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Source: Bill Muir, 785-532-6269, billmuir@k-state.edu
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Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008
SUSAN WATT RECEIVES K-STATE'S OUTSTANDING CAMPUS LEADER AWARD
MANHATTAN -- Susan D. S. Watt, health professions adviser at Kansas State University, has received the Robert S. Krause Alpha Tau Omega Outstanding Campus Leader Award from the K-State chapter of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
The K-State Alpha Tau Omega Students' Aid Endowment Fund presented the award, a plaque and a $1,000 cash donation to the charity of the Watt's choice. She selected the Sarah Katherine Watt Education Fund at the Wamego Community Foundation and Cats for Pre-Health Resources at the Kansas State University Foundation as co-recipients of the donation. The presentation was made Nov. 20.
The annual award honors Krause, the longtime K-State vice president for institutional advancement who now is university's athletics director. Krause also served as the Alpha Tau Omega chapter's faculty adviser for 12 years. The award recognizes the top faculty, staff or administrators of K-State, as chosen by vote of the chapter members.
Watt's award was presented by Peter Boos, a senior in architectural engineering, Overland Park, and chapter president of Alpha Tau Omega; Krause; and Bill Muir, president of the K-State Alpha Tau Omega Endowment Fund. The award's first two recipients, Pat Bosco, vice president for student life and dean of students, and Amy Renz, president of the K-State Alumni Association, made remarks at the presentation.
The Krause Award was established in spring 2003. Along with Bosco and Renz, previous recipients have included James R. Coffman, provost emeritus; Bill Snyder, K-State head football coach; and Susan K. Peterson, assistant to the president.
A resident of Wamego, Watt has been health professions adviser at K-State since 1996, helping more than 450 students interested in preparing for careers in medicine, health information management and respiratory care, as well as some life science majors.
Watt, who received a bachelor's and a master's from K-State, also has been an instructor of nutrition and a graduate teaching and research assistant at the university. She also has served as a surgical nutritionist at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver.
