Rita Kean Elected to Top Textile Post

Rita Kean, chair and associate professor of the Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design, has been elected president-elect of the International Textile and Apparel Association. She will serve as president-elect during 1995-96 and then as president in 1996-97. The International Textile and Apparel Association is a global organization of scholars in the textiles and apparel field from more than 13 countries.

Sharpless to Receive Cliff S. Hamilton Award

The Cliff S. Hamilton Award will be presented to K. Barry Sharpless, Chemistry department at the Scripps Research Institute, at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 16. Presenting the award will be Pill-Soon Song, professor and chair, Department of Chemistry. Sharpless received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth University in 1963, having carried out undergraduate research with Thomas Spencer. Sharpless pursued graduate studies under the guidance of Eugene van Tamelen at Stanford University, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1968. He was named Arthur C. Cope Professor of Chemistry in 1987 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1991, he moved to the Scripps Research Institute where he currently holds the W.M. Keck Chair in Chemistry.

Fejfar Receives Achievement Award

James Fejfar, professor of curriculum and instruction in the Teachers College, received the Milton W. Beckmann Lifetime Achievement Award from the Nebraska Association of Teachers of Mathematics.

Fejfar, who received the award Oct. 16 at the association's annual fall conference at Chadron, has been a professor of math education at UNL since 1968. Before that, he taught at Wakonda (S.D.) High School, Esterville (Iowa) Junior College and Indiana State University.

Child Maltreatment Subject of New Book

Preventing Child Maltreatment through Social Support is the descriptive title of a new book by UNL psychology professor Ross Thompson.

In the book, published by Sage Publications of Thousand Oaks, Calif., Thompson moves from theory to practice, including detailed lessons from applications such as home visitation and other intensive family strategies. The volume is designed to stimulate thinking about integrating research, policy and practice, and envisions social support within the larger context of child welfare reform.

"I think Ross Thompson has tackled a complex and important subject, producing a book that both practitioners and policy makers will find useful in their efforts to construct more effective programs to prevent child abuse," said Deborah Daro, director of the Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research in Chicago.

Engineering Emeritus Publishes Textbook

A retired UNL professor and a UNL alumnus have published Thermodynamic Loop Applications in Materials Systems, a two-volume textbook on materials thermodynamics. The text is published by the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society and focuses on materials science and geologic materials. Donald Johnson, professor emeritus of the Mechanical Engineering-Materials Program, and Glenn Stracher, associate professor of geology at East Georgia College in Swainsboro, Ga., collaborated on the text, giving it an interdisciplinary component. It was developed for use by students and professionals in the fields of engineering, materials science, geology, chemistry and other fields concerned with metals and materials. Johnson, a 1968 doctoral graduate of UNL's Chemical Engineering Department and a Colorado School of Mines alumnus, retired from UNL in 1989 after teaching and conducting research in thermodynamics and corrosion for more than 20 years. Stracher earned his master's degree in 1986 and his doctorate in 1989 in geology from UNL.

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