashley Hall, Department of Entomology
-- Deepak Keshwani, Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Teaching Assistant Teaching Excellence Award
-- Elizabeth Claassen, Department of Statistics
-- L.J. McElravy, Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communication