The success of the national media placement program at
the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln depends on the cooperation among faculty and staff,
willingness to share time and expertise with members of the media, and a
certain amount of aggressiveness. Oftentimes, the first step in having a
story in a publication like The New York Times begins with an idea,
prompts
an e-mail or phone call to Public Relations or IANR News and Publishing,
or with a quick response from faculty to a Profnet query or reporter
call.
The continued success of our cooperative efforts to increase the
visibility
of UNL goes beyond the news stories, enhancing our institutional
reputation
among peers, potential students, alumni, benefactors and
constituents.
What follows is a sampling of the headlines, features, news broadcasts
and other national news appearances from 2000. With the assistance of
faculty
and staff, UNL earned more than 700 national academic news mentions in
2000.
For more information, or to offer ideas for possible national placements,
contact Kelly Bartling, national news editor, Office of Public Relations,
(402) 472-2059, or Dan Moser, coordinator of IANR News and Publishing, at
(402) 472-3030.
Technology
UNL's position as a leader and innovator in Web-based learning for
high
school students, along with the longstanding tradition of excellence of
Independent Study High School, prompted numerous features and mentions in
publications nationwide.
 A Nebraska Associated Press story featuring students who use virtual
high schools, including class.com and ISHS, was a prominent segment in
The
Chicago Tribune in October, and the wire story also appeared in places
like
Dubuque Telegraph Herald, the Deseret News and Florida Times-Union.
The New York Times July 7, in a feature on Internet in the classroom,
mentioned UNL as offering college-level courses to high school students
on-line.
Other features were in South Carolina Associated Press, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Houston Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
and
Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
U.S. News & World Report quoted Gary Kimminau of the UNL Computer
Shop in its Aug. 14 issue and feature on "The college PC: a machine
revved up for some serious fun."
The Husker sports web-cast was also featured in The New York Times,
USA
Today and Wall Street Journal at the end of August.
MacCentral Online magazine Sept. 30 featured NU Teachers College,
exploring
learning environment enhancement through laptop use.
The Topeka Capital Journal Aug. 27 featured high tech courses and
Internet
2.
An Associated Press story Sept. 27 from Greenville, Ill., by AP's
Internet
writer, featured UNL's wireless technology. Stories showed up Oct. 1 in
the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Memphis
Commercial
Appeal, and others.
The Chicago Tribune Jan. 2, in "The downside of technology:
You're
always on the job," quoted Allan McCutcheon, Gallup Research Center,
saying more online time leads to more connects at work and home.
Janet Poley, president of American Distance Education Consortium, was
interviewed by Associated Press on online courses and distance
education.
Agriculture and Natural Resources
AgOnline and the Associated Press circulated widely the news release
about the IANR E. coli 0157:H7 research in feedlots featuring veterinary
scientist David Smith. Successful Farming featured the research.
IANR faculty were used as sources and features in a variety of
national
trade and general news publications, including several issues of Beef
magazine,
Successful Farming, National Hog Farmer, Soybean Digest, and Pest Control
magazine, among others.
Soil scientist John Doran's environmental award by the International
Onassis Foundation, announced in Athens, earned news briefs across the
country:
Associated Press, The Baltimore Sun, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Dallas
Morning
News, Dayton Daily News, The Deseret News, The Detroit News, Edmonton
Sun,
New Jersey Record, San Antonio Express-News, Orlando Sun-Sentinel, New
Orleans
Times Picayune, The Vancouver Sun, Agence France Presse', Xinhua General
News Service, Providence Journal-Bulletin, Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
Chattanooga
Times-Free Press, Cincinnati Enquirer, The Tennessean, Florida Times
Union.
The Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel featured eggs and quoted nutrition
scientist
Nancy Lewis.
The South Bend Tribune Dec. 27 reported on land-use plans and rural
America,
quoting rural sociologist John Allen, Center for Applied Rural
Innovation.
IANR's National Drought Mitigation Center was featured in the
October
2000 Seed Trade News.
Drought
Nebraska's role as the National Drought Mitigation Center, and severe
drought in parts of the nation, prompted numerous features and mentions
in various media worldwide, using the center's and the Institute of
Agriculture
and Natural Resources' climatology sources and graphics. Among the
largest
was a science feature on drought in The New York Times, April 25,
"Persistent
and Severe, Drought Strikes Again," and in The Wall Street Journal
March 11. USA Today June 26 featured drought and quoted IANR
climatologist
Don Wilhite. Newsweek's "Perspectives," section ran
climatologist
Mark Svoboda's quote, "It's not the run-of-the-mill drought. It's
the
kind you'll see only once or twice in a hundred years."
The Christian Science Monitor, in a front-page story Aug. 2, featured
drought and the National Drought Mitigation Center.
NU drought experts were quoted in the Des Moines Register, The Dallas
Morning News, Kansas Associated Press, St. Louis Dispatch, Pittsburg
Post-Gazette,
Knight Ridder, San Diego Union-Tribune, New Orleans Times-Picayune, The
Denver Post, The Charleston Gazette, Raleigh News and Observer, Florida
Times Union, Baltimore Sun, Science Monitor, The Indianapolis Star, The
Lakeland, Fla. Ledger, Science World magazine, Seed Trade News, Fort
Worth
Star-Telegram, The Kansas City Star, Orlando Sentinel, Texas Associated
Press, The Indianapolis Star, Minneapolis Star Tribune, New Jersey
Record,
Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Charleston Gazette, Baton Rouge Sunday
Advocate,
West Virginia Gazette Mail, The Arizona Republic, Chicago Sun Times,
Alabama
state wire, The Chicago Tribune, Dubuque Telegraph Herald, The Colorado
Record, Denver Post, Arizona Associated Press, Investor's Business Daily,
San Antonio Express-News, Charleston Post and Courier, South Carolina
Associated
Press. Television and radio interviews and features included NPR's All
Things
Considered, CNN feature, Christian Broadcast News feature, CBS News
Radio,
The Osgood File.
Biotechnology
NU's study several years ago by IANR food scientists of transgenic
soybeans
that contained a Brazil nut protein that proved allergenic continued to
generate media interest. It was cited in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and
Aberdeen Press and Journal.
Entomologist John Foster's study of Bt corn's impact on monarch
caterpillars
was used in a story on high-tech crops in the Aug. 7 St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.The
Post-Dispatch in September reported on food science, and quoted food
scientist
Steve Taylor on Bt toxin and safety.
The growing interest in biotech food, including a discovery of
StarLink
corn in taco shells, prompted interviews by NU food scientists in The New
York Times, The Sacramento Bee, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Times
of London, Raleigh News and Observer, Orlando Sentinel, Houston
Chronicle,
San Jose Mercury News, The Washington Post, Knight Ridder/Tribune, the
Charleston
Sunday Gazette Mail, The Deseret News, and the Bismarck Tribune. Taylor
penned an op-ed, "Taco troubles could have been avoided,"
appearing
Oct. 27 in the Des Moines Register. Taylor was quoted in the Nov. 1
Better
Homes and Gardens magazine in "Should you fear the new
foods?"
Research
The Journal of the American Dietetic Association Aug. 1 featured
"Interaction
of vitamin C and cigarette smoke," and featured views of nutrition
scientist Nancy Betts. Betts' research on minerals and supplements to
ward
off colds and flu was in UPI's Health Tips column Feb. 1; Scripps Howard
News Service, Vancouver Columbian, The Arizona Republic and Orange County
Register cited her research on chocolate. Her study on the
smoking-drinking-bad
diet triple whammy was featured in the Dec. 22 Chicago Tribune, UPI,
Knight
Ridder and other outlets.
New Scientist Jan. 15 featured "When good bugs turn bad,"
and
Svata Louda, population ecologist and researcher of thistles and weevils.
Louda's weevil research was cited in the Bangor Daily News, and featured
in Natural History June 1, and in Washington Associated Press. New
Scientist
magazine also featured biologist Diana Pilson's research on seed pests'
effects on wild sunflowers.
Quantom dot technology at UNL by Supriyo Bandyopadhyay's team were
featured
in the Dec. 4 Electronic Engineering Times. It was also reported on in
the
Dec. 13 Bangkok Post in a column on computers. Business Week Dec. 18 had
a mention of quantom dots in the "innovations" column.
Glass-ice was featured in the Dec. 17 Sunday (UK) Telegraph, including
a quote from Xiao Zeng, chemistry.
The Vancouver Sun May 13 reported on graduate student Tammy
Rittenour's
research on El Niño and the Ice Age. Rittenour's research was
featured
in Science magazine.
Politics
Election-year and other politics prompted calls to UNL's political
scientists,
earning stories and headlines in USA Today, Christian Science Monitor,
The
Washington Times, Kansas City Star, Santa Fe New Mexican, The Des Moines
Register, Albuquerque Journal, The Detroit News, New Orleans Times
Picayune
and Boston Globe.
Political moves by former NU football coach Tom Osborne and former
faculty
member Bob Kerrey continued to earn mention in political stories. George
magazine featured Coach Osborne's run for Congress, in an account of
Osborne's
legacy and Nebraska's reputation.
Faculty Experts
The international drama created by the capture of Colombia National
University
researchers, including former NU professor John Lynch, yielded several
key
NU mentions in August: San Antonio Express-News, CNN, The Washington
Post,
Cincinnati Enquirer, Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Tribune, Memphis
Commercial
Appeal, Deseret News, Houston Chronicle, Chattanooga Times, Associated
Press
International and National, Florida Times-Union, among others. Lynch was
returned unharmed.
The Washington Post Sept. 26 featured how rising health insurance
costs
will pinch employers, quoted Business and Finance's David Lechner and
pointed
out how prescription costs can prompt increases for employers and
employees.
National Public Radio's panel on entrepreneurship and kids' work ethic
included William Walstad, for the National Center for Research in
Economic
Education.
Maya Angelou's illness coinciding with her appearance at UNL ended up
providing good publicity for the university, which was mentioned in a
people
brief reporting that Angelou had taken ill. Among the newspapers where
this
appeared in September, with quote from Karen Wills, ASUN: The Washington
Post, Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Ventura County Star, St. Petersburg
Times,
Raleigh News and Observer, The Oregonian, San Antonio Express-News,
Cincinatti
Enquirer, Dayton Daily News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Chattanooga Times,
Charleston Daily Mail, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Tennessean, New
Jersey
Record, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Providence Journal-Bulletin, Cleveland
Plain Dealer, The Deseret News, Detroit News, Miami Herald, The Atlanta
Journal and Constitution, The Dallas Morning News.
The International Willa Cather Festival was the topic of a column by
Phillip Kennicott in the Washington Post and by Chicago Tribune writer
Gwin
Kolb.
The Center for Great Plains Studies bison conference was written up by
travel writer Cornelia Grumman in the Chicago Tribune April 12.
English professor Maureen Honey was featured in George magazine cover
story in June titled "The Lethal Politics of Beauty."
Visiting opera lectuere Ariel Bybee was previewed in Opera Watch June
1 for an upcoming performance at the international Cather Seminar. The
Salt
Lake Tribune June 4 featured Bybee as the featured artist for the Utah
Lyrica
Opera Society. She was also in the Deseret News.
Pill-Soon Song's accomplishments were reported in The Korea Herald in
March and April. Song was honored with a 2000 ORCA award.
Gary Moulton's statement on the pronunciation of "Sacagawea"
prompted by the release of the new golden dollar coin, was picked up in
June from the Kansas City Star and appeared in the Orlando Sentinel,
Raleigh
News and Observer, Houston Chronicle and Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel,
Massachusetts
Patriot Ledger, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The Chicago Tribune and Dubuque Telegraph Herald quoted Moulton, Lewis
and Clark historian, on the quest to get William Clark captain-status.
Doctoral
candidate Jay Buckley was also quoted; story ran on national AP wire.
Family and consumer scientist John DeFrain was featured in the Kansas
City Star on teen survival.
Climatologist Ken Dewey was interviewed for a March 29 report on
tornadoes
and La Nina by UPI.
 Sam Walker, criminal justice, was quoted in The New York Times Sept.
2 on the history of the ACLU. He was also quoted Sept. 25 in U.S. News
&
World Report in a story "Cop Shop woes in the 'burbs."
The Albuquerque Journal Jan. 24 quoted David Cochran, professor of
industrial
engineering, and an expert on ergonomics and consultant for OSHA.
National Wildlife magazine for October featured Clarks' nutcrackers,
quoted biologist Al Kamil.
The Deseret News Oct. 21, from The New York Times News Service,
mentioned
the same-sex union ballot initiative, quoted Chancellor Harvey
Perlman.
Workforce magazine Oct. 1 featured commentary from Barbara Plake,
director
of the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
The Austin American-Statesman Oct. 25 featured local geology and
quoted
geologist Michael Blum.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Oct. 1 talked to Linda L. Price, marketing,
on hairdresser-customer relationships.
USA Today Dec. 13, in a story on Baby Boomers and aging, quoted Lynn
White, sociology; White was also quoted in the Calgary Sun.
The Chicago Tribune Dec. 6 featured fears at office parties,
prominently
quoted psychologist Deb Hope, anxiety disorders clinic.
National Wildlife magazine Oct.-November featured Clark's nutcracker,
quoted Al Kamil, biology
The Oregonian Dec. 4 quoted Ross Thompson, psychology, in a story
"When
murder shatters children's lives."
Ken Kiewra made front page news across the nation when an interview he
did on homework loads was featured in the Chicago Tribune, then went
national,
appearing in places like Portland, Las Vegas, Dayton, Charleston, Baton
Rouge, Dubuque, and others.
The Christmas Day eclipse and expertise from the planetarium by Jack
Dunn earned feature mention in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram Dec. 22, The
Deseret News Dec. 18, the Utah Associated Press Dec. 18, The Vancouver
Sun
Dec. 6, and The Chicago Tribune Dec. 24.
The International Quilt Study Center was featured by the Associated
Press,
and stories appeared nationwide in December. A feature on the center was
also in Folk Art magazine's Spring edition.
Harvard School of Public Health featured a news conference on
binge-drinking
in March, featuring NU student Joel Wiegert, who gave personal accounts
of binge-drinking and its effects on students. UPI and AP covered the
conference
and filed national reports, with stories appearing in The New York Times,
among others. Vice Chancellor Jim Griesen was also quoted in AP on NU
drinking
statistics.
U.S. News & World Report Oct. 2 explored the cause of a 1968
measles
epidemic in the Amazon, and quoted anthropologist Raymond Hames.
UNL made headlines in 2000 in The New York Times on various
issues:
IANR's National Drought Mitigation Center was featured and
climatologists
quoted several times, including an April 25 full science feature on NDMC:
"Persistent and Severe, Drought Strikes Again."
Aug. 31, reported on The first 1-A division football Webcast from
Nebraska,
calling it a "streaming success."
The Times Oct. 21 reported on "Nebraskans to vote on most
sweeping
ban on gay unions," quoted Chancellor Perlman.
Dec. 7 classics professor Sidnie White Crawford was quoted in a story
on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
In a column on Internet shopping July 13, quoted Linda Price,
marketing,
on research on how and why shoppers seek guidance in deciding what to
buy.
Sam Walker, criminal justice, was quoted in The New York Times Sept.
2 on the history of the ACLU
The Times Nov. 19 featured John Moran, a composer who studied at
UNL
Political scientists at NU were quoted Nov.1 in a story on the
Nebraska
Senate race.
USA Today's Oct. 30 front page issue was about Nebraska football, but
put a nice spin on Nebraskans' enjoyment of the Huskers, and quoted ag
economists
Roy Frederick and Roger Selley on the ag economy, Tom Osborne, and
profiled
Husker standout Loran Kaiser's family.
The Nov. 7 USA Today lists in the Nebraska roundup the opening of
Hewit
Place, Great Plains Art Collection and Christlieb Gallery.
Ashfall Fossil Beds was listed as one of the top 10 science discovery
destinations in a year-end travel story.
Dec. 13, in a story on Baby Boomers and aging, quoted sociologist Lynn
White.
The Husker sports on-line was also featured in USA Today at the end of
August.
The Wall Street Journal featured the first 1-A division football
Webcast
from Nebraska. 
A photo and mention of a Wayne Thiebaud piece at Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery appeared in an Aug. 10 story in the Wall Street Journal on a
Thiebaud
retrospective exhibition.
The Wall Street Journal Nov. 3 had a photo of Willa Cather's 1895
University
of Nebraska yearbook, which sold recently for $632
In April, the Industrial Agricultural Products Center was featured in
a story on Soy Bio-Drip and its economic impact on Bruning, Neb.
The JournalOct. 19 quoted William Walstad, economics, on the
popularity
of courses on murder mysteries and romance novels.
The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11 reported on Warren Buffett and Bill
Gates'
friendship, noting that Gates stocks his bathroom with Husker t.p. when
Buffett comes to visit.
Bodily Charm: Living Opera a University of Nebraska Press
publication
was reviewed in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
UNL gained as many as 20 mentions and features in 2000 in the trade
publication
for higher education: The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Among them were: A full-page feature Sept. 29 on biologist John Janovy
and the Cedar Point experience, along with two photos; a feature and
photo
Oct. 6 on physics professor Tim Gay and HuskerVision's physics of
football;
various mentions in "gifts and bequests," and in feature
stories
on virtual high schools. The University of Nebraska Press was mentioned
in several reviews and features, including the "Nota Bene," and
a story, "Missing Out on a World of Scholarship," Oct. 6, as
well
as a review of The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by
history professor Gary Moulton, published by UNP, as well as
"Affirmative
Action and the University: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Higher Education
Employment."
NU was listed in a story on home economics trends and in a feature on
anthropology, with quotes by Raymond Hames.
Other mentions:
A feature on National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
report
card on the states listed Nebraska as a top state; the first 1-A division
football Webcast from Nebraska, research by Steven Penrod from the book
Mistaken Identification: The Eyewitness, Psychology and the Law.
Psychology
professor Dan Bernstein was quoted March 10 in a story on the controversy
over letter-grading; and UNL appeared on the top 10 list of fund-raisers,
with the NU Foundation bringing in $218.7 million.
University of Nebraska Press
Reviews, publication notes and briefs, feature stories and analyses
from
books published by University of Nebraska Press earned mention in
numerous
literary and other national publications during 2000. Among them were a
review by The New York Review of Books on Gary Moulton's Lewis and Clark
Journals, The New York Times' features on Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows
by Patrick Chamoiseau and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by
Joan Acocella.
Press mentions included Washington Post Book World, The Dallas Morning
News, The Denver Post, Chicago Tribune; The Times of London, Topeka
Capital
Journal, The Kansas City Star, The Washington Post, The Jakarta Post, USA
Today magazine, Atlantic Monthly, The Albuquerque Journal, The New
Hampshire
Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, The Salt
Lake Tribune, The Charleston Post and Courier, Opera News, The Columbus
(Ohio) Dispatch, London Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Times
Literary
Supplement, Denver Rocky MountainNews, Sacramento Bee, Publishers Weekly,
The New Republic, The Bismarck Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, St.
Petersburg Times, Palm Beach Post, The Albuquerque Journal, Foreign
Affairs
magazine, Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education.
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