Goldrich Receives Universitywide Kudos

John Goldrich received the University Kudos Award at the Jan. 17 meeting of the NU Regents.

Goldrich has worked as a counselor with Counseling and Psychological Services at the University Health Center since 1995.

"His wise counsel to programs as varied as Student Judicial Affairs and the Athletics Department have been keenly appreciated, resulting in student-focused services that are consistently empathic, insightful and helpful," said his nominator. "John has perhaps had his biggest impact on the university as a whole through a program in Anger Management that he personally developed and then ran for a number of years, continuing to this day. The individuals who have gone through John's program have spoken in glowing terms of the positive impact that his work has had on their lives."

NU Press Books Snare Various Awards

The 2000 J. Franklin Jameson Award in Educational Achievement from the American Historical Association was awarded to Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz for Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. The three-volume set published by the University of Nebraska Press also won the Western History Association's Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award and earned a spot for the press's senior designer Richard Eckersley in the American Institute of Graphic Arts 50 Books/50 Covers of 2000 in the University Press category.

Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Thomas J. Mathiesen won three awards in 2000: the American Musicological Society's Otto Kinkeldey Award, the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory, and the ASCAP Deems Taylor Book Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Two of the press's books in the area of Germanic studies garnered prestigious awards. Lutz Koepnick, author of Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power, won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the Modern Language Association. Russell Berman's book Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture won the German Studies Association DAAD Prize.

The Western Literature Association awarded the Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literacy Studies to Susan J. Rosowski's Birthing a Nation - Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature. Rosowski is Adele Hall Distinguished Professor of English at UNL and general editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition series. The latest book in the series, Death Comes for the Archbishop, received the Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico. John J. Murphy, Charles Mignon, Frederick Link, and Kari A. Ronning all worked as contributors on the book. Mignon, Link, and Ronning are members of the UNL community.

The Sierra Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians went to Margaret D. Jacobs for her book Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879-1934. The book also captured the Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award for outstanding publication by an individual from the Historical Society of New Mexico. Wilderness Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service by Ethan Carr won the Fred Niffen Prize given by the Pioneer America Society.

The Tucson-Pima Public Library named Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey by Grenville Goodwin and Neil Goodwin, one Of tile Southwest Books of the Year. The prize committee called it a "moving account of a son's search for his father and the two lives coming together over the yawning span of time." Kirkus called the book "An all-too-short, many-layered tale that succeeds as a roots memoir, detective story, and revelation of tragically tangled bloodlines."

Bunny McBride's Women of the Dawn won the Friends of American Writers Adult Literary Award. Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story by Leroy TeCube won the American Book Award sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation.

Jacquelyn Kilpatrick was selected to the Society of Midland Authors for her book Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film. Mark R. Scherer's book Imperfect Victories - The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945-1995 received an Honorable Mention in the State Historical Society of Iowa's Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award competition.

Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Acocella, Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition by John P. Anders, and Pilgrims on the Ice: Robert Falcon Scott's First Antarctic Expedition by T. H. Baughman were named Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000 by CHOICE magazine.

The National Endowment for the Humanities named Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve a National Humanities Medalist for 2000 for her work as a writer exploring the American Indian experience. Her most recent book, Grandpa Was a Cowboy and an Indian and Other Stories, collects contemporary stories of Lakota and Dakota people, tales from the early 19th century, and ancient Sioux legends. President Clinton presented 24 honorees at a White House ceremony on Dec. 20, 2000. Of Sneve, Clinton said, "She is a gifted teacher and storyteller. She breaks down stereotypes replacing them with knowledge."

Alumna Wins Medal of Science

A 1958 graduate of the University of Nebraska has received a National Medal of Science. Nancy Coover Andreason, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, received the award Dec. 1.

Andreason earned her undergraduate degree from NU in 1958 and a Ph.D. from NU in 1963. She is a Lincoln native.

Congress established the National Medal of Science in 1959 as a presidential award recognizing outstanding contributions to the physical, biological, mathematical or engineering sciences and in 1980, the fields of behavioral and social sciences were added. A panel of 12 scientists and engineers evaluate the nominees. Since its inception, 374 individuals have received medals.

Andreason was nominated by Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Iowa. Andreason was cited for her significant research into the causes, prevention and treatment of schizophrenia. She conducts research using MRI and PET technology. Her results led her to create a new model of schizophrenia that suggests that a misconnection syndrome - brain circuitry disruption - causes the cognitive dysfunctions that characterize the disease.

Andreason has received numerous awards and honors and is editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Andreason was the second person from the 1950s NU era to win top recognition last fall. Alan Heeger, a 1957 NU graduate was named a Nobel Prize recipient in October for contributions to chemistry for research into semiconducting and metallic plastics called electropolymers, key materials for high tech industries and applications.

SSD Director Joins Student Involvement Office

Mary Thompson, director of Services for Students with Disabilities, has, at her request, been reassigned to the Office of Student Involvement, according to James Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs.

The reassignment became effective Jan. 29. Thompson will spend one week completing transition duties and begin her new job Feb. 5. She will remain with Student Involvement through the current academic year.

"I will miss the positive interactions and working relationships that I have experienced with students, staff, faculty and other directors through Services for Students with Disabilities," Thompson said. "I look forward to the challenges of my new role."

Stan Campbell, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs and director of campus recreation, will oversee operations of the Services for Students with Disabilities Office until an interim director is appointed. Griesen said a search for a permanent director will begin in February.

"Ms. Thompson has worked very hard to get operations in the Services for Students with Disabilities Office functioning smoothly before requesting reassignment," Griesen said. "We have had a good start to the second semester, and we expect to provide a high level of student service throughout the period of interim leadership."

Millard Teacher Is McAuliffe Winner

Lorrie Schrad says her favorite "teacher" sweatshirt features a quote from Christa McAuliffe, the teacher-astronaut who was killed in the crash of the space shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986.

The quote "I touch the future, I teach," encapsulates McAuliffe's teaching philosophy, as well as that of Schrad, the winner of the 15th annual Christa McAuliffe Prize awarded by Teachers College.

A family and consumer sciences teacher at Andersen Middle School in Omaha's Millard School District since 1986, Schrad has developed innovative curriculum and extracurricular activities that help her students develop inside and outside the classroom.

Schrad will receive a $1,000 stipend and a plaque from Teachers College Jan. 28. Two other teachers will receive Special Recognition awards at the awards luncheon - John Graff, math teacher at Omaha Westside High School, and Jack Sibert, computer teacher/specialist at Lincoln's Cavett Elementary School.

Cacak Elected to National Board

Mike Cacak, director of UNL Transportation Services, has been elected to the board of trustees of the National Association of Fleet Administrators, an organization serving the vehicle fleet management profession. Cacek is one of four trustees who will take office on March 5 at the organization's annual conference in San Francisco. He was elected to a one-year term.

A member of the organization since 1977, Cacek has chaired several committees at the local and national level . In March, he completes a term as chairperson of the Midwest chapter, which is made up of Nebraska and Iowa professionals. He also has been secretary to the national board. His duties and responsibilities will include creating and introducing new policies that will benefit the profession. He'll meet with the other three trustees and the vice-president and president at quarterly board meetings. He will also evaluate the needs of the profession and communicate those needs to vehicle manufacturers.

The association has 4,000 members in the United States and Canada. Members manage at least 25 vehicles; some members are responsible for up to 10,000 vehicles. Cacak oversees about half of the 900 vehicles in the university's inventory. Vehicle fleet vendors and suppliers also are members of the organization.

Bernthal Elected Association President

John Bernthal, professor and chair of the department of special education and communication disorders, began a one-year term as president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association on Jan. 1. A member of the association for 35 years, Bernthal holds dual certification in audiology and speech-language pathology.

Bernthal, whose current research, publications and teachings focus on preschool and school-age children with phonological disorders, became a Fellow in 1979, one of the highest awards given by the association.

ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 99,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language and hearing scientists.

NPRN Receives Grant to Position in Western Nebraska

The Nebraska Public Radio Network has received a $15,144 competitive grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Rural Listener Access Incentive Fund to encourage additional services to rural audiences. The grant money will be applied toward continuing the full-time western Nebraska news and public affairs reporter position created a year ago and filled by Jason Frederick since its inception.

"In our state, it's especially important to find ways to cover issues that are important to the citizens who live outside of the major metro areas," said Nancy Finken, NPRN program director.

The network's role as provider of news and public affairs information is especially significant considering that Nebraska's public radio and television networks are the only electronic media that cover the entire state. Frederick, a Trenton native who lives in McCook, can report to the entire state on issues significant to a rural audience and explain their relevance in depth.

NET Names Terry Dugas to Interactive Media Group

Nebraska Educational Telecommunications has named Terry Dugas operations manager for NET's Interactive Media Group.

Dugas will lead a team of software developers, Web site developers, instructional designers and other professionals in developing CD-ROMs, DVDs, Web sites and other interactive media to deliver educational services. IMG is developing an extensive Web-based training program for the Nebraska National Guard; the "Wonderwise" interactive science discovery series funded by the National Science Foundation; a multimedia diversity project for Children's Express, a news organization operated by and for young people; and several national Web sites for the Public Broadcasting Service.

Dugas has 24 years of commercial and public broadcasting experience. He is an advisory board member for two federally funded projects involving enhanced television and distance learning and is vice chair of the PBS Web Advisory Committee.

Before coming to NET, he was co-director of the Digital Center for the Development of Enhanced Broadcasting at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Emeriti Association Elects New Officers

Richard Fleming is the new president of the UNL Emeriti Association for 2001. He succeeds Ron Ozaki who becomes past president. Other officers include: Russell Nelson, vice president, president-elect and program chair; Dan Lutz and Orvid Owens, co-secretaries; and Dale Mesner, treasurer. The directors are Ted Doane, Theo Sonderegger and Wilma Crumley. Committee chairs include: Benefits, Ralph Marlette; Maude Wisherd Fund, Robert Brown; Membership, Ron Ozaki, and Nominating, Ted Hartung.