UWRF Chancellor’s Award

The University of Wisconsin-River Falls presented its highest non-academic honor to 11 students, including one from Red Wing, during the annual Chancellor’s Award for Students reception last week

This year’s Chancellor’s Award recipients include Chase Steele, a senior criminology major from Red Wing, has consistently demonstrated professionalism, empathy and respect in his role as an office assistant in the Student Health and Counseling Office, where he has often been the first point of contact for students experiencing distress.

Steele has supported fellow criminology and sociology students as a peer mentor and has served UWRF as a student representative to the Student Government Association Faculty Hiring Committee.

Introduced in 1980, the award has since been presented to 347 outstanding UWRF students.

Students are nominated for the Chancellor’s Award by a faculty member, staff member or student peer.

Photo: Eleven UW-River Falls students were awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Students during a banquet and ceremony Wednesday. Front row, left to right: Nanati Omer, Laney Brabec, Nikki Hoffart, Julisa Bearhart, Angel Riley, Yang Toua Elijah Moua, Chancellor John Chenoweth. Second row, left to right: Alyssa Harmon, Madeline Nelson, Chase Steele, Evan Gudmunsen, Autumn Frederick. UWRF photo.