Student Employee of the Year & Graduate Assistant of the Year Gallery and Winners
Student Employee of the Year 2024 Winner
Madison Gremillion (she/her)
Department/Office: U-Engage/Office of Undergraduate Research
Class level: Senior
Major: Biomedical Sciences with a minor in Chemistry
What her nominator said: Maddie exemplifies leadership and teamwork and collaboration! Her eagerness to step in and provide leadership to the rest of the student staff is a step above most employees. She is an exceptional listener and clear when she delegates projects to others about expectations. She always brings new ideas to the table, thinks critically, and is a leader for thinking outside the box to bring more inclusive practices for our programs. She is empathetic to the other students, and is always there to give warm hugs when needed. She has provided professional development coaching to other staff, modelling exceptional communication in our meetings, and always being proactive and happy to adapt when needed.
She led the charge to change Research Day to Student Showcase for Artists and Scholars to be more inclusive of students from across the disciplines. To be successful with this major change to a decades-old tradition she developed a "dog and pony" show campaign to reach out to all colleges and all department faculty, scheduling over 10 different campus meetings, attending many herself and organizing for other staff to attend if she was unavailable. Maddie is now starting the final steps for creating the Student Showcase into a successful campus-wide program, even though she is also mothering her newborn daughter, Maeven, who was born in late December. Maddie is an amazing human being!
Congratulations to the Student Employee of the year, Madison Gremillion! Madison will receive a $500 scholarship to recognize this accomplishment.
Top 5 SEOTY Nominees 2024
Graduate Assistant of the year
Danielle DeSalvo (she/her)
Position: Graduate Assistant in the Center for Career Readiness
Program: Second-year Master’s student in Marriage, Couples and Family Counseling
What her nominator said: Danielle has excelled throughout her employment at the Center for Career Readiness. Danielle takes a proactive approach and plans for presentations ahead of time, is very meticulous and organized in her presentations, structures communicated material very well, and is effective in presentation skills, she makes an active effort to research all audiences before meeting with them and presenting material to others. Danielle takes the time to present material in a creative way including PowerPoint presentations as well as social media posts. Takes time to research new student content and present them effectively and brings a positive, authentic attitude when working with others. Danielle is attentive to building on various group member perspectives and asks for help when needed. Danielle excels in finding solutions & leading others.
A presentation modality had to be changed last minute due to some circumstances. The group met to find constructive solutions. Danielle came to us with an out of the box solution that would attend to the presenter needs as well as our staffing availability ensuring that the needs of both parties were attended to. Danielle also created new resources for students. She took the time to research new information for helping students apply to graduate school, presented handouts and flyers to be used with students.
Congratulations to the Graduate Assistant of the year, Danielle DeSalvo! Danielle will receive a $500 scholarship to recognize this accomplishment.