April 18, 1997
Kudos Award Honors Eckerson
Sue Eckerson, staff secretary III in the Office of the Vice Chancellor
for
Student Affairs, received a Kudos Award for her exemplary work in that
office
at the April 5 Board of Regents meeting. Eckerson is the first person
students,
parents, visitors, faculty and staff see when arriving at the Office for
Student Affairs. She possesses a wealth of information and knowledge
about
the university, and provides assistance and guidance to numerous
individuals
on a daily basis. According to her nominator, she always has an answer or
knows how to find one. Even in the midst of a whirlwind of activity, she
remains calm, pleasant and courteous. "She is unfailingly kind and
cheerful, and she responds to the needs of others - students in crisis,
parents with concerns, faculty or staff members with questions - without
challenge or delay, one of her co-workers wrote. "Any bright person
can probably learn all of the answers. What is extraordinary about Sue
Eckerson
is the grace, tact and humor which endear her to all of her co-workers
and
to the people with whom she interacts in the course of her work."
(Photo/Wright)
IANR Announces 1997 Awards
A small business training program and a Nebraska-Kansas water quality
partnership
won top team awards from the Institute of Agriculture and Natural
Resources
at the University of Nebraska this week.
The Nebraska Enhancing, Developing and Growing Entrepreneurs program
received
IANR's 1997 Team Award. The EDGE team will receive $10,000 to continue
its
efforts to help Nebraska entrepreneurs create jobs.
The Blue River Basin's Water Quality Team won the 1997 IANR Initiative
Team
Award. The team will receive $2,500 to improve the environment in the
Blue
River Basin area of Nebraska and Kansas.
Irv Omtvedt, NU's vice chancellor for agriculture and natural resources,
presented the awards during an IANR faculty meeting April 9.
Former Dean Hanna Dies
George Hanna Jr., 79, former dean of engineering, died April 5. Hanna
left
the university in 1979 to take a position in the California State
University
system.
He joined the UNL faculty in 1969 as chairman of civil engineering, was
named interim dean in 1971 and dean in 1972.
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