Posted 4/28/2008
Chancellor Tim Ryan presented Dr. Lura Williamson with the Advisor of the Year Award for 2007-2008 for her involvement with AED and the Predental Honor Society. The premed and predent students nominated her for this award and she was selected as the Advisor of the Year by a committee that reviews the nominations. Congratulations Lura!
Jessica Tingstrom, a biology predent student, received the Edgar Burks Award for Outstanding Student Leadership at UNO. She received several outstanding leadership awards for all her various student organization positions at UNO, including Predental Honor Society President. More impressive yet, she has met all these duties and responsibilities while maintaining a 3.7 GPA. Kudos to Jessica!
Arianne Gallaty received an Outstanding Leadership Award for her work as President of AED. Good Job Arianne!
Kim Terrell, a Ph.D. student in Conservation Biology, has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master’s or doctoral degrees and is intended for students who are in the early stages of their graduate study. The fellowship provides support in the form of a graduate stipend and cost of education allowance, as well as a one-time international research travel allowance. Kim's research will focus on the spermatozoon of the cheetah, a species formally listed as ‘vulnerable’ to extinction. Specifically, she will examine sperm physiology after different processing methods and after cryopreservation using modern tools in measuring gamete metabolism. These processing and freeze/thaw methods have been developed by researchers from the Smithsonian’s Department of Reproductive Sciences (led by David Wildt, Ph.D.). This laboratory is world renowned in this field and has a long-standing collaboration with the Cheetah Conservation Fund’s (CCF) Education Center in Otjiwarongo, Namibia, where wild-born cheetahs unsuitable for release are kept for visitor education and basic research. Congratuatlions Kim on this outstanding achievement.