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   from the issue of September 9, 2004

     
 
Student Successes - 12 earn the nation's biggest academic honors

A dozen UNL undergraduates and recent graduates won awards and scholarships from some of the most prestigious and selective programs in the last year. They are:

 
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• Dan Benesh, a senior from Omaha majoring in biological sciences, is examining the evolution of Corynosoma, a genus of parasites, at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland thanks to a Fulbright award. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is funded by the U.S. government and awards about 1,000 grants annually out of about 5,000 applicants. It operates in more than 140 countries worldwide.

• Thomas Oldham, a May graduate of UNL, received a 2004 Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship, which is awarded to exceptional students with financial need to attend graduate school. Oldham, of Hastings, will receive an annual award of up to $50,000 for the length of his graduate program in dramaturgy/script development at Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York City. He was one of 39 recipients of the largest scholarship offered by any private foundation to those seeking advanced degrees. The recipients were chosen from 1,226 nominees.

• Jonathan Jones, a senior political science and English major from Fremont, was named a 2004 Truman Scholar. The scholarship provides $2,000 for the student's senior year and $24,000 for graduate student in addition to other training and internship opportunities. Jones plans to attend law school and pursue public interest law. Jones is one of 77 scholars picked nationally from 609 candidates and was the only winner at a Nebraska school.

• Elizabeth Green, a May graduate from Lincoln, received the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, which is awarded to outstanding undergraduates majoring in science, engineering or math, in October 2003. Green majored in mathematics and meteorology-climatology. She was one of 300 students to win the scholarship from more than 1,000 applicants.

• Three UNL students received U.S. Department of Homeland Security Scholarships in 2003 and 2004. Mark Stigge, a senior mathematics major from Wichita, Kan., and David Schroeder, a senior food science and technology major from West Point, received 2003 awards; Preston Mesick, a junior computer science and engineering major from Omaha, received a 2004 prize. The scholarships include monthly stipends and internships for the 100 students selected each year from the nearly 2,500 applicants. The awards are intended for students interested in pursuing science and technology innovations that could be applied to homeland security missions.

• Five UNL graduates received Graduate Fellowships from the National Science Foundation in March. They are Tessa Lea Durham, Patricia Echtenkamp, Gennette Gill, Lori Simpson and Lawton Verner.


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NEWS HEADLINES FOR SEPTEMBER 9

Year in Review 2003-2004
Looking to the Future: New People, New Facilities - Construction brightens landscape and buildings
Research and Discovery - Biological center studies vaccines for botulinum, Valley Fever
Service to Our State - UNL unites to help storm victims
Student Successes - 12 earn the nation's biggest academic honors
Teaching Faculty & Program Successes - Grant funds Fosse study, leads to D.C.
Teaching, Faculty & Program Successes - New college focuses on families, education
The University from a National View - UNL
100 years of Extension
2 honored for research, creativity
Academy praises film
Architecture chapter is best in the country
Broadcasting senior claims 2nd forensics title
Center assists food companies for 20 years
Company helps track mad cow disease
Conference tackles water, law conflicts
Duo looks into social impacts of infertility
Feedlot has room to grow
Future lawyers win national contest
Graduate earns 1st degree in culinology
Hanson gains USDA teaching award
Helping parents prepare for school
J.D. Edwards students create cattle-tracking software
Nebraska Lectures return
Now on NET: HDTV
NU gains a new president, other leaders for new year
Program creates tests to fight food allergens
Ritchie's work earns NU honors
Savory joins Academy
Scientists' beef research earns international prize
Statistics expands
Tularemia examined as a bioterror threat
UNL continues to climb various U.S. rankings
UNL is a home for all things Lewis and Clark
Work studies our unique Sandhills
Zeng's discoveries lead to fellowship

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