Learning community named for Jones
UNL will establish the Melvin Jones
Scholars Residential Learning
Community at a celebratory banquet at
6:30 p.m. Nov. 9 in the
Abel Hall Ballroom, north of 17th and Vine
streets.
The Jones Scholars Learning Community is being
created as
an initiative of the new Office of Undergraduate Studies
to develop
and enhance a diverse student body at Nebraska. Students
who
choose to become Jones Scholars will live near one another
during
their freshman year, schedule some of the same courses, and
be
involved in collective cultural, social and other activities
throughout the year. As Jones Scholars, students will find a
community of support to help them through their educational pursuits.
The first group will start in fall 2004.
"Academic
learning communities provide our first-year
students the advantage
of forming community with other students,
faculty and staff during
the crucial first months of their academic
experience," said
Rita Kean, dean of undergraduate studies.
"Students who
successfully make an academic and social connection
with the campus
early in their college experience are more likely
to persist and
graduate. Our intent is to provide a wide array
of academic
learning communities to serve our students. We are
very pleased to
sponsor an academic learning community in honor
of the late Melvin
Jones, an esteemed administrator and mentor
to many UNL students
and faculty."
This new learning community is named for
Melvin Jones, former
UNL vice chancellor for business and finance
who died in 1999.
Academics, leadership and community were
all important parts
of Jones' life, and the university created this
learning community
with his spirit in mind. Colleen Jones,
assistant professor of
management in the College of Business
Administration and widow
of Melvin Jones, said she plans to play an
active role in the
community.
"When the idea of
naming this learning community for
Melvin was mentioned to me, I
was humbled and honored - as are
Melvin's family and colleagues
across the country," Colleen
Jones said. "Learning
communities have proven to be very
beneficial in a new student's
development and academic achievement.
The focus of this learning
community will be interdisciplinary
and will provide leadership and
community service components
to augment the academic enrichment of
diverse students.
"Throughout his professional career,
Melvin was committed
to encouraging young people to strive for
academic excellence
and also to be altruistic and share their
energy, talent and
time with others."
All
first-year students are eligible to enroll in the Melvin
Jones
Scholars Residential Learning Community, beginning with
the fall
semester in 2004. After prospective students are admitted
to the
university, they receive information about enrolling in
the various
learning communities. The deadline for application
in the Melvin
Jones Scholars is May 1, 2004, but admission is
on a first-come,
first-served basis.
23 to
receive service awards from NU
University of Nebraska
President L. Dennis Smith will host
Central Administration's annual
Service Award program at 10 a.m.
Nov. 11 in the Varner Hall Board
Room.
These people will be honored for their years of
service with
the university:
- 40 years
of service: Lee Graham, Computing Services.
- 35 years: Donal
J. Burns, Executive Vice President and Provost;
Sharon Franks and
Lloyd Goodson, Computing Services.
- 30 years: Neil Bickley,
Rick Golden and Margaret E. Klein,
all Computing Services.
- 25 years: Tim R. Einspahr and Steven R. Rowley, Administrative
Systems Group; Douglas J. Evans, Computing Services; Verda Schweitzer,
Vice President for Business & Finance; Richard R. Wood, Vice
President & General Counsel.
- 20 years: Don C. Mihulka,
Computing Services.
- 15 years: Merlin Green, Computing
Services; and Ellen M.
Mischnick (posthumous award), Computing
Services.
- 10 years: Robbie McHargue and Mark Snook, Computing
Services.
- Five years: Christopher Boilesen, Michael H. Ellis,
Jay Killion,
Ryan Rumbaugh and Mark Woitaszewski, Computing
Services; and
David E. Lechner, Vice President for Business &
Finance.
Forsythe is
distinguished scholar
David P. Forsythe, Charles J. Mach
Distinguished Professor
of political science, has been named the
Quincy Wright Distinguished
Scholar by the Midwest Section of the
International Studies Association.
The award recognizes Forsythe's
cumulative scholarship on international
human rights, international
law and international organization.
A nominator, Ryan Hendrickson,
president of the section and professor
at Eastern Illinois
University, said Forsythe has been "a
pioneer of international
human rights studies in modern political
science."
Forsythe will receive the award Nov. 7 in St. Louis, Mo.
The International Studies Association is the premier interdisciplinary
professional association for teachers of international relations
in
higher education.
NET Fall
Banquet on Nov. 13 features Suarez
Nebraska Educational
Telecommunications will hold its annual
fall banquet at 6 p.m. Nov.
13 at the Strategic Air and Space
Museum in Ashland. Ray Suarez,
senior correspondent for the PBS
series The NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer, will be the keynote speaker.
Suarez has been in the
news business for 20 years and was
host of the National Public
Radio call-in news program Talk of
the Nation before joining the
Jim Lehrer show. He is author of
the 1999 book The Old
Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great
Migration.
NET will also honor Nebraska state senators Roger Wehrbein
of
Plattsmouth and Donald Pederson of North Platte with the NET
Distinguished Service Award for their commitment to and support
of
NET.
The NET Fall Banquet is open to the public. Current
members
of Nebraskans for Public Television and the Public Radio
Nebraska
Foundation as well as viewers and listeners who are
interested
in learning more about membership are invited. Tickets
are $50.
Social hour begins at 6 p.m.; dinner begins at 7 p.m. For
reservations
or more information, contact Amanda Garner at (800)
634-6788
or <agarner2@unl.edu>.
Egg artistry
winner named
Vicky Gellinger of Bancroft designed the
winning entry in
the annual White House Easter Egg Artistry Contest
organized
by the Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Poultry and
Egg Division.
Gellinger's entry has been sent to the American Egg
Board, which
will work with the White House in creating the 2004
Easter Egg
Display. One egg from each state and the District of
Columbia
will make up the display.
Gellinger's egg
was chosen from an assortment of eggs entered
by amateur Nebraska
artists. The entries were displayed at the
University of Nebraska
State Museum in Morrill Hall.
To view photos of entries
from the 2004 Nebraska White House
Easter Egg Artistry contest,
visit the Nebraska Department of
Agriculture's website at: <www.agr.state.ne.us/p
hotos/egg/04contest.htm>.
Reporter earns environment award
Carolyn Johnsen, reporter for the Nebraska Public Radio Network,
recently received a third-place award in the Outstanding Small-Market
Reporting--Broadcast category at the Second Annual Awards for
Reporting on the Environment at the Society of Environmental
Journalists annual conference. The competition required reporters
to send a tape of stories demonstrating a range of the environmental
reporting.
Johnsen entered stories on the controversy over
the use of
water in the Missouri River; newly discovered pollution
from
ethanol plants; the controversy over disposing of superfund
dirt
from near Hastings in a Seward landfill; and a hearing that
explored
how effective the state is in protecting water from
pollution
by big livestock operations.
Interior design students win scholarships
Two senior interior design students in the College of Architecture
have won $30,000 Donghia Foundation scholarships.
Audrey
Potts, a native of Norfolk, and Heather Van Ravenswaay
of Sioux
Falls, S.D., are among only 10 students nationwide who
received the
awards. Each award fully covers the student's senior
year tuition,
board, books and other requisite student materials
up to
$30,000.
Both students have also completed professional
internships.
Potts interned with Davis Design in Lincoln and Van
Ravenswaay
with Leo A. Daly in Omaha.
The Angelo
Donghia Foundation Inc. focuses on the advancement
of education in
the field of interior design.
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