Recipient: Ryan Palzere

Ryan is a junior Environmental Engineering Major and a student employee within Community Outreach and Leadership & Organizational Development in the Department of Student Activities. Within his role, he supports up to twelve professional staff members and ten graduate assistants across the two areas. In addition to supporting their programs, he has demonstrated his leadership skills and commitment to creating a welcoming work environment by training and supporting new student staff members. Ryan has gone above and beyond to ensure that the needs of the events and programs have been met in the absence of a full-time Program Assistant and consistently exceeds all expectations.