March 30, 2005
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BETWEEN 10 AND 11AM
Don't be Alarmed: Severe Weather Exercise
Today
Sirens will sound at UNL this morning
between 10 and 11am. The exercise is part of Severe Weather Awareness
Week, which runs through April 1. The National Weather Service and
emergency service agencies for Lincoln and Lancaster County sponsor
the statewide Severe Weather Awareness Week each year to foster awareness
of the upcoming tornado season and to test tornado-warning systems
statewide.
At the time of the mock severe weather warning on campus, a simulated
watch message will go out on radio and TV stations statewide. If
this were an actual watch message, it would mean that conditions
were right for possible tornado activity and you should remain alert.
UNL will participate with Emergency Services for Lincoln/Lancaster
County and test its systems when the outdoor sirens are sounded.
All faculty, staff and students should familiarize themselves with
the locations of their designated shelters and the procedures to
follow should UNL be struck by a tornado.
UNL
TORNADO WARNING POLICY | UNL
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STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF INVITED
EAST UNION 2-5PM
Workshop Today on East Campus for
UNL Master Plan Update
A 'visioning' workshop will
be held today in the East Union to solicit input into an update of
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's master physical plan. Jennifer
Dam, campus planner in the Office of Institutional Research and Planning,
said UNL is about midway through updating its master physical plan,
and the workshops are one way for faculty, staff and students to
voice opinions.
A workshop was held yesterday in the Nebraska
Union on City Campus. Today's workshop will be held from 2-5pm tomorrow
in the East Union. It is open to all interested individuals.
NU Central Administration has directed all four NU campuses to update
master plans this year. UNL will be the final campus to present its
plan to the regents in December. Dam said the goal is to have the
plan nearly finalized by late summer so it can be fine-tuned as necessary
before presentation.
The master physical plan lays out ideas about future land uses and
suggests policies for developing the campus, she said. The plan was
last updated in 1998 and typically the university revisits the plan
every seven to 10 years. The plan deals in broad strokes, she said.
For instance, although it states that certain parts of campus should
be generally dedicated as academic space or research space, it doesn't
specify precise future building locations.
Dam said Clark Enersen Partners was hired as consultant on the plan.
The agency has interviewed deans, directors, department chairs and
heads, students and faculty to identify key issues that affect the
future growth and development of the university. more
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INSTITUTIONAL
RESEARCH AND PLANNING
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MAXWELL ARBORETUM, 12:30PM
Watch Spring Bloom at Maxwell
Arboretum
Join Landscape Services grounds supervisor
Emily Levine for a series of hour-long spring walking tours in Maxwell
Arboretum, beginning today at Loerch Gazebo in the arboretum, located
just west of the College of Dentistry on East Campus.
Participants will explore the fast changing spring season through
the diverse plant collections in the arboretum. Today's emphasis
will be on early spring bulbs and flowering shrubs; on April 13,
magnolias and dogwoods; May 4, lilacs and horsechestnuts; and on
May 25, Yeutter Gardens/Fleming Slope and viburnums. All tours will
begin at the Loerch Gazebo at 12:30pm.
LANDSCAPE
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L.W. CHASE HALL, EAST CAMPUS, 3:30PM
UNL School of Natural Resources Research
Seminar - Kremer Memorial Lecture - 'Notes from the Upper Edge of
the Nutrient Spectrum: The Ecology of Waters in Agricultural Watersheds'
John Downing, Iowa State University
E103 BEADLE, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar -
'Reversible Misfolding as a Strategy of Cellular Protein Regulation'
Dr. Randy Hampton, University of California-San
Diego
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