Distinguished Extension New Employee Award

2011

Jeff Bradshaw 

Jeff Bradshaw joined the UNL faculty as an Assistant Professor at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center in January 2010. His program has been able to attract a Fulbright scholar from South Africa to work on sugar beets, beginning in the summer of 2011. He was awarded nearly $400,000 in grants to support his entomology program, either as lead investigator or in collaboration with others.

Jeff hit the extension ground running with presentations at the Nebraska Dry Bean Workshop and Western Sugar Research Reporting and Planning sessions in that same month. He has become an integral member of the research and extension teams at the Panhandle Center with exploration of production factors that impact dry edible beans and sugar beets, while opening up new programming opportunities with our cow-calf/range management specialist and the team of specialists at the West Central Research and Extension Center.

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Lindsay Chichester

Lindsay Chichester is an Assistant Extension Educator in the Southeast Research and Extension Center. In the first 12 months that Lindsay was in Richardson County office they saw a tremendous growth in programming and the number of people involved with Extension. Local beef producers provided financial support for a series of four beef promotions reaching 145 people. Lindsay’s Heart Beef Campaign and a summer BBQ Fun Pack and Beef Cooking Competition focused on Beef product nutrition and safety. Seven new Extension programs and seven established workshops reached 580 people. Many of these workshops focused on entrepreneurship and social media.

Lindsay is also a member of the Nebraska Iowa Animal Welfare Team and helped develop the Nebraska Iowa Joint Animal Welfare Training Session held this past spring in Council Bluffs. With other members of the Nebraska Beef Team she is working on a series of Animal Welfare for Beef Producer programs this coming winter.

2010

Lowell Sandell

Lowell Sandell has been an extension educator since March 2007. He has been involved in delivering extension information via the internet. He has built strong teams to enhance the quality of extension publications, provided excellent teaching and diagnostics support to established extension programs and works quietly and effectively to expand the impact of extension for Nebraskans in both agriculture and urban settings.

2009    Tamra Jackson
2009    Sandra Barrera Fuentes
2008    Marie (Cherry) de Guzman
2008    Lisa Kaslon
2007    Suat Irmak
2006    Marty Cruickshank
2006    Jennifer Rees
2005    Rob Eirich
2004    Mark Simmons
2004    Zainab Rida
2003    Deanna Peterson
2002    Susan Pearman
2001    Rosie Nold
2000    Elaine Shuck
1999    Kayla Hinrichs
1998    Crystal Fangmeier
1997    Ann Tvrdy
1996    Gary Tordrup
1995    Kathleen Anderson