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Biosystems'
Martin named fellow of engineering society
Derrel L.
Martin, professor of biological systems engineering,
has been named
a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural
Engineers.
Martin was recognized for his research and development of
irrigation design criteria and management guidelines. He has
evaluated the efficiency of sprinkler and gravity irrigation
systems, conducted field experiments, developed computer models
for
simulating the impact of water management on crop yield,
nitrate
leach and irrigation efficiency. He has received many
awards for
his research and publications.
To be considered for ASAE
fellow status, an individual must
demonstrate unusual professional
distinction with outstanding
qualifications and experience in the
field of agricultural engineering.
Other requirements include 20
years or more in the profession
or teaching of engineering and 20
years or more of membership
in ASAE. Only about 2 percent of the
active members of ASAE achieve
the grade of fellow.
Martin also is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science of America, Irrigation
Association, Central Plains Irrigation Association and the Nebraska
Water Resources Association. He received his bachelor's and master's
degrees from UNL and his doctorate from Colorado State University.
Nebraska Press books earn honors
- ForeWord magazine named Local Wonders by Ted Kooser the
gold
award winner in the autobiography category of its Book of
the
Year Awards program. Established in 1998, ForeWord's awards
program
has become one of the most prestigious honors for
independent
presses and their authors. A jury of librarians and
booksellers
selected the top three entries in each category from
more than
1,000 entries based on editorial excellence and
professional
production as well as the originality of narrative
and the value
the book adds to its genre.
- Local
Wonders also won the 2002 Literary Award of the Friends
of
American Writers-Chicago Association. The prize includes a
$2,000
cash award and an invitation to the society's awards luncheon
at
Chicago's Union League Club. The Friends of American Writers-Chicago
has sponsored the award for more than 80 years with the intent
to
encourage high standards and to promote literary ideals among
American writers.
- The French-American Foundation named Jeff
Fort, translator
of Aminadab by Maurice Blanchot, one of two
winners of its 2002
translation prize for fiction. Prize money of
$7,500 was divided
between the winners at an April awards
ceremony in New York City.
- Floyd Skloot's essay, "A
Measure of Acceptance,"
from In the Shadow of Memory, has
been selected for The Pushcart
Prize anthology for 2004.
Characterized by the New York Times
Book Review as "the
single best measure of the state of
affairs in American
literature today," the Pushcart collection
features the
year's best short stories, poems and essays originally
published
by small presses and literary magazines.
- Two Press titles
earned the 2003 State Historical Society
of Wisconsin's Book
Award of Merit. Siege and Survival: History
of the Menominee
Indians, 16341856 by David R.M. Beck and
The Walleye War:
The Struggle for Ojibwe Spearfishing and Treaty
Rights by Larry
Nesper were named books that made a valuable
contribution to the
knowledge of Wisconsin history.
- The Florida Historical
Society honored Buffalo Tiger: A Life
in the Everglades by
Buffalo Tiger and Harry A. Kersey with two
of its 2003 book
prizes. The Samuel Proctor Oral History Award
recognizes
significant contributions in Florida history through
the use of
oral history techniques, and the James J. Horgan Book
Award is
awarded for the best general interest book on Florida.
Kersey
accepted both awards at May ceremonies in Florida.
- When
Montana and I Were Young by Margaret Bell, edited by
Mary
Clearman Blew, won the 2002 Handcart Award. Sponsored by
the
Mountain West Center for Regional Studies at Utah State University,
the award honors books about the people who shaped the growth
and
character of the American West. Both the editor and the Cascade
County Historical Society of Great Falls, Mont., received prize
money in April.
- Greg O'Brien, author of Choctaws in a
Revolutionary Age,
17501830, earned the 2002 McLemore Prize,
sponsored by the
Mississippi Historical Society.
- The
Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, edited by Gary
E.
Moulton, and Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter by Delphine
Red
Shirt will be included in a special program at the annual
American Library Association's conference titled, "Best
of
the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know
About." The display will feature 32 of the about 9,000 books
published by university presses in the past year.
- UNP's 2002
American West catalog, designed by Annie Shahan,
won the 2003
Printing Industries of Wisconsin Graphic Excellence
Award. The
statewide competition of graphic arts and printing
firms promotes
excellence in print communications and recognizes
companies and
individuals who create the best work in print media.
The catalog
competed against 632 other entries in the "Web
Press
Printing" category, and it will move to the national
competition. Shahan previously won the national award for her
design of the 1996 UNP American West catalog.
Obituary
Norman
Thorson
Norman Thorson, the Judge Harry A. Spencer
Professor at the
College of Law, died Sept. 13 in Omaha of cancer.
He was 53.
Thorson was a native of Mead and earned his
bachelor's and
master's degrees from UNL. He was an instructor in
agricultural
law in the agricultural economics department from
1976-77, and
became an assistant professor of law in 1977, after
receiving
his juris doctor that year from UNL. He earned his Ph.D.
in agricultural
economics in 1979, also from UNL. He specialized in
agricultural
and environmental law, and law and economics.
Thorson was president of the UNL Faculty Senate during the
1984-85 academic year. He represented Nebraska on the Central
Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission in
1990.
He was a member of the American Law Institute.
Thorson is
survived by his wife, Toni; one son and one daughter;
his mother;
and two brothers.
Services were Sept. 18 in Lincoln.
Memorials may be made to
the College of Law through the University
of Nebraska Foundation;
call 472-2151.
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