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UNL News Releases: Speakers

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05/12/2006
Zambian vice chancellor to speak during UNL Zambia Week visit
Robert Serpell, vice chancellor of the University of Zambia, will present a lecture when the University of Nebraska-Lincoln hosts him and five other officials from Zambia on a visit to UNL May 15-19. The vice chancellor (whose position is similar to …
05/18/2006
02/11/2005
Youth violence, aggression is topic of UNL lecture series
Four internationally known researchers and authors will be featured in a lecture series on youth violence and aggression at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The dates of the lectures are March 7 and 21, and April 25, with the date for the fourth l…
03/7/2005
03/26/2009
Youth select baseball is topic of spring's final Olson Seminar
Appropriately, the spring's final Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will deal with baseball. In his April 8 seminar, "Youth Select Baseball in the Midwest: The Shape of Things to Come," David Ogden, …
04/8/2009
01/25/2016
WuDunn to discuss global women's rights at E.N. Thompson Forum
Editor's note: Due to expected winter weather, this lecture has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Feb. 23. Sheryl WuDunn asserts that the greatest unexploited resource in the modern world isn't oil or gold or wind. It's women. While there is no simple …
02/2/2016
10/10/2005
World-renowned mathematician Atiyah to give public lecture Oct. 21
Sir Michael Atiyah of the University of Edinburgh will give a public lecture on "The Nature of Space" at 4 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Kimball Recital Hall, 11th and R streets (extended) on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. The talk is free and inte…
10/21/2005
04/2/2015
World Food Prize Laureate to speak at Heuermann Lecture
Monsanto Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Robert Fraley will speak at the final Heuermann Lecture of the 2014-2015 season at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln April 21. Fraley, a 2013 World Food Prize Laureate, will speak at 3:…
04/21/2015
01/11/2013
World Bank's Will Martin to speak at Yeutter symposium
World Bank official Will Martin will deliver a lecture on Jan. 25 in the Clayton Yeutter International Trade Program and Symposium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Martin, research manager in agricultu…
01/25/2013
10/29/2009
Wood presents fall Nebraska Lecture on HIV/AIDS Nov. 10
HIV/AIDS is a public health crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa. The disease's widespread prevalence -- two-thirds of people living with the disease reside there -- has greatly affected the region's health and economy. During the fall Nebraska Lecture Nov.…
11/10/2009
02/6/2006
Women's Studies colloquium series begins Feb. 16
The Women's Studies program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present talks in its colloquium series on Feb. 16 and 20 and March 27. The series is offered in conjunction with the UNL College of Arts and Sciences' new minor in LGBTQ/Sexuali…
02/16/2006
02/11/2009
Wisconsin legal scholar to speak Feb. 19 during Black History Month
Thomas W. Mitchell will present the Winthrop and Frances Lane Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law at noon Feb. 19 in the courtroom of McCollum Hall, East Campus Loop and Fair Street. An associate professor at the University o…
02/19/2009
09/5/2007
Winner of Great Plains book prize leads off Olson Seminars Sept. 19
Michael L. Tate, who received the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize for his book, "Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails," will deliver the fall's first Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies Sept. 19 at the University o…
09/19/2007
11/7/2005
Willard Kimball & Trans-Mississippi organ is Nov. 16 Olson Seminar
"Music at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, 1898: The Career of Willard Kimball and the UNL Alumni Organ" will be the subject of the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The topic will be di…
11/16/2005
04/6/2005
Wildflowers of Fontenelle Forest, Neale Woods at April 20 Olson Seminar
The 275 species of wildflowers found in the Fontenelle Forest and Neale Woods nature centers of metropolitan Omaha will be the subject of the final 2004-05 Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Roland E.…
04/20/2005
08/22/2013
Wil Shriner to present next Carson Lecture Sept. 13
Comedian, actor and director Wil Shriner, who has worked more than 20 years both in front of and behind the cameras, will be the next Carson Lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Sept. 13. Sh…
09/13/2013
03/22/2006
White will inaugurate Grassland Foundation lecture series April 6
When Courtney White talks about "the working wilderness," he asks the question, "Is the land functioning properly at the fundamental level of soil, grass and water?" White, executive director of The Quivira Coalition, will speak about "The Working Wi…
04/6/2006

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