University Mourns Loss of Keith Broman

By Tom Simons, Public Relations

Keith Broman, professor emeritus and former chair of finance, died Dec. 3 in Lincoln at the age of 76.

Broman, who taught for more than 50 years, began his career in higher education as an instructor at Ohio University in 1947. In 1951 he came to the University of Nebraska as an instructor, then went to the University of Wisconsin in the same capacity in 1954. He returned to Nebraska for good in 1955 as an associate professor, then was promoted to professor in 1965. He officially retired May 13, 1993, but continued to teach part-time for more than three years after that. He also served as Nebraska's institutional representative to the Big Eight Athletic Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association from 1970 to 1981.

In retirement, he was an investment adviser for First Commerce Investors Inc.

"I knew Keith Broman for roughly 40 years and I never met an educator who was more approachable by his students," said Jack Goebel, acting vice president for business and finance for the NU system who served as dean of the College of Business Administration (1995-98) and first joined the CBA faculty in 1959.

"When the college honored him for 50 years of teaching (in 1994), the number of people who wanted to come forward to attest to his excellence as a teacher was so large that the program couldn't accommodate them."

Broman's research interests were investment practice, theory and history, and the psychological aspects of investment behavior. His articles were cited frequently and reprinted in books on financial readings.

His major honors included a Distinguished Teaching Award from CBA in 1979 and a Distinguished Faculty Award from the CBA alumni association in 1996.

"Keith taught thousands of students during his career and had a big impact on their lives," said Manferd Peterson, professor and chair of finance. "His students are now business leaders all over the state of Nebraska."

A native of Wisconsin, Broman did his undergraduate studies at Indiana University and Berea (Ky.) College. He earned an MBA (1942) and a military office certificate (1945) at the Harvard Graduate School of Business, and earned a doctorate in business organization and management at Nebraska (1945). He was a retired commander of the U.S. Naval Reserve, having served at the Caio Solo (Panama) Naval Air Station during World War II.

Broman is survived by his wife, Ruth, of Lincoln; daughters and son-in-law, Lisa and Scott Haines, Kansas City, Mo., and Rebecca Cross, Estes Park, Colo.; and grandchildren Kelly and Katy Cross.

Memorials to the Nebraska Stroke Foundation, 3930 South St., Lincoln 68506.

NU Benefits from Fulbright Grant Winners

Two foreign scholars will study at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1999 and three NU professors will study abroad, all supported by Fulbright grants.

The Fulbright Program, sponsored and funded by the United States Information Agency and participating governments and host institutions, has for more than 50 years been the flagship international exchange program.

NU professors participating next year are D. Allen Ball, Thomas Caramagno and Quentin Faulkner.

Ball, associate professor of marketing, will be lecturing on and researching the topic "statistical techniques for database marketing" at the Institute of Statistics and Information Management, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, from January to April 1999.

Caramagno, associate professor of English, will lecture on the topics "critical literary theory, 20th century British literature, and gay and lesbian studies" at the University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, from February to May 1999.

Faulkner, Larson Professor of Organ and Music History at the School of Music, will lecture on and research the topics "performance practice of the organ works of J.S. Bach and Michael Praetorius's Syntagma Musicum, 1618" at the Protestant School of Church Music, Halle, Germany, through February 1999. He began his Fulbright period in September 1998.

Scholars coming to Nebraska are Seung-Wook Bahng and A.R. Mohamed.

Bahng is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Business at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He will research the topic "comparative analysis of corporate governance" studing with Manfred Peterson in the College of Business Administration. The grant runs from January to June 1999.

Mohamed, senior lecturer in the department of veterinary preclinical studies and faculty of veterinary medicine and animal science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, will be in Lincoln from February to August 1999. Mohamed will research the topic "factors affective ovarian follicular formation in cattle" with James Kinder in the NU Department of Animal Science.

Chollet, Shearman Elected AAAS Fellows

Two faculty members will be installed as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the association's annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., in January.

The AAAS fellows from NU will be Raymond Chollet, professor of biochemistry and W.W. Marshall family distinguished professor of biotechnology, and Robert (Bob) C. Shearman, professor of horticulture and special projects coordinator for the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program. Chollet was named a fellow of the Biological Sciences Section of AAAS and Shearman a fellow of the Food and Renewable Resources Section.

With more than 144,000 members, AAAS is the world's largest federation of scientists. Each year the AAAS votes to bestow the rank of fellow on a select number of its members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its application are scientifically or socially distinguished.

Chollet's specialty is carbon metabolism in photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation in plants. As part of an effort to learn how plants control the conversion of sunlight and atmospheric carbon dioxide into carbohydrates such as starch and sucrose, Chollet's laboratory studies how nature turns various enzymes in leaves on and off. His studies of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in root nodules of soybeans and other legumeswill provide basic information to help scientists metabollically engineer important crops for the future.

Chollet began studying photosynthesis as a graduate student and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After earning his doctoral degree in plant physiology in 1972, he continued his basic research at DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Del., prior to joining the Nebraska faculty as an associate professor in October of 1977.

Shearman was executive director for five years of the Turfgrass Evaluation Program, a nonprofit professional organization.

His research and Cooperative Extension activities focus on growing turfgrass that uses less water, improving root growth and development, increasing turf's durability and integrated pest management.

Shearman's research has contributed to understanding how turf can grow with less water and how it can be more durable. He also developed integrated turf management techniques that require less fertilizer and pesticide.

He holds a bachelor's degree from Oregon State University and earned his master's and doctoral degrees in crop physiology and ecology from Michigan State University.

Arboretum Recognizes Planters

Nebraska Statewide Arboretum honored eight individuals and organizations at an awards ceremony Nov. 6 at the Wick Alumni Center.

Director Jim Locklear says "Nebraska has a lot of remarkable people involved in tree planting and landscape beautification across the state." The annual awards, Locklear says, are a way of "recognizing their unique contributions to the quality of life in Nebraska."

Two awards were given in recognition of heroic responses to the tree-wrecking blizzard of October 1997. The Omaha World-Herald's "Branching Out" program received the Tree Planters State Award for its work in bringing together agencies, organizations, businesses and media partners to address the disaster in the Omaha metro area. The Fremont Tree Disaster Relief Fund, a citywide effort to replace lost or damaged species at Fremont's three NSA affiliate sites, received the Commendation Award.

Another Commendation Award went to the Nebraska Department of Roads for its funding of the Community Enhancement Program, which has resulted in over $2 million in roadside landscape improvement projects over the past four years.

Other award recipients were: Thomas Gibbens of Cozad, Johnny Appleseed Award; Irvin T. Omtvedt of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, President's Citation; Mack Deveraux of Callaway, Honor Award; Peggy Gustafson of Wakefield, Volunteer Award; and Chris Rhea of Fremont, Young Planter's Award.

Gibbens is recognized for his personal involvement in tree planting in Cozad. He is an energetic leader on the local tree board, and has been active in fundraising and in planting and caring for trees in parks and public places.

Omtvedt's President's Citation recognizes his support and advocacy of the work of the NSA for the past 10 years.

Deveraux was curator of the Bessey Arboretum at Halsey National Forest until his retirement in 1997 and helped develop educational materials used there and at the Nebraska State 4-H Camp nearby.

Gustafson is recognized for her sustained volunteer service at Concord's Northeast Arboretum.

A Midland Lutheran College student, Rhea, helped to secure funding and develop a sustainable landscape demonstration project on the campus.

The Nebraska Statewide Arboretum is a partnership of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and NSA, Inc. a private, nonprofit membership organization.

Massengale Appointed to USDA National Advisory Board

Martin Massengale, president emeritus of the University of Nebraska, has been appointed to an advisory board that will help U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman set federal agriculture and natural resources policies and priorities.

Massengale was appointed to a three-year term on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and Economics Advisory Board.

Massengale, director of the Center for Grassland Studies at NU's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, said the appointment "gives me a chance to have greater input at a higher level" on future federal policies essential to Nebraska and the nation.

In the short term, board members will have input on critical issues directly affecting Nebraska farmers, resource conservationists and environmental organizations. These include items such as production and conservation practices, biodiversity and research and extension priorities.

In the long run, "this group will have a significant impact on American agriculture and the world economy because the United States produces so much of the world's food supply," Massengale said.

Advisory board members will set priorities for agricultural research, education and teaching, including Cooperative Extension, he said. Research priorities important to Nebraska include animal waste disposal, water quality, conservation programs, food safety, nutrition, non-food and transgenic crops and biotechnology.

Massengale said he also hopes the board can help convey agriculture's significance to Americans who don't recognize their connection to agriculture and the role it plays in our ecosystem.

"Agriculture doesn't receive the visibility and importance it deserves," he said.

The 1996 Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act authorized the advisory board, which has more than 20 members from the public and private sectors, including commodity, retail and consumer groups.

Massengale, who was trained as an agronomist, is a former chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and former vice chancellor of NU's IANR.

Lingle Receives Extension Wildlife Award

By Sandi Alswager, IANR news assistant

Gary Lingle of Kearney received the 1998 Extension Wildlife Award during the annual meeting of the Nebraska Cooperative Extension Association Nov. 17-19.Lingle is the Platte Watershed Program coordinator stationed at the Buffalo County Extension office in Kearney. He also is an NU extension educator.

The Detroit native moved to Nebraska in 1978 to study Platte River ecology with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Lingle has published more than 55 scientific and popular articles, including two books. He was a founding member of the Wings Over the Platte task force and was honored as Crane Conservationist of the Year in 1997 by Wings Over the Platte.

Since 1989, he has organized and/or participated in youth camps, including Summer Orientation About Rivers, Crane Meadows Nature Center campus and Nature Discovery Classroom.

As an extension educator, Lingle coached a Wildlife Habitat Evaluation team and serves on a number of committees of the tri-state Cooperative Agreement signed by the governors of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska and the federal Department of Interior in July 1997. He also organized and published the proceedings of the Platte River Basin Ecosystem Symposium in 1997. He is organizing the 10th symposium scheduled for February 1999 in Kearney.

The award is sponsored by the Nebraska Division, Izaak Walton League of America. Selection is based on initiation and promotion of wildlife and related activities or programs, emphasizing wildlife and conservation in interdisciplinary efforts, involvement with programs established by wildlife agencies, and cooperation/teamwork with other extension staff in establishing and promoting state or county wildlife-related programs.

Gamma Sigma Delta Honors Five NU Faculty

Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture, recognized five University of Nebraska faculty members Nov. 22.

The society's Nebraska chapter recognized two faculty members with awards of merit.

Keith Gregory of Hastings, retired research geneticist and administrator of the Roman Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, was honored for developing an internationally recognized research program on beef cattle, sheep and swine production. Gregory joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in 1955, following service at Auburn University. He holds a bachelor's degree from North Carolina State University, a master's degree from NU and a doctorate from the University of Missouri.

Gregory's honors include a USDA Unit Award for Distinguished Service, the National Cattlemen's Association Research Award, the Morrison Award from the American Society of Animal Science and membership in the Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement.

James E. Kinder of Lincoln, professor of animal science, has been credited with significant contributions to the reproductive biology of cattle. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, his master's from the University of Nebraska and doctorate from Washington State University.

Kinder's honors include the Nebraska Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta Distinguished Teaching and Research Awards. In 1988, he won the American Society of Animal Science's Animal Physiology and Endocrinology Award.

The society recognized David Baltensperger of Gering, professor of agronomy at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center in Scottsbluff, for excellence in researching alternative crops in Nebraska's dryland areas; David Keith of Lincoln, professor of entomology, for excellence in demonstrating leadership in NU Cooperative Extension programming; and Steven J. Jones of Lincoln, associate professor of animal science, for excellence in teaching. Jones was cited for adopting innovative teaching strategies, especially using the Internet.

Gamma Sigma Delta's Nebraska chapter honors outstanding individuals in agricultural sciences, natural resources and family and consumer sciences, areas of expertise in NU's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Martin Massengale, former IANR vice chancellor, UNL president and NU president, spoke on "Leadership in the 21st Century."

Darrell Nelson, dean and director of IANR's Agricultural Research Division, Don Edwards, dean of NU's College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Elbert Dickey, associate dean of NU Cooperative Extension, and Anne Vidaver, head and professor of plant pathology, presented the awards.

Soukup Elected to IEEE Post

Rod Soukup, Henson Professor and chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering, was elected treasurer of the Education Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) at the 1998 annual Frontiers in Education meeting in Tempe, Ariz., Nov. 6

The IEEE is the largest professional organization in the world with more than 320,000 members. The Education Society consists of electrical engineering faculty members and interested professionals in industry. The society deals with the educational aspects of electrical engineering and is one of the sponsors of the Frontiers in Education meeting and publishes the archival journal, IEEE Transactions on Education of which Soukup is an associate editor.

He will serve as treasurer beginning on Jan. 1 and was elected to a one year term. The IEEE Education Society has about 5000 members in a large number of countries. The purpose of the society is to advance electrical engineering education. Soukup has been a member of IEEE since 1972 and was elected to the grade of Fellow in 1994. He has been a member of the Education Society since 1989.

Law Team Wins Moot Court Regional

A three-student team from the University of Nebraska College of Law won the Regional Rounds of the 49th annual National Moot Court Competition Nov. 20-21 at Kansas City, Mo.

The Nebraska team of Wendy DeBoer of Lincoln, Shannon Doering of Wessington Springs, S.D., and Terry Meinecke of Jamestown, N.C., defeated a team from the University of Kansas in the final round to win the regional competition.

The NU team is one of 28 from law schools across the United States to advance to the National Rounds in New York City in January. The top two teams in each of the 14 regions advance to the national competition. It's the seventh time in the last 10 years that a Nebraska team has advanced to the National Rounds.

DeBoer, Doering and Meinecke also received the award for best brief in the competition and DeBoer received the American College of Trial Lawyers Award for best oral advocate in the final round.

A second Nebraska team of Troy Meyerson of Omaha, Joshua Nauman of Giltner and Shayla Reed of Bellevue advanced to the semifinals at Kansas City, but lost to DeBoer, Doering and Meinecke by less than a point. NU was the only school to advance both of its teams to the semifinals.

Judge Pasco M. Bowman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit was the presiding judge of the three-judge panel that heard the final round. Sixteen teams representing nine law schools from Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska participated in the Regional Rounds.

TCD Faculty and Student Win National Design Competition

Melinda Barton, undergraduate student, and Vince Quevedo, faculty member in the Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design, College of Human Resources and Family Sciences, received Best of Show awards at the International Textile and Apparel Association International Design Competition in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 19.

Quevedo, received Best of Show in the Wearable Art Category - Faculty Division for Vex - microscopic views of organic matter were used for spacing, coloration and design of a dress of heavyveight fabric, metallic netting, rhinestones, vinyl and acetate. Quevedo also had two other designs accepted in the exhibition. Liturgy - a celebration of the traditional art of quilting inspired by liturgical clothing and stained glass window translated into a kimono style coat and Remorse - the study of Charles Kleibacker and Robert Hillestad provided the inspiration for "Remorse" creating a rayon knit bias dress with strands and lettuce edging from a rolled hem technique.

Barton received Best of Show in the Wearable Art Category - Student Division for Haiku Kimono - admiration of the Japanese culture, art and the Kimono inspired the creation of a kimono of primarily gray tone geometric with a flash of shocking pink in the lining.

Other TCD students who had designs accepted into the competition were: Kaoly Xiong, undergraduate student, Oriental Costume; Michelle A. Boicourt, undergraduate student, Phone Home and the Domino Effect; Nga Vu, undergraduate student, Emma Peal Revisited and Sheer Inerlude; and Sally Holman Hebert, Holy Orders.

Eulanda Sanders of Colorado State University, College of Human Resources and Family Sciences Ph.D. graduate with a specialization in Textiles, Clothing and Design, received the ITAA Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation. Joan Laughlin was her adviser.

Wiese Candidate for Physics Thesis Award

Lisa Wiese, who received her doctorate in physics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in May, has been named one of five finalists for the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award given by the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society.

Wiese, a 1984 graduate of Minatare High School who is doing postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin, received the nomination for her study of the Coulomb interactions of hydrogen ions. Studying with Professor Duane Jaecks at Nebraska, she was the first to experimentally measure how three hydrogen ions share their energy and how they position themselves with respect to each other.

The winner will be selected based on the nomination documents and a presentation at the 1999 American Physical Society centennial meeting March 17-21 in Atlanta. The other finalists are from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, JILA (formerly the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) at the University of Colorado, Yale University and the University of Virginia. The faculty adviser for the Colorado candidate, Brett Esry, is Nebraska alumnus Chris Greene (B.S. physics, 1968).

Law Student Wins Regional Service Award

James Reintsma, a third-year law student at the University of Nebraska, is the winner of the 1998 Delta Theta Phi Region VII Outstanding Student Award, which honors exceptional service to the local community and leadership in the legal profession.

Reintsma, of Livingston, Mont., coordinated the 1997 Project W.I.S.H.L.I.S.T. program, a holiday fund-raiser that provided new clothing to 30 underprivileged children from the Malone Community Center in Lincoln. Also in 1997, he participated in the Community Legal Education Project, giving seventh- and eighth-grade students at St. Mary's School exposure to the judicial process in the American legal system. He has been a project leader for Work-A-Day, an American Bar Association/Law Student Division that sends law students out into the community to help those in need.

Nancy Rapoport, dean of the NU College of Law, said the award demonstrates Reintsma's commitment to fostering a healthy relationship between the college and the Lincoln community. "It's the personal connections that he makes," she said. "He truly shows the community that lawyers can - and do - care."

He was dean of the Nebraska chapter of Delta Theta Phi during the 1997-98 academic year and as the eighth circuit executive lt. governor of the American Bar Association's Law Student Division. He also was president of his law school class and is a member of the Robert Van Pelt Inn of Court, a Nebraska Bar Association program that mentors young attorneys and strives to improve the practice of law in Nebraska.

The father of four is a research assistant for Professor John Gradwohl and Judge Jan Gradwohl, visiting adjunct professor, at the NU College of Law. He also works as a circulation assistant at Schmid Law Library. He received a CALI Excellence for the Future Award in civil clinic last summer as is scheduled to graduate in May with a juris doctor degree. He earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Alaska at Anchorage while serving eight years in the U.S. Army Reserves.