{"id":143,"date":"2014-09-15T20:25:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/?p=143"},"modified":"2014-11-18T18:35:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:35:26","slug":"collaborative-culture-appeals-to-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/collaborative-culture-appeals-to-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Culture Appeals to Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask Joe Francisco, College of Arts and Sciences dean, what attracted him to UNL, and he\u2019ll tell you all about the university\u2019s research strengths, focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and commitment to workforce diversity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Francisco, who became dean of UNL\u2019s largest college July 1, said the strong culture of interdisciplinary collaboration was a major factor in his decision to come to Nebraska. He came to UNL from Purdue University where he was a distinguished professor of chemistry and of earth and atmospheric sciences.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-441\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/collaborative-culture-appeals-to-francisco\/140715_francisco_028_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-441\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-441 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140715_Francisco_028_1-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"140715_Francisco_028_1\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140715_Francisco_028_1-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140715_Francisco_028_1-900x1350.jpg 900w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140715_Francisco_028_1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of discussion in higher education about working across disciplines,\u201d he said. \u201cUNL is taking a leadership role in advancing innovative research at the cutting edge across multiple disciplines, and that is exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francisco is former president of the American Chemical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He\u2019s won several prestigious research and teaching honors, including an American Association for the Advancement of Science Mentor Award and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Francisco was president of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers from 2006 to 2008.<\/p>\n<p>He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin and a doctorate in chemical physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>UNL\u2019s sincere commitment to diversity appealed to Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is part of my core values,\u201d he said. \u201cI saw that as an opportunity where I could bring some leadership to the university and the college as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s been most impressed by the faculty\u2019s passion for their work and for educating students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany important, forward-thinking programs and innovations have originated at Nebraska in the College of Arts and Sciences. I\u2019ve had a lot of experience working across different platforms, and I see this as an opportunity to take some of that experience and do something creative and fun in new and exciting ways.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask Joe Francisco, College of Arts and Sciences dean, what attracted him to UNL, and he\u2019ll tell you all about the university\u2019s research strengths, focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and commitment to workforce diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[41,152,150,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}