Ron Bowlin, coordinator for performing arts activities in the College of Fine and Performing Arts, received a Cultural Awareness Award from community radio station KZUM on Sept. 10. Bowlin was cited for "creating and curating the UNL Artist Diversity Residency Program, which brings artists of many cultures to the university," said a news release from KZUM.
Chemistry Professor Reuben Rieke has won the 53rd Midwest Award from the St. Louis section of the American Chemical Society for his contributions to the field. He will receive the award at the society's regional meeting Oct. 30 at Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.
A Regents' Professor at UNL, Rieke is internationally renowned as a pioneer in developing highly reactive metals and new organometallic reagents. His work has led to extensions of known reactions and new synthetic methods.
Rieke founded Rieke Metals, Inc. in 1991. The company specializes in active metals, novel organometallic reagents and complex fine organic chemicals.
Rieke earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1961 from the University of Minnesota and his doctoral degree in 1966 from the University of Wisconsin. He taught at the University of North Carolina and North Dakota State University before joining the UNL faculty in 1977.
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