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K-State Today Student Edition

April 11, 2012

Alumni association announces Anderson Senior Award and Graduate Award recipients

Submitted by Megan Sherlock

This spring marks the 15th annual Anderson Senior Awards and the third annual Graduate Awards program initiated by the K-State Alumni Association to honor outstanding students for their contributions to the university. 

The Anderson Awards program involves the selection of one senior in each of four categories: leadership, service, academics and inspiration. The Graduate Awards program selects one graduate student in two categories: leadership/service and academics. Nominations were made by students, faculty and staff, and a selection committee narrowed down the nominees to one winner in each category.

The 2012 recipients of these awards are:

Anderson Senior Award for Outstanding Academics

Chris Dolezal, premedicine and biological systems engineering

Anderson Senior Award for Outstanding Inspiration

Chris Littrell, German and political science

Anderson Senior Award for Outstanding Service

Shawna Peters, family studies and human services

Anderson Senior Award for Outstanding Leadership

Danny Unruh, food science and political science

Graduate Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service

Elizabeth Frink, mechanical engineering

Graduate Award for Outstanding Academics

Andrew Jones, physics

The recipients will be recognized at a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 25, in the Tadtman Board Room at the K-State Alumni Center.