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PROFESSOR PILL-SOON SONG recently won the ESP-1997 Research Achievement Award medal. Song said he could
not have won the aprd alone. Veniamin Lapko and Seong Hee Bhoo assisted Song.
Professor awarded for research
By Kimberly Swartz
Staff Reporter
UNL chemistry professor Pill
Soon Song hopes 21 years of research
will shed some light and understand
ing on the science of photobiology.
Song is interested in photobiolo
gy, the interaction of light with living
' ^stemS, because it affects everyiN8i|
from humans to Single-cell organ
isms.
“It’s important because light is
fimdamentaLfor living process, and
life can’Lbe. sustained without it,”
Song said/ ^ *
On Sept. 11/the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln professor received
the 1997 Research Achievement
Award medal in Stresa, Italy, from the
European Society for Photobiology.
Every two years, ESP recognizes
an outstanding photobiologist with
the award.
“I felt pretty good about receiving
this award but I wish I would have
won it earlier,” Song said. “Winning
this medal at such a late stage means
that I hadn’t really done that much
while I was younger.”
Professor Larry Parkhurst, inters
and expand his research on phy-,
tochrome,” Parkhurst said.
Song was awarded the medal for
his research on the structure ajad
function of phytochrome, a pigment
protein found in plants.
By understanding how phy
tochrome' works, scientists can
extend plants flowering time and
shorten rice plant stems so energy can
be saved for rice grains, he said.
“We can induce or delay flower
ing time and make rice%lants more
tolerable to weather and light condi
tions,” Song said. “The research can
help many farmers.”
UNL graduate students also par
ticipated in Song’s research as part of
their educational experience, he said.
“Although the difficulty of the
research has required collaborations
in Korea, Japan and Italy,” Parkhurst
significant discoveries
ly made here in Hamilton
%is team of graduate students
and postdoctorals.”
“The students worked so hard
while getting scientific work, educa
tion and training accomplished,”
Song said.
Song hopes to incorporate his
research into his Chemistry 109
classes, so students can broaden their
scientific perspective.
“I always enjoy teaching especial
ly when it relates closely with my
own interest,” Song said. “I try to
encourage and urge students to
become interested in science and to
look at new things in nature.”
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Academic Senate
discusses tenure
TENURE from page 1
associate professor of modem lan
guages and literatures. “He is not
necessarily saying that we must do it.
We need to take this document back
to our departments and decide
whether it represents something we
wish to invite the administration to
do to us.”
Many senators expressed con
cern that if the senate does not
approve this proposal, faculty will
lose a choice in what type of review
policy is put into action at UNL. The
NU Board of Regents is considering
a five-year review policy, which
could be instituted throughout the
Nebraska system. The University of
Nebraska at Omaha and the
University of Nebraska at Kearney
have shown support for this five
year policy.
irvm wnuveui, vice cnanceiior
for academic affairs, said he strong
ly urged the senate to take a close
look at the proposal.
“It will not serve UNL well if we
say we don’t want this policy,”
Omtvedt said. “I would prefer for the
faculty to have a voice in the change
and direction we take concerning
this issue.”
Ford said turning down the poli
cy shouldn’t be an option.
“The signs are clear enough that
if we don’t pass this policy, the five*
year reviews will be imposed,” he
said. “I don’t want to play chicken on
this.”
Jim McShane, associate English
professor, said he thought the senate
was focusing on the wrong issues.
“The issue is not whether we
have post-tenure review or not,”
McShane said. “The question is
what procedures best permit us to
assure our academic freedom and
honesty. Each of us needs to make
up our minds using our best judg
ment.”
The senate will vote on the post
tenure policy at its November meet
fct-*
The signs are
clear enough that
if we don’t pass
this policy; the
five-year reviews
will be imposed. I
don’t want to play
chicken on this .”
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Jim Ford
Academic Senate president
mg.
The senate also discussed the
possible changes in the academic
calendar. The calendar proposal
considers two changes: observing
Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as
a holiday, and deleting the Labor
Day break and instituting a mid
October break. The proposal would
reduce the “length of each semester
by one day.
Leo Saftori, professor of physics
and astronomy, brought the proposal
before the senate to gather opinions.
Some senators said the changes
would negatively affect lab courses.
Salon said the committee took this
into consideration.
“We compared UNL’s schedule
to 52 other comparable universities’
schedules, and zero of those univer
sities had an even rnimber of class
days,” he said. “It ddet not seem to
be that big of a problem.”
The senate votedtesend the two
motions to their caleflpr committee
for input. At next mcmth’s meeting,
the calendar committee will present
a report on its findings^ and the sen
ate will discuss and vote on die pro
posals. »■*
Burglary
Ask police officers and they will
admit that they can’t fight crime
alone. Sometimes, it takes some help
and some luck.
Tuesday morning, they got both.
Officers were sent to Precision
Skateboard, 2115 0 St., on a burglar
alarm. When officers got to the busi
ness at 1:18 a.m., they found the
front door smashed.
An officer went behind the store
and found two juveniles. He appre
hended one, and the other took off
running east through the alley toward
21st Street.
The boy got to the OfficeMax
parking lot at 2301 O St. and asked a
man in a phone booth for a ride. The
man agreed, and they drove out of the
parking lot in the 25-year-old man’s
car.
But the man noticed all the police
cars down the block and, according
to Sgt. Ann Heermann, an undis
closed detail made him wonder if the
boy in his passenger seat was part of
the ruckus.
' So, the man drove back to where
the police cars were, dropped the boy
off and watched as the boy was
arrested.
Police recovered more than $700
in skateboards, skateboard parts and
clothing.
The boys, both 17, were arrested
for burglary and taken to the Lincoln
Attention Center for Youth.
Attempted robbery
An elderly couple was followed
home from an Iowa casino and
attacked for their winnings Monday
morning.
The couple told police they were
at Bluff’s Run Casino Sunday night
and had done very well. Heermann
refused to release an amount, but
said their winnings were more than
$500.
When they left Monday morning,
they thought they noticed a woman
who was in the casino the night
before following them home.
The couple arrived at their north
east Lincoln home and parked their
car in the garage. The couple told
police the woman then attacked
them, demanding the woman’s purse.
A struggle ensued, the elderly
woman was knocked to the ground
and the man and the attacker fought.
In the fight, the man said he hit
the woman several times in the head.
He suffered a bruise under his left
eye, cuts to his neck and face, cute on
his hands and bites on his fingers.
The man got the purse back and
the woman fled in a white, late model
full-size car with tinted windows.
They described her as a black
woman, 5 feet 10 inches tall and
weighing 200 pounds.
