Flying high During halftime of the Sept. 15 Huskers football game with Arkansas State, a collaboration between Strategic Air and Space Museum, Physics, University Communications, the NASA Nebraska Space Grant Consortium, Omaha Public Schools, Lincoln Public Schools, UNL 4-H and the University of Nebraska at Omaha launched two high-altitude balloons into “near space.” The balloons were embedded with experiments built by Nebraska high students and UNL physics pro- fessors Greg Snow and Dan Claes. The balloons were launched with the help of Clayton Anderson, a NASA astronaut from Ashland, Neb. Information from the experiments is being shared with hundreds of students through the National Science Olympiad. http://go.unl.edu/game_day_launch www.unl.edu/scarlet The monthly newspaper for faculty and staff of the University of Nebraska –Lincoln Vol. 22, No. 9 Sept. 27, 2012 Regents approve new CBA building By Sheri Irwin-Gish Inside: Q&A with CBA Dean Donde Plowman. Page 2 Business Administration “Building a state-of-the-art facility will help us attract The University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved world-class faculty and students and will help us estab- plans for a new College of Business Administration lish a major footprint in the Big Ten, home to some of building, making way for one of the most significant the best public business schools in the world. To achieve events in the history of the college, and the largest aca- our enrollment goals, we need state-of-the-art facilities demic building project in recent history at UNL. and more room to teach more students,” Plowman said. The announcement reflects the strategic vision “The new building will provide all of the things that of Donde Plowman, dean of the College of Business our students need to graduate from CBA best prepared Administration, to build a world-class college of busi- for the modern workforce.” ness. Plowman said the new building is essential in CBA| page 3 Concept drawing of the new CBA building proposed for the corner of 14th achieving that goal. and Vine streets. Chancellor: College of Architecture Community Design Studio ‘Size matters’ to UNL’s future University Communications Size is the key to UNL’s future success, Chancellor Harvey Perlman said Sept. 11 in his annual State of the University Address. In the 45-minute address, Perlman said meeting growth goals PETER HIND|COURTESY in enrollment, research dollars and Architecture majors in the Community Design Studio will get the chance to generate a master plan for the National Museum of Bermuda. The museum faculty hires will provide greater recently expanded and includes barracks that were recently used as a prison. The project, which will be led by Peter Hind, assistant professor, covers 16 opportunities to students and allow acres around the oldest dock. the university to serve students bet- ter. A growing university will also benefit Nebraska, helping the state draw and retain talented young people. Increased research will gener- ate jobs necessary to keep those Bermuda bound talented young people in Nebraska. And, growth would help UNL increase its standing among Big Ten Hind, students land master plan project peers, he said. “Last year I proposed we set By Troy Fedderson By Troy Fedderson our sights on a university of 30,000 University Communications University Communications students, a $300 million level of research expenditures, a 70 per- eter Hind’s summer vacation is ush- cent six-year graduation rate, and ering a UNL program onto the world a significant increase both in the stage. number and recognition of ten- While visiting family in Bermuda, ured faculty,” said Perlman in the the assistant professor of architecture address. “Some of you might have inquired about expansion plans for the thought we would take a year or British protectorate’s maritime museum. two off and consolidate our gains, After discussions with the museum’s direc- or at least enjoy the fruits of our tor and governing board, Hind landed a labors. We are entitled to bask but group of UNL seniors in the College of The acquisition of the casemates, the former prison not pause in our new sense of place. Architecture’s Community Design Studio and barracks, will allow the museum to expand. “The things that come to those a job developing the museum’s new master who wait will be the things left plan. behind by those who get there first.” “This spring and summer we will take give something back to my home nation To achieve enrollment goals, students to Bermuda on a service-learning and a museum I grew up with.” Perlman said UNL must recruit trip to work with trustees and constituents UNL’s Community Design Studio was every Nebraska high school gradu- to organize and produce a new master plan resurrected by Hind six years ago. The ate, recruit more non-residents, and Dan Scott (left) and Peter Hind visited the for the National Museum of Bermuda,” senior-level architecture course has pre- National Museum of Bermuda earlier this said Hind. “This is very cool because it viously worked with Lincoln-area orga- CHANCELLOR| page 3 month. Scott, a masters student, is using the takes what has been a local community nizations to design various structures. design studio and expands it to interna- site and museum as the subject of his archi- BERMUDA| page 7 tectural thesis. tional. And, I also get the opportunity to National Museum of Bermuda (http://www.bmm.bm) — Served as the primary mid-Atlantic naval yard for — Collection includes more than 30,000 objects span- the British Navy from 1795 to 1995. ning the 16th to 21st centuries — Run by a non-profit, non-government charity — Draws more than 50,000 visitors annually Greek mythology love stoked Hoff’s career path By Troy Fedderson ever wanted to were not allowed to go on digs. That University Communications be,” said Hoff. is something Hoff does not allow to “It’s what happen today. I dreamed One of U “I want our students to have Michael Hoff can trace the roots An ongoing Scarlet series that features of his archaeology career to a book about.” stories about the lives of faculty and staff the opportunity to participate in His parents purchased the Greek As an at UNL. Submit ‘One of U’ story ideas to a dig early in their undergraduate mythology book and Hoff, then a 8-year-old, [email protected] or 402-472-8515 career,” Hoff said. “It’s invaluable first grader, read it cover to cover, Hoff was experience to be able to go beyond repeatedly. inspired to the classroom and see what archae- Today, Hoff is a professor of art learn Greek archaeology program. ology is all about. For me, getting history and classics at UNL. He is after watch- Hoff “I wanted to work in the ancient down in the dirt is the best part.” also director of an excavation that ing the Mediterranean world of the Greeks His first dig, at the Roman Fort this summer unearthed a massive, Cinemascope film “The 300 and Romans,” Hoff said. “To do of Segedunum in England, came 1,600-square-foot Roman mosaic Spartans.” that, you needed degrees in classics the summer after college gradua- in southern Turkey (http://go.unl. And when it came time for col- or art history. I earned degrees in tion. He was there for six weeks and edu/hoff). lege he enrolled at the University of both.” never saw the sun once. “Being an archaeologist is all I’ve Missouri to be part of its respected At that time, undergraduates HOFF| page 7 2| Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 scarLet University of nebraska-LincoLn Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 | 3 Donde Ashmos Plowman Regents honor Dean of Business Administration State of the University Employee Service Awards RFP issued to replace Donde Ashmos Plowman is the James that we were able to place 100 percent of University Health Center Allen, Popoola Jr. and Susan Stuart Endowed Dean of our students in jobs. I would like to say our the College of Business Administration faculty are known around the world for the UNL has issued a request for and sustainability of the facility with Kudos and professor of Management. Plowman quality of their research. I would like to say proposals to determine if an out- represents a real concern as UNL’s was named the ninth dean of CBA in that Nebraska is a name associated with a side health provider would con- student numbers and program- Paula Allen and Zainudeen “Deen” Popoola February 2010. She started as dean on July high-quality business degree. struct a new building and assume ming needs continue to grow. received University Kudos Awards at the Sept. 1, 2010. Plowman sat down with University responsibility for the University “To replace the facility, we 14 meeting of the University of Nebraska Board Communications’ Troy Fedderson for this How important is it for the college to be Health Center. would have to impose a fee on all of Regents. Allen is administrative assistant for Q&A on Sept. 19 — the same day as her actively engaged with business colleagues Chancellor Harvey Perlman students — a fee students consis- the Association of Students of the University of 60th birthday. outside academia? announced the proposal in his Sept. tently have said they do not want,” Nebraska, a post she has held since 1987. Popoola 11 State of the University Address. Perlman said in a column in the It is essential that a business school is director of custodial services and has been with What drew you to apply for the CBA Juan Franco, vice chancellor for Lincoln Journal Star.