HeyJaredAll the Best — UNL ORCA Awardees Tell Their Stories
“All the Best UNL ORCA Awardees Tell Their Stories” is an interview series with UNL ORCA awardees, where UNL means University of Nebraska-Lincoln and ORCA is the Outstanding Research and Creativities Award, which is UNL's top award.
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Sang Lee; Business Management Goal Programming (opens the original)
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Dr. Sang Lee was awarded the ORCA in 1980. Sang was born in 1939 in South Korea and grew up in Seoul. He earned his bachelor’s in 1961 at Seoul National University. Next, he traveled over 7000 miles to the US to earn a master’s from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and then a somewhat shorter move to the University of Georgia in Athens, where he earned a doctorate in Business Administration and Management. From 1968 to 1976, he rose through the ranks at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksb
Norman H. Cromwell, NU System Graduate Dean; Eppley Cancer Center Director (opens the original)
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Norman Cromwell was awarded the inaugural ORCA in 1978. Interviewee Norman Cromwell Interviewer C.R. Pete Boughn Podcast Editor & Producer Mark A. Griep This interview took place in May 1980 and is reproduced with permission from: Oral History Collection, Special Collections and Archives, McGoogan Health Sciences Library, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
Parks Coble, Jr.; Chinese Nationalists & Business, Chinese-Japanese Relations (opens the original)
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Dr. Parks Coble, Jr. He was awarded the ORCA in 2005. He was born in Waterloo, South Carolina in 1946 but he grew up in Columbia. He earned his bachelor’s in history at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Next, he traveled 740 miles northwest to earn his doctorate from the University of Illinois in Champaign. In 1976, he became an assistant professor of history at the University of Nebraska, where he quickly rose through the ranks. His early work focused on the relationship between Chi
Fred Luthans, Positive Organizational Behavior (opens the original)
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Fred Luthans was awarded the ORCA in 2008. He was born in Clinton, Iowa, in 1939. He earned three degrees from the University of Iowa in Iowa City: a bachelor’s in mathematics in 1961, a Master of Business Administration in 1962, and a PhD in management & psychology in 1965. After serving two years as a captain in the Army at West Point where he taught psychology and leadership, he joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as an associate professor of management. He’s had a remarkable career, bu
Stephen Baenziger, Breeding New Wheat Varieties (opens the original)
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Dr. Stephen Baenziger was awarded the ORCA in 2011. He was born in 1951 in Toronto, Canada. When he was an infant, his family immigrated to the US where he grew up in Des Plaines, Illinois. He earned a bachelor’s in biological chemistry magna cum laude from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Next, he earned a master’s and doctorate in plant breeding and genetics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Over the next decade, he worked for the USDA at the Beltsville Agricultur
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