Experts answer
grassy questions
New center will
allow more study
By Chad Lorenz
Staff Reporter
No matter where you stand in Ne
braska, there is
a 50 percent
chance you will
be standing on
grass.
Half of
Nebraska’s
landscape is
grassland.
Grass is an im
portant natural
resource in Ne
Maaaengalc braska, because
it has an impact on other areas of en
vironment: soil, water, fish and wild
life, agricultural, livestock ranching,
landscaping, recreation and economy,
said Martin Massengale, a former
University of Nebraska president and
UNL chancellor.
With so much depending on
Nebraska’s grassland, Massengale is
establishing and will direct a Center
for Grassland Studies to integrate all
these disciplines.
“It provides for one-stop shop
ping,” Massengale said.
The center is actually a union of
experts rather than an actual place,
he said. Those involved with the
grasslands center offer to share their
knowledge and research.
They will organize workshops to
study grassland, work to raise envi
ronmental concerns, exchange ideas
and act as a network of consultants
and experts in various fields,
Massengale said.
Anyone can consult the center’s
experts with questions or problems.
The center is not limited to serv
;ng the university, but Lowell Moser,
m agronomy professor, said the cen
er could benefit the university in six
ways:
• New courses could be created
through the integration of grassland
studies.
• Connections with experts in
grass-related fields could provide a
more diverse faculty.
• Experts who work with the cen
ter could be used as a teaching re
source for environment-related
classes.
• The companies and institutions
involved could provide internship
opportunities.
• Likewise, more graduate study
programs would be available.
• There could be more employ
ment opportunities for students.
The idea has been in the making
for eight to 10 years. Massengale said
the idea for such a center was dis
cussed within different organizations.
But nothing emerged until last
year when a task force of university
faculty began work on a proposal to
create the center, he said.
That proposal was passed by the
Board of Regents in July, and the task
force asked Massengale to direct the
center.
In addition to finding office space
and hiring a receptionist for the cen
ter, Massengale has been establish
ing connections with organizations
such as the National Parks Service,
Nebraska Game and Parks Commis
sion, Agricultural Research Center,
Center for Great Plains Studies and
departments in the university such as
biological sciences, agriculture and
turf management.
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candidates for U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and governor.
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‘‘mainstream" group of senators
trying to pass a compromise health
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