Thursday, September 16, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Chemical engineering research vital,
nationally recognized chairman says
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Luh C. Tao is "certainly pleased" at being named a
fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
recently. Tao, chairman of UNL's Chemical Engineering
Department, is one of 12 scholars nationally to receive
the honor.
Tao joined the department as an associate professor
in 1959, became a full professor in 1964, and assumed
his present position four years ago.
Tao said his duties as department chairman are mostly
administrative. He said he believes his most important
task is to "facilitate the faculty and students so that they
can work together in the learning process of teaching and
research."
Tao also teaches and does research, which he said he
prefers to his administrative obligations.
However, Tao said he, like others in the Chemical
Engineering Department, doesn't always get enough
chance to research.
"As a whole, we simply do not have enough time to
do research," Tao said. He said the lack of research time
is hurting the department and the state. Chemical
engineering is important in an agricultural state, Tao
said, because "it changes materials from one kind to
another kind." He cited gasohol as an example of a
substance produced through transformations made
possible through chemical engineering knowledge.
Born in Wuxi in the People's Republic of China,
Tao received his undergraduate degree from the
University of Nanking in 1946. He did textile research
and worked as a teaching assistant at Nanking after
graduation. Tao traveled to the University of Wisconsin
in 1948 to begin graduate studies. He left the school
in 1951 with a doctorate in chemical engineering. He
worked for several private industries until he took his
first position at UNL in 1959.
Luh C. Tao
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Lending institutions prepare for move
As of Dec. 1 the Lincoln Federal Land Bank and
Lincoln Production Credit Association should each
have new homes in the "411" building, 411 S. 13th
St. - across L Street from the new Cornhusker Square.
The office building, formerly owned by Lincoln
architect Lawrence A. Emerson, was purchased in Feb
ruary 1980, by the two lending institutions. Sampson
Construction Co. began what Burdette Swanson, Federal
Land Bank president, called a $1 million construction
project" in January.
Swanson said the building is to be made energy ef
ficient and will be brought up to new building standards.
He said the renovation project should be completed
Dec. 1 but realistically, he said, Jan. 1, 1983 is the
probably completion date.
Production Credit Association President Kirk Jamison
said two-thirds of the building will house offices of the
two institutions, which make loans to farmers and rural
residents. The remainder will be leased as office space.
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plant sale, an annual event sponsored by
the All-University Fund.
Lynda Landers, president of the AUF,
said money from the plant sale is donated
to charity.
"F:very year we put on the plant sale,"
she said. "The committee then decides
where the proceeds go."
Landers said one charity the group has
in mind is the Nebraska Resources Foun
dation, which helps handicapped children
in the state.
This year, more than 10,000 plants are
offered at the sale, Landers said. The
supply of plants is regularly replenished
so the sale doesn't run out of any plant
variety. People buying more than $20
worth of plants will receive a free raffle
ticket for a trip to the Nebraska-Hawaii
football game, Landers said. The trip for
two is for one week with all expenses paid.
The Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa
Alpha Psi Greek houses are helping AUF
with the sale, and the plants are provided
by Greenfingers greenhouses.
Landers said the purpose of the AUF is
to work with student groups on campus
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