tuesday, november 3, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 7
Award nominations saluting
creative faculty due Dec. 1
By Roger Aden
NU faculty members who want to
nominate a fellow professor for an Out
standing Research and Creative Activity
award must do so before Dec. 1, according
to the awards committee chairman.
James Rawley said the awards program,
established in 1978, recognizes and encour
ages research and creative activity on NU's
three campuses. Rawley said creative
activity involves fine arts exhibitions.
As many as two awards of $2,500 pro
vided by the Nebraska Foundation will be
given this year, he said. One award may be
given in the areas of arts and humanities,
business and social sciences and profession
al education. The other award will be
allotted to someone in biological sciences,
medical sciences and physical sciences.
Award recipients will be selected by a
six-member awards committee composed
of one representative from each of the pre-
ceeding academic areas, according to
Rawley.
This year's committee, chosen by the
Dean of Graduate Studies, consists of pro
fessors Robert N. Audi, philosophy, UNL
(arts and humanities); Donald Cushenbery,
teachers education, UNO (Professional edu
cation); Michael L. Gross, chemistry, UNL
(physical sciences); Margaret L. Heidrick,
biochemistry, UNMC (medical sciences);
John W. Schmidt, agronomy, UNL (bio
logical sciences); and James Rawley,
history, UNL (business and social sciences).
Rawley said possible evidence that the
committee will use its selection of award
recipients includes: publications, invited
talks at symposia, special shows, honors,
awards and exhibits.
Rawley said letters of support from ex
perts outside the university will be used in
choosing the winners.
Award recipients will be announced at
the spring honors convocation, Rawley
said.
Widowhood conference topic
The problems of widowhood are often
difficult to handle alone.
A conference designed for recently
widowed young and middle-aged people
will be Friday and Saturday at the Nebra
ska Center for Continuing Education, 33rd
and Holdrege streets.
Topics include goal setting, financial
planning and emotional, spiritual and phy
sical health.
Sponsors are the UNL Division of Con
tinuing Studies and They Help Each Other
Spiritually (THEOS). THEOS is a non
profit, mutual support organization for
widowed men and women under retire
ment age. Its purpose is to provide
practical guidance and direction for widow
ed persons as they begin rebuilding then
lives. For more information on the confer
ence contact Curt Brandhorst, Depart
ment of Conferences and Institutes, the
Nebraska Center for Continuing Education.
UNL forensics team participates
in Wisconsin, Iowa tournaments
The UNL forensics team participated in
two tournaments last weekend one at
the University of River Falls, Wise, and
one at Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa.
At River Falls, the individual events
team placed second out of 26 teams. Kate
Joeckel, of Lincoln, won impromptu
speaking,, communication analysis, extem
poraneous speaking and oratory. Deb
Renter, of Valley, was third in interpretat
ion of poetry Roger Aden, of Scottsbluff,
was fifth in both oratory and communicat
ion analysis. Jim Friedman, of Ogallala,
placed sixth in after dinner sp king.
In the debate portion of the tourna
ment, the junior division teams of David
Jensen, of Lincoln, and Karen Goldner, of
Omaha and Randy Denton, of Grand
Island, and Donna Sisson, of Omaha, tied
for first place. They were the top two
teams in the tournament, but did not
debate each other because they were from
the same schooL The senior division team
of Jim Rogers and Leo Chandler, both of
Lincoln, placed fifth.
At Graceland, John Heineman, of
Pawnee City, won impromptu speaking,
placed sixth in informative public address
and interpretation of poetry, and received
a certificate for excellence in interpretat
ion of prose. Ben Cattle, of Wayne, earned
a certificate for excellence in interpretation
of prose and Doraine Bailey, of Lincoln, re
ceived a certificate for excellence in inter
pretation of poetry.
Architect says science, art
fuse in warm, human design
By Leslie Boellstorff
Energy-conscious design translates the
rhythm of people's lives into rhythmic pat
terns of building, a University of Southern
California professor said.
In a speech for the Hyde Lecture Ser
ies, Ralph Knowles, an architect, designer
and author described the impact of natural
phenomena and man-made urban pheno
mena on architecture.
Knowles said human beings evolved out
of a highly structured, diversified environ
ment. Humans survived because of their
ability to adjust to their surroundings. Peo
ple are at ease with a differentiated land
scape, he said.
But the repeated images of dwelling
units built with aspects of mass produc
tion create a vast and undiversified environ
ment that tends to disorient people, he
said.
To use natural phenomena efficiently,
the Pueblo Indians used a terraced arrange
ment of dwelling units facing south, he
said. In summer, when the sun was high,
the rays would strike insulated roofs, keep
ing the homes cool. When the sun was low
in winter, its rays would strike the front
of each dwelling, warming the home.
Creating cities that are scaled to people
and so they can find their way around, is
an important objective of design, Knowles
said. Rather than having an urban environ
ment that depletes one's life, one could
make better places to live, he said.
But in most cases, designers are not
building from scratch, he said. Instead of
having bare flatland or sloping land, build
ings are there and must be considered as
part of the overall design.
Cities such as Los Angeles are not grow
ing outward, Knowles said. They are in a
second phase of growth, an internal trans
formation. "Buildings talk to each other," Knowles
said. He said that some buildings use sha
dowing from surrounding buildings as part
of their design, but the response in the sha
dowed building is a "metabolic" one. The
shadowed areas are cool and may need
heating. The sunny areas may need cooling.
To avoid such problems, the solar "en
velope' is found, he said. The solar enve
lope considers the angle of the sun's rays at
any given time and the potential shadowing
effects of surrounding buildings. When
structures are built to have solar access
from 9 ajn. to 3 pm., and do not block so
lar access to other buildings in the same
time span, it's the "biological niche," he
said.
Knowles said designers are leaving the
age of science and entering the age of art.
"Values must precede what we do," he
said. "Science and art will link up and
share, it won't be science or art."
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