mondoy, cpril 25, 1977
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Prices may be getting higher and the hole in ydur
pocket may be getting bigger, but a UNL professor is
designing a smaller pocket calculator to figure those spiral
ling costs.
Lex Akers, assistant professor of electrical engineering
at UNL, has received a $20,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation for research which could lead to a
smaller, more efficient, faster pocket calculator that will
use less power. '
Akers said the project plans are to design more effi
cient semiconductors-which are similar to transistor com-ponents-for
computers and calculators.
The project is theoretical in its first stage, he said.
The first stage, lasting the 18-month life of the grant,
involves mathematic and computer programming, Akers
said.
' Akers said the actual building of the smaller calculator '
will not be done in the first stage.
Results of the research will be published in scientific
literature for use by industries, he said. This type of re-'
search is the first of its kind at UNL, Akers said.
The grant is one of 61 National Science Foundation
initiation grants, which Akers said are given to professors
who have received their Ph.Ds during .the last two years.
Akers . earned his PhD. in 1975. Akers aid he will apply
- for renewal of the grant after 18 months if the research is
successful.
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ers-colt of the wild
About 20 UNL Wildlife Club members will be working
in the wild for the next few years on a project to prove
wildlife can co-exist with an area of agriculture. , .
The club began cleaning and marking boundries April
16 on more than 20 acres at the Mead Field Laboratory,
ucz co speatc at
Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture under the Ford
administration, will visit East Campus May 5 and 6.
His visit is sponsored through the, 1977 Distinguished
Lectureship made possible by a Beatrice Foods Co. grant.
Each year the grant from Beatrice Foods Co. wEI deal
with agricultural issues. Butz, dean emeritus at Purdue
University and agricultural economics professor, will be
the first in the lectureship, said Roy Arnold, chairman of
the local arrangements committee.
Butz will have a news briefing Thursday afternoon and
will tape "Agriscope," an ETV program "to be shown that
night, Arnold said. After the taping, Butz will speak in
international agriculture and food problems classes at
UNL.
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At 8 p.m. in the Nebraska Center Auditorium, Butz
will give a major speech called "Agricultural Science: The
Foundation or World Peace." His speech and a following
reception are open to the public.
Butz will speak Friday to classes in the. cultural
economics department and visit with students and staff
members.
Gamma Sigma Delta, honor society of agriculture, will
have an informal seminar for faculty members later Friday
morning. Discussion will include agricultural issues, inter
national trade and the United States' agricultural policy,
Arnold said.
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30 miles north of Lincoln .according to Wayne Chilcoat,
publicity co-chairman of the club.
Ciiilcoat, a junior from Lincoln, said the acreage, adja
cent to a flood control dam and a pond, was a World War
II munition manufacturing garbage dump. The students
have been moving large chunks of m-?tal near a grove of
elm and cedar trees and an alfalfa field to prepare for tree
planting, he said.
Most of the trees will be provided for a small fee by the
Natural Resources District and the State Games and Parks
Commission, Chilcoat added.
"We want to show that these marginal lands (next to
agriculture crops) are good to develop wildlife." Chilcoat
said farmers used to leave areas along fences and shelter
belts undisturbed and wildlife grew freely.
Farmers now are tearing out windbreaks and clearing
brush areas because they get in the way of center pivot
irrigation systems, he said.
The club hopes to make this a long-term project, Chil
coat said. The students will analyze vegetation and study
area animals and how management affects the wildlife
population. . ,
"We feel that this will let students gain practical exper
ience in wildlife managemnt techniques for use in future
jobs," he said. .
Chilcoat said the idea evolved because he noticed
other agriculture departments were doing research at
Mead, he said, but there is a need for an undergraduate
program.
The club works at Mead in the fall Chilcoat said,
checking -that hunters sign-out, sign-in and record the
number of pheasants caught on the university -owned land.
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