Thursday February 18, 2010
UNL Names Law Faculty Member Poser Dean of College of Law
Susan Poser, a professor of law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law and chief of staff and associate to the chancellor, has accepted appointment as the dean of the UNL College of Law. The appointment, pending approval by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, was announced today by Ellen Weissinger, UNL's interim senior vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Poser became chief of staff and associate to the chancellor at UNL in 2007, and has been a professor at the UNL College of Law since joining the faculty full-time in 1999, being promoted to associate professor in 2004 and full professor in 2008. In 2005, Poser became director of UNL's Robert J. Kutak Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics. The center's mission is to serve as a resource for faculty who want to integrate ethics into their teaching and research. She has been on the Women's and Gender Studies faculty, the Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women, and served as chair of the University of Nebraska System-wide Gender Equity Committee. In 2005 she received the Law College's Distinguished Teaching Award. more...
Lectures
HAMILTON HALL ROOM 110, 3:30PMSchool of Biological Sciences Seminar Series - "Sexual conflict and condition-dependence in the evolution of sexual dimorphism"
Locke Rowe, University of Toronto
Honors Forum - a Nebraska Colloquium event - "Buddhist Approaches to Enlightenment"
Yaroslav Komarovski, UNL Assistant Professor
Great Plains Art Museum Hosts Two New Exhibits
The Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting the watercolors of Arthur Short Bull and 'Searching for Real Nebraska' in exhibitions that will show through March 28.
Short Bull's 'Places & Narratives' concentrates on areas and events of spiritual significance to the Lakota people. Being raised in a traditional family on the Pine Ridge Reservation gives Short Bull special insight into the history, culture and spirituality of the Lakotas. more...
'Searching for Real Nebraska' presents the work of four UNL photojournalism students who traveled across the state in a camping trailer, keeping a web log of their experiences along the way. They met with Nebraskans in every scale of town, every stage of life, and every degree of intimacy with current economic conditions. more...
UNL Student, Staff Volunteers Helping Complete Tax Returns
Approximately 60 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students and staff have completed nearly 450 tax returns thus far this winter to assist low- to moderate-income families and fellow students. Last year, UNL students completed 785 tax returns and netted families more than $1.1 million in total refunds and $371,000 in earned income credit. Sessions continue through March 10.
The student volunteers completed tax law and software training in their free time to become certified tax preparers. In its fourth year, the UNL Volunteer Income Tax Assistance super site is a community and campus collaboration, and has increased the financial security of working families while creating ties for students between volunteer work and academic study. Student volunteers came from a wide range of majors such as accounting, pre-law and sociology. Spanish majors served as translators. more...
Into Temptation, Oscar-Nominated Crazy Heart Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Into Temptation and Crazy Heart. Into Temptation will show through Feb. 18, while Crazy Heart will show through Feb. 25.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
H1N1 Page at UNL Monitors Flu
The university continues to closely monitor the worldwide and local impact of H1N1 flu. At this time there is no immediate impact on UNL, its community or operations, except heightened alert and awareness, and efforts to communicate the necessity of proper hygiene and stemming the spread of the virus.
For more information, including Student and Employee attendence policies, visit the H1N1 Information page at http://emergency.unl.edu/.
