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Doctoral student’s
leadership rewarded
By Jennifer McClure
Staff Reporter
Dane Podolskc, a University of Nc
iraska-Lincoln doctoral student, al
ways knew she was outstanding.
Now the rest of the nation knows it, too.
Podolskc was awarded the Gerald L.
Saddlemirc Outstanding Graduate Student
Award March 23 at a ceremony in San
Francisco. The award, sponsored by the
American College Personnel Association,
honors four graduate students nationwide
for their contributions in research, service
and academic excellence.
Podolskc was the only stu
dent from the Midwest to
be honored.
Podolskc has a bache
lor’s degree in psychology
from Southwest Stale Uni
versity, in Marshall Minn.,
as well as a master’s of
counseling psychology from UNL. She is
working on her doctoral degree in college
student development.
While working toward her Ph.D., Podolskc
also teaches her own college development
class through the Campus Activities and
Programs office.
“I teach a class for the Emerging Leader
ship Program,” she said. “It includes strate
gies on how to run an effective meeting,
conflict management, wellness, involvement
and many other topics.”
Podolskc said she practiced what she
taught by participating in many campuswidc
activities, including the Sclicck Hall gov
ernment and various chancellor’s selection
committees.
“I Icam a lot about what it is to be
involved,” she said.
Although Podolskc has been involved in
many activities, she said she was not always
an outgoing person.
“When I was an undergraduate, I was a
very shy person,” she said. “1 was the first
Diane Podolske, winner of the Gerald L. Saddlemire Outstanding Gradu
ate Student Award, says she throws plastic insects at co-workers in the
Campus Activities and Programs office when they “bug” her.
person from my family to go to college, and said she planned to continue working
Being involved helped me to establish my with college students,
potential — to sec what I could do.”
Podolske will graduate in May of 1993. “1 like Nebraska a lot,” she said._
Research
energy farm
to be closed
Official says facilities
unable to keep pace
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska will close its
“energy farm” in June because of a lack
of funds for research, and because the
research that can be performed there has run its
course, officials said.
The Energy Integrated Farm System, started
in 1981 to conduct research on cncrgy-cfficicni
methods of farming, was a victim of the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln’s budget-reduc
tion process. It was cut internally by the Insti
tute of Agriculture and Natural Resources in
the fall.
The 157-acrc Mead farm wascul because its
facilities were not able to keep up with the pace
of current research, said Irv Omivcdt, vice
chancellor for IANR.
“It was a very valuable program, but we got
the answers, and we need to move on,” he said.
“For the kind of research that was needed in
the energy area, those facilities had outlived
their usefulness.”
In addition, Omtvcdl said, the federal gov
ernment has not provided significant funding
for agricultural energy conservation research.
Omtvedl said the type of research performed
at the farm still was important, but that IANR
could not afford to continue it.
“We do need to continue to work at (energy
conservation research),” he said.
Dennis Schulte, acting associate dean foi
the College of Engineering and Technology
and a former researcher at the farm, agreed.
“I’m somewhat disappointed, but I’m alsoa
realist,” he said. “It’s something that’s just
natural and good financial management.
“The state of Nebraska doesn’t provide enough
research funding to do everything — we have
to be selective in what we do.”
Bill Splinter, acting vice chancellor for re
search, said the energy farm had been dedi
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Earth Day toned down, spokesman says
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
llhough Earth Day 1992 may not be as
extensive as in past years, size will not
stop Wednesday’s event from educat
ing people about the environment, a U NL envi
ronmcntal group spokesman said.
James Zank, Earth Day coordinator for Ecol
ogy Now, said Earth Day 1992 was not as pub
licized as previous years because people had
become accustomed to hearing about environ
mental issues.
“The environment is still a hot topic,” he
said. “Bat it is becoming very ‘every day’ for
people.”
Zank said Earth Day was not as “massive”
an event as when it was first initiated in 1970,
as part of the student movements of the 1960s.
Ever since its beginnings in 1970, he said,
Earth Day had almost faded from view — until
its 20th anniversary in 1990.
Earth Day 1990 received more publicity, he
said, because of the anniversary and Ameri
cans’ concern for the environment following
the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the Alaskan
coastline.
But Earth Day 1992 still is important be
cause it gives people the opportunity to educate
themselves about the environment, find out
what they can do to help and where to go for
information, Zank said.
“It would be ridiculous for (Ecology Now)
to ignore (Earth Day),” he said. “It falls within
our established goals to educate people about
the environment.”
Earth Day 1992 events on campus will run
throughout the week in the Nebraska Union.
Science interests to be ignited
Girls to attend
summerprogram
By Taryn Gilster
Staff Reporter
Junior high girls from rural Ne
braska will have the opportu
nity to “WISE” up in the world
of scientific research during the third
summer of the the Women Invcsti
gating Science and Environments pro
gram at UNL.
Cari Dicks, assistant in coordina
tion with the WISE program, said
participants would attend one of two
sessions, which would provide a vari
ety of hands-on experiences in sci
ence and opportunities to apply re
search techniques.
The University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln, in cooperation with Wayne State
and Chadron State colleges and the
National Science Foundation, spon
sors 45 to 50 girls from small schools
for the program.
The program gives rural girls the
opportunity to use computer equip
ment that may not be available in
their schools, Dick said.
Although the program is directed
at rural students, Dicks said, minori' y
students from Omaha were invited 10
attend this year.
The students arc chosen from tcach
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