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+	<h3 class="sec_main">Jay Keasling didn't set out to change the world. But he just might.</h3>
+	<p>At the University of California at Berkeley, Keasling runs a lab - staffed by 50 post doctoral and graduate students and funded by a $42.6 million Gates Foundation grant - that is creating a cure for malaria.</p>
+	<p>		He is also engaged in research that could lead to breakthrough treatment for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. </p>
+	<p>		And he was among a group of scholars that received $500 million from British Petroleum to create the Energy Biosciences Institute, which will be a world-class hub of research on biofuels and clean energy.</p>
+	<p>		Not bad for a boy from a farm outside of Harvard, Nebr., population 976.</p>
+	<p>		Keasling, who graduated from UNL in 1986, remembers his time in Lincoln fondly. He was vice president of Delta Tau Delta fraternity and served on the College of Arts and Sciences advisory committee. Classes he took with a popular biology professor set him on the path to his current cutting edge work.</p>
+	<p>&quot;One of the best experiences I had at UNL was with Dr. John Janovy at the Cedar Point field station at Ogallala,&quot; he said. &quot;I spent the summer after my freshman year there, and it was great fun. I took classes in field biology, and that changed my interests; I went to the university thinking I would go on to medical school, but that summer experience really convinced me to go into research.&quot;</p>
+	<p>		After receiving his PhD in microbiology at the University of Michigan, and completing post-doctoral research at Stanford, Keasling accepted a position at Berkeley in 1992. Ten years later, he was appointed head of the first synthetic biology department in the country. Discover magazine named him Scientist of the Year in 2006. Newsweek named him a &ldquo;Person to Watch&rdquo; in 2009. </p>
+	<p>		Keasling's work may soon influence the health and well being of every person on the planet. He and his colleagues are developing an affordable malaria medicine that - in combination with an existing drug - appears to permanently eradicate the disease in an infected individual. At the 2009 BIO International Convention, Dr. Keasling was honored with the inaugural Biotech Humanitarian Award.&nbsp; He was honored not only for his breakthrough research, but because of his commitment to bring to market an anti-malaria therapy at a lower the cost.</p>
+	<p>		In his &quot;spare time,&quot; Keasling is also researching Prostratin, a medication that occurs in its natural form in trees grown on an island in the South Pacific. An ethno botanist took samples to the National Institutes of Health, where researchers purified the active ingredient and found that it was effective against HIV.</p>
+	<p>		Keasling's work is part of a sea change in the way the global health system functions. He noted that one reason he and his team have received such significant funding is that they incorporate new technologies into their research. In the past there's been a lack of funding for research, he said, but visionary philanthropists and funding agencies - among them the Gates Foundation - are changing the rules.</p>
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+		<h4 class="sec_header">More on Jay Keasling</h4>
+		<h6>Links</h6>
+		<ul>
+			<li>
+				<p><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2006/dec/cover">http://discovermagazine.com/2006/dec/cover</a></p>
+			</li>
+			<li>
+				<p><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/176340">http://www.newsweek.com/id/176340</a></p>
+			</li>
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+	<h3 class="sec_main">Retailer John Hoerner Focuses on Direction and Change</h3>
+	<p>During the 2006 Masters Week, 1961 graduate John Hoerner flew from England to Lincoln to attend the week&rsquo;s activities and speak to classes. He told the students there are many ways to apply formal education to successful careers.</p>
+	<p>		Hoerner graduated with a degree in business administration and is currently the chief executive of Central European Clothing for Tesco, the United Kingdom&rsquo;s largest retailer. He has held numerous executive-level posts in stores and chains in the United States and since 1987 in the United Kingdom. During his visit to Nebraska, Hoerner spoke to business classes about change and change management.</p>
+	<p>		Hoerner&rsquo;s dynamic career path demonstrates his expertise in the field. He began work in retail in 1959 at Hovland-Swanson specialty store in Lincoln, where he held positions in selling, sales supervision, buying and merchandising. Hoerner advised students to master the responsibilities they have in their sphere of influence in any line of work.</p>
+	<p>&ldquo;Every job I&rsquo;ve had I&rsquo;ve treated as if it might be the last job,&rdquo; he said.</p>
+	<p>		Hoerner&rsquo;s post at Hovland-Swanson was only the beginning of a long list of promotions and new territories. As he talked about change management, he noted that successful people embrace change.</p>
+	<p>&ldquo;In order to be successful, you have to sometimes lead people to places they are not keen to go,&rdquo; he said.</p>
+	<p>		After his career took him across the United States, Hoerner moved to the United Kingdom in 1987 as chairman of Debenhams, then a chain of 55 department stores based in London. He led many change operations, and his career continued to evolve. At each new post, Hoerner focused his efforts on improving the company/organization.</p>
+	<p>&ldquo;In order to lead change you have to have a clearly defined vision of where you want to go,&rdquo; he said.</p>
+	<p>		Hoerner studied the present state of the company, determined a vision for its future, and detailed a process for securing the goals of the vision. Hoerner&rsquo;s leadership helped to transform Debenhams, save the Burton Group and Arcadia, and revolutionize the internal organization of both the British Fashion Council and Dogs Home Battersea.</p>
+	<p>		His most recent contributions are at Tesco. As chief executive of clothing, Hoerner led the expansion of Tesco&rsquo;s business in the United Kingdom, and currently as the chief executive of the Tesco Central European clothing operation, he is developing a centralized buying operation for Tesco clothing in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.</p>
+	<p>		Hoerner&rsquo;s key to success is focusing on direction, rather than speed. He illustrated this business principle with an airplane analogy: A plane flying on a course of 150 degrees from London to Paris will arrive in Paris regardless of the plane&rsquo;s size or flying speed. </p>
+	<p>However, a plane flying on a course of 170 degrees will never reach its destination, no matter how powerful the engine. All businesses, whatever their size, run the same and require a route to success that takes human nature into account.</p>
+	<p>		In life, Hoerner measures success with happiness. </p>
+	<p>&ldquo;The most important thing you have to have in business is good judgment and perspective,&rdquo; he said.</p>
+	<p>		He cites family and hobbies as key essentials to a balanced perspective. Hoerner has been active in the communities where he has lived and has a special interest in dogs and horses. He is also a pilot and a member of the U.K. Air Squadron.</p>
+	<p>		Hoerner defines his performance and accomplishments in terms of the sense of pride they bring him. </p>
+	<p>&ldquo;Your position and influence only matter if you achieve it in a way that you&rsquo;re happy about it,&rdquo; he said.</p>
+	<p><em>Courtesy:&nbsp; Nebraska Alumni Association</em></p>
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+		<h4 class="sec_header">More on John Hoerner		</h4>
+		<ul>
+			<li>News<br />
+			<p><a href="http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2006/10/24/UNL+Masters+return+to+campus+Nov.+1-4+to+share+with+students+">http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2006/10/24/UNL+Masters+return+to+campus+Nov.+1-4+to+share+with+students+</a></p>
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+				<p><a href="http://www.unl.edu/scarlet/v9n27/v9n27nibs.html">http://www.unl.edu/scarlet/v9n27/v9n27nibs.html</a></p>
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+				<p>Innocents</p>
+<p><a href="http://www.unl.edu/innocent/alumni2.html#1971">http://www.unl.edu/innocent/alumni2.html#1971</a></p>
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+	<h3 class="sec_main">Getting Down and Dirty with Science</h3>
+	<h4>Cedar Point Experience Shapes Young Biologists' Lives</h4>
+	<p>Scrambling along the musty, dry lake bed, the scavengers descend on logs and crusty chunks of cattle manure.</p>
+	<p>&quot;You guys ready to flip over this cow pie?&quot; called biology major Heidi Baumert to her classmates. It was still somewhat moist, so the women hesitate, hinting only momentarily at dread.</p>
+	<p>&quot;You've got to love to get your hands dirty,&quot; said Baumert. &quot;That's what this class is about. You have to get your hands in there.&quot;</p>
+	<p>Buckets and jars fill with insects that the young scientist hope are infected with parasites. With luck, the students will find microscopic parasitic intruders in their specimens. And back at their lab, they will compare cricket parasites to those of damsel and dragonflies netted at nearby Dunwoody Pond.</p>
+	<p>This is field parasitology at Cedar Point Biological Station, UNL's field research site that nestles among the arid sandstone bluffs, cedar canyons, shortgrass prairie, lakes and springs near Lake Ogallala. In their final days of a summer five-week class, the students are accustomed to the dirt, heat, muck and the associated exhausting physical rigor that comes with participation in this twice-a-week class.</p>
+	<p>&quot;It's a good time,&quot; said student Josh Krejci, also a biology major. &quot;It's the best way you can spend your tuition dollars. By far. You're actually getting out here and doing things instead of listening.&quot;</p>
+	<p>That was the intent of John Janovy and his colleagues Brent Nickol and Gary Hergenrader who more than 30 years ago took over a former Girl Scout camp to arrange a scholarly refuge for university students, researchers and instructors. They envisioned a place where biology could be experienced. Over the years the station has grown from its original 30 acres to a two-square-mile site with 19 buildings comprising student and faculty living units, labs and a central lodge. During the summer, as many as 70 people a day sleep, eat and study at Cedar Point, working around the clock.</p>
+	<p>Hosting classes like field parasitology, aquatic microbiology, prairie ecology; and research projects on birds, parasites, and insect herbivory, today's Cedar Point enjoys a wide reputation. Students emerge from their summer studies as field scientists.</p>
+	<p>&quot;In 1983 I was an undergraduate out here, and took two classes. That would change all my career goals and why I was a biology major,&quot; said Richard Alward, a biologist and former associate director at Cedar Point. &quot;I realized you could get paid for doing biology in the field. Here, you get out and find the organisms. You know their whole environment. It's not just microscope work or preserved organisms from a catalog.&quot;</p>
+	<p>Baumert, Krejci and the other 20 students spent about three hours that August 2000 morning collecting specimens at three sites, using dip nets and their bare hands, wading into streams and greenish ponds, while scores of wild turkeys ran, a rattle snake was uncovered in the log brush, mosquitos bit and dust stuck to sweaty brows. After the group returned to the lodge for lunch, they spent the afternoon under Janovy's watchful eye dissecting their catches, creating slides, and tediously sorting and characterizing the identifiable parasites found inside insect families. Following the evening meal, the students returned to their slides and did several hours of computer -matrix conversion for the parasite characteristics.</p>
+	<p>Their day had started at 7 a.m. and ended about 10 that night. Many would be up for several hours more preparing for aquatic microbiology the next day, with lights burning into the early morning hours.</p>
+	<p>Meals together and round-the-clock study at the station prompt a different view of the possibilities of biology, the teachers and students said.</p>
+	<p>&quot;One thing you get at Cedar Point that you don't get anywhere else is such a high degree of interaction with scientists, both in your field but also unrelated to your field,&quot; said doctoral candidate Ben Hanelt, a researcher in parasitology. &quot;You get a different perspective here than when you're on main campus or holed up in your lab. You analyze your data and talk about the implications, you see and learn for yourself.&quot;</p>
+	<p>Janovy said access to a diverse environment is what fuels both the scientists' learning and their study.</p>
+	<p>&quot;When you study microorganisms there is diversity everywhere, but this particular site and the surrounding 100 miles is a very rich source of teaching and research for us,&quot; said the biologist, who also uses the Cedar Point landscape and experience as fodder for most of his books. &quot;It's real easy to teach here. There's a lot of stuff. It's all at your fingertips, it's all alive, and it's all in the proper context.&quot;</p>
+	<p>&quot;You can never order a field program from a catalog.&quot;</p>
+	<p>If you could, it might be a lot like Cedar Point.</p>
+	<p>&quot;Getting away from all the distractions of campus, and being surrounded by like-minded people as much as anything tells us what education ought to be about,&quot; Janovy said. &quot;When students are surrounded by peers and are focusing on problems they are interested in, they're seeing the value of studying the material. Not because it is a course requirement, but because it interests them. That's a principle that goes well beyond biology.&quot;</p>
+	<p>&quot;The field program is the place where teaching, research and original experience, and the beauty of nature all merge together, and are inseparable. That's what biology is all about.&quot;</p>
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+		<h4 class="sec_header">More on John Janovy Jr.</h4>
+		<ul>
+			<li>Cedar Point<br />
+				<a href="http://cedarpoint.unl.edu/">http://cedarpoint.unl.edu</a></li>
+			<li>Faculty Page<br />
+			<a href="http://www.biosci.unl.edu/faculty/janovy/index.shtml">http://www.biosci.unl.edu/faculty/janovy/index.shtml</a></li>
+		</ul>
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+	<p>As he sees it, Art History professor Michael Hoff has one of the best gigs in town.</p>
+	<p>
+		Never mind the days of hard labor clearing brush in 120-degree heat. Swallowing clouds of dust while hauling giant stones. Negotiating prickly local bureaucracies.</p>
+	<p>
+		Hoff spends his summers exploring the ruins of a Roman temple in coastal Turkey. It's hot, dirty work, which Hoff likens to &quot;playing in a sandbox.&quot;</p>
+	<p>
+		&quot;This is very different than walking through a museum or going through books in a library, which is something we all have to do,&quot; he said. &quot;This is excavating a 2,000-year old building, looking for the secrets of the past.&quot;</p>
+	<p>
+		Hoff has already devoted more than 11 years to his surveying work in Turkey. Each summer, he and his colleagues stayed in the town of Gazipasha, and over the years he has gotten to know locals and government officials. In 2004, he met with the town's mayor, and mentioned that he would be interested in going beyond surveying - he proposed excavating and re-erecting a temple that he had identified near the town. The mayor was enthusiastic about the idea, as was the regional governor.</p>
+	<p>In 2005, Hoff began mapping the temple site and drawing and cataloging of all of its stone blocks. That year Ece Erdogmus, a professor of architectural engineering at UNL, joined Hoff on the project. A native of Turkey, she brought not only academic expertise to the project, but also language skills and a familiarity with the country's government. In 2007, the team-in conjunction with a local archaeology museum - began moving the blocks from the mound.</p>
+	<p>
+	The undertaking has been massive. The team began by clearing away overgrown vegetation. On past research trips, they had documented, surveyed, labeled and cataloged the surface of the site, and so this past summer they selected stones to move each day. Students cataloged the stones and made sketches of their surfaces, then the blocks were lifted with cranes and carried to an adjacent field.</p>
+	<p>
+		The history of the temple is slowly revealing itself.</p>
+	<p>
+		&quot;We don't know yet to whom the temple was dedicated,&quot; Hoff said. &quot;We know it was a Roman imperial temple, built specifically for the worship of a Roman emperor. It dates to the early third century after Christ. Our hope is that next year we'll find more information. For example, we'll be able to look at faces of blocks that are currently covered up. We hope to find some statuary under the rubble.&quot;</p>
+	<p>Back at UNL, work continues during the academic year. Hoff and Erdogmus synthesize data collected in the summer, and attempt to assemble drawings of the blocks like puzzle pieces.</p>
+	<p>
+	&quot;Mapping where the blocks fell will help us determine where they belonged originally,&quot; Hoff said. &quot;Looking at the scatter of how they fell with sophisticated programs, we might be able to determine the cause of the temple's destruction. Right now think it was either an earthquake or purposeful destruction, probably at the hands of Christian extremists.&quot;</p>
+	<p>
+		A significant component of the field research is the assistance of undergraduate students. In exchange for their hard work, they receive an education in art history and engineering that cannot be duplicated in a classroom.</p>
+	<p>
+		&quot;In classes, we talk about how to put a modern building together, but this is reversed; we are trying to figure out how and why this temple collapsed, and the students are actually at the building site trying to revive it,&quot; Erdogmus said. &quot;For me, I am thinking this will happen only once in my life, and I think it's the same for the students.&quot;</p>
+	<p>
+	&quot;Our students are getting in on the ground floor of basic archaeological research,&quot; Hoff said. &quot;This is hands-on experience with real construction and reconstruction methods and methodologies. I can't imagine a greater undergraduate experience than that.&quot; </p>
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+<h3 class="sec_main">Professor first, college football fan second</h3>
+<p>Professor Hoff has long been struck by the parallels between two supposedly dissimilar institutions: college football and Roman religion. Putting aside aspects of divinity (although to some Bob Devaney is a good candidate for divine status), one is able to recognize within the entire panoply of big-time college football the basic elements common to religious zeal, such as ritual, community involvement, sharing of a common interest, and of course pageantry. And nowhere else is this best exemplified than with Nebraska Football. In a talk often delivered and always somewhat with tongue-in-cheek, Hoff demonstrates how on any given Autumn Saturday in Lincoln, football satisfies the basic elements of cult status within ancient Roman religion.</p>
+<div class="zenbox"><h4 class="sec_header">More on Michael Hoff</h4>
+	<ul>
+		<li>Faculty page<br />
+			<a href="http://www.unl.edu/art/hoff.shtml">http://www.unl.edu/art/hoff.shtml</a></li>
+		<li>Archeological Institute of America<br />
+			<a href="http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10224&amp;lid=38">http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10224&amp;lid=38</a></li>
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