Edna Lieb McBreen, associate dean and director of the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service, has been named associate vice chancellor of the University of Nebraska's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
McBreen, who will assume the No. 2 administrative position at IANR July 1, has led the Wyoming extension since 1996. Wyoming extension includes more than 200 faculty, staff and extension educators statewide. She also has been a professor of family and consumer sciences at Wyoming.
"We are pleased to attract an individual with Dr. McBreen's professional background and experience to this position," said Irv Omtvedt, IANR vice chancellor.
This position was expanded to a full-time position when Omtvedt assumed the role of vice chancellor for extended education in addition to serving as vice president for agriculture and natural resources and vice chancellor for IANR. The associate vice chancellor is responsible for leadership in many of the day-to-day operations of IANR.
"Dr. McBreen's classroom experience, coupled with her extensive administrative experience in extension and international programs makes her ideally suited for this position," Omtvedt said. "She will add a new dimension to our IANR administrative team as we strive to strengthen the effectiveness of our research, education and outreach programs to meet the changing needs of our clientele as we move into the 21st century."
McBreen said, "I've had experience in all three legs of the land-grant university mission teaching, research and extension, as well as an international background. All of these are part of the institute in terms of what its priorities are for the future."
Previously, McBreen held several positions at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va., including assistant provost for international programs, director of international programs and associate professor of agricultural education.
McBreen also has been associate director for international programs for the State University of New York's central administration, an agricultural education specialist for the U.S. Agency for International Development, an assistant professor of agricultural education at Texas A&M University, a home economics instructor at Southwest Texas State University, and a program leader and extension agent at Cornell University.
McBreen earned her bachelor's and doctorate degrees from Cornell University and her master's degree from Texas A&M University.
McBreen was one of four finalists for the IANR position. Finalist Elton Aberle, head of the Animal Science Department at UNL, has been named dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Sharron Quisenberry, head of the Department of Entomology at UNL and James Fischer, director of the South Carolina Agricultural Experiment station at Clemson University, also were finalists.
-Molly Klocksin, IANR news writer
Grenville Yuill, former professor of architectural engineering at Pennsylvania State University, became the director the architectural engineering program at the University of Nebraska College of Engineering and Technology March 1.
A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Yuill has more than 20 years of industry experience in design and development engineering, energy conservation and the mechanical design of buildings. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Manitoba, a master's degree from the University of Birmingham and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota. He also has a graduate diploma in business administration from the London School of Economics.
His wife, Pat Draper, is a cultural anthropologist who joined the university's anthropology department faculty March 1 as a full professor. Draper earned her doctorate at Harvard and has been on the faculties at the University of New Mexico and Penn State.
The architectural engineering degree program was officially endorsed by the Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education in December. It is offered in Omaha at the Peter Kiewit Institute of Information Science, Technology and Engineering. Students are already enrolled in the program and taking classes.
Two faculty members joined three distinguished alumni of the University of Nebraska's College of Architecture in receiving awards at the biennial alumni awards banquet sponsored by the college's Alumni Association.
Thomas Laging, '63, won the 1998 Faculty Award for Excellence. Following his graduation from NU, Laging earned a master of architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A 25-year member of the faculty, Laging's career has focused on urban design.
H. Keith Sawyer won the Honorary Life Membership in the College of Architecture Alumni Association. A graduate of Iowa State University and the University of California, Berkeley, joined the faculty of the NU College of Architecture in 1958. His focus is historic architecture and preservation.
The winners of the 1998 Distinguished Alumni Awards are:
Awards were presented March 7 at the Wick Alumni Center as a finale to the college's annual "A" Week celebration.
Kyle MacMillan, arts reporter for the Omaha World-Herald, selected the Lentz Center's exhibition, "Samurai Stories: Woodblock Prints of Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi," as one of the top 10 art exhibitions in the area during 1997. MacMillan, who covered the exhibition with an extensive article at the time, labeled the show as "breathtaking," in a Jan. 7, 1998 column.
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