Burns-Shirling Award for Outstanding Achievement
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| Each year in honor of former departmental professors, Dr. George Burns and Dr. Elwood Shirling, the Botany / Microbiology Department presents the Burns-Shirling Award. The award goes to a current junior or senior Botany/Microbiology major, who has demonstrated exemplary academic success and/or service to the department. In addition to having his/her name engraved permanently on the award plaque, the student selected receives a certificate and a monetary gift. |
George S. Hamaoui, Jr., 2007 Burns-Shirling Award winner, after receiving award at the Botany & Microbiology spring picnic. |
Burns-Shirling Award Winners
| 2007 | George S. Hamaoui, Jr. |
| 2006 | Amanda Robinson and Christina Vorobej |
| 2005 | Student Board Officers |
| 2004 | Patricia B. S. Celestino |
| 2003 | Susan L. Schifer |
| 2002 | Beth Ann Browne |
| 2001 | Priscilla A. McDowell |
| 2000 | Jessica M. Mann |
| 1999 | Jessica A. Hankinson |
| 1998 | Jarrod T. Bruce |
| 1997 | Kathleen A. Peterson |
| 1996 | Peter M. Yarchak |
| 1995 | Michelle A. Bixler |
| 1994 | Andrew C. Cooper |
| 1993 | Chanda A. Ewing |
| 1992 | Eglantina Lucio-Zavaleta |
| 1991 | Eileen L. Seeholzer and Ann M. Kneipp |
| 1990 | Eileen L. Seeholzer |
| 1989 | Susan C. Funderburg |
| 1988 | Marie Y. Hu |
| 1987 | David A. Mangus |
| 1986 | Steven C. Peiffer |
| 1985 | Kimberly A. Barker |
| 1984 | John J. Casino |
| 1983 | Charles L. Stinemetz |
| 1982 | Robert. W. Gensemer |
| 1981 | Peter A. Holthe |
| 1980 | James A. Cameron |