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UNO Student Chapter Receives Merit Award from SHRM

SHRM (the Society for Human Resource Management), the trusted authority on all things work, workers and the workplace awarded a 2024-2025 Superior Merit Award designation to the University of Nebraska at Omaha SHRM student chapter for providing superior growth and development opportunities to its student members.

  • published: 2025/07/22
  • contact: Melissa Lindell Kozak - Sr. Director of Communications & Marketing, UNO CBA
  • email: melissalindell@unomaha.edu
Four professionally dressed young adults, two women on the left, one man and one woman on the right, pose for individual portraits. The first woman wears a houndstooth blazer and stands in front of a university building. The second woman has long straight hair and is wearing a black blazer over a maroon top, standing against a light stone wall. The man wears glasses and a navy blazer with a white shirt, with a colorful bookshelf in the background. The final woman wears a navy dress with a bright pink belt, standing in a natural field landscape near a lake during sunset.

Kathia Dimas, Ishani Adidam, Luke Muse, and Abby Hill

SHRM (the Society for Human Resource Management), the trusted authority on all things work, workers and the workplace awarded a 2024-2025 Superior Merit Award designation to the University of Nebraska at Omaha SHRM student chapter for providing superior growth and development opportunities to its student members.

The 2025 award extends the UNO student SHRM chapter’s commitment to excellence as the chapter has been recognized at the Merit or Superior Merit Award level every year since 2018. The SHRM Student Chapter Merit Award program encourages the development of more effective student chapters and distinguishes outstanding activities and projects. Chapters are recognized based on operations, chapter programming and professional development of members, support of the human resource profession, and SHRM engagement.

“The members of our SHRM student chapters embody the future of HR leadership, making it essential to recognize the pivotal role they play in SHRM’s ongoing success,” said Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, SHRM president and CEO. “The dedication and achievements of UNO demonstrate that the profession’s future is in capable and inspired hands. I commend their accomplishments and their ability to drive innovative programming, professional development, and a growing interest in HR as we adapt to the evolving dynamics of the workplace.”

“Since 2018 the student organization has received either the Merit or Superior award. It is a real credit to the leadership team of Kathia Dimas, Ishani Adidam, Luke Muse, and Abby Hill that took the initiative to see this through,” said Dr. Patricia Meglich, faculty advisor to the UNO student chapter of SHRM.

SHRM student chapters have the opportunity to earn an award based on the number of activities they complete during the merit award cycle, the most recent one of which lasted from May 1, 2024, to April 30, 2025.

About SHRM

SHRM is a member-driven catalyst for creating better workplaces where people and businesses thrive together. As the trusted authority on all things work, SHRM is the foremost expert, researcher, advocate, and thought leader on issues and innovations impacting today’s evolving workplaces. With nearly 340,000 members in 180 countries, SHRM touches the lives of more than 362 million workers and their families globally. Discover more at SHRM.org.