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Mortar Board
inductees
Carly Wendt, right, hugs classmate Emily
O'Rourke after being
inducted into the Mortar Board during class in
the College of
Business Administration on Feb. 25 as other members
of the Mortar
Board look on. The Mortar Board inducted two dozen
new members
into the student academic honorary.
Weeks named head of Biochemistry
Donald Weeks, a plant molecular biologist and biochemist who
has
been with UNL since 1989, is the new head of UNL's Department
of
Biochemistry.
Before arriving at UNL, Weeks worked as a
scientist and research
director at Sandoz Agro (now
Novartis/Syngenta) and the Fox Chase
Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
He is a member of the National
Agricultural Biotechnology Council
and the Board of Advisers
of the International Review of
Cytology.
Weeks graduated from Purdue in 1963 with a
bachelor of science
degree and from the University of Illinois in
1967 with a Ph.D.
Weeks assumed the position in
December. He replaced Ruma Banarjee,
who served as acting head
after Robert Klucas left the position
because of illness.
Architecture College to honor top
alumni
The University of Nebraska College of Architecture
Alumni
Association will recognize the professional accomplishments
of
alumni and friends of the college at its biennial awards banquet
March 2 in the gallery of Architecture Hall.
Coordinated by
the Nebraska Alumni Association, the awards
are presented to one
distinguished graduate of each of the three
programs within the
college: architecture, community and regional
planning, and
interior design. In addition, an architecture faculty
member will
be honored and an honorary life membership will be
presented to a
non-alumnus who has given outstanding service
to the college or its
alumni association.
The 2002 distinguished award winners
are:
- John "Jack" Savage, '54, of
Tekamah, will be honored
for excellence in the practice of
architecture. He is a founder
and senior member of Savage and
Palandri, an Omaha-based architectural
firm. He has directed
overseas assignments in Saudi Arabia, Africa,
Nepal, Taiwan, Hong
Kong and Singapore. Closer to home, he has
worked on the Mutual
of Omaha Dome, the Orpheum Theater renovation,
the Woodmen Tower
and the Northwestern Bell Headquarters Building.
In 1962, he was
instrumental in lobbying Congress to pass the
Brooks Bill, which
required the government to select architectural
firms based on
qualifications, rather than fees, for projects.
Savage is also
active in several professional organizations.
- Donald Gross,
'83, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, will be recognized
for excellence
in community and regional planning. Since 1991,
he has been
director of community development for Council Bluffs,
where he
oversees 11 staff members and is responsible for current
and
long-range city planning in areas such as historic preservation,
redevelopment and housing programs. Gross is a member of several
professional organizations, including the American Institute
of
Certified Planners, the American Planning Association and
the
National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials.
- Keith Sawyers of Lincoln will be honored for his distinguished
work on the faculty of the College of Architecture. Sawyers,
a
professor emeritus, joined the NU faculty in 1958.
- Former
architecture dean Cecil Steward of Lincoln will receive
an
honorary life membership in the college's alumni association.
Steward earned his bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University
in 1957 and his master's from Columbia University in 1961. He
served at Nebraska as a professor and dean from 1973 until his
retirement in 2000. Active in several professional organizations,
Steward also has received many awards and honors for his service
to the profession, including the Topaz Medallion for architectural
education.
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