Tidball Award Celebration April 1

The 20th Annual Sue Tidball Award Celebration for the UNL campus community begins at 7 p.m. April 1 in the main sanctuary of St. Mark's on-the-Campus Episcopal Church and Student Center, 1309 R St.

The Sue Tidball Award for Creative Humanity honors persons from the UNL campus who are nominated by their peers for making significant contributions to the development of a humane, open, caring educationally creative and just community on the campus. Since the first year of the award program more than 200 students, faculty and staff members have been nominated and 43 have been named award recipients. Recipients have ranged from senior faculty and administrators, to first-year students, to secretaries, and building custodians.

On April 1, 13 nominees will be publicly recognized and honored, and one or more will be named award recipients. Recipients receive a small check and appropriate plaque. All nominees receive a framed recognition certificate and a booklet made up of the nominations and supportive letters written on their behalf

Following the formal program, there will be an informal reception, including refreshments, for the nominees, recipients, their families and friends, and the attending public in the church fellowship hall.

The Sue Tidball Award program is sponsored by the campus ministry of Cornerstone-UMHE at UNL, as a memorial to a former staff member, widely recognized and admired on the campus and in the Lincoln community, who died in 1976. The program is conducted by an independent committee of UNL students, staff and faculty.

The Award Celebration and the reception following are both open, without charge, to the public.

Nominees for 2001 Sue Tidball Award:

Ariel Bybee, artist in residence/senior lecturer, School of Music.

Richard L. Fleming, professor (emeritus), Agricultural Leadership Education and Communication.

Elizabeth A. Franklin, professor, Center for Curriculum and Instruction.

Robert K. Hitchcock, director, International Affairs, and associate professor, Anthropology, and coordinator, African Studies.

Laurie R. Homer, chief academic adviser, School of Biological Sciences.

Dennis E. Leblanc, associate athletic director, Academic and Student Services.

Linda J. Major, project director, NU Directions.

Hans Patuwo, graduate student, College of Business Administration.

Sara Lynn Granberg-Rademacker, graduate student services coordinator, Graduate Studies.

Joy Ritchie, director, Women's Studies, and associate professor, English.

Viann Schroeder, acting manager, Publications and Photography.

Kathy Stastny, receptionist, Printing and Copy Services.

Lois D. White, sales clerk, Information Desk, East Union.

Egger and Hammack Receive Universitywide Kudos for March

Valerie Egger and Ralph Hammack Jr. will receive the University Kudos Award at the April 7 meeting of the NU Regents.

Egger is a staff assistant for Nebraska Network 21. With the university since 1986, Egger monitors and reconciles about 30 budgets for the NN21 office and projects, and is responsible for payroll and personnel issues.

"Valerie truly exemplifies the highest of professional standards and integrity within the NU system. She is always friendly, helpful, highly trained and prepared for her position, organized, visionary, professional in appearance, and willing to pitch in when help is need," said her nominator.

Hammack is senior videographer with University Television, and has been with the university since 1983.

"Ralph is a dedicated, quality employee who is creative and hard-working. I know of no one who gets praise so consistently from our clients and from his co-workers. I always get glowing reports on his work and on his demeanor," said his nominator. "Even more than most areas of this University, television production is a team effort. Ralph is a great team player and tends to raise the level of contribution of everyone he works with."

Sustainable Families Action Team Wins IANR Team Award

By Molly Klocksin,IANR News Writer

A University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension effort focused on a range of family issues won a top award from NU's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources .

The Sustainable Families Action Team earned IANR's 2001 Team Effort Award and received $10,000 to continue meeting Nebraska families' needs, said John Owens, NU vice president for agriculture and natural resources and IANR vice chancellor.

The award honors an IANR faculty and staff team that produces results in research, teaching, extension, service or international programs. Owens presented the award during IANR Day March 8.

"The Sustainable Families Action Team provides outstanding educational programs that are recognized as making a difference in the lives of Nebraska's families," Owens said. "The team is recognized in Cooperative Extension as a national model for successful development, delivery and evaluation of premiere educational programs."

The team's flagship programs include Childcare Provider Workshops, Juvenile Diversion and Mentoring, Building Nebraska Families, NUFACTS Parenting Messages, Parents Forever, Keeping Families First, NU for Families, Poverty Simulation and Money 2000 Plus.

The team draws support from extension educators and specialists, state agencies, county human service agencies and community members to conduct its programs, which focus on nurturing children, parenting children, community building, interpersonal relationships and financial management.

Team leaders, all from NU Cooperative Extension, are: Gail Brand, Seward County; Connie Francis, Lincoln County; Jeanette Friesen, Hamilton County; Janet Hanna, Garfield, Loop and Wheeler County; Carla Mahar, Deuel/Garden County; Mary Nelson, Douglas/Sarpy County; Kathy Prochaska-Cue, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Phyllis Schoenholz, Nuckolls County; Donna Vrbka, Platte County; Susan Williams, Saunders County.

Active members of the team are: Susan Brown, Adams County; Sheryl Carson, Sheridan County; Leslie Crandall, Phelps/Gosper County; Ann Dobesh, Butler County; Myrna Dubois, Stanton County; Marilyn Fox, Hall County; Susan Hansen, Colfax County; Sandy Hatter, Knox County; Ladeane Jha, Lancaster County; Cathy Johnson, Scotts Bluff County; Eileen Krumbach, York County; Leanne Manning, Saline County; Darlene Martin, Northeast Research and Extension Center, Norfolk; Barbara Micek, Cass County; Jeanne Murray, Box Butte County; Nancy Schmerdtmann, Hall County; Barbara Schmidt, Jefferson County; Deb Schroeder, Cuming County; Cindy Strasheim, Clay/Webster County; Dianne Swanson, Gage County; Doug Swanson, 4-H Youth Development; Rebecca Versch, Washington County; Judy Weber, Fillmore County; Carroll Welte, Burt County.

Program members, all from Extension, are: Pat Anderson, Buffalo County; Lorene Bartos, Lancaster County; Sally Ebmeier, Cedar County; Ann Fenton, Pierce County; Vicki Greve, NU Cooperative Extension Lifelong Learning Center, Norfolk; Jeff Hart, NU Southeast Research and Extension Center, Lincoln; Rhonda Herick, Franklin County; Mary Ann Holland, Johnson County; Jody Jurging, Dodge County; Julie Klooz, Keith County; Carol Larvick, Dakota County; Sharry Nielsen, Kearney County; Shirley Niemeyer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Andrea Nisley, Dawson County; Amy Peterson, Polk County; Carol Plate, Brown-Rock-Keya Paha County; Sarah Effken Purcell, Otoe County; Lynda Radant, Cherry County; Linda Ramsey, Hall County; Barb Scharf, Frontier County; Ladonna Schultz, Holt County; Georgia Stevens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Sandy Stockall, West Central Research and Extension Center, North Platte; Carolyn Straub, Keith-Arthur County; Amy Turner, Douglas/Sarpy County; Mary Warner, Furnas County.

The team began working together about seven years ago. It is one of 13 statewide NU Cooperative Extension action teams. Ten faculty members lead the team and 35 people regularly attend team meetings. More than 60 educators and specialists participate statewide.

Seven NU Faculty, Instructors Receive Holling Awards

By Molly Klocksin, IANR News

Seven University of Nebraska faculty members and instructors received Holling Family Awards for Teaching Excellence this month. They were honored March 23 in a ceremony sponsored by Alpha Zeta, a professional service and honorary agricultural fraternity for men and women.

The awards, given to outstanding faculty within NU's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture, are made possible by a $3 million gift from the Holling family to the NU Foundation in 1990 to honor their pioneer parents.

The 2001 awards and recipients are:

Senior Faculty Teaching Excellence awards ($5,000 stipend) - Mary Beck, professor of animal science; Del Hemsath, associate professor at the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis; Robert Hutkins, professor of food science and technology; and Steve Rodie, associate professor of agronomy/horticulture and a landscape horticulturalist at UNO.

Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence award ($3,000 stipend) - Brian Benham, water management engineer at NU's South Central Research and Extension Center, and Rosemarie Nold, assistant professor of animal science and youth specialist.

Teaching Assistant Teaching Excellence awards ($1,000 stipend) - Mark Allan, a Ph.D. candidate in animal science specializing in animal breeding and molecular genetics.

John Holling and his siblings established the award to honor their parents. The Hollings were a German-Danish pioneer farm family who settled near Wood River in the 1870s. John Holling (1887-1988) was a 1912 NU electrical engineering graduate who oversaw naval construction during World War I and later worked for the U.S. General Accounting Office. His brother, Gustave, attended NU's College of Agriculture before farming the family's land.

Peers and/or administrators nominated instructors in CASNR, NU Cooperative Extension or NCTA. Criteria include innovation, impact and program quality for students.

ASUN Thanks the Faculty Women's Club

The ASUN Student Government would like to acknowledge and thank the Faculty Women's Club for its work on the election held Feb. 28 and the run-off election on March 6.

Approximately 134 members of the Faculty Women's Club were on campus during the elections, with polls open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Coordinators for the club were Vera Mae Lutz and Jeanne Crawford.

The student government donates $800 to the club, which the Faculty Women's Club uses for a scholarship fund at UNL.

Reinhard, Meier on Fulbright Assignment

Karl Reinhard, associate professor in the School of Natural Resource Sciences and his wife Deb Meier, supervisor of exhibits at the Nebraska State Museum, are traveling to Brazil under a five-month Fulbright grant to continue work begun during a previous Fulbright trip in 1997.

Reinhard will lecture at six institutions on topics of patheoecology, paleopathology, parisitology, palynology, paleonutrition and forensic science.

Meier will participate in research and a workshop on mummy conservation and exhibition at the National Museum in Rio.

During Reinhard's earlier visit, he worked to develop workshops and research relating to the evolution of parasites.

A story in the March 8 Scarlet listed Fulbright grants awarded to UNL faculty. However, Reinhard and Meier were omitted from the list because they were not included in information provided by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.