SPIRIT AWARD: Shantini Ramakrishnan 

SPIRIT AWARD: Shantini Ramakrishnan 

Although Las Vegas is a long way from where Shantini Ramakrishnan was born and raised in Malaysia, she has come to think of it as home. “I came for a summer position, a seasonal position in the field working with rodents and plague in waters at what at the time was...
DISTINGUISHED YOUNG ALUMNA AWARD: Carmelita Sanchez

DISTINGUISHED YOUNG ALUMNA AWARD: Carmelita Sanchez

Dealing first with the COVID pandemic, then later the Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Peak Fire, Carmelita Sanchez learned how to fight through adversity during her New Mexico Highlands University academic life. And what that has done has made her stronger, she says, in large...