Two people with ties to Grand Island will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards at the University of Nebraska at Kearney Homecoming 2008 awards banquet on Friday at the Nebraskan Student Union.

Louis Comfort Tiffany was ever the practical aesthete. A man of exotic tastes and extravagant means, he made a good business of beauty, decorating and furnishing the parlors of the Gilded Age.

( Stevens Institute of Technology ) Professor H. Quynh Dinh, from Stevens Institute of Technology's Computer Science department, has been awarded a Honda Initiation Grant sponsored by the Honda Research Institute for her proposal, "Detecting Patterns in

As of September 2008, according to a Department of Education fact sheet, there are more than six million secondary students enrolled in public and private schools.

John Murphy, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, will serve the institution in two roles beginning Sept. 1.