Olivia Grooters of Sanborn, an agricultural science and agricultural education double-major, has received the Clifford A. Rae Academic Achievement Award. The award was given to nine Buena Vista University business students and nine science students for the 2023 academic year.
The awards, which range up to $9,500, were created by two separate $750,000 endowments from the foundations established by Dr. Harold Walter Siebens and named after the long-time advisor and counsel to Siebens and the foundations. The endowments support annual awards for up to three pre-qualified, academically high-performing BVU business and science students in each of the second, third, and fourth years of school.
As the region’s leader in rural education and innovation, BVU provides students with a variety of undergraduate and graduate degree pathways. The residential campus located on the beautiful shores of Storm Lake hosts students in a variety of in-demand majors, taking concepts from state-of-the-art classrooms and labs to real-world applications throughout the U.S. and across the globe. Convenient online undergraduate and graduate programs provide educational advancement opportunities that are designed to fit anyone’s busy schedule. Visit bvu.edu for more.