Ray Chollet Awarded Marshall Distinguished Professorship

Raymond Chollet, University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor of biochemistry, has been awarded the W.W. Marshall Family Distinguished Professorship in Biotechnology.

The NU systemwide professorship was established to recognize academic promise and accomplishments in teaching and research. It carries an annual salary stipend of $5,000.

Chollet, a 21-year university veteran whose specialty is carbon metabolism in photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation in plants, said he appreciates the distinction.

"I truly feel that this recent honor represents a capstone of my enjoyable and productive years at UNL," Chollet said, "While I have had the opportunity to perform many varied functions related to my career in basic plant science external to UNL during my 30 years in research, the honor of receiving this professorship from the University of Nebraska is clearly the most notable, and I'm sure it will be the most memorable."

The professorship was established at the University of Nebraska Foundation in 1988 with a gift from the late William Marshall Jr., a long-time Grand Island banker.

Chollet says the professorship will provide him new academic challenges.

"This new appointment sets a most rigorous standard for me to achieve, both in the classroom and in my research program," he said.

Chollet will speak Oct. 15 on "Adventures in Enzyme Regulation in Plants" as part of the Distinguished Professor Lecture Series.

National Education Association Honors Wonderwise

Nebraska's Wonderwise program was one of 17 radio and television programs honored by the National Education Association with its annual Awards for the Advancement of Learning through Broadcasting.

Wonderwise, a joint project of the University of Nebraska State Museum and Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, comprises five learning kits containing videotapes featuring women scientists who are making a difference.

The kits were developed by Judy Diamond, assistant director for public programs and professor at the NU State Museum, under a 1992 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. They are designed for fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students.

Programs honored by NEA received statuettes symbolizing the lamp of learning at a June 30 luncheon in New Orleans.

Nebraska ETV Wins Two PBS Awards

The Nebraska ETV Network recently received two national PBS Advertising and Promotion Awards at the PBS Annual Conference in Miami Beach, Fla.

The promotional poster for Around the World in 72 Days - a Nebraska ETV production for the national The American Experience series about pioneering journalist Nellie Bly - won in the "Best Poster" category. The poster was produced by Lisa Craig, Mary Neal Schutz and Deb Miller.

The "Best Local Program Tune-In Promo" was won by Kelly Rush, Mark Dail and Renan Rieur for the Nebraska ETV production NCAA Baseball.