{"id":46577,"date":"2014-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/08\/sherry-cherek-is-gold-u-winner-for-march\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:31:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:31:23","slug":"sherry-cherek-is-gold-u-winner-for-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/08\/sherry-cherek-is-gold-u-winner-for-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherry Cherek is Gold U winner for March"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a way, it was kind of a fluke. <\/p>\n

Sherry Cherek first came to UNMC to apply for a job in the print shop. But even before the interview ended, she was pretty sure it wasn’t what she wanted. “I was at a medical business college at the time,” she said. “I was looking for a medical secretary type of position.” <\/p>\n

What Cherek didn’t know was, Marge Adey, former program coordinator of the continuing education department, also happened to be in the print shop that day — and she thought Cherek sounded like just what she was looking for. <\/p>\n

Adey called Cherek at her school and invited her back for an interview in her department. <\/p>\n

This job she took — and a lot of people have had reason to be glad of her decision in the 41 years since. <\/p>\n

In March, Cherek, now with the department of environmental, agricultural and occupational health in the College of Public Health, was named the Gold U Award winner. <\/p>\n

After 28 years with continuing education, she moved to the Eppley Cancer Institute to work for two longtime university researchers and to coordinate their toxicology graduate program. That program joined the College of Public Health in 2009. In that time, she’s worked with many people, and they have all kinds of good things to say about her. <\/p>\n

A sample, from among Cherek’s Gold U nominations: <\/p>\n