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UNL college dean
plans retirement
IKaren Craig to leave after 12 years
By Lindsay Young
Senior staff writer
In the 12 years Karen Craig has
‘ hseen the dean of the College of
Human Resources and Family
Sciences at UNL, she has been a
“change agent” for the college, a
senior administrator said.
\ “She’s established a very strong
foundation as (the college) prepares
for the 21st century,” said Irv
Omtvedt, the vice chancellor for
both the Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources and for Extended
f Education.
Craig announced she will retire
* as dean of the college at the end of
* foe 1998-99 academic year.
The goals she set for the college
'when she first arrived at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln in
1986 have been achieved, Craig said.
Those goals were to strengthen
the academic program, globalize the
college’s curriculum, develop innov
ative programs in response to soci
etal needs and develop a larger
resource base.
The academic program was
improved in two areas, Craig said.
The college focused on critical
thinking and problem solving to give
students the opportunity to develop
those skills, she said.
Also, faculty members have
been able to shift from thinking
about teachers’ needs to focusing on
what students are learning, she said.
An international minor has been
added in the college as well, Craig
said. The minor, which began about
five years ago, contributed to the
globalization of the college, she
siid.
The minor includes course work,
experience with a foreign language
and an internship. The college also
has added a component of diversity
to many of its courses.
Other changes since Craig
arrived on campus include the addi
tion of a doctoral program in 1989 in
human resources and family sci
ences, the start of the college’s dis
tance education program and
increased cooperation with other
academic programs on campus.
In distance education, which
started in 1994, 35 students have
completed a graduate program,
Craig said.
Craig also helped decrease the
number of departments in die col
lege from five to three, reducing
administrative costs, Omtvedt said.
Craig played a part in the renam
ing of the college from College of
Home Economics in 1993, Omtvedt
said.
After Craig retires, she plans to
spend time with her husband,
Richard, and visit her two children
and four grandchildren in Louisiana
and Maryland.
Craig was associate dean of the
School of Consumer and Family
Sciences and was assistant director
of Cooperative Extension Services
at Purdue University in West
Lafayette, Ind., before coming to
Nebraska in 1986.
No interim director will be
appointed. Craig said she will stay
until a new dean is hired.
UNL professors win grant
for innovative E. coli study
■ $150,000 will be used
to find tiny differences in
E. coli strains and reduce
risk of beef contamination.
By Jessica Fargen
Staff writer
Two UNL professors received a
$150,000 grant in August to study E.
coli, the deadly bacteria responsible
for beef recalls, infections and even
deaths across die country.
Andy Benson, assistant professor
of food science and technology, and
Robert Hutkins, associate professor
of food science and technology, will
be studying E. coli in an innovative
way.
Benson said a new method, for
which he is writing a patent, will
enable researchers to pick out very
minor differences in strains of
Escherichia coli 0157:H7.
“It is a novel method to do the
gene-for-gene comparison,” Benson
said. “It is brand new. We are the only
ones in the world doing it right now.”
Using that process for identifying
the E. coli strain, researchers can
determine the environments that
cause that strain to grow or persist.
Then, beef producers and han
dlers can avoid those environments to
reduce the risk of contaminating
beef, Benson said.
The professors received the two
year grant from the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
“It allows us to identify certain
genes that may be involved in persis
tence of this organism in cattle herds
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From staff reports
For the second year in a row, Gov
Ben Nelson will display his talent foi
cattle showing at the Nebraska State
Fair.
Nelson, with the help of 12-year
old Haze Lockee of Walton, prac
deed briefly on the northeast lawn o:
the governor’s mansion Wednesday.
“We’re hoping that the steei
doesn’t make any donation to the
mansion renovation here today,’
Nelson said.
“If he does, it’ll be totally organ
ic,” he quipped.
Lockee, showing her steei
named Yogi, was the Lancastei
County 4-H cattle show champion.
Nelson will be the host of the
Governor’s Celebrity Cattle Show on
; Sunday at 1:30 in the Old Youth
Complex at the Nebraska State Fair
! Park.
The event will show off several
Nebraska celebrities and their 4-H
j cattle, and is a fund-raising events,
organized by the Department of ‘
Agriculture.
Other celebrities participating
; include Lt. Gov. Kim Robak, Miss
Nebraska 1998 Jenny Lemmerman,
voice of the Huskers Rick
Schwieger, news broadcasters Terri
Teuber and Ken Siemek, Nebraska
Director of Agriculture Larry
Sitzman and National Bank of
Commerce President Brad Korell.
“4-H and FFA are wonderful pro
grams to enhance the interest of
young Nebraskans in our livestock
industry,” Nelson said.
Veteran recalls D-Day
after 1Private Ryan9
The carnage. The chaos. The courage.
June 6,1944, D-Day, was a monumental day in world history and
signaled the impending end of World War II in Europe.
This summer’s blockbuster war movie, “Saving Private Ryan,”
chronicles the invasion and the events following it in graphic detail. t
Eighty-one-year-old Solomon Harris was there.
Harris was traveling through Lincoln this week after visiting |
Portland, Ore., where he viewed the movie and was subsequently 1
hospitalized with post-traumatic stress disorder.
A retired lieutenant colonel, Harris’ story is one of loss and 1
remembrance. This week he shared his story of D-Day and the
importance of Steven Spielberg’s epic film.
PLEASE SEE STORY ON PAGE 10.
Sandy Summers/DN
Passing through Lincoln on his way home to Illinois, retired U. Col.
Solomon Harris shared his war stories with curious ears at UHL.
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