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University Daily Kansan/Thursday, January 19. 1989
Gluing it back
Jim Wiggins, Department of Facilities Operations, re-glues solid oak Visual Arts building. Wiggins and a co-worker spent Monday and parquets that have come loose from the floor of the art gallery in the Tuesday preparing for an exhibit that begins this week.
Sophomores named University scholars 20 selected for program that includes course to expand their knowledge
by a Kansan reporter
Twenty KU sophomores have been named University scholars for the 1988-89 academic year.
Students were selected on the basis of academic records, instructor evaluations, commitment to a broad general education and a desire to participate in the program.
The students were required to have at least a 3.8 grade point average to apply and must maintain a 3.5 GPA to continue in the program.
Each student will be required to take a directed-study course with a personal mentor.
The scholars also must enroll in Map of Knowledge, which is taught by Robert Antonio, professor of sociology. The course is intended to acquaint the students with other fields of study besides their own
The program is financed by the Kansas University Endowment
Association.
The 20 sophomores are
Sara J. Van Dyk, Atchison Thomas R. Walker, Concordia Laura D. Moore, Lawrence Kyle K. Wetzel, Lawrence Shawn C. Saving, Oskalosa Heather J. Swartz, Olathe Ricky R. Radakovich, Overland Park
Shawn R. Berry, Wichita
Jennifer J. Burtner, Wichita
Andrew D. Carpenter, Topea
David C. Hiller, Little Rock, Ark.
Colin P. Lindsay, Lee's Summit,
Mo.
Nirit Rosenblum, Overland Park Jason M. Coleman, Manhattan Kirsten A. Unger, Manhattan
Kristin L. Umbarger, Los Alamos, Ark.
Kelly K. Hagan, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Douglas E. Fishback, Tulsa, Okla.
Jennifer C. Waggoner, Sioux Falls,
S.D.
S. D. Katrina Fine, Sierra Leone, Nev.
3 from KU receive Fulbrights in 1988
by a Kansan reporter
Three University of Kansas faculty members received Fulbright awards to teach abroad during the 1988-89 school year.
Almost 1,000 U.S. scholars and professionals received awards under the Fulbright Scholar Program to conduct research abroad.
The Fulbright program is administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars in cooperation with the U.S. Information Agency.
which Elizabeth Kuznesof, professor of history, was in Brazil, and Hester I. Thurston, professor of nursing, was in Greece. Kuznesof and Thurston returned to KU in December 1988.
emistry, is in West Germany until July 1989.
studied to he Richard Himes, professor of bioch
The Fulbright program also has brought three foreign scholars to KU in 1988.
Andreja Suler, a teacher at the Institute for Adult Education in Lijbjana, Yugoslavia, is conducting a survey of students' department through May 1889.
Roseli Abinerad, head librarian at the Uniao Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos Library in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was researching a bibliography on American culture at at KU during Fall 1988.
Herbert Hofmeister, professor of law at the University of Vienna, Austria, lectured at the School of Law during Spring 1988.
Holmes receives honor
bv a Kansan reporter
David S. Holmes, KU professor of psychology, has received the 1988 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Division of Teaching of the American Psychological Association.
He will formally accept the award in August in New Orleans.
The American Psychological Association, a 90,000-member professional organization, gives the teaching award each year to a professor at a four-year college or university in the United States.
the United States. Holmes has been the recipient of several other teaching awards, including the Outstanding Educator
in America Award, the Standard Oil Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Outstanding Educator Award from KU's Mortar Board, an honor society for KU seniors.
Holmes does research and teaches courses in personality, abnormal and experimental psychology and research methods. He joined the KU psychology department as an associate professor in 1971 and became a full professor in 1973.
Holmes is a graduate of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., and received a master's degree and a doctorate from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Professor maps plants
by a Kansan reporter
Keeping track of plants is A. William Kuchler's business.
Küchen's business:
Kuchler, professor emeritus of geography, is the co-author of "Vegation Mapping," a book published last summer examining the practical value of vegetation maps. Kuchler is an internationally recognized authority on mapping vegetation.
forestry, range management and agriculture.
The maps present detailed information about plant life and their location and distribution. Scientists use the maps to study relationships between plants and their location, and to plan land use, especially in
agriculture:
"Vegetation maps are more useful than people think," Kuchler said. "They reveal geographic distribution of individual vegetation types and plant communities."
pim, commissar
The book is the 10th in a series
titled "Handbook of Vegetation
Science."
Kuchler came to the University of Kansas as an associate professor in 1950 and became a professor of geography in 1953. He retired in 1978. He is also the author of eight other books.
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