LIFE@OSU » kevin ahern http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu The lives and stories of Oregon State University Mon, 20 May 2013 23:46:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 OSU faculty receive NACADA awards http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/2013/osu-faculty-receive-nacada-awards/ http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/2013/osu-faculty-receive-nacada-awards/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:38:30 +0000 theresa.hogue@oregonstate.edu http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/?p=6742 The National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) is an association of professional advisors, counselors, faculty, administrators, and students working to enhance the educational development of students. Three OSU staff and faculty have been given awards by NACADA.

Kerry Thomas has been selected as a 2013 Certificate of Merit recipient in the Primary Advising category

Kevin Ahern has been selected as the recipient of the NACADA 2013 Outstanding Faculty Advising Award.

Lastly, Susie Brubaker-Cole was nominated by Brett McFarland  for the Michael C. Holen Pacesetter Award.  The Michael C. Holen Pacesetter Award recognizes Executive Officers, Provosts and Academic or Student Affairs Officers who exemplify a commitment to academic advising and are true advocates for advising, students, and advisors across the institution. Competition for this award is very strong, so while we as a community know how deserving she is of this award, it is even more exciting to know that NACADA also recognizes her outstanding service to OSU and has honored her with the award.

]]> http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/2013/osu-faculty-receive-nacada-awards/feed/ 0 Lessons in balance motivate student http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/2009/lessons-in-balance-motivate-student/ http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/2009/lessons-in-balance-motivate-student/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:15:41 +0000 theresa.hogue@oregonstate.edu http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/?p=1679 How does pre-med student Nicolette O’Donnell manage school, obligations to the Kappa Delta sorority and the University Honors College, plus elite dance team practice?
“I have a color-coded planner,” she jokes. “I am content with my life. I know that I do the best I can.” ahernweb
With the support of family, friends and her adviser, Kevin Ahern, O’Donnell feels that she has learned essential lessons in balance.
“Kevin has always told me not to overload myself,” O’Donnell says. “He motivates me to understand what the next steps are and how to build essential relationships.”
Ahern and O’Donnell like to say she is abolishing the science-nerd stereotype. “I am proud to be a science student but that is not my label,” O’Donnell says. “I am myself.”
Demonstrating her varying areas of interest, O’Donnell chose the emotional development in poetry as her senior thesis topic for the University Honors College.
“I have a passion for poetry,” O’Donnell says. “Why not pursue that as well?”
O’Donnell gives credit to Ahern for helping to guide her through what have been “very good years” at OSU.
“He always asks how I am doing and I know that he really is interested in what is going on,” O’Donnell says. “He genuinely cares about students.”
O’Donnell hopes to pursue a career in dermatology and Ahern has no doubt that medical school is in her near future.
“Learning at what level you can operate and still do your best is something that takes a while but is essential to learn,” Ahern says.
“I would point to Nicolette as someone who has managed that without question.”
~ by Tara Pistorese

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