September 27, 1996
UNL Graduate Council Announced
Merlin Lawson, dean of graduate studies, has announced the members of the
1996-97 UNL Graduate Council. The Graduate Council consists of eight
elected
representatives from eight areas of knowledge.
Current members of the council are: Paul Snyder, engineering; T. Newell
Decker, professional education; and Nelson T. Potter, humanities. Newly
elected members are: Kevin Hofeditz, the arts; David Stanley-Samuelson,
agricultural and biological sciences; John Anderson, business; David
Loope,
physical sciences; and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, social sciences.
Gary Hall Elected to NACAA Office
Gary Hall, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension educator and unit
leader for Phelps and Gosper counties, has been elected vice president of
the National Association of County Agricultural Agents.
Hall has served in his current position at the Holdrege and Elwood
offices
for four years. He previously was a Cass County extension educator at
Weeping
Water.
Hall was nominated at the NACAA's annual meeting and professional
improvement
conference in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 1-5. He was elected by the 145
delegates
from across the United States.
Song to Head International Group
Pill-Soon Song, Dow Chemical Professor of Chemistry at UNL, was recently
elected as president of the Association Internationale de Photobiology,
an International Union of Photobiology, at its congress in Vienna. He
will
serve the presidency for four years from September 1996 to August
2000.
The AIP membership is comprised of national societies of photobiology
including,
among others, the American Society for Photobiology, European Society for
Photobiology, Japan Association of Photobiology, and the Korean Society
of Photoscience.
Textile Department Ranks Near Top
The Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design at UNL was ranked among
the top five most productive units in the country in a study published by
the 1996 Clothing and Textiles Research Journal . Other top
schools
included Cornell, University of Tennessee, Ohio State University and
Oregon
State University.
Textiles, Clothing and Design faculty were also cited by the American
Association of Textile Chemists andColorists (American Dyestuff
Reporter,
1996) as among the top 10 academic institutions in the United States
for research productivity in textile science.
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