The Division of Continuing Studies received four awards Sept. 25 at the University Continuing Education Association Region V Conference in Grand Forks, N.D.
Kathleen Zumpfe, director of marketing, was named the 1997 Professional Continuing Educator in recognition of leadership, scholarship and active involvement in the profession of adult and continuing education.
Robert Mathiasen, adult student adviser, received the Support Specialist Award for his work in the Department of Part-Time Student Services and Degree Options.
Academic Conferences and Professional Programs received the noncredit program award for its conference, "People of Color in Predominantly White Institutions: Different Perspectives on Majority Rules." The conference, now in its second year, attracts an international audience.
Deanna Baxter Eversoll, director of Part-Time Student Services and Degree Options, received the Research in Adult and Continuing Education Award for a 20-year project studying life satisfaction factors as reported by male UNL students.
Richard Sutton received a Merit Reseach Award from the Great Plains chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The award was for research as a part of his dissertation titled, "Scale In the Aesthetic Assessment." It was among five professional awards reviewed by the ASLA's Prairie Gateway Chapter.
Ron Veys has been hired by the Office of Technology Transfer as a technology transfer marketing associate.
From his office at the Technology Development Center in the University of Nebraska Technology Park, Veys will help commercialize intellectual property and ideas generated by university faculty. The goal is to transfer university research into jobs and other forms of economic development.
Veys will help find markets for products and ideas or work to "sell" them to manufacturers or other entities.
Veys is expected to work primarily in the field of engineering. The university hopes to hire similar associates to concentrate in business and biological sciences.
Veys earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering with a minor in metallurgy from UNL in 1973, and a master's degree in engineering in 1976. He is working toward an MBA.
He has been a registered professional engineer since 1977 and worked for 11 years as an engineer in charge of Nebraska's Flood Plain Delineation Program for the Nebraska Natural Resources Commission. He worked for six years as a Research/Product Design Engineer for Brunswick Corporation's Defense Division.
He holds U.S. Patent No. 5,429,845 for the design of a fuel cylinder with a fiber-overwrapped blown plastic liner to be used on Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles.
For the last five years, Veys has been a consulting engineer for Olsson Associates Consulting Engineers.
Veys' office number is 472-1517.
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