Staff Awards
Dr. Lisa P. Collins Outstanding Staff Awards
Annually, the Dr. Lisa P. Collins Outstanding Staff Awards program recognizes seven high achievers out of more than 2,000 employees. Some 35-45 nominations are reviewed by a committee of college peers and honored at the annual Staff Appreciation Day.
In 1997 when the program was initiated, support came from Gamma Sigma Delta, the international agriculture honor society that became inactive at UK a few years ago, as well as the college’s alumni association and the Dean’s Office through the Partners in Agriculture fund. In 2018, a revised endowment agreement called the Gamma Sigma Delta Gold Fund was finalized in order to support the OSA program in perpetuity. The awards were renamed for Dr. Lisa P. Collins in 2020 to recognize her outstanding service and advocacy on behalf of the staff of the college.
Recent PSS Winners
- Anthony Clark (2022)
- Suzette Walling (2022)
Previous PSS Winners
- Matthew Allen (2021)
- Jeanne Hartman (2020)
- Chris Rodgers (2019)
- Kai Su (2019)
- Krista Lea (2018)
- Maggie Maynard (2018)
- Brian Lauer (2017)
- James Dollarhide (2016)
- Jason Walton (2015)
- Sara Lawson (2014)
- Joe Kupper (2012)
- Anne Jack (2011)
- Glen Weinberger (2011)
- Scott Kinison (2010)
- Gene Olson (2009)
- Yvonne Thompson (2009)
- Ted Hicks (2007)
- Ron Curd (2006)
- Neil Fannin (2006)
- John James (2005)
- Eugene Lacefield (2005)
- Susan Leopold (2005)
- Marcella Rucker (2004)
- Ann Freytag (2004)
- Dave Pilcher (2003)
- Jim Calvert (2002)
- Bill Bruening (2001)
- Carol Von Lanken (2001)
- Ann Norris (2000)
- Pat Tackett (1999)
- Coleen Steele (1998)
