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Program assists students By Heidi White Staff Reporter A program new to UNL aims to make a difference by helping low income, first-generation college stu dents get into and through graduate school. Vaughn Robertson, assistant direc tor of Multi-Cultural Affairs, said the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was one of only a few institutions nation wide selected to participate in the Ronald E. McNair post-baccalaureate project. In both the academic year and the summer programs, students will broaden their education in ways most undergraduates don’t have a chance to. Participants work on graduate ad missions portfolios and look into graduate school options. They also can acquire professional work experi ence by helping UNL professors with research, traveling to professional conferences and learning to prepare research for publication in scholarly journals. “It’s unique in that it’s probably one of the first times we’ve had such intense involvement with faculty. It’s truly a partnership,” Robertson said. Students in the summer program will work in a research setting with a faculty mentor. Room and board will be provided, along with tuition for three credit hours of independent study and a performance-based stipend of up to $1,750. Cheryl Applegate, who went through the program at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, said the pro gram was one of the best investments that a student could make. “I ascertained the motivation that I could really do graduate work,” said Applegate, who is now a second-year master’s student and a teaching assis tant at UNL. The McNair project helped Applegate get into graduate school, becomea 1994 recipient of the“Who’s Who of American Colleges and Uni versities” award and receive more funding for her education. The project commemorates Ronald E. McNair, an astronaut who died in the Challenger space shuttle explo sion Jan. 28, 1986. It is one of the Department of Education’s Trio pro grams, which help disadvantaged stu dents begin and complete post-sec ondary programs. Suzanne Ortega, a professor of so ciology and an associate dean of gradu ---1 Memories Continued from Page 1 the kids,” she said. “It was a very sad experience for my mother.” Hayduska said her third grade teacher was also struck hard by the tragedy. “The teacher went out of the room and came back all distraught,” she said. “She was partially crying and holding a radio in her hand. She said the Challenger had exploded.” Natasha Mohlman said there was a rumor floating around Harvey Oaks Elementary in Omaha. “Then we heard an announce ment over the intercom,” she said. Mohlman, a junior psychology and biology major, said she still had the newspaper from the day after the accident. “I came home and cried,” she said. “I thought it was the saddest thing that ever happened.” NASA will hold a ceremony in Houston on Monday to remember the seven astronauts who died in the explosion. There will be a mo ment of silence 73 seconds long— the length of the Challenger’s flight — at 10:38 a.m. Z o < g 51 * 3" 3 O 3“ O ? o s *3 O 3 r* "2 ri ~ o ir "2. -fcv © © WV This coupon entitles you to Three Free Bagels! (when you purchase 3) BRUEGGER’S &AGEL BAKERY* The Best Thing Round® 1205 "Q" Street • Downtown Lincoln Store Hours: Mon-Fri 6am - 7pm, Sat 7am - 7pm, Sun 7am - 4pm ate studies, said several departments already had been working with stu dents in ways similar to the McNair project. These departments — sociology, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, engineering and graduate studies — will be models for other departments. Ortega worked with several others to complete the grant application for the U.S. Department of Education. The grant must be reapplied for every five years. She said the McNair project was a great opportunity. “This is the kind of program that makes the difference.” U.S. citizens or permanent resi dents with a minimum grade point average of 2.8 on a scale of 4.0, who are at the sophomore level or above, are eligible for the program, and spe cial consideration is given to students from under-represented groups. Selection for the McNair project is competitive, with 25 spots for the aca demic year program and 15 for the summer program. Students are cho sen on the basis of their applications, grade point averages, interviews, fac ulty recommendations and represen tation in different career fields. Applications are due Jan. 31. More information is available at the Multi cultural Affairs office. NASA Continued from Page 3 Large corporations, for instance, would help fund shuttle mission s to put their satellites in orbit, he said. NASA would benefit from the fl ight experience without having to pay a large bill for the mission. Many satellites now are put into space by unmanned rockets, Hartfield said, and manned shuttled missions are limited. “It has to require human inter vention to be used,” he said. Only when benefits outweigh risks does NASA send humans up in a space craft. Don Taylor, associate professor of physics and astronomy at UNL, said the bad publicity of a civilian casualty outweighed the good pub licity NASA hoped for by putting a teacher in space. He said the public needed to recognize NASA’s outstanding safety record. Aside from the Apollo I disaster, in which three astronauts died during a test on the launch pad, missionshave been amazingly safe, Taylor said. Hartfield said accidents should become more rare because of im proved shuttle design and mission procedures developed after the.. Challenger disaster. “There’s not a person at NASA or in the world who wanted to leam such a lesson through such a trag edy.”
