USU Hosts Annual Robins Awards

Utah State University holds the annual Robins Awards ceremony April 16 at 7 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center Stevenson Ballroom. All are invited to join the nominees of the Robins Awards for this formal dress ceremony.

The Robins Awards are the highest honors awarded to students and faculty by the university. The awards are merited on hard work and dedication to individual goals as well as the goals of USU.

The awards memorialize Bill E. Robins, a campus hero who had a rare quality to turn his vision into Utah State’s vision. Robins served as USU’s student body president in 1949. He was the primary and initial visionary of today's Taggart Student Center.

In 1954, Bill and wife Geraldine died in a plane crash, leaving behind a 1-year-old orphan boy. This prompted Robins’ fraternity to set up a fund so the boy could go to USU when he was ready. Tragically, the boy died at the age of 8 from leukemia. Since then, the fund has been used to continue the Robins Award tradition.

As a memorial to Robins, the night's feature award is called the Bill Robins Memorial Award. Other awards include Achievement of the Year, Woman of the Year, Man of the Year, Organization of the Year and the Val R. Christensen Service of the Year.

For more information, contact the USU’s Student Involvement and Leadership Center, 435-797-2912.

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Associated Students of Utah State University

Contact: Lacey Nagao, ASUSU pblic relations director, lacey.saxton@aggiemail.usu.edu