Aspiring dietician named NACUFS’ Food Services Student Employee of the Year

STEVENS POINT, Wis. — It's not every day that Kirsten Voss helps bake and decorate 3,000 cookies for homecoming, or volunteers to set up an elaborate cupcake display, chocolate fondue and multiple dessert stations for Finals Frenzy Chocolate Madness. But on most early mornings, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point bakery student manager takes on a multitude of tasks before many college students have even headed to class.

Her ongoing efforts have earned the UWSP senior the 2015 National Association of College and University Food Services Student Employee of the Year Award. Voss will be recognized at 10 a.m. May 8 in DeBot Room 073. The presentation will include a NACUFS representative and remarks from Voss, Dining and Summer Conferences staff, Vice Chancellor Al Thompson and Chancellor Bernie Patterson. She will also be highlighted on the NACUFS website and at the NACUFS National Conference in Indianapolis in July.

A dietetics major from Greendale, Voss will receive a $5,000 scholarship and a plaque presented at UWSP. She was chosen for best exemplifying reliability, quality of work, initiative, team work and contribution to her employer. Voss was the Midwest Region finalist, one of six regional winners from across the United States. She is the first national winner from UWSP and the UW System.

Voss began working in the Dining and Summer Conferences bakery three years ago, and has also worked in the DeBot Dining Center, Homegrown Café and CPS Café. As a student manager, Voss manages production for bakery items across campus, trains staff and keeps the bakery clean and productive.