The You Are OWU Award recognizes students, staff and faculty for their leadership, success and accomplishments benefiting the OWU community each month. The presentation will be Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 12:00pm on Zoom – information provided below.
The ceremony will recognize the following staff, faculty and student:
Melanie Kalb, Director of Purchasing
Franchesca Nestor, Assistant Professor of Politics and Government
Karli Bigler, student
Melanie’s nominator shared, “Melanie spent the summer months ensuring that OWU would have the PPE necessary to allow us to open campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. With one of our vendors, she devised the “welcome kits” for our students that included a thermometer, hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, and two OWU-branded masks. She has also procured for campus stand-alone HEPA air filtration units for classrooms so that our classrooms can be as safe as possible.”
Franchesca’s nominator explained, “Dr. Nestor led voter registration and Get Out The Vote efforts at OWU. She came up with new ways to engage students with voter education, by creating videos and online training for voter registration. She helped create a more streamlined process for getting students utility bills, helped answer any questions.”
Karli’s nominator said, “She is passionate about psychology, child-development and adolescent development, mental health, psychotherapy treatment, couples, and family studies. Her academic tenure speaks for itself, as she has maintained a high level of performance across disciplines and across years. She embodies strengths of advocacy for marginalized populations, sincere care for others, self-awareness and balance in life, and being an active member of campus.”
Email Dina Daltorio (dmdaltor@owu.edu) for the Zoom invitation.
OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: Student Involvement Office & Staff Council
Contact: Dina Daltorio at dmdaltor@owu.edu