Article: WACHENHEIM RECEIVES BOARD OF DIRECTORS AWARD

FARGO, N.D., Nov. 4 -- North Dakota State University issued the following news release:

Cheryl J. Wachenheim, associate professor of agribusiness and applied economics, was awarded the 2009 Board of Directors Award at the 15th Sloan Consortium Annual Awards Meeting. Wachenheim received the award for inspirational online teaching at NDSU while serving with the Army National Guard in Iraq during 2008-09.

A captain in the Minnesota Army National Guard, she was deployed in August 2008 to Balad, Iraq, for a 10-month stay. Wearing the required body armor and armed with an M-16, she continued to teach courses online from a fortified medical supplies trailer.

Wachenheim joined NDSU in 1998 and ...

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