Tuesday, May 4, 2010
ORCA is Latest Honor for Chemist Zeng
After earning a Guggenheim Fellowship, being named an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow, a university professor, and having seven major discoveries published in the three major science journals in a nine-year period, it’s almost no surprise that Xiao Cheng Zeng is in the headlines again for his latest accolade: the university’s highest award for research and creative activity.
Zeng, ever the collegial diplomat, looks at his latest honor, the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity award, as acknowledgment of the excellence of his research team and the historic accomplishments of the department of chemistry.
“I have been very fortunate to keep getting honors,” Zeng said, on the day after the news announcement of his single-layer ice clathrate discovery published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “But if you look at the history of the ORCA, every decade a UNL chemist has been named. To join their league is absolutely one of the greatest honors and to put my name on their list is quite extraordinary.” more...
APC Hearing Set For June 25
The APC has announced a tentative schedule for Budget Hearings on proposed budget reductions, with a hearing scheduled for June 25 for some of the proposed budget cuts. Another will be planned later, during fall 2010. The June 25 session will focus primarily on the proposed administrative reductions while the fall hearing will focus on those reductions mainly affecting academics. The task of the APC is to review the Chancellor's proposed cuts in light of their probable impact on the university's academic mission and approve them or suggest other ways of meeting the budget reduction goal. To accomplish this task, the APC welcomes information from all who may be affected by the proposed reductions. Specific recommendations may be found on 2010 Budget Reduction website.
Responses and notices to appear should be sent to Academic Planning Committee, c/o Dr. William Nunez, APC Secretary, 332 Canfield Administration Building, 0435, or wnunez2@unl.edu by 3 p.m., June 18.
International Water for Food Conference in Lincoln May 2-5
Experts from around the world will discuss the challenge of producing more food for an increasing population with limited water supplies at the second international Water for Food conference May 2-5 in Lincoln. Hosted by the University of Nebraska and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the "Water for Food: Growing More with Less" conference will explore the research, policy and educational advances that will help feed a hungry and thirsty world.
Featured speakers will include Pedro Sanchez, the 2002 World Food Prize laureate and director of the Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program at the Earth Institute at Columbia University; John Briscoe, Harvard University, whose career has focused on water and economic development; David Molden, deputy director general for research at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka; Marianne Banziger, deputy director general for research and partnerships at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center; and Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. more...
WATER FOR FOOD CONFERENCE
UNL Announces 2 More Fulbrights; Students to Germany, China
(l-r) Racheal Strong, Nick Ziegler
Two more University of Nebraska-Lincoln students have been awarded prestigious Fulbright grants -- among as many as eight that will be received by UNL students this spring.
Racheal Strong of Grand Island will live in Chengdu, China, and Nick Ziegler of Muscatine, Iowa, will travel to Leipzig, Germany, for a year under the Fulbright Program, which aims to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills. more...
The Art of The Steal, Neil Young Trunk Show Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Art of The Steal and Neil Young Trunk Show. Neil Young Trunk Show will screen through May 6, while The Art of The Steal will show through May 13.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
