Two UNL employees received University of Nebraska Kudos Awards at the Sept. 5 Board of Regents meeting.
| Billie Lefholtz, administrative tech I at the College of Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources, is office manager and outreach coordinator for the college. Her sensitivity to the needs and concerns of others prompts her to find time to help someone in need and move swiftly to resolve the issue or help fulfill the need. "She possesses leadership ability and demonstrates fairness and understanding with all those she comes in contact," states her nominator. "Billie is genuinely committed to the college and aspires for excellence in all that she does." |  |
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Joanna Rogers, secretarial specialist in the College of Law, handles many administrative duties along with considerable student and faculty contact with sensitivity and good humor, her nominator said. Rogers' nominator said she is an extraordinarily competent employee, taking personal responsibility to make sure the college functions smoothly in a professional and efficient manner [and] "even with all her duties, she recently earned a Master's of Educational Adminstration in her spare time." |
Rollin Hotchkiss, associate professor of civil engineering, has been awarded the 1997 James M. Robbins Outstanding Teaching Award by the supreme council of Chi Epsilon, the national civil engineering honor society.
Hotchkiss became eligible for the national Robbins award when he was named the winner of the 1996-97 Excellence in Teaching award for the central district of Chi Epsilon.
"I was told that the competition was very strong, which makes the award even more to be admired," John Haltiwanger, engineering professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, wrote Hotchkiss in notifying him of the award. "A teacher can receive no higher praise than the admiration and acclamation of his students, which is then endorsed by his peers."
Hotchkiss has been a member of the UNL faculty since earning his doctorate at the University of Minnesota (1989).
Due to a writer's error, the Scarlet mischaracterized the nature of two professorships recently announced by Teachers College.
The headline and first paragraph of the story in the Aug. 29 Scarlet described the professorships as being "distinguished" professorships. In fact, they are not distinguished professorships but are named college professorships.
Ali Moeller, associate professor of curriculum and instruction, has been appointed to the Greer Professorship.
Ian Newman, professor of health education, has been appointed to the Meierhenry Professorship. In addition, the date that Newman earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois was stated incorrectly. He received the degree in 1968.
A UNL geographer has received the U.S. Geological Survey's top award for nongovernmental employees.
James Merchant, associate director of UNL's Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies, received the John Wesley Powell Award "for significant contributions to the advancement of the USGS mission."
The center is a unit of UNl's Conservation and Survey Division. Merchant also teaches remote sensing and geographic information systems at UNL.
Merchant's work in cooperation with scientists at the USGS Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., has been instrumental in developing a unique global land-cover database. The database is widely used by federal agencies and universities involved in global environmental change research, as well as in water and biological conservation programs.
The award is named for the federal agency's second director, who was also an important early explorer and survey of the western United States. The agency awards two or three such awards annually.
Betsy Gabb, associate professor of architecture, and Lorraine Olson, associate professor of mechanical engineering, were elected to the UNL Graduate Council to serve four-year terms through May 2001. Gabb will represent the arts and Olson will represent engineering.
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