FEBRUARY 15, 2005
NEBRASKA UNION BALLROOM, 11AM
- 5PM
Spring Blood
Drive Starts Today
In conjunction with the Community Blood
Bank of the Lancaster County Medical Society, the University of Nebraska
- Lincoln will be holding a spring blood drive in the Nebraska Union
Ballroom today, tomorrow, and Thursday, Feb 17 from 11am - 5pm daily.
You can register
on the web for a time that suits your needs best, and walk-ins
are also welcome.
As a proud member of America's Blood Centers network of 500 community-based
blood centers in 46 states, the CBB distributes a portion of the
blood supplied to more than half of the nation's 6,000 hospitals.
In fact, through this affiliation with America's Blood Centers, CBB
has helped respond to some of our nation's urgent calls for blood;
the Oklahoma City bombings, the Columbine shootings, and the attacks
on the World Trade Center.
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UNION SQUARE AND UNION PLAZA, 10AM - 7PM
International Student Organization Sponsors Tsunami Relief Fund-Raising Event
he University of Nebraska-Lincoln International Student Organization and its special interest group, Tsunami Relief Effort, have organized a fund-raising event for Feb. 15 with support from the offices of International Affairs and the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. The event will be in the Union Square and the Union Plaza areas at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., and is open to the public.
The day will begin at 10:30 am with a poster exhibit of the Dec. 26 tsunami disaster in many countries of South and Southeast Asia, presented by UNL international student associations. Representatives from affected countries are available for questions at booths that will accompany the exhibit. This exhibit will continue until 7 pm In conjunction with the poster exhibit, individual country presentations will begin at 12:30 pm and last until 1:30 pm in the Union Square. In the evening, a candlelight vigil in memoriam to the tsunami victims will be held in the Union Square and then in the Union Plaza. A slide program will be shown, along with remarks from university officials and personal testimonies by representatives from different South and Southeast Asian countries. The evening will conclude with a moment of silence and a song.
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HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY, UNTIL MARCH 4
Lentz Exhibits Japanese Sword Collection of Prof. Peter Bleed Ph.D.
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Tsubas (sword guards), Japan
from the Collection of
Peter Bleed, Ph.D. |
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The Lentz Center for Asian
Culture is happy to announce its winter exhibition, "Steel Art: Japanese
Swords from the Collection of Prof. Peter Bleed, Ph.D.," beginning
February 15 through May 8th. An opening reception, free and open
to the public, will be held on Saturday, February 19th, from 2:00-4:30
pm.
Professor Bleed is an Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of Anthropology. He has been involved in studying Japan since his graduate school days at the University of Wisconsin when he wrote his dissertation on early Japanese ceramics. His studies have included numerous stays in Japan.
Well known as a sword collector, Professor Bleed has not shown his swords at the Lentz Center for more than a decade. During that time he has added to the collection. The exhibition will include a sword from the Han Dynasty in China (206 BCE-222 AD) and one from the Nara Period in Japan (645-749 AD). Most of the swords are from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The collection includes long and short swords, various types of blades, fittings and tsubas (sword guards). A samurai helmet and matchlock pistols will also be on display. Other relevant objects from the Lentz collections will be on exhibition as well.
Professor Bleed aided Donald and Velma Lentz in their founding and early management
of the Lentz Center for Asian Culture and is a member of the Center's Policy
Advisory Board. We are especially happy that he is sharing his collection with
the museum.
The Lentz Center for Asian Culture recognizes the rich and varied cultures of
the many diverse peoples of Asia. As an entity within the University of Nebraska
- Lincoln, the LCAC's unique collection provides a singular opportunity for enhancing
instructional programs on the campus as well as enriching the cultural environment
of the citizens of the State of Nebraska. It is dedicated to the enrichment of
knowledge and understanding of Asia, and is the only institution in Nebraska
devoted solely to Asian art.
The Lentz Center is located in the lower level of the Hewit Place building, across from the Lied Center for Performing Arts, at 1155 Q Street. Hours are 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Friday, 11 am to 5:00 pm Saturdays and 1:30 to 4 pm Sundays. It is closed Mondays.
LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
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UNL CAMPUS
UNL's Peer Review of Teaching Project Wins National Recognition
A ten-year-old program to improve teaching at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has won national recognition.
UNL's Peer Review of Teaching project received a TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. The award was announced Feb. 14 in Washington, D.C., at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education. UNL's program was one of only three that were selected by the judges to receive a Certificate of Excellence in the competitive award. The grand-prize winner, Wagner College, received $25,000. The U.S. Military Academy (West Point) and the University of Wisconsin System also received Certificates of Excellence.
The TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Award recognizes exceptional faculty development programs designed to enhance undergraduate teaching and learning. Named in honor of Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, the award is given annually program judged to have best met the three award criteria: significance of the program to higher education; appropriate program rationale; and successful results and impact on undergraduate teaching and student learning.
Project co-directors Paul Savory, Amy Burnett and Amy Goodburn along with Dave Wilson collected the award. Savory is an associate professor of industrial management. Goodburn is an associate professor of English and women's studies. Burnett is an associate professor of history. Wilson is special assistant for faculty development in the UNL's office of academic affairs.
The UNL project is an intensive year-long program in which faculty deeply examine and reflect with others on how their teaching supports student learning. Through conversations, writing and analysis, participants document, test and assess their teaching using a model similar to that used when conducting scholarly research. The model validates the notion that teaching is an intellectually rigorous activity, Goodburn said.
"It allows you to represent the intellectual work that goes into developing and teaching a course," she said.
UNL started the peer review of teaching project in 1994 when five faculty members attended a meeting sponsored by the American Association for Higher Education. A grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education along with funding from Academic Affairs funded the project from 1995-1998. In 1999, UNL landed a $750,000 grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, and $120,000 from the Hewlett Foundation to disseminate the model to four partner campuses. All along, Academic Affairs has provided funds to continue the on-campus effort.
Barbara Couture, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, praised the work of the co-directors.
"This faculty-driven initiative emphasizes the intellectual and scholarly work of teaching, an effort that supports our faculty and helps ensure that our students have the best educational experience that we can deliver," she said. "We are proud of the excellent work done by Amy Burnett, Amy Goodburn, and Paul Savory and the many other faculty members who have participated in this project for bringing this honor to UNL."
Since its inception, 101 UNL faculty members from 28 departments in eight different colleges have completed the project. A national conference last spring attracted nearly 200 faculty from across the country. And a book, The Peer Review of Teaching: Excellence in Student Learning Made Visible, is under contract with Anker Publishing and is due out next fall.
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105 OTHMER HALL, 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar - 'A Way to Search for New Smart Materials with 'Unlikely' Combinations of Physical Properties'
Richard D. James, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
211 BRACE, 4PM
Phi Beta Kappa Lecture - 'Probabilities in Physics: From Quantum Entanglement to Classical Ignorance'
Dr. Wojciech Zurek, Los Alamos National Lab
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry and Redox Biology Center Seminar - 'Folate Prevention of Fumonisin-Induced Neural Tube Defects: Mechanisms Involving Restoration of Redox Homeostasis'
Dr. Janee Gelineau-van Waes, UNMC
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