SNR Award Ceremony Recognizes Faculty, Student, Staff and Alumni Contributions

The School of Natural Resources has much to celebrate and recognize this year, at the annual award ceremony on Friday, May 2nd. Many thanks to the awards committee for putting together the nominations and event.

The following faculty, staff, students and alumni were recognized:

Staff Award of Excellence: Carol Yde

Outstanding Graduating Senior Award:

Heather Dial (Range Management)
Linda Peery (Conservation Biology)
Sonja Smith (Wildlife Conservation and Management)

Outstanding Dissertation Award: Haiyan Wei

Outstanding Scholarly Achievement: Steve Archer

Outstanding Course Award: R. William Mannan for WFSC 446

Public Service Award: Lisa Haynes

Blooper Award: Taryn Kong

Two Special Team Awards were presented:

The SNR Web Development Team: Stuart Marsh, Alyssa Rosemartin, Wolfgang Grunberg, Deepika Nim, Anne Thwaits, Amit Wadhwa, Katherine Waser, Cheryl Craddock, and Andrew Honaman

The Natural Resources Graduate Student Organization Team: Kathi Borgmann, Kerry Nicholson, Karla Pelz-Serrano, Alyssa Rosemartin, Nichole Cudworth, Chris McDonald

Outstanding Alumnus Award: Chantal O'Brien, Research Branch Director, Arizona Game and Fish Department (M.S. 2002).

In addition, we were fortunate to have last year's Outstanding Alumnus Award winner in attendance, Dr. Maryam Naimir-Fuller (Director of the Division of Global Environment Facility (GEF) Coordination, UN Environment Program, Kenya)