WHAT: Calvin T. Library Faculty Profile Series BOOK DISCUSSION & SIGNING: “Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands Since 1945.” PRESENTER / AUTHOR: David Vail, UNK assistant professor of history ABOUT THE BOOK: A distinctly regional view of agricultural health evolved after World War II. Vail’s analysis reveals a particularly strong ethic in the North American grasslands where practitioners sought to understand and deploy insecticides … [Read more...]
Technology, Teaching, Teamwork: Hollman helping protect businesses from cyber attacks
By UNK COMMUNICATIONS Today, technology plays an important role in every discipline and industry. Technology allows businesses to work more effectively and efficiently, but communication often creates challenges for businesses and organizations. Angela Hollman is determined to find solutions for improving the communication processes between information technology departments and business executives, especially with the emerging need to protect against cyber attacks. Her fascination … [Read more...]
Career in Chemistry: Exstrom builds up students, UNK’s research reputation
By JAN TREFFER THOMPSON UNK Communications Inside a University of Nebraska at Kearney laboratory, two chemical elements have just become tungsten selenide. Argon that surrounded the reaction has just been purged from the container. It’s time for a heat treatment. Later, scientists will check the compound’s composition in a Raman spectrometer and use an x-ray diffractometer to test its crystalline structure. If all the crystals are oriented in the same direction, the compound’s electrons … [Read more...]
18th Century Appeal. Van Renen integrates his passions: environment, land uses, written word
KEARNEY - Following in the footsteps of the distinguished 18th-century writer, Samuel Johnson, Denys Van Renen has taken his research to Scotland and Wales. Inspired by Johnson’s “A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland,” Van Renen set off on two separate journeys to study Scottish and Welsh representations of the environment in texts from the 18th Century. An associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Van Renen’s research integrates his two passions – … [Read more...]
Kathy Livingston leaves behind 38 years of memories; Retiring as UNK’s Director of Institutional Research
"With each decision I make, I try to ask myself what is best for the students and UNK." - Kathy Livingston KATHY LIVINGSTON Job Title: Assistant to senior vice chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs; Director of Institutional Research Years at UNK: 38 Career Path: When our youngest daughter started kindergarten in 1979 I started working half time as a management information systems assistant. As our kids got older I transitioned to full-time as the MIS director in 1985. My titles have … [Read more...]
