News Makers, September 2011

In April of this year, Carl Sparks, NJ D ’89, was named president and CEO of Travelocity. Most recently, he was general manager of Hotels.com.
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The Houston Chronicle is reporting that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received a donation to help fund a new nanoscience building.

The gift was given by a couple from Omaha that has been involved in natural gas exploration in Australia. The building is scheduled to be completed in December. Read more here

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Reports have surfaced that Nobel prize winner for physics (1973) Dr. Ivar Giaever, NY Q ’52, has resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society.

Read this blog post for more information

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