Terry Klopfenstein and Elton Aberle have been named to leadership positions in the American Society of Animal Science.
Klopfenstein, professor of animal science, has been named the society's president-elect. He will assume the presidency in 1998.
Aberle, head of UNL's Department of Animal Science, has been named to a three-year term on the board of trustees of the American Society of Animal Science Foundation.
The appointments were announced during the society's annual meeting July 29-Aug. 1 in Nashville, Tenn.
UNL's animal science department is part of NU's Institute for Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Nebraska Education Telecommunications will use a $1.5 million federal grant to produce on-line training materials for Nebraska law enforcement officers.
The grant, announced by U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey (D.-Neb.) will be used by the Interactive Media Group at NET to produce online training courses for the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center. The courses, which cover topics ranging from drug and narcotic enforcement to handling domestic disputes, will use content from the 150 courses currently administered by the training center.
The UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering will provide technical design support in the areas of human-computer interface features, database development and registration/assessment requirements. The three organizations will coordinate the project with the U.S. government's General Services Administration, which awarded the grant.
The new Internet-based courses will supplement existing law enforcement training programs, which require that officers travel to to the center in Grand Island or that an instructor go to training sites statewide. The online courses will enable law enforcement officers to fit classes into their own schedule and take classes at their own pace.
Gary W. Hergert, an agronomist at the University of Nebraska West Central Research and Extension Center in North Platte, has been named the center's interim director.
Richard T. Clark of North Platte, agricultural economist at the center, has been appointed interim associate director of the center.
The appointments took effect Aug. 16 and will last for one to two years, said Darrell Nelson, dean and director of NU's Agricultural Research Division. A search for a permanent director will be launched in about a year, Nelson said.
Hergert succeeds Pete Jacoby, who will become an associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics at Washington State University at Pullman. Hergert's interim appointment is considered full-time, Nelson said.
Hergert, also of North Platte, is a professor of agronomy and has been the center's associate director. He specializes in researching soil fertility and management and is a Cooperative Extension soils specialist.
Anyone who knows Kim Hachiya also knows that she is a natural born journalist.
That's good news for more than 8,000 Scarlet readers, because Hachiya is the new editor of UNL's official faculty/staff newspaper.
This isn't new territory for the nine-year university employee. Hachiya also wrote, designed and edited the Scarlet in 1992-93, and prior to her university career she was an accomplished newspaper journalist.
Hachiya received her BA in journalism at UNL in 1977, where she worked at the Daily Nebraskan before moving on to the Hastings Tribune, where she was a senior reporter and education writer. She later returned to Lincoln where she worked as a writer and copy desk editor for the Lincoln Star.
Hachiya's extensive knowledge of UNL's workings derives partly from her keen news sense and partly from her diverse work background at the U: her past roles include publications coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences, media relations coordinator at the Lied Center, and editor of two campus magazines - Visions, a research magazine, and Premiere!, an arts publication.
In addition to her role as Scarlet editor, Hachiya is a senior editor in the Office of Public Relations, is a contributing editor to Nebraska Magazine, and also is a speechwriter for the Chancellor's Office.
Hachiya has received many writing and editing awards, and is active in a number of organizations including Updowntowners, and is a former member of the UNL Journalism Alumni Association board and the board of directors of Abendmusik.
Sally Buchholz, manager of Publications and Photography, is designing the Scarlet. The former editor of the Scarlet, David Ochsner, is now manager of Editorial Services in the Office of Public Relations.
- David Ochsner
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