Eve Puckett Giving Tree planting honoring Serena Semere

Join us this Wednesday, May 6, at 3:30 p.m. behind Chappell Hall for the Eve Puckett Giving Tree Award planting.

The Eve Puckett Giving Tree Award is given to an organization or a person who has left a lasting legacy of service at the university. Each recipient plants a tree on campus as an act of giving back to the community.

This year, the student recipient is Serena Semere. About Serena:

"Throughout my time here, I have focused on creating work that not only supports students now, but continues to impact the campus long after I am gone. As Student Government Association President, much of my work has centered on improving the everyday student experience. Some of these changes began early in my college career. Seeing what was once just ideas turn into feasible and tangible changes for students has been one of the most meaningful parts of my work. Beyond campus, I have worked to expand access to higher education through advocacy at the state level. I advocated for the reinstatement of the governor's full allocation of 325 million dollars to the DREAMS Act, an endowment fund that provides financial support for low income students, and those efforts contributed to the restoration of funding that will help hundreds of thousands of low-income students afford their college education."