Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 28, 1987
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Hope award finalists
HOPE voting
Seniors may vote today or tomorrow for one of four KU professors who have been nominated for this year's Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award, which will be presented during Saturday's KU-Oklahoma football game. On this page, the Kansan profiles the four nominees. Seniors may clip a ballot printed in today's Kansan and vote in the deans' office of their schools.
Chip Howat
Howat's classes 'tough'
By KIRK ADAMS Staff writer
Chip Howard, associate professor of chemistry and petroleum engineering, says he likes to give his students a taste of the real world.
"They've got to be well-trained," said Ms. Wynn, making decisions that "affected our脐
Howat, one of the four finalists for this year's HOPE award, said that his classes in chemical engineering design were probably the toughest courses in the chemical engineering sequence. That is because chemical engineers have so much responsibility in the professional world, he said.
Howat said chemical engineers had to avoid accidents such as those that happened in Bhopal, India, and Chernobyl, U.S.S.R.
He has been the only instructor teaching chemical engineering design for five years.
He said that, in engineering, students could learn each subject individually, but most were not good at putting all of their knowledge
together.
In Chemical Design I, students are split into groups and are given a major industrial problem for which they try to find a solution. Students agree not to seek outside help on their projects. In turn, Howat tries not to impose his opinions on students.
"What I try to do is put it all together so that it will make sense to the students," he said.
The students really see what they learned in earlier courses, he said.
He said, "The better their training here, the better they'll be when they get out, and I think the students respond to that."
Lois Greene
Howat said that KU's chemical engineering students had placed in national competitions in five of the last seven years.
Howat won the Henry E. Gould award last year for distinguished service to undergraduate engineer- students and was sensed by the KU engineering school.
Greene helps The Arts
Staff writer
By MARK TILFORD Staff writers
Lois Greene has received a vote of support from her peers.
"In The Arts we are very nearly colleagues in some ways. They have to help each other and I'm here to help them." Greene said.
Greene stressed her close work with the 14 students in the The Arts and the freshmen students in the two basic design courses she teaches.
Greene is an associate professor of design and director of The Arts, an in-house graphics design internship for art and design students. She is also one of this year's four finalists for the HOPE award.
"That's a heavy-duty responsibility," Greene said. "All the time I wonder about it."
She handles the responsibility, she said, by keeping an open mind toward her work.
"In some ways liking lots of music and art is an advantage," Greene said "because we may have 50 different ideas or more 50 ideas. We baxe to be flexible."
The desire to remain in a universi-
atmosphere led Greene back to KU in 1975 to teach, a career as a professional artist. She received a master's degrees in fine arts from KU.
"It just kind of happened," she said of her decision to teach. "I think it took that first or second day of classes, and I was hooked."
Greene has professional experience and has held dozens of exhibitions in her career. She is studying the relationship of the work of Emanuel Masselink, a graphic designer, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
"I hint it's really important in my field that the teaching and the practicer be closely involved."
As director of The Arts, Greene directs 14 students, 13 of whom are seniors. The students producepromotional videos and most art performances on campus.
in the classroom, stressing a student's ability to design and to communicate is one of her main goals.
"That's done by thinking and by knowledge," Greene said, "not by teaching hand skills."
James Seaver
Seaver enjoys variety
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
He's truly a Renaissance man.
James Seaver, HOPE award finalist and professor of history, has interests ranging from medieval and ancient history to tennis and volleyball to opera. And he makes time for them all.
"I just like to do a lot of things." Seaver said.
Besides teaching three classes in the history department this semester, Seaver hosts a one-hour weekly radio program on KANU-FM called "Opera is My Hobby" and plays tennis twice a week.
One of the pioneers of the Western Civilization program, Seaver said he wanted students to read directly from the works of the great philosophers in the two-semiester course rather than read other people's
Seaver is no stranger to KU. He has been here since 1947 and said he had spent a good part of his life there.
thoughts of the authors,
"Here I could teach exactly what I wanted," he said, and the school encouraged him to pursue projects and special interests.
Seaver said the relaxed atmosphere of small-group discussions encouraged students to open up.
"There was not one class where I didn't learn from the students," said Seaver, who was director of the school's first year in 1883. He misses those classes, he said.
Seaver relies much on work he has done abroad to make his classes interesting. He has spent semesters in Italy and Israel on Fulbright Grants and in Costa Rica under a Carnegie Grant.
Seaver said that seeing the slides of the art and the landmarks he studies helped students place the facts they learned from textbooks.
Seaver wrote "The Persecution of the Jews in the Roman Empire, 313-438 A.D."
"I ascribe very much to the Polybus ideology that it's hard to describe such belief, if you've never heard of it," she said. "The geography is very important."
Nominated several times for the HOPE award, Seaver said he had never been a finalist before and was flattered.
Don Green
Green is a team player
By MARK TILFORD Staff writer
It is difficult to get Don Green to talk about himself.
"We" and "our" are common terms in the vocabulary of Green, Conger-Gabel Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and a finalist for the HOPE award.
"I don't feel at all like I'm sitting here in a vacuum doing my own thing." Green said. "Our department has a history of people getting along."
Green shared seminifinal honors to the award with three others in hisdepartment.
Green works as well with students as he does with colleagues. This is his sixth time to be named a finalist for the prestigious award she received the status with five others in 1984.
Although he does not hold to any particular teaching philosophy, certain ideas do come through when he teaches. Green said.
"I try to certainly be prepared and know the material when I come into the classroom. I hope that I convey
an enthusiasm for the material and that we stress the fact that we really do care." Green said.
Conveying a creative flair for courses also is a challenge when dealing with technical material. Green said.
"We really don't like to teach students to plug in formulas. We are in fact trying to teach people how to attack problem solving," he said.
Green also has made achievements outside the classroom.
He is co-director of the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project at KU, which he and another KU professor founded in 1974.
He also was co-editor of the sixth editor of Perry's Chemical Engg. Journal.
A native of Tulsa, Okla., Green received a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa and master's and doctorate degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
Green came to the University of Kansas in 1964.
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