{"id":6305,"date":"2022-04-14T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/?p=6305"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:23:07","slug":"mls-student-and-faculty-garner-awards-at-state-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/2022\/04\/14\/mls-student-and-faculty-garner-awards-at-state-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"MLS student and faculty garner awards at state meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>Current Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) student Amber Madigan Kuss received the 2021 Emerging Leader Student Scholarship from the Clinical Laboratory Manager\u2019s Association Great Plains Chapter at the 2022 Nebraska Laboratory Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students enrolled in a National Accreditation Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS) accredited program in the Great Plains Region were eligible. Selection criteria included a passion for laboratory medicine and a desire to be a leader in the field.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-10-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin McGuire receives the Shirley Noble Award from Dr. Karen Honeycutt\" class=\"wp-image-6307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-10-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-10-120x136.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-10.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kevin McGuire receives the Shirley Noble Award from Dr. Karen Honeycutt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Kevin McGuire, MLS assistant professor and chemistry coordinator, received the Shirley Noble Award. This award was established to recognize an American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science \u2013 Nebraska (ASCLS-NE) member who actively promotes the laboratory profession. Recipients must have acted as a positive role model and mentor to members of the society or to MLS\/MLT students just as its namesake Shirley Noble did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Honeycutt, PhD, MLS program director and associate professor, received the Filter Award. This award goes to an outstanding ASCLS-NE member who has made a significant contribution to their society. Nominations are based on the member\u2019s activities during the current year, as well as a summary of that person\u2019s contributions to the Medical Laboratory Science profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-8-1024x669.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin McGuire presents Dr. Karen Honeycutt with the Filter Award.\" class=\"wp-image-6308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-8-1024x669.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-8-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-8-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-8-1536x1004.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-8-120x78.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/04\/Awards-8.jpg 2019w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) student Amber Madigan Kuss received the 2021 Emerging Leader Student Scholarship from the Clinical Laboratory Manager\u2019s Association Great Plains Chapter at the 2022 Nebraska Laboratory Meeting. Students enrolled in a National Accreditation Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS) accredited program in the Great Plains Region were eligible. Selection criteria included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":6306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54,45,7,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deans-office","category-education","category-frontpage","category-kudos","category-medical-laboratory-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6305"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7318,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions\/7318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}