UNL students get involved
with high-energy physics
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
LFNL physics students and profes
sors could be taking high-energy
physics farther than it has ever gone
before.
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln, as part of a regional program
connected with a Superconducting
Super Collider being constructed in
Dallas, will explore new levels of
high-energy physics beginning in the
next few years.
According to William Campbell,
vice chairman of the Department of
Physics and Astronomy, UNL will be
working on a detector for the SSC.
The detector is “where the physics
is really done,” Campbell said.
He said both graduate and under
graduate students will benefit from
UNL’s participation in the project.
The university will hire a group of
experimentalists who will introduce
graduate students to new levels in
high-energy physics, Campbell said.
High-energy physics is probing sub
nuclear levels with very high energy
accelerators.
And, he said, undergraduates as
well as graduates will be directly
involved in building the detector and
analyzing data once the SSC is com
pleted around the year 2000.
Campbell said he also hopes the
research will attract more physic
students to the university.
But, he said, the real gain from th<
collaboration is that the departmen
will be able to hire a three-person
high-energy physics experimental^
group.
Campbell said the SSC utilize:
two beams of protons accelerated t<
velocities approaching the speed o
light that collide, and the detector
look at what comes off.
“It’s an attempt to go a little bi
deeper in our understanding of th<
fundamental particles that make uj
nature,” he said.
Funding for the four-story, 50-yard
long detectors is being provided b)
Texas.
When Texas was awarded the
location for the SSC., the state passec
a $1 billion bond for development
One hundred million dollars will be
spent over a 10-year period to suppor
people interested in doing SSC re
search.
Campbell said UNL asked for $12
million over a 10-year period but sc
far has received only $500,000 for the
first year.
After the project is completed
Campbell said, UNL will continue tc
participate by collecting and analyz
ing data.
“Thai’s when the fun begins,” he
said.
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Mamiya
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She started teaching at UNL
af ter completing her Master of Arts
and doctorate degrees in art and art
history at the University of Califor
nia-Los Angeles in 1987. She
earned her Bachelor of Arts from
Yale University in 1977.
At UNL, she teaches the 100
level survey art history course,
encompassing art since the Renais
sance, and the 400-level Art Since
1945.
Some of her students say she
performs well at her challenge to
relate to a diverse student audience
the emotional and symbolic mean
ings in important artwork.
Her teaching philosophy relies
on the historical significance in the
artwork and why the work was done
rather than asking students to
memorize names and paintings.
Mamiya says traveling is her
favorite way to spend free time,
because it’s another method for her
to reach below the surface in
Mamiya
- it
The tourist wants hula
girls and grass skirts,
and that’s what we give
them.
Mamiya
UNL assistant professor
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teaching art.
The more actual exposure she
can get to art translates into better
learning for her students, since
many of them won’t get the
opportunity to see the works, she
says.
Her trips are to major metropoli
tan cities that have a large, progres
sive supply of art — usually
Chicago, New York or Los Ange
les, but about once a year she visits
home in Honolulu.
Mamiya’s research interests have
coincided with her travel interests.
As an “off-beat project,”
Mamiya did a paper on Hawaiian
postcards and whether they accu
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rately portray life on the islands.
She says that although postcards
are not one of her long-term
academic interests, they are unique
artistic media.
Mamiya presented the paper on
her postcard findings at the Ameri
can Studies Association annual
meeting in November.
Mamiya says postcards depict
how the tourism industry promotes
a stereotype of life in Hawaii that
may be phasing out the real Hawai
ian culture.
“The tourists want hula girls and
grass skirts, and that’s what they
give them,” she says. “It’s getting
farther and farther away from what
Hawaiian culture is really like.’
To battle the high cost of living
in Hawaii, a person must be in
either travel management or hotel
management, and Hawaiian natives
usually only find jobs “playing a
role” in tourism, she says.
Real Hawaii, Mamiya says, is
shown in its best quality, the ethnic
diversity.
The Honolulu she knows is a
regular cosmopolitan city with a
mixture of Asian, Hawaiian and
American cultures.
“I loved (Hawaii) growing up,”
she says emphatically.
Her Hawaiian background has
not had a large impact on the way
she live* her life now, but it did
help shape her tastes in art, she
says.
Oceanic art, and specifically
Polynesian art, are an interest of
hers tracing back to her life in
Hawaii.
Her Hawaiian background also
affects her cooking, she says, in that
she cooks more multi-cultural
foods.
Mamiya says it’s tough to get all
of the ingredients for traditional
Hawaiian food here.
But after a small pause, she adds,
“Yes, I like Lincoln.”
Mamiya says she intends to stay
in Lincoln and has no plans to move
back to Hawaii because she can live
in a city she enjoys, Lincoln, and on
occasion visit home in Honolulu.
“Now I have the best of both
worlds,” she says.
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