August 16, 1996
Dahab Receives Fulbright Grant
A Fulbright grant has been awarded to a UNL waste management specialist
to research pollution prevention in environmental engineering and science
education in Austria.
Mohamed F. Dahab will go to the Vienna University of Agriculture during
the 1997 spring semester to develop a comprehensive pollution prevention
database specifically for environmental engineering education. In
Austria,
he will develop and teach techniques that prevent groundwater
contamination
which is similar in Austria and Nebraska. In both places, fertilizers and
pesticides have contaminated groundwater and once such contamination
takes
place, Dahab said, it is often irreversible.
Mientka Leads U.S. Math Team
Competing against teams representing a record 75 nations, a team of six
American high school students finished second in the team competition and
won six individual medals at the 37th International Mathematical Olympiad
at Bombay, India, July 5-17.
The U.S. team scored 185 of a possible 252 points to finish 2 points
behind
Romania. The rest of the top 10 was Hungary 167 points, Russia 162,
United
Kingdom 161, China 160, Vietnam 155, South Korea 151, Iran 143 and
Germany
137. In 1995, the United States won the Olympiad with the only perfect
score
in the competition's history.
The team was accompanied by Kiran Kedlaya, a recent graduate of Harvard
University and the leader of the team, and Walter Mientka, professor of
mathematics at UNL and the official U.S. leader observer. Mientka coached
the 1995 team to its gold medal and perfect score.
The American team was chosen on the basis of performance at the U.S.A.
Mathematical
Olympiad in May. The team's training program was conducted on the UNL
campus
June 5-July 3.
UNL's Johnsgard to be Honored
Paul Johnsgard, foundation professor in UNL's School of Biological
Sciences,
is one of four who will receive alumni achievement and honored alumnus
awards
from North Dakota State University next month in Fargo.
A 1953 graduate of North Dakota State and a UNL faculty member since
1961,
Johnsgard will be honored for his work as a world-renowned ornithologist.
His world surveys of major bird groups have made him one of the most
prolific
of all living ornithological writers and he is considered a world
authority
on waterfowl behavior and on such groups as grouse and cranes.
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