Barnes Returns from Teaching Stint in Vienna

Paul Barnes recently returned from teaching at the Bosendorfer International Piano Acadmy in Vienna. He took four UNL piano majors where these students studied intensively with members of the faculty of the Vienna Hochshule fur Musik. After three weeks of intensive lessons and perfomances, Barnes accompanied the students to Prague and Budapest.

Barnes will perform Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.l with the UNL Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6 in Kimball Hall and then tour with the orchestra for three additional performances. Season highlights for Barnes include a concert tour of South Korea this November and a world-premier performance in New York City on April 19 of Barnes' Orphee Suite, a collection of Barnes' piano transcriptions from the opera by Philip Glass. On June 9, 2001 Barnes will also perform at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.

ACUTA Honors Michalecki

Ruth Michalecki, director of the UNL Telecommunicatons Center, received the Bill D. Morris award for her "contributions to communications professionals in higher education" at an Association of College and University Telecommunications Administrators awards banquet in Washington, D.C., Aug. 2.

The award is ACUTA's highest level of recognition. ACUTA is a national organization made up of educational institutions working to address the specific communications needs that exist in a university environment. The association holds quarterly meetings addressing issues in the implementation and management of communications technologies and provides information and direction on communications-related public policy issues in federal, state, and local government.

American Psychological Association Recognizes Brown

Professor Emeritus Robert D. Brown as a Distinguished Senior Contributor to the field of Counseling Psychology at the American Psychological Association's national meeting in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 6. Brown, who is the Carl A. Happold Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at UNL, was one of 50 recipients of the award, which is given every five years.

Bryant Named Hitchcock Fellow

Carol Bryant of Grand Island has been awarded the Gilbert M. and Martha H. Hitchcock Fellowship. Bryant will receive a cash reward of $5,000 to help complete her master's thesis and graduate studies at UNL.

The College of Journalism and Mass Communications awards the fellowship to a graduate student with media experience after recommendation of the graduate faculty of the college and a review by the board of the Hitchcock Foundation in Omaha.

Bryant, city editor at the Grand Island Independent, worked for six years as a police reporter before assuming her current position. She graduated from Grand Island Senior High School in 1979, earned a bachelor's degree from Hastings College in 1983, and a master's degree in math from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1989.

Bryant's thesis is a manuscript on the life of Milan Bish, a former Grand Island implement dealer who sold the family business to pursue other ventures. Bish was chair of the State Central Committee of the Republican Party, a regional political director for Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign, and served as a U.S. ambassador.