search articles:     from the issue of April 5, 2007         Arts and Sciences dean interviews begin April 12 Four individuals have been selected as finalists for the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and will visit the UNL campus in April.   Clockwise from uppper left, Manderscheid, Novak, Unsworth and Romzek.   The finalists and the dates they will be at UNL, including times for public presentations and receptions, all at the Nebraska Union, are: • David Manderscheid, professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Iowa, April 11-13 (public presentation April 12, 3:15 to 4:30 p.m., reception, 4:30 to 5 p.m.); • Barbara Romzek, associate dean for social sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of public administration at the University of Kansas, April 18-20 (public presentation April 19, 3:15 to 4:30 p.m., reception, 4:30 to 5 p.m.); • John Unsworth, dean and professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 22-24 (public presentation April 24, 3:15 to 4:30 p.m., reception, 4:30 to 5 p.m.); • Bruce Novak, Howard J. Schaeffer distinguished university professor and professor of chemistry, North Carolina State University, April 25-27 (public presentation April 26, 3:15 to 4:30 p.m., reception, 4:30 to 5 p.m.). Richard Hoffmann, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences since 2001, announced last fall his intention to leave the position to return to teaching and research at UNL. Updated information on the candidates' visit schedules and their vitae are available online at www.unl.edu/svcaa. David Manderscheid Manderscheid has chaired the mathematics department at the University of Iowa since 2001. In 2005, his department was presented with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. He was a National Science Foundation mathematical sciences postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor at the University of Iowa from 1985-87. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, Calif. Manderscheid earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics at Michigan State University and his doctorate from Yale. Bruce Novak Novak was head of the chemistry department at North Carolina State University from 1998 to 2004 and has had the title Howard J. Schaeffer distinguished university professor since 1998. Novak earned his bachelor's and master's in chemistry from California State University, Northridge, and his doctorate in organic chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He directed the multidisciplinary Center for Polymer Synthesis and Characterization from 1999 to 2005. From 1993 to 1998 he was in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and directed the Polymer Catalysis Laboratory. He has been a visiting professor at the Michigan Molecular Institute and at the University of Louvain in Belgium. Barbara Romzek Romzek has been associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas since 2000, and served as interim dean in 2005-06. She earned her bachelor's degree in political science at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., her master's at Western Michigan University and doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin (all in political science). She chaired the Department of Public Administration at KU from 1988-93. She was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in 1995 and a visiting research associate at Mathematical Policy Research in Princeton, N.J., in 1980. John Unsworth Unsworth has served as dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science as well as professor of English and libraries at Illinois since 2003. He earned his bachelor's degree in English from Amherst (Mass.) College, his master's from Boston University, and doctorate from the University of Virginia. From 1993 to 2003, he was director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. He was chair of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on cyber infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences, which published its report in 2006. GO TO: ISSUE OF APRIL 5 NEWS HEADLINES FOR APRIL 5 Food Science ITLE lecturer sees success in faculty-driven assessments Research, creative activity on display Arts and Sciences dean interviews begin April 12 BIG EVENT Nebraska Lecture examines challenges of feeding world Psych symposium to explore smoking, nicotine dependence Rural Poll to focus on retirement issues 732771S36912X