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Tue, Mar 30, 2004

MARCH 30, 2004

STREET CLOSINGS
17th, Y Streets to Close

As part of the Antelope Valley Project construction, North 17th Street from Y to Holdrege streets will is closed to through traffic as of 9am yesterday morning. Y Street also will close between 16th and 17th. The closures are expected to last two to three months. The sections will remain open to local traffic only. The closure of these sections will allow for the completion of the new connections between Y and 17th streets to the east.

ANTELOPE VALLEY PROJECT

N172 BEADLE, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry and Redox Biology Center Seminar - 'PI3-kinase-dependent Regulation of Methionine Synthase Activity: Implications for Developmental Disorders Including Autism'
Richard Deth, Northeastern University

NEBRASKA UNION, 5:30PM
College of Education and Human Sciences Lecture - 'Remembering Freedom Summer'
Charles M. Payne, Duke University

TUESDAY, 4PM, NEBRASKA UNION (live webcast, Quicktime required)
Moulton to Present Nebraska Lecture

Gary Moulton, Thomas Sorensen professor of American history at UNL, will deliver the next Nebraska Lecture: The Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture, Sampling Lewis and Clark: Selected Readings from the Journals and Discussion of Events in Context, begins at 4pm today in the Nebraska Union Auditorium, 1400 R St. The lecture is free and open to the public.


	Gary Moulton

At the lecture, Moulton will read selections from the explorers' journals, and then place the selections into historical context.

Moulton is an internationally recognized scholar and expert who recently completed editing a 13-volume series The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark. The series, published by the University of Nebraska Press, was a 20-year project for Moulton, who notes it took him 10 times longer to edit and publish the journals than it took the explorers to complete the expedition.

Moulton began the project in 1979, after having been recruited to join the university's Center for Great Plains Studies to edit the historic journals. The final book in the series, an abridged edition, condensing some 5,500 journal pages into one volume, was published in 2003.

This historian and documentary editor got his start in a specialized field as editor of The Papers of Chief John Ross, a four-year project by the National Archives. He earned his Ph.D. and his M.A. at Oklahoma State University, and then became assistant professor of history at Southwestern Oklahoma State University where he worked on the John Ross project.

Moulton's stature as an editor and historian increased with each published volume. He is the recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Award of the American Historical Association for the editing of the Lewis and Clark journals, and he won the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award in 2001 from the University of Nebraska. In December 2003, the Omaha World-Herald named him its 'Midlander of the Year.'

The lecture will be videostreamed live at this link. A reception follows the lecture in the Regency Room of the Nebraska Union.

The Nebraska Lectures: The Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series are co-sponsored by the UNL Research Council, the Office of the Chancellor and the Office of Research and Graduate Studies. This particular lecture also is sponsored by the Nebraska Humanities Council and the University of Nebraska Press.

HISTORY