Texas Parents honor biology senior

The Texas Parents Association presented the 2007 Mike Wacker Award for overcoming great adversity to Jeffrey Mikeska, an aerospace engineering and biology senior. While battling cancer, Mikeska attended classes and served as treasurer and, later, president of the university student chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He underwent numerous surgeries last year and was forced to miss the spring 2007 semester. He returned this fall with plans to graduate in December.