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| 1869 | The University comes into existence, and organization begins for classes to start in September 1871. |
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| 1871 | Classes begin when the University opens officially on the first Thursday of September. 70 students attend that first semester. S. Aughey is the professor of Natural Science, one of only five faculty members; he was the second choice for the position ater Reveran Henry W. Kuhns, who declined. The sciences occupy rooms 103 and 104 in the Old Main (the only building). |
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| [In the 1870s,] science was as yet but little appreciated in its exactions or its importance. At one time the number of workers in this field had risen to three, but fell again through various exigencies to a single instructer, whose time was obligingly divided between pronouncing upon prospects of lignite or oil, assaying worthless ores, analyzing soils, soothing syrups, old Bourbon, stomachs of poisoned horses, -- and conducting recitations. The State had surely during these years one servant who lived up to the full measure of his opportunities. Nothing in the history of the University is more amusing than the records of the "department" of chemistry and Natural Sciences during this curious interregnum." -"The Sombrero", 1895 |
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| 1872 | In June, the Agricultural College is established under S.R. Thompson. It expands and earns the nickname "The Farm". Its initial duty, as charged by the Board of Regents, is to plant trees and arrange walks on campus. The University holds commencement even though there are no graduates. |
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| 1873 | Harvey Culbertson earns his Bachelors of Agriculture. The University is commonly referred to as "Lincoln High School", and is in danger of closing due to its status as an inferior State institution. |
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| 1874 | G.E. Bailey assists as a tutor and jack-of-all-science. He later said of it: "part of my duties that year was killing buffalo for the grasshopper sufferers, hunting on the Republican River, and helping Professor Riley give a grasshopper banquet at Lincoln." Grasshoppers were a significant worry for much of Nebraska and the natural science department during 1874, 1875, and 1876. The University buys "the Farm".
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| 1875 | S. Aughey publishes the first NU work in Botany: Flora of Nebraska. Although much of this work is estimated based on an Iowa survey, lacks evidence, and is imprecise, it serves to kickstart botanical studies at Nebraska University. The school gains state recognition and an elective regency.
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| 1876 | Finances are so low that H. Culbertson is in charge of agriculture, horticulture, the Farm, bookkeeping, etc. for four years.
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| 1878 | The University sponsors the Farmers' Institute; the first one lasts for four days.
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| 1879 | Little serves as a graduate assistant and instructor while he earns his masters degree. After earning his PhD at Yale, he becomes a professor of Math and Civil Engineering for a time at NU.
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| 1880 | S. Aughey publishes .
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| 1882 | H.H. Nicholson joins the faculty as the newly created chair of Chemistry & Physics; this is originally meant to relieve the increasing burden from the natural science professor's shoulders.
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| 1883 | S. Aughey resigns due to adverse pubicity after he faces legal issues regarding a paper issued with "forged endorsements".
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| 1884 | The Botany department is officially founded when C.E. Bessey arrives from Iowa State, where he had founded the first Botany department west of the Mississippi. The department has one professor, one room, and two books, all in University Hall. Wary of the University's financial system, Bessey supposedly deposited the department's $5,000 appropriation for the "maintenance fund" under his own name so that NU could not take it back. R. Pound enters the University at age 13, ready and able to study everything.
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| 1885 | For the first time, Botany students study bacteria, yeast and slime molds in lab.
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| 1886 | F.S. Billings teaches animal disease; he leaves in 1889, but returns to NU in 1891. Conway MacMillan earns the first A.M., hence the first graduate degree, in Botany. The Botany department moves into Chemistry Hall. With encouragement from Bessey, five students, J.G. Smith, H.J. Webber, J.R. Schofield, J.A. Williams, and R. Pound, establish the Seminarium Botanicum.
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| 1887 | The Sem. Bot. expands to seven members, but resists including graduate students.
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| 1888 | The Botany department moves into the newly constructed Nebraska Hall. The Sem. Bot. welcomes graduate students into the mix when several students graduate but remain for masters work.
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| 1889 | R. Pound earns his M.A. by helping to organize and direct the Botanical Survey of Nebraska.
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| 1890 | J.G. Smith takes a "round the world tour" when he first studies at Zurich, then in Australia; he is the envy of the Sem. Bot.
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| 1891 | F.W. Brewer assists in bacteriology. The Bruner Brothers Plantation is established for an arboredum.
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| 1892 | Webber writes appendices to Aughey's Flora of Nebraska. Due to the flourishing Botanical Seminar and the work of C.E. Bessey, the Botany department has become extensive.
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| 1893 | Henry Baldwin Ward ("the father of American Parasitology") teaches the first laboratory class in parasitology in the Western hemisphere. The Graduate College is formally begun.
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| 1896 | The Bacteriology department is organized in Nebraska Hall under Instructer Herbert Waite.
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| 1897 | R. Pound earns his PhD, the first at NU in Botany, while practicing as a lawyer in Lincoln. Botany 2a becomes a separate course for bacteriology. Establishing a standard for international cooperation in ecology, L. Bruner journeys to Argentina to fight grasshoppers at the request of that country's government. The NU Chapter of Sigma Xi National Honorary Science Society in Arts & Sciences is founded. (It was originally established in 1886 at Cornell.)
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| 1898 | Edith Schwartz, soon to be E.S. Clements, earns her B.S. while F. Clements earns PhD.
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| 1900 | The Missouri Valley branch of the American Society for Microbiology is organized.
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| 1901 | H. Metcalf becomes the first Instructor of Bacteriology. Ward works with Reighard to publish the first biological survey of Lake Erie.
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| 1902 | Waite teaches at the medical college.
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| 1903 | The Society for Horticultural Science comes into existence. Bacteriology becomes part of the College of Arts & Sciences. R. Pound becomes Dean of the Law School.
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| 1904 | Botany no longer teaches bacteriology.
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| 1905 | Waite officially becomes the chair of the Bacteriology department.
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| 1906 | E.S. Clements is the first woman to get her PhD at NU in 1906.
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| 1907 | F. Clements, "one of the founders of American ecology", leaves UNL to become head of the Botany department at the University of Minnesota. Lyman becomes the Director of the new School of Pharmacy. R. Pool becomes Director of the State Botanical Survey, a position he will hold until his retirement from the University in 1948.
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| 1908 | Bacteriology offers the first graduate work.
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| 1909 | E.S. Clements writes "Our Botany Trip", a recount of a small group of NU botanists on a field trip, a precursor to the Clements' establishment of Pike's Peak Alpine Laboratory ("Pinecroft"); the article will be reprinted in the "Nebraska Alumnus" in November of 1939.
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| 1910 | R. Pool becomes Curator of the Herbarium.
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| 1911 | Waite diagnoses the water supply as the root of a typhoid epidemic. He introduces the chlorination of water, and remains as Lincoln's water sanitation manager until his death in 1931.
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| 1913 | Field trips by faculty begin to involve larger numbers of students. The Phytogeographic Excursion takes the Botany department by storm.
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| 1914 | R. Pool becomes a professor.
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| 1915 | After working to transform the School of Pharmacy into the College of Pharmacy, Lyman becomes its Dean. C.E. Bessey dies. R.J. Pool becomes the new head of the Botany department.
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| 1916 | J.E. Weaver starts work on the ecology of Nebraska, fifteen years before the drought begins, and therefore providing what later becomes essential data for understanding of cultivated and uncultivated soils.
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| 1917 | The Bacteriology department moves into Bessey Hall, as do Botany and Zoology. The Omaha Medical College closes but reopens as the NU Med School. R. Pool is President of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences.
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| 1918 | The College of Pharmacy takes up residence in the old chemistry building, newly remodelled and named Pharmacy Hall.
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| 1919 | Swenk becomes chair of the Entomology department. Lyman founds NU Student Health.
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| 1920 | E. Walker is president of the Nebraska Academy of Science.
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| 1921 | R. Pool continues an appointment by the Federal Court of Utah to examine air pollution in the Salt Lake Valley.
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| 1924 | Wiggans becomes the chair of the Horticulture department, a position he will hold until 1955.
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| 1925 | The Botany department decides to hold Summer Session courses in the Rocky Mountains, at Camp Olympus in Estes Park; students can earn six credit hours for studying six weeks under R.J. Pool.
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| 1926 | Barker leaves to become the Head of Parasitology at Northwestern, where Irving Cutter is dean.
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| 1927 | Swenk gives radio lectures during the fall for several years as a service to the agricultural community.
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| 1930 | R. Pool represents NU at the 5th International Botanical Congress in England.
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| 1931 | Waite dies, causing uncertainty about the future of the Bacteriology department. Lindgren takes over as the City of Lincoln's water department consultant, a position he will hold until 1957.
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| 1932 | Economic difficulties substantially reduces the number of students attending University.
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| 1933 | R. Pool is named one of the 100 U.S. leaders in the Botanical "Who's Who".
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| 1934 | Peltier reorganizes the Plant Pathology/Bacteriology department by suggestion of Dean Oldfather; he will hold the position of chair until 1953. During Peltier's first two years, he hires two instructors and buys 48 new microscopes for student use. Whitney becomes chair of the Zoology department. Manter is a member of the 3rd Allan Hancock Expedition to the Galapagos.
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| 1935 | Maxwelll becomes the State Extension Forester.
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| 1936 | Holck joins the faculty. A $75-100 million Shelterbelt program is shut down after only $3 million is spent.
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| 1937 | Lyman founds the ; he will remain as editor until his death in 1957. Philbrick argues for the legalization of euthanasia; she leaves the university for Ohio.
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| 1938 | Plant Pathology is officially renamed as the Bacteriology department.
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| 1939 | D. Whitney is named Professor of the Week by the students (he put Christmas seals on his students' finals).
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| 1940 | The Zoology department helps to publish a revised edition of Wolcott's ; the department takes no credit or royalties, but gives both to Mrs. Wolcott and a scholarship fund.
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| 1941 | The Bacteriology department contemplates establishing a PhD program, but delays it because of the War.
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| 1943 | The Bacteriology department is able to manufacture penicillin, which is not very pure, but effective when shortages occur. Powell conducts surveys on the quail, pheasant and beaver populations for the State Game Commission.
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| 1945 | Bacteriology research shifts from a war focus to that microbes, industrial fermentation and bacterial amylases, and research on antibiotics begins in earnest. At the Chancellor's request, Lyman's Student Health program institutes sexual education. Powell becomes the Pre-Med advisor, a position he will hold until 1961 (whereafter he is replaced by a team of six staff members)
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| 1946 | Whitney steps down as chair of the Zoology department, and retires. The Zoology department helps to publish another revised edition of Wolcott's ; again, the department takes no credit or royalties, but gives the profits to Mrs. Wolcott and a scholarship fund. Pace becomes chair of the P & P department.
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| 1947 | Lyman wins the Remington Medal (the highest honor from the American Pharmacology Association); Lyman retires froms UNL, but quickly decides to take on the challenge of founding a College of Pharmacy at the University of Arizona-Tuscan, where he is dean until 1950. Lyman is the only man to found two colleges of Pharmacy.
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| 1948 | Peltier holds a "Bacti-tea" in May, with attendance over 75. More than 600 students are enrolled in Bacteriology classes, and the department has 13 graduate students. Ray becomes chair of the Botany department, a position he will hold until 1965.
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| 1949 | "The new bell tower, just east of Bessey Hall, has one good feature in that it drowns out the professor who doesn't finish his lecture on time." ("Bactigram" newsletter, January 1950) Allington becomes Chair of Plant Pathology, a position he will hold until 1968. Mary Louise Hanson wins the Wolcott Award (the highest award for graduates in the zoology department) but cannot enroll because the department does not accept women for its doctoral program. She uses the award money to travel to Hawaii to collect parasite samples.
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| 1950 | UNL hosts the Missouri Valley Branch of the Society of American Bacteriologists.
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| 1951 | Georgi goes to Paris on a Fulbright at the Sorbonne. Manter is on a Fulbright to New Zealand.
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| 1952 | Thompson and Pivnick join the Bacteriology faculty, from which Larsen resigns. Lyman is the Honorary President of the American Pharmacology Association. Pace establishes the Institute for Cellular Research. Moore goes to the University of Tennessee to use radioisotopes to study plant growth inhibitors; the technology is relatively new and very competetive.
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| 1953 | Dr. H.F. Nagaty arrives from Egypt on a Fulbright, studying trematodes. Peltier retires, Georgi becomes chair of Bacteriology. Ferguson Hall boasts a new "Special Instruments Lab". Engelhard joins the faculty. Georgi is invited to the editorial board of the Society of American Bacteriologist journal . Holck becomes chair of Pharmacology. Manter becomes chair of the Zoology department, a position he will hold until 1961.
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| 1954 | Construction begins on Selleck and Henzlik Halls. Every Bacteriology staff member attends the Missouri Valley Branch of the Society of American Bacteriologists meetin in Lawrence, KS. The Bacterioly department receives a fellowship from the Texas Company for work on bacteriology of petroleum products. Militzer & Georgi's US Public Health Service grant is renewed.
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| 1955 | Physiology moves the College of Pharmacy. Registration in the life science departments is up 10% from the previous year. Construction begins on the Biochemistry & Nutrition building on East Campus. Pharmacy Hall, condemned 15 years previous, is finally razed. Lindgren passes suddenly in June. Wiggans steps down as chair of Horticulture.
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| 1956 | Blake and Wade retire. L. Olsen moves from Zoology to Animal Pathology. Ray is on a leave of absence in Turkey for two years. L. Weaver is acting chair. In May, the Zoology Department sponsors an ornithology lecture series with Charles Sibly from Cornell. In August, M.L. Hanson becomes M.L. Pritchard. Wiggans retires.
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| 1957 | The new Pharmacy Hall is nearly complete. Lyman, Harbaugh, Lindgren and Pearse die. Coil has a NSF fellowship at the University of Oregon. In cooperation with the Turkish sister university, Suavi Yalvac is a visiting faculty member. Bacteriology initiates its doctoral program. The College of Pharmacy becomes a Professional College. Moore publishes "A Laboratory Guide for Elementary Plant Physiology".
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| 1958 | The Life Sciences move from Bessey Hall to newly built Lyman Hall with the Pharmacy College (located where Kauffman Residence Hall now stands). The Psychology department expands and becomes loosely connected to the Life Sciences departments.
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| 1959 | D.D. Miller is on a one-year leave of absence as the Program Director of Genetics for NSF. Manter and Miller publish an Introduction to Zoology. Schuster receives an $80,000 US Public Health Service grant to work on gall-forming nematodes. H.L. Weaver leaves on a two-year assignment with the University mission to establish Ataturk University in Erzurum, Turkey. Manter and Pritchard receive a $25,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for parasitology work; the award will continue annually in one form or another until 1972.
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| 1960 | Murphy leaves for Brigham Young University. Robert Wotton leaves for LSU Medical College. Schuster is nominated for the Hoblitzelle National Agricultural Research award. Moore publishes a second edition of "A Laboratory Guide for Elementary Plant Physiology". Engelhard discusses the emerging resurgence of resistant staphylococci. M. Banerjee is awarded a three-year Fulbright.
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| 1961 | Miller becomes chair of the Zoology department. A Biology Colloquium is established in the spring. The Bacteriology department is renamed the department of Microbiology. Shannon resigns to become Curator of Cell Lines at the American Type Culture Collection. Schuster is invited as keynote speaker of the International Nematology Symposium in Ghent, Belgium.
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| 1962 | R.D. Dillon joins the staff. Coil leaves for the University of Kansas. A Cooper Foundation grant is established for speakers. M. Daly becomes chair of Plant Pathology, a position he will hold until 1964.
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| 1963 | Manter is on leave in Australia. The Behler Lab is under construction. Wotton returns to the staff. Yao leaves the Cell Institute. R. Dean receives a grant from the Nebraska Heart Association. McCashland continues work under an NIH grant. Physiology and Zoology merge. E.F. Powell retires. Rosenquist retires. H.L. Weaver becomes Assistant Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, a position he will hold until 1971.
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| 1964 | The Zoology & Physiology department has 1770 students enrolled. The Old Hill Hatchery Building on 10th St. is acquired, to be remodelled for the sciences. Barnawell and Brumbaugh join the faculty. Georgi becomes the Murray Longworth Regents' Professor of Microbiology. Holck becomes President of the Emeriti Association at NU, a position he will hold until 1975.
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| 1965 | Showing a significant increase from the previous year, the university has 15,179 students; 38 graduate from Zoology, 2221 are enrolled in Zoology and Biology courses, and the Zoology department has 14 faculty members. R. Dillon leaves to become chair of Zoology at the University of South Dakota. Meints joins the faculty. The Graduate College receives a grant for the Teacher Development Program. D. Whitney dies. The Maxwell Arboredum is established. Landolt, Pace and McCashland publish . Gauger becomes chair of the Botany department.
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| 1966 | The Cellular Biology section is encouraged to move from East to City Campus. Janovy joins the faculty. University enrollment is 17,051, and Zoology enrollment is 2364. Manter is honored for 40 years of teaching at NU on 28 April, and a prize bearing his name is established for graduate students. McCashland becomes Assistant Dean of the Graduate College, a position he will hold until 1970. M. Daly earns a regents professorship to become the C. Petrus Peterson Professor of Biochemistry. G. Vidaver receives a two-year National Science Foundation grant.
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| 1967 | The Zoology & Physiology department has 50 graduate students, university enrollment is up to 18,067. Construction begins on Hamilton Hall. The State Legislature allots $2.7 million for a Life Sciences Complex. Pace leaves for the University of the Pacific. Barnawell becomes the new Director of Cellular Research. Banerjee, Boohar, Hergenrader, and Tharp join the Z & P faculty. Manter retires, Miller steps down as chair of the Z & P department. R. Pool dies. The previously established Mary Rogick Memorial fund contributes $10,000 for an RCA electron microscope. Thorson becomes chair of the Zoology & Pathology department, a position he will hold until 1971. Kaul receives a two-year, $20,000 National Science Foundation grant to study primitive monocotyledors.
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| 1968 | M. Banerjee is awarded a four year grant worth $171,394, which is subsequently renewed for another five years at $310,000 for "Hormones, Cellular Biosynthesis & Mammary Carcinogenesis." The Universities of Nebraska in Omaha and Lincoln merge. The Zoology & Physiology department moves to Oldfather because there is not yet enough funding to begin work on the new building. George Beadle, a Nobel Laureate, Nebraska native and NU alum, speaks for the Centennial, and the Z & P department assembles a historical display. The Institute of Cellular Research is remodelled. Johnsgard's book Waterfowl: Their Biology & Natural History is nominated for the John Burroughs Award and the Wildlife Society Publications Award. McCashland publishes Animal Coordinating Mechanisms. M. Banerjee becomes Director of the Tumor Biology Lab. Brakke wins the USDA's Superior Service Award. G. Vidaver receives a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
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| 1969 | M. Smith and Lynch join the faculty of the Zoology & Physiology department, which now has 55 graduate students. The building is again delayed because the University cannot obtain a monetary match. The Z & P department begins the Ashton C. Cuckler Scholarship in Parasitology. Manter is elected an emeritus member of the American Society of Parasitology, and wins the 1969 Henry Baldwin Ward Award. D.D. Miller is on leave at the University of Texas-Austin. Gugler wins a Distinguished Teaching Award. Van Etten receives a three-year $36,000 grant to study macromolecular aspects of fungal spore germination.
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| 1970 | The Zoology & Physiology department has funds for five distinguished lectures. The new building now holds "high priority" at the University. A full program of Earth Day activities is assembled by a student group with the assistance of Hergenrader, Johnsgard and Rand. Gugler is named to the Outstanding Educators of America.
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| 1971 | The Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics comes into existence. Georgi steps down as chair of Microbiology. Students and faculty hold a "Holck Testimonial Dinner" in July. A new division of the Parasitology Lab is named for Manter. Weaver retires. Gugler becomes the new chair of Zoology, a position he will hold until 1973. Kaul receives a one-year, $27,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study diaphragms in aquatic plants. M. Banerjee receives a $45,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Health and the United States Public Health Service to work on "hormones, cell biosynthesis and mammary carcinogenesis".
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| 1972 | The proposed new building is delayed by the state. In November, the staffs of Botany, Microbiology and Zoology vote to merge into a division of Biological Sciences. The Zoology department receives two new stereozoom microscopes, water-jacketed CO incubater, an ultracentrifuge (Beckman L265B), and liquid scintillation counter. P.A. Johnsgard receives a University Research Council Senior Faculty Summer Fellowship for fieldwork in north Canada, working on North American waterfowl. D.D. Miller becomes the President of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. M.L. Pritchard receives grants to fly to Chile to join the Scripps Institute of Oceanographic Expedition. E. Powell dies. O. Wade dies. Van Etten receives a three-year $50,000 extension grant to study macromolecular aspects of fungal spore germination. A. Vidaver and Van Etten receive a three-year $70,000 grant to study viruses of phytopathogenic pseudomonads. M. Banerjee receives a $320,000 renewal grant from the National Cancer Institute and the United States Public Health Service to work on "hormones, cell biosynthesis and mammary carcinogenesis". He also receives a $43,000 grant from National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Health and the United States Public Health Service to work on "chemical carcinogen-induced noduligenesis and tumorigenesis in whole mouse mammary gland organ cultures". The College of Pharmacy moves to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
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| 1973 | There are attempts to redisperse the Biochemistry faculty. The Harry Lloyd Weaver Native garden is established by Oldfather Hall. T.L. Thompson discovers eight viruses may be effective to control water-polluting bacteria. Landolt wins the Builder's Award for Excellence in Teaching. M. Daly becomes interim Director of the School of Life Sciences, a position he will hold for one year. M. Banerjee receives a two-year $120,000 renewal grant from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Health and the United States Public Health Service to work on "chemical carcinogen-induced noduligenesis and tumorigenesis in whole mouse mammary gland organ cultures".
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| 1974 | Mrs. Robert Pullen establishes a scholarship fund for Life Sciences students, named for Peltier and Georgi. Georgi retires. Thorson is a consultant to the Jacques Cousteau team when they film fresh-water sharks. Hergenrader becomes the interim Director of the School of Life Sciences. In the fall, construction begins on the $6.2 million new Life Sciences Building. Meints receives a $49,000 grant from the American Cancer Society for work on "hemopoietic stem cells". Brakke is elected to the National Academy of Science.
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| 1975 | A lectureship is established in honor of W.E. Militzer and C. Georgi, both retired. Schuster wins the Campbell Award from the American Society for Horticultural Science for outstanding research with D.P. Coyne of the Horticultural Department. Schuster and Coyne also receive the Meritorious Service Awards from the Bean Improvement Coop for outstanding bean improvement. A $1.25 million dollar fire destroys part of the plant industry building in August; some 100 mice from M. Banerjee's lab die of pneumonia after water from the sprinkler system leaks into the lab. Landolt recieves a Mortar Board citation for teaching. Wotton retires. Thorson receives a $40,000 grant from Nicaragua to study bullsharks and sawfish. Thorson is Vice Director of the Life Sciences school, a position he will hold until 1977. Van Etten receives a three-year $57,000 extension grant to study macromolecular aspects of fungal spore germination. A. Vidaver and Van Etten receive a four-year $100,000 extension grant to study viruses of phytopathogenic pseudomonads. Meints becomes the Director of the School of Life Sciences, a position he will hold until 1982. M. Banerjee receives an $89,000 grand from the National Cancer Institute to study breast cancer. Brakke wins Sigma Xi's Outstanding Scientist Award. A group of professors, including J. Janovy, B. Nickol and G. Hergenrader, found the Cedar Point Biological Station.
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| 1976 | Davidson retires, and wins a distinguished teaching award; one of his favorite methods to make students ask questions was to bring a pile of fake quizzes to lecture on Friday and pretend he would distribute them when there were no more questions. Landolt wins an Outstanding Professor Award for Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Nebraska, and an anonymous person leaves him a cake frosted with a manequin, all veins and arteries correctly drawn. M. Banerjee wins an Outstanding Scientist Award from Sigma Xi. A.T. Harrison receives a $30,000 grant to study the physiological ecology of C3 and C4 grassland species.
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| 1977 | Meints receives a two-year $73,500 grant from the American Cancer Society for "Characterization of hemopoietic cell surfaces". He also receives a $185,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for ecology and cellular biology.
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| 1978 | Gunderson retires. Boohar first offers his soon-to-be famous "Lord of the Rings" seminar. G. Smith receives a $46,700 grant from the National Cancer Institute, with more grants to follow, for work on growth in normal and neoplastic cells. S. Schuster receives an two-year $81,400 grant from the American Cancer Society for work on "regulation of asparagine biosynthesis in normal and tumor cells".
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| 1979 | T.L. Thompson works with Harriet Kohn of Extension Nutrition, to develop the DIETCHECK computer program. Kaul receives a three-year $52,500 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the reproductive structures of Fagaceae (oak trees) in the Far East. S. Schuster receives a two-year $61,800 grant from the National Institutes of Health for work on "heart ATP synthetase". He also receives a three-year $180,000 National Science Foundation grant with six others at UNL and UNMC for their Aging Studies Initiation Program. Additionally, he recieves a $180,000 Research Career Development Award in Tumor Biology and Cancer Cell Metabolism from the National Institutes of Health. Galbraith receives a $130,000 National Science Foundation grant for UNL's Bio Instrumentation Program, and a $35,000 US Department of Agriculture grant for work on Bio Stress. M. Daly identifies the chemical structures of host-specific toxins produced by fungi that cause plant diseases such as Southern Corn Leaf Blight--a disease that resulted in 50 percent crop loss in the early 1970s.
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| 1980 | M. Banerjee's lab successfully clones genes, making it much simpler for scientists to work with biologically rare material. S. Schuster receives a four-year $218,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for work on "asparagine metabolism in normal and tumor cells". Galbraith receives a $39,800 National Science Foundation and ISEP grant for the Biology of Cells Lab, and a $50,000 US Department of Agriculture grant for work on genetic mechanisms for crop improvement. A $126,00 matching grant from the NSF also enables Galbraith's lab to purchase a cell-sorter.
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| 1981 | Thorson is named the University's Outstanding Scientist by Sigma Xi. Hergenrader is named the new head of the Forestry, Fisheries & Wildlife Department in the NU Institute of Agricultural & Natural Resources. S. Schuster receives a three-year $165,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for work on "the structure and control of heart ATP synthetases". Galbraith receives a $100,000 University Genetics Co. grant.
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| 1982 | M. Daly wins an award for Outstanding Research & Creative Activity. Kaul receives a two-year $55,000 extension grant from the National Science Foundation to study the reproductive structures of Fagaceae (oak trees) in the Far East. UNL Publishes M.L.H. Pritchard and graduate student Gunther Kruse's . Brakke wins UNL's Outstanding Research & Creative Activity Award. Pardy is recognized for Distinguished Teaching by UNL at the Honors Convocation; he had formed the "Century Club" to encourage faculty to improve teaching methods for large classes. S. Schuster receives a two-year $62,500 grant from the Nebraska Department of Health for work on "the role of asparagine in leukemia".
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| 1983 | M. Banerjee serves as for one year as a UNESCO consultant in the Zoology department of the University of Calcutta in India. Davies is honored by the American Society of Plant Physiologists for work with a Seward High student on plants in zero-gravity. The experiment is carried out on space shuttle mission Discovery in April 1985. K. Nickerson works on developing an innovative anti-bug toxin using mosquitoes, receiving in total $230,000 in grants. S. Schuster receives a three-year $195,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute for work on "specific inhibition of tumor cell metabolism". Galbraith receives a $164,800 US Department of Energy grant for a cytometer, and after an article in , the University seeks a patent for his method of fluorescent labelling to measure DNA in plant cells. Galbraith received another four-year grant from the National Science Foundation for $260,000 to study how genetic material formed offspring from gused protoplasts.
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| 1984 | The School of Life Sciences becomes the School of Biological Sciences. M. Daly is elected to the National Academy of Sciences. A. Vidaver becomes head of the department of Plant Pathology (the first woman head of a Plant Pathology department in the nation). S. Schuster receives a three-year $195,000 renewal grant from the National Science Foundation for work on "the structure and control of heart ATP synthetases". He also receives a three-year $265,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for work on "asparagine metabolism in normal and tumor cells". J. Brumbaugh, in conjunction with John Middendorf of LICOR in Lincoln, develops and patents the first automated DNA sequencer.
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| 1985 | A fountain in Manter Hall, consisting of a bronze casting of a large mollusk mounted in a pumice base, is dedicated to Gugler. Kaul receives a four-year $52,500 extension grant from the National Science Foundation to study the reproductive structures of Fagaceae (oak trees) in the Far East. M.L.H. Pritchard receives a $194,000 grant for Manter Lab, in order to improve its facilities as a National Resource Center. S. Schuster receives a two-year $79,000 grant from the Nebraska Department of Health for work on "glutamine metabolism in tumor cells".
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| 1986 | A Distinguished Professorship is established in Allington's memory, with an annual $5,000 stipend from ISCO, Inc. where his sons are president and vice president. Van Etten becomes the first Allington Chair of Plant Pathology. Boosalis's wife runs for governor. M. Daly wins the Elvin Charles Stakman Award from the North Central Division of the American Phytopathology Society. Tharp wins the Students' Choice Award for Outstanding Biology Teacher by Tri Beta, the biology students honorary. G. Vidaver dies. S. Schuster receives a five-year $581,000 renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute for work on "specific inhibition of tumor cell metabolism". He also recieves a three-year $335,000 grant from the Finnish Sugar Company for work on "chemical and molecular biology of industrially useful enzymes" with D. Wylie and Wagner. D. Galbraith is one of ten US scientists to participate in a joint US-Japan biotechnology workshop in Hawaii.
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| 1987 | Meints becomes the Director of Biotechnology at the University. S. Schuster receives a five-year $950,000 renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute for work on "asparagine metabolism in normal and tumor cells". He and D. Wylie recieve a two-year $191,000 American Cancer Society grant for work on "mechanisms of resistance of leukemia cells to L-Asparaginase". H. Genoways receives the C. Hart Merriam Award for Outstanding Contributions to work in Mammology from the American Society of Mammologists.
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| 1988 | Meints begins to plan for a new Biotech research center. Boohar receives the Student Foundation and Builders Award for Outstanding Academic Advising (since 1978). Davies receives a $130,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for "wound modulation of gene expression in plants". Brakke wins the American Phytopathological Society's Award of Distinction. A. Vidaver is the Interim Director of the Center for Biotechnology. S. Schuster receives a three-year $320,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for work on "structure and metabolism of F1-ATPase". He also receives a three-year $185,000 grant from the US Department of Agriculture. Galbraith receives $79,000 grant from the US Department of Energy to study the mechanism of endomembrane secretions. Cotton also receives a Department of Energy grant for $87,700 to study electrochemistyr and optical studies of moderm photosynthetic systems. Gupta receives a National Institutes of Health grant for $167,500 to study protein sythesis initiation in red blood cells. Spreitzer receives a $55,000 National Science Foundation grant to study genetic models of rubisco in chlamydomonas. The Lincoln Journal Star begins to print a weekly "Pollen Report" from M. Bolick every Saturday, including a percentage break down of airborn pollen. Bolick receives a $25,000 from the Institute of Museum Services in D.C. to restore the University herbarium. Marks receives a $240,000 National Science Foundation grant.
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| 1989 | Brumbaugh is on leave to be the Director of Eukaryotic Genetics Program of the National Science Foundation. M. Banerjee makes national headlines when the lab finds that carrots' beta carotene fights cancer. UNL experiments with genetic modification by testing bacteria on plants to kill corn borers. Marks receives a three-year grant from the McKnight Foundation of Minneapolis, MN, for $35,000 per year to work on isolating genes for cell differentiation of epidermal cells in plants. Stephens receives the Young Investigator Award, with a five-year $25,000/yr stipend to study animal foraging and behavior of blue jays; this Presidential Award through the National Science Foundation also had the possibility of matching funds up to $37,000.
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| 1990 | A Farm Bill authorizes a Semiarid Agroforestry Research Center, but provides no funds. Wagner, S. Schuster and D. Wylie found BioNebraska, a biotechnology firm, in Lincoln. K. Nickerson receives a $79,000 grant from the Midwest Plant Biotechnology Consortium for work on nonchemical insect control. H. Genoways becomes President of the Nebraska Museums Association. Conway, along with a University of Florida professor, obtains U.S. Patent 5,000,000. Morris becomes head of the Biological Sciences department.
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| 1991 | An experiment designed by J. Rosowski for hatching brine shrimp in zero gravity is successfully completed aboard a space shuttle mission. A. Vidaver is the first woman in the country to win a National Award for Agricultural Excellence. K. Nickerson receives a $79,000 renewal grant from the Midwest Plant Biotechnology Consortium for work on nonchemical insect control. The Beadle Center for Genetics & Biomaterials Research is proposed with a $24 million cost. J. Janovy becomes the Paula and D.B. Varner Distinguished Professor of biological sciences.
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| 1992 | The University of Nebraska receives a one million-dollar grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to promote science education in Nebraska. Ballinger becomes the new President of the UNL Academic Senate.
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| 1993 | Gauger retires. Ballinger resigns from his presidency of the UNL Academic Senate, leaving to become the UNL Associate Vice Chancellor of Research and Director of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competetive Research of Nebraska (EPSCoR). University scientists suddenly find themselves explaining the [incorrect] science behind Jurassic Park and performing damage control in defense of genetic research.
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| 1994 | M.L.H. Pritchard retires. H. Genoways resigns from directorship of the museum due to disagreements about the future direction of the museum; J. Janovy becomes Interim Director.
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| 1995 | G. Drohman retires as Greenhouse Manager. D. Coyne receives the International Distinguished Service to Award by Gamma Sigma Delta, honor society of agriculture. Rob Schwartz joins the faculty. A four-year $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation for the Satellite Educational and Environmental Research program, a new approach to K-12 science education, possible; M. O'Leary oversees the program. R. Boohar, W. Glider, L. Harshman, J. Janovy and E. Martin are honored as Outstanding Faculty members by Mortar Board. James Estes is named the new director of the museum. UNL, in cooperation with Colorado State University, receives a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to assess how climate change may influence land use and ecosystems in the Great Plains. Nobel Prize winner J. Watson is invited to speak at the dedication of the Beadle Center on 22 September. UNL receives a three-year $320,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help build more science and math classrooms. Johnsgard publishes another book, .
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| 1996 | Klucas is named the Interim Director of the Center for Biological Chemistry, and head of the Biochemistry Department. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Television/Nebraska ETV Network develops the Science, Outreach and Specials (SOS) Unit for programs on science. UNL School of Biological Sciences helps sponsor a talk on Women in Science. R. Banerjee, wins the Agricultural Research Division's Junior Faculty for Excellence in Research Award. R.L. Pardy is inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. M. O'Leary leaves for Dean position at California State University. P. Johnsgard receives alumni achievement award from North Dakota State University. National Science Foundation extends EPSCoR for two more years, at $1.48 million per year. The American Institute of Architects Nebraska presents an Honor Award to Davis Design for their design of the Beadle Center. D. Stanley-Samuelson named to UNL Graduate Council. Pill-Soon Song is elected to a four-year term as president of the Association Internationale de Photobiology. The UNL Center for Grassland Studies offers a seminar series. UNL hosts a genetics conference. K. Keeler presents "An Afternoon with Dr. Elda Walker, First Woman Botanist at the University of Nebraska"; Keeler portrays Walker in delivering a lecture, "Vegetation of Nebraska," as Walker may have presented it in 1916.
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| 1997 | A. Vidaver is the Interim Director for the Center for Biotechnology. Ratcliffe recieves a $740,000 National Science Foundation grant with Mary Liz Jameson to help promote the beetle collection (particularly scarabs). By this time, Ratcliffe had named 100 species, and Jameson 12, with three full drawers of new species yet to be named. Song receives the European Society of Photobiology Research Achievement Award Metal. Tom Clemente's Plant Transformation Core Research Facility is established at the Beadle Center. Carolyn Price serves as a member of the Molecular Cytology Study Section, Division of Research Grants, at the National Institutes of Health. A group at UNL works with the EPSCoR regional group to win a $1.5 million NSF grant to create a computer application to run biospheric modeling over Internet2. S. Ragsdale joins the editorial board of the , a publication of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Veomett designs "Biotech footlockers" that contain equipment high school science teachers may borrow to teach their students about DNA. P. Johnsgard publishes his 34th book, , and 35th book, the second edition of . E. Martin receives a Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Arts & Sciences. G. Tharp retires. W. Glider wins a web site competition sponsored by the Northwest Center for Emerging Technologies. The discovery by S. Louda and her team of the potential dangers involved in the use of biological controls to solve pest problems generates a flurry of media interest in the United States and abroad. N. Gupta dies. R. Klucas is inducted into Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture.
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| 1998 | J. Janovy receives a Statewide Citizen Award and an Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award. The UNL Museum shows an exhibit on Darwin. P. Johnsgard publishes his 36th book, . B. Nickol receives a Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Arts & Sciences. R.L. Pardy receives an Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Activity award. R. Chollet is awarded the W.W. Marshall Family Distinguished Professorship in Biotechnology. The University discusses integrating all the life science programs. R. Chollet is installed as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. J. Lynch retires.
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| 1999 | R. Klucas becomes the Director of the Center for Biological Chemistry and of the Biochemistry department. K. Morrison of Hastings donates one million dollars to the UNL Foundation for use in biotechnology. Thorson dies. L. Harshman and D. Woodman each receive a Distinguished Teaching Award. Sally Mackenzie becomes the leader of the UNL Plant Science Initiative, a new program for molecular plant biology. NU hosts the National Biotechnology meeting "World Food Security and Sustainability: The Impacts of Biotechnology & Industrial Consolidation". The University and the Plant Pathologists of Nebraska host the annual meeting of the North Central Division of the American Phytopathological Society. Johnsgard publishes his 38th and 39th books. Jeff and Tricia Raikes of Seattle establish the Ralph & Alice Raikes Chair in Plant Sciences; S. Mackenzie is the first to hold the position. The Cedar Point Biological Station celebrates its 25th anniversary. R. Banerjee receives an Established Investigator award from the American Heart Association, which carries a $300,000 award for research on redox regulation of homocysteine metabolism. |
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| 2000 | H. Knoche retires, as do R. Boohar and R. Kaul. A. Joern is elected President of Sigma Xi, while A. Vidaver receives the Outstanding Scientist Award from Sigma Xi. Song wins a universitywide Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award; he also receives the Samsung Foundation's Ho-Am Science Prize in South Korea and its accompanying $100,000 award. J. Steadman becomes acting head of the department of Plant Pathology while A. Vidaver serves as the chief scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program in Washington, D.C. UNL wins a $10.4 million award from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Nebraska Center for Viral Pathogenesis; the center will be a collaborative research enterprise of UNL, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University, linking researchers studying viruses at the three institutions. Plant-genetic research led by UNL biologist H. Cerutti is featured in the Nov. 10 edition of magazine. R. Banerjee receives the American Chemical Society's Pfizer Award.
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| 2001 | Laurie R. Homer, chief academic adviser in the School of Biological Sciences, is nominated for the Sue Tidball Award. An article by J. Knops, published in indicates that biodiversity helps ecosystems absorb carbon dioxide and nitrogen. M. Banerjee dies. B. Ratcliffe earns the Outstanding Research & Creative Activity Award. UNL Libraries are a founding subscriber to BioOne, an electronic aggregation of information resources in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. A demolition date is set for Lyman Hall. The Nebraska Center for Virology (composed of UNL, UNMC and Creighton) hosts a Symposium in Virology. Michael Fromm joins UNL as director of the Center for Biotechnology and professor of agronomy. A. Kamil becomes the George Holmes University Professor of Biological Sciences and Psychology. UNL launches a web site to help consumers and students understand agricultural biotechnology. P. Johnsgard retires, but intends to continue research. S. Ragsdale and D. Weeks receive research fellowships from the Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research Inc. The Board of Regents approves the establishment of the Nebraska Center for Virology at UNL, using a $10.7 million competitive grant from the National Institutes of Health. J. Janovy is named a "Conservation Hero" by The Nature Conservancy. B. Nickol receives the Clark P. Read Mentorship Award at the national assembly of the American Society of Parasitologists.
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| 2002 | M. Pritchard receives an honorary doctorate from the University. The installation of PrairieFire, a 256-processor "super-computer" opens possibilities for cluster computing for all sciences at UNL. D. Weeks becomes the head of Biochemistry. R. Klucas dies. W. Glider and G. Veomett each receive a Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Arts & Sciences. G. Orti receives an Outstanding Young Scientist Award from Sigma Xi. The department of Mathematics and the School of Biological Sciences host a two-day workshop on mathematical biology. UNL Hosts the Second Annuay Symposium in Virology. The biology library is closed, all contents being transferred to Love Library. J. Estes retires, William Splinter, George Holmes professor emeritus of biological systems engineering becomes interim director of the museum. The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, composed of faculty and projects from all different sciences in the University, is established using a $5.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is the lead recipient of a $6 million, four-year National Science Foundation grant to establish a plant genome research center. UNL wins a $10 million award from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Nebraska Center for Redox Biology.
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| 2003 | A project spearheaded by the University of Nebraska State Museum wins a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund exhibits and informal education packages about evolution. The Space Shuttle Columbia is destroyed, taking with it three UNL biochemistry experiments overseen by H. Moriyama. S. Ragsdale receives an Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Awards. A. Basolo is awarded the Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award the Society's National Board of Directors. J. Van Etten is elected to the National Academy of Sciences. V. Gladyshev's group identifies seven new selenium-containing proteins in humans and mice, and their findings are published in . R. Kaul becomes interim director of the museum. The Nebraska Redox Biology Center offers its first mini-symposium on "Oxidative Protein Damage and Disease". L. Smith steps down as President of NU, and plans to teach in the School of Biological Sciences beginning in Fall 2005. UNL is a major partner in an $11 million grant for the fast-track development of a vaccine against botulinum neurotoxin. M. Simpson receives part of a $9.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health that establishes an NIH-designated Nebraska Center for Cellular Signaling at UNMC, to study cell signaling and its role in cancer. A new virology building is proposed, estimated to cost $15 million, is the first phase of an initiative to build more research space for a growing number of federally funded research projects at UNL. J. Janovy receives the Clark P. Read Mentorship Award at the national assembly of the American Society of Parasitologists. R. Banerjee and C. Wood are named University Professors.
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| 2004 | R. Ballinger retires. A. Kamil receives an ORCA award. R. Johnston dies. T. Powers is part of the Speakers Bureau; his lectures are "DNA Diagnostics" and "Biological Invaders."
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| 2005 | J. Janovy receives the Hartley Burr Alexander Award from the Friends of the Libraries. C. Wood receives Sigma Xi's Outstanding Scientist Award. V. Gladyshev is named Charles Bessey Professor and professor of biochemistry. J. Van Etten gives the keynote address at the American Society of Virology's annual meeting at Penn State. T.J. Morris receives the Ruth Allen Award, J. Steadman receives the International Service Award, and J. Alfano receives the from the American Phytopathological Society. UNL receives a four-year NSF grant of $710,970 for the creation of interdisciplinary teams of select mathematics and biology students to conduct research into projects of interest to both fields of study.
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| 2006 | D. Weeks receives an Outstanding Scientist Award from Sigma Xi. Construction begins on the Ken Morrison Life Sciences Research Center; the $18.6 million, 70,000-square-foot building will house laboratory and offices for the Nebraska Center for Virology. Alumnus Jay Keasling is named Discover's Scientist of the Year.
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| 2007 | V. Gladyshev's team develops a new way to rapidly identify amino acids in proteins that have redox function. Cerutti's team identifies a novel gene in the single-cell green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, that is required for RNA interference - a process that silences genes and holds promise in combating disease. Johnsgard publishes his 50th book, The Niobrara: A River Running Through Time. The Faculty of 1000, an international research service that reviews and evaluates journal articles worldwide, reports multidisciplinary research by UNL scientists earns an "exceptional" rating. UNL receives a $10.8 million renewal grant from NIH for the Redox Biology Center. J. Alfano and co-authors publish in Nature on their discovery of a previously unknown component in plants' immune systems that provides new clues to how plants and humans fend off diseases, and how invaders stifle immunity. The NIH grants $1.28 million to power a virus education program for young people and their families. A. Basolo receives a four-month Fulbright lectureship at the University of Padova to research in behavioral and morphological traits, learn new research techniques, teach two graduate seminars, and help organize an international conference on Poeciliid. |
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| 2008 | The NSF grants $9 million to UNL over three years for a Nano-enhanced Epigenetics Research project to build Nebraska's research capabilities on chromatin. As part of a junior/senior level Biochemistry Bioinformatics class, students in assign biological function to its gene sequences to the heat-loving Ammonifex degensii bacteria. R. Boohar dies. J. Janovy publishes a new book on how students can impress (or outwit) their professors. A. Christensen wins a Distinguished Teaching Award from the college. E. Hebets wins a Harold and Esther Edgerton Junior Faculty Award. W. O'Connor wins a Student Foundation/Builders Award for Outstanding Advising. UNL announces a new interdisciplinary minor in Energy Science to start Fall 2008. V. Gladyshev wins an ORCA award. |
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