Alumni Awards

2024 Alumni Award Recipients

We are thrilled to celebrate the incredible accomplishments made by our 2024 alumni award recipients during Homecoming weekend, Oct. 18-19, 2024. The UWO Alumni Awards Celebration will be held on Friday, Oct. 18 beginning at 5 p.m. at the Culver Family Welcome Center. The cost is $40 per person and includes dinner.

Learn More: Read about the 2024 award recipients

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2024 Outstanding Young Alumni Award

Kenton Barber ’17

of Los Angeles, California

Freelance Steadicam owner/operator

Blair Braun ’18

Platteville

Asst. professor of psychology, UW-Platteville

Zoe Dahse ’21

Vienna, Austria

Assoc. Project Officer for the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency

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Caitlin Hopper ’15

Washington D.C.

Global board affairs manager for the World Resources Institute

Alexandra Nussbaum ’16

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Laboratory information systems technical specialist at Health Partners

Kyle Petit ’14

Greenville

Asst. Professor at UW Oshkosh

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Aaron Robinson ’12

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Emergency medicine physician at Hennepin County Medical Center

2024 Distinguished Alumni Award

Scott Barr ’86
Appleton
Managing Partner at McCarty Law Office

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John Close ’76
Charlotte, North Carolina
Retired Sports Journalist

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Alan Freitag ’73
Denver, North Carolina
Retired, UNC Charlotte and U.S. Air Force

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Shane Carter ’02, ’10 MSN
Omro
President, Ascension Mercy Hospital

2024 Alumni Outstanding Service Award

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Dan Thome ’85
Appleton
Owner, Axiom Advisors

Chris Tarmann ’14

Neenah

Chief of Police for UW Oshkosh