Nebraska
Six faculty earn professorships
Six College of Nebraska-Lincoln professors have been awarded professorships from the Workplace of the Government Vice Chancellor.
“These distinguished members of our college display the easiest of the college’s missions of instructing, analysis, and repair,” stated Katherine Ankerson, government vice chancellor. “We’re grateful to them for sharing their vibrant work and experience with us at Nebraska.”
Of the six awarded, one college member acquired a College Professorship, which acknowledges those that have proven a unprecedented stage of scholarly or inventive achievement and clear potential for persevering with accomplishments.
- Alexei Gruverman will likely be Charles J. Mach professor of physics and astronomy. Gruverman at the moment holds a Charles Bessey professorship and conducts analysis associated to ferroelectric supplies, that are crucial components of recent electronics. He pioneered using piezoresponse pressure microscopy for nondestructive imaging of ferroelectric domains and his methodology is now actively utilized in ferroelectric analysis worldwide. His analysis into functions of PFM has resulted in over 240 publications, many in journals of worldwide stature. The influence of Gruverman’s analysis spans greater than 15,000 citations of his work and quite a few invites to seminars. He has acquired many awards and honors, most notable being the Humboldt Analysis Award and being named an Worldwide Fellow of the Japan Society of Utilized Physics. Gruverman has gained, led, and took part in about 20 analysis tasks as PI or co-PI with complete funding of greater than $34 million ($3 million as principal investigator) over his profession. He performed a serious function within the success of the Nationwide Science Basis-funded Supplies Analysis Science and Engineering Middle, in addition to a number of different giant multi-investigator grants.
Two college members have been named Willa Cather/Charles Bessey professors. The professorship was established in 2001 to acknowledge college members with the rank of professor who’ve established distinctive information of distinguished scholarship or inventive exercise.
- Ronald Faller will likely be Willa Cather analysis professor within the Midwest Roadside Security Facility. Faller can be the director of the ability and conducts analysis on quite a lot of security measures, together with roadside obstacles, to make sure occupant security when autos are concerned in crashes. He has led the event of many units which have develop into U.S. requirements, saving quite a few lives and stopping numerous accidents. Faller and his crew obtain exterior analysis funding averaging greater than $5 million per 12 months. Their findings are revealed in prestigious journals and so they have acquired Greatest Paper awards 13 occasions. Most just lately, MwRSF acquired the Breakthrough Innovation of the Yr award from NUtech Ventures for its Delta Crash Cushion. Faller additionally helped to develop the primary nationwide “Transportation Pooled Fund” program, wherein state Departments of Transportation collectively mixed analysis funding collectively to handle difficult issues in security. Faller holds 14 patents, chaired the primary Worldwide Roadside Security Convention throughout the Transportation Analysis Board, and has acquired the distinguished Kenneth A. Stonex Roadside Security Award.
- Leen-Kiat Soh will likely be Charles Bessey professor within the Faculty of Computing. Soh conducts analysis on multiagent programs, clever information analytics, and laptop science training with a give attention to bettering instructing and studying, supporting on-line collaboration, and facilitating adaptive choice making. He additionally fashions good grids, human studying, and social unrest to discover emergent behaviors by means of computational simulations. Soh has revealed greater than 200 peer-reviewed technical papers. Whereas on the college, Soh has secured over $20 million in exterior funding as principal or co-principal investigator. Soh’s work in CS training has contributed to elementary analysis, courseware growth, skilled coaching, training, instruction and outreach within the self-discipline. Key findings embrace figuring out learner profiles and efficiency in post-secondary CS programs and establishing computational creativity as an efficient intervention to enhance pupil studying in CS programs for majors and non-majors. Extra outcomes embrace the event of recent programs for academics instructing CS and coaching of STEM academics to enhance their programming abilities, instantly impacting greater than 100 Ok-12 academics throughout Nebraska
Two college members have been named Susan J. Rosowski affiliate professors. The professorship acknowledges college on the affiliate professor stage who’ve achieved distinguished information of scholarship or inventive exercise and who present distinctive promise for future excellence.
- Rebecca Brock will likely be Susan J. Rosowski affiliate professor of psychology. Brock conducts analysis on the function of couple and household relationships in despair, nervousness, and associated facets of well being, with a specific curiosity in understanding these processes in underrepresented and at-risk populations. She has produced 84 peer-reviewed publications and 11 e-book chapters, and her crew science manuscript utilizing machine studying to foretell relationship high quality was revealed within the Proceedings of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences. She can be affiliate editor for the journal Household Course of. Brock has been designated a Rising Star by the Affiliation for Psychological Science and was invited to take part in an necessary analysis consortium centered on postpartum despair. She serves on quite a lot of graduate supervisory committees and has acquired the College of Nebraska-Lincoln Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Training.
- Rebecca Roston will likely be Susan J. Rosowski affiliate professor of biochemistry. Roston, a member of college Middle for Plant Science Innovation, conducts analysis on how membrane dynamics can contribute to plant well being through the use of a mix of genetics, molecular biology, protein biochemistry and biophysical approaches to review how plant species reply to temperature stress. She and her collaborative groups publish highly-referenced papers in high-profile journals such because the Proceedings of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences. Additionally they efficiently compete for funding from federal businesses together with the Nationwide Science Basis and Division of Vitality. Roston has acquired the Arthur C. Neish Younger Investigator Award from the Phytochemical Society of North America and a NSF CAREER Award. She has been named chair of the 2023 Gordon Convention on Plant Lipids.
One college member was named Aaron Douglas/John E. Weaver professor. The professorship was established in 2008 to acknowledge college members with the rank of full professor who display sustained and extraordinary ranges of instructing excellence and nationwide visibility for educational actions and observe.
- Eve Brank will likely be Aaron Douglas professor of psychology. Brank can be the director of the Middle on Youngsters, Households and the Regulation. She teaches and mentors on the intersection of psychology and the legislation utilizing an method described as student-centered, inclusive and efficient. Brank designs her programs in order that college students go away with sensible abilities or helpful merchandise resembling funding proposals or manuscripts. Brank additionally works with college as co-director of the College-led Inquiry into Reflective and Scholarly Educating (previously Peer Evaluation of Educating Venture). Brank has acquired departmental and nationwide awards for instructing and mentorship. Undergraduate and graduate college students are co-authors along with her on roughly 80% of her publications and her just lately revealed e-book, Psychology of Household Regulation, acquired a serious award from the American Psychology-Regulation Society. A primary-generation faculty graduate, Brank is dedicated to mentoring underrepresented graduate college students and college students from less-privileged backgrounds.
Nebraska
Walt Radcliffe's friends say lobbyist was part of State Capitol’s ‘fabric' • Nebraska Examiner
LINCOLN — It was 1979, and a college freshman was searching the State Capitol for lobbyist Walt Radcliffe, who was scheduled to speak to young leaders from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Eventually, the freshman, Scott Moore, caught up with Radcliffe, who posed a profane question to the student that was something like, “What the heck am I supposed to say to these kids?”
“I knew right then that this was someone I was going to like,” said Moore, who went on to become a state senator, Nebraska Secretary of State and later, a top executive at Union Pacific.
Stories like that, and many more, circulated across the state as word spread about the death of Radcliffe, 77, on Thursday afternoon.
Work spanned 10 governors
A Lincoln native whose work spanned 10 governors, Radcliffe was the undisputed dean of the statehouse lobbying corps. He had his own padded bench in the Capitol Rotunda.
His firm, Radcliffe Gilbertson & Brady, annually ranked among the state’s top in annual revenue.
He also served as a valuable — and engaging — font of institutional knowledge about the Legislature for lawmakers and governors as such knowledge was disappearing due to term limits.
His storytelling was legendary, as were his counsel and history lessons for lawmakers and others.
“He really cared about the institution,” said Patrick O’Donnell, the former clerk of the Legislature and a long-time friend who met Radcliffe in a UNL fraternity. “The Legislature had a big loss today.”
“Nobody knew the legislative process better than him,” said Lynn Rex, executive director League of Nebraska Municipalities. She said Radcliffe was a mentor to her and many other lobbyists.
Former State Sen. John Stinner, who chaired the budget-writing Appropriations Committee, said Radcliffe once gave him valuable advice on how to tap into a state health care fund to help close a monumental $1 billion shortfall in the budget.
“He was extremely helpful in many instances,” Stinner said. “I’m going to miss him.”
Part of the place
U.S. Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., a former speaker of the Legislature, said “people probably think we were too close to Walt as a lobbyist.”
“But he was bigger than a lobbyist,” Flood said. “He was just part of the fabric of the Legislature.”
A graduate of UNL and the NU College of Law, Radcliffe liked to point out that he worked only a couple of miles from where he grew up.
His first jobs at the Capitol were as a legislative page and a proofreader. He later served as an assistant clerk of the Legislature and as legal counsel to the Judiciary and Banking Committees, and as chief legal counsel in the clerk’s office.
Radcliffe’s lobbying career began in 1977 as a partner with former State Sen. David Tews. He purchased the firm a couple of years later, which became Radcliffe and Associates before the latest name change.
He continued to lobby this spring, though his trips to his bench — which for a time had its own Twitter account — became less frequent.
“He was a people person. That job was his lifeblood,” said Korby Gilbertson, a long-time associate at the firm. “We always knew he’d work until he couldn’t, because that’s what he did.”
Known for NU advocacy
His firm long represented the University of Nebraska, fighting for its programs and funding. But Radcliffe also represented liquor, tobacco and gambling clients because, Gilbertson said, he “wasn’t afraid of a good battle.”
In addition, Radcliffe also lobbied free-of-charge for entities opposed to the death penalty, and, his friends said, was genuinely interested in helping the state, and its institutions, do well.
Moore said that Radcliffe’s greatest skill as a lobbyist was his ability to boil down complicated subjects into simple terms. He worked long hours and was a good listener and storyteller, he said, who didn’t seek to “poach” clients from other lobbyists and was very clear where his clients stood.
”He was a man of integrity,” Moore said. “That’s why people respected him, and why he got so many things passed.”
Former Gov. Dave Heineman described Radcliffe as “very professional, very knowledgeable and a very straightforward lobbyist.”
“I enjoyed working with him,” Heineman said.
Petition work got him in trouble
Radcliffe briefly got in trouble in 1986, when he was indicted for hiring and paying petition circulators seeking to get an issue on the statewide ballot to allow a state lottery. But the charge was dismissed on appeal. Paying petition circulators is now legal and commonplace in the state.
Radcliffe received a liver transplant in 1999, but in recent years battled other health issues. Gilbertson said he entered hospice care on Thursday morning after battling an infection for several days. He died hours later from kidney failure and other health issues.
Flood said he spent many hours in Radcliffe’s office across the street from the Capitol as a young state senator and later as speaker, listening and learning about past lawmakers and speakers.
“It wasn’t like he was telling me what to do in a certain situation, but he’d say, ‘We had this same problem, and this is what a past speaker did,’ and how it worked or didn’t work,” Flood said.
“While he was an advocate, he wanted the Legislature to look good, too.”
Funeral arrangements are pending.
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At first, Nebraska playing in a bowl in late December in New York City sounded like a form of punishment rather than a reward for a successful season.
It’s true, playing in a balmy Florida, Arizona or California might be more appealing. But consider this: NU is playing at noon this Saturday. That’s great day and time for a college football game.
As a result, I believe a lot of people are going to be able to watch the game. TV viewers aren’t going to care a rip about the cold. Most football fans think forty degrees is ideal football weather.
Playing in Florida does have some advantages, but three early bowl games that were played in Florida weren’t seen by many people. Why?
Bad dates and times.
Boca Raton Bowl (Boca Raton, FL)
Wednesday, December 18th 5:30pm (EST)
Western Kentucky vs James Madison
Staffdna Cure Bowl (Orlando, FL)
Friday, December 20th 12:00pm (EST)
Ohio vs Jackson State
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl (Tampa, FL)
Friday December 20th 3:30 pm (EST)
Tulane vs Florida
Raise your hands if you watched any of those games.
I didn’t think so.
My point is, playing in a cold clime in late December is not necessarily a bad thing. The Pinstripe Bowl matchup between Nebraska and Boston College should be a TV ratings success.
The Pinstripe Bowl Matchup
To win the game, NU is going to have to:
1.) Stop the Eagles’ running game and make them one dimensional,
2.) Move the chains consistently on offense.
3.) Be able to pass on BC’s defense (BC is 111th pass defense)
4.) Win the turnover battle (NU ranks 66th while BC is 21st)
If the Huskers are able to do those things, they will come back to Lincoln with another bowl trophy to add to its collection.
What’s a stake: Win the game and NU ends the season with a winning record-its first since 2016. Lose the game and NU limps into ’25 with a 6-7 record.
You may contact me at: HuskerDan@cox.net
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Gov. Jim Pillen (R-NE) will undergo a rib fixation procedure on Thursday after a horse bucked him off on Sunday.
Pillen, 68, will need to be under anesthesia while doctors install metal plates to stabilize his seven broken ribs. Lt. Gov. Joe Kelly will take on the role of acting governor during the surgery.
“Based on the Governor’s health profile and active lifestyle, his doctors consider him an ideal candidate for this procedure. Nebraska Medicine has emerged as a national leader in rib fixation operations,” the governor’s office wrote in a statement.
The governor was riding a new horse with his daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter when he fell. In addition to his rib fractures, he suffered a partially collapsed lung, lacerations on his spleen and kidney, and a minor vertebrae fracture.
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“Gov. Pillen remains grateful for the exceptional care he is receiving by the team at Nebraska Medicine and thanks Nebraskans for their outpouring of support to him and his family during this time,” Pillen’s office wrote.
This surgery will result in Pillen remaining in the hospital for a few days following his surgery. He is prepared to continue to work from his hospital bed.
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