search articles:     from the issue of September 29, 2005         Olds receives award from French govt  BY TOM SIMONS, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS Marshall Olds, professor of French at UNL, will be honored Sept. 29 when he is decorated as a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the Republic of France.   Olds   The Palmes Academiques were created by Napoleon I in 1808 to honor outstanding members of the faculty of the University of Paris. Membership was later expanded to include individuals beyond the French university system, including foreigners and French men and women living outside the country who have contributed actively to the expansion of French culture in the world. Olds will be recognized for his scholarship in French studies, his editorship of the journal Nineteenth-Century French Studies and for the successful study-abroad program he developed for UNL students at the University of Franche-Compte in Besancon, France. He has been on the UNL faculty in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences since 1984. Yannick Mercoyrol, cultural attache of the French Consulate in Chicago, will present the decoration on behalf of the French government and the Ministry of Education in a 5 p.m. ceremony at the Great Plains Art Gallery, 1155 Q St. GO TO: ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 29 NEWS HEADLINES FOR SEPTEMBER 29 Staffers set up post-Katrina communications Chancellor outlines energy issues Energy rates chill campus utility budget Grant links math, biology research Olds receives award from French govt FROM THE ARCHIVES Professor, students aid mural project Speaker to review national trends in student advising 732218S35006X