2 UNL agronomists "
to move to Kenya
to train scientists
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter
Two University of Nebraska-Lin
coln agronomists will move to Kenya
in June to train scientists in com and
sorghum breeding.
William and Mary Compton are
contracted with the United States
Agency for International Develop
ment.
Under the contract, William
Compton said, he will help u ain about
80 students with master’ s degrees and
55 with doctoral degrees during a 2 1/ |g
2-year stay. 9
Mary Compton said she will be a m
com and sorghum agronomist doing If
on-farm research in Kenya. She will g
act mainly as a liaison between farm- g
ers and researchers identifying the g
needs of the farmers in corn and sor- Kg
ghum breeding. 9
wuuam eompton said the pro
gram they are involved with called for
professors who have worked with
graduate students in their research.
The program ’s contract lasts 10 years.
' Two aspects of the Kenya area arc
vital to the project, he said:
— A seed company in Kenya
called Kenya Seeding Co. has a good
reputation, something Compton said
is unusual for a lesser-developed
country. The seed company provides
a way to get the good seed to the
Kenyan farmers, he said.
— Kenya has a widely recognized
corn-breeding program. In recent
years, financing for the program has
dropped and people have left. Comp
ton said he and his wife will be part of
the team to revitalize the program.
Glen Vollmar, acting dean for
international programs at UNL, said
Mid-America International Consor
tium sent in proposals to the U.S.
Agency for International Develop
ment for the Kenya project
MIAC includes the University of
Nebraska, Iowa State University,
Kansas State University, Oklahoma
State University and the University of
Missouri.
A team of Kenyans visited the
University of Missouri and the Uni
versity of Nebraska last year to re
view the proposals. Vollmar said the
Comptons became interested in the
program then and were chosen to
travel to Kenya with a team of profes
sors from MIAC institutions.
Vollmar said it is important for N U
to be involved internationally. Any
institution that doesn’t have strong
international ties will fall behind in
the next 10 years, Vollmar said.
Professors are drawn to Kenya
because Kenyan schools teach in
tngnsn, nc said.
The husband-and-wife team is an
unusual combination, Vollmar said,
because in the group each professor
has one job, and it’s seldom that a
husband-and-wife team fills a niche.
William Compton said it will be
easier to live in Kenya than in Lin
coln. Because of unemployment in
Kenya, he said, there will be plenty of
help taking care of their house and
their 1-year-old daughter, Beth.
After their Kenya contract is up in
2 1/2 years, Compton said, he and his
wife will return to Lincoln, where he
will resume his job as professor of
agronomy and she will return to her
popcom-brccding program.
Mary Compton, who is from Eng
land, said although moving a family
to a new country is challenging, she
thinks she will feel at home in Kenya.
She said not only do Kenyans speak
English, but they also drive on the left
side of the road.
Math tutors needed
From Staff Reports
Undergraduate students who want
to be math counselors can pick up
application forms and interview sign
up sheets posted outside of822 Oldfa
ther, April 25-29. Qualified appli
cants must have completed Math 208,
have a high level of success in math
courses, maturity and a sense of re
sponsibility, said Jack Eidswick, as- ,
sociate professor of mathematics and
statistics.
Eidswick said candidates don’t
have to be a math major, but arc
expected to continue taking math
courses and encouraged counsel con
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