Thursday April 1, 2010
UNL Professors Featured in Program on Economy
NET Television will debut their 30 minute "Nebraska's Economy 2010," at 8 p.m. on NET1. UNL Professors Eric Thompson (Bureau of Business Research) and Bruce Johnson (Agricultural Economics) are part of a panel of economists in the program.
Additional airings of the program will be Sunday, April 4 at Noon on NET1; Wednesday, April 28 at 11:30 p.m. CT on NET1, Friday, April 30 at 6 p.m. CT on NET1; Tuesday, April 6 at 8 p.m., Sunday April 18 at 9 p.m., and Friday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. on NET2.
NEBRASKA'S ECONOMY 2010
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NPR Correspondent Gifford is Thompson Forum Speaker
"China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power," is the title of National Public Radio correspondent Rob Gifford's lecture as part of the final 2009-10 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He will speak at 7 p.m. April 1 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Gifford first went to China in 1987, as a 20-year-old undergraduate, to study the Chinese language. He has spent much of the last 20 years living in and reporting on the rise of China, most recently as Beijing Correspondent of National Public Radio. In his recently published book, "China Road," he records a two- month journey along Route 312, the Chinese equivalent of Route 66. The road flows 3,000 miles east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down. more....
E.N. THOMPSON FORUM
Hedges To Present on Social and Educational Experiments
Dr. Larry Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy and Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, will present a lecture titled, "Social and Educational Experiments: What are They and Why Do We Need Them?" at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
Hedges will present a general introduction to randomized trials in the social and behavioral sciences. After establishing a brief history and rationale, he will raise potential ethical issues in using randomization in social and education studies, illustrating the sampling issues that make social and education experiments more challenging than laboratory experiments. His talk is being presented by The Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools and The National Center for Research on Rural Education, in conjunction with the Survey, Statistics, and Psychometrics Core Facility. more...
Comedian Aziz Ansari Cancels Show
Aziz Ansari has cancelled his April 6 show at UNL, sponsored by the University Program Council. All tickets will be refunded at the outlet where they were originally purchased, less a $2.00 facility fee.
UPC
"Fill the Fountain" Food Drive is March 29 - April 2
The University Health Center Student Advisory Board and the Afrikan People's Union are holding a "Fill the Fountain" food drive the week of March 29-April 2. Non-perishable food items and personal care items will be collected daily from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. each day near the Broyhill Fountain, 15th and S streets (north side of the Nebraska Union), with all proceeds going to the Food Bank of Lincoln.
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER
A Town Called Panic, The Oscar Nominated Short Films of 2010, Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents A Town Called Panic and the Oscar nominated short films of 2010. All films will screen through April 1.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
Lectures
BEADLE CENTER ROOM E103, 2PMSpecial PSI Seminar - "Lignification of Plant Cell Walls: A Milestone in Plant Evolution"
Dr. Clint Chapple, Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University
Department of Classics & Religious Studies - "Monk, King, and Commoner: Buddhism in Thailand and Southeast Asia"
Professor Donald Swearer, Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School
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/.
