Mary Anne Holmes and Julia McQuillan will be honored during the Chancellor's Outstanding Contribution to Women award ceremony and reception, 3:30 to 5 p.m. March 12 in the Nebraska Union's Heritage Room.
Chancellor Harvey Perlman will present the awards.
Holmes and McQuillan are director and co-principal investigator, respectively, of the UNL NSF Advance Program. They will be honored for their efforts to create a climate that encourages women to succeed at the university.
The reception will include a performance by the University Chorale. Rhonda Fuelberth, associate professor of music, directs the University Chorale.
The reception is free and open to the public.
For more information, go to http://events.unl.edu/2013/03/12/75782/.