SNR’s Qwynne Lackey is a 2016 recipient of the Holling Family Award for Teaching Excellence in the Teaching Assistant category. The Holling Family Award Program recognizes exceptional teaching, providing four senior faculty teaching awards, two junior faculty teaching awards and two teaching assistant awards annually.
Qwynne was nominated for her work as a teaching assistant for NRES 311 “Wildlife Ecology and Management” (taught by Kelly Powell) and NRES 260 “Environmental Communication Skills” (taught by Lisa Pennisi). Dr. Pennisi, who supported the nomination, said “Ms. Lackey is truly an outstanding graduate student, one who embodies excellence. At this stage in her career she already emulates what all of us in academia want to be: an outstanding scholar and teacher: a teacher who brings research into the classroom and supports student learning."
According to Dr. Larkin Powell, who nominated Qwynne for this award, “Our teaching program in SNR often depends on the contributions of our graduate teaching assistants. They are often working in the shadows, and this award is one way for us to recognize a very creative and talented young woman. We have benefited from her presence in our graduate program, in our teaching classrooms and in SNR as a whole.”
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.
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/d77g