Wednesday, September 8, 2010
UNL Celebrates Residential Energy Efficiency Research Partnership
UNL today celebrates a new research partnership between our researchers and the building industry to help dramatically improve energy efficiency in America's homes. A UNL-led team is one of 15 research and deployment partnerships nationwide selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop technologies that save energy and enhance comfort in existing and new homes. UNL engineers and architects are partnering with University of Florida researchers, Nebraska-based home builders, remodelers, the cities of Lincoln and Omaha, and others on the DOE-funded project.
The campus community is invited to an announcement celebration today (Wednesday, Sept. 8) at 10 a.m. at the Peter Kiewit Institute's atrium, 1110 S. 67th Street, in Omaha. Chancellor Harvey Perlman, Prem Paul, vice chancellor for research and economic development, and project leader Jonathan Shi, professor in the College of Engineering's Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, will discuss project details and introduce faculty and industry partners.
Legal Scholar to Address Multiple Aspects of Water Allocation
Eric Freyfogle
What would it mean to use water "wisely" in a time of looming water shortages? Professor Eric Freyfogle, J.D., will answer that question in "The Good Use of Water," a free on talk Wednesday, September 8, at 3:30 p.m. in the Hardin Hall Auditorium at 33rd and Holdrege streets.
Freyfogle, the Max L. Rowe Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, will be the first speaker in the 2010 Research Seminar Series sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s School of Natural Resources. more....
Forsberg to Receive Book Prize, Open Olson Seminar Series
Lincoln photographer Michael Forsberg will receive the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize from the Center for Great Plains Studies and deliver the center's first 2010-11 Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies Sept. 8.
Forsberg won the $5,000 award for "Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild," produced with noted writer Dan O'Brien, Great Plains scholar David Wishart and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser, and published by Chicago University Press. more...
Health Center Hosts 'Insurance 101'
The University Health Center is sponsoring "Insurance 101: The Basics," a one-hour informational session about the UNL Healthy Option Student Plan and general insurance questions. Sessions are scheduled at noon and 6 p.m. Sept. 8 at the UHC in Conference Rooms A, B and C. Food and refreshments will be served.
Insurance 101 will provide a plan overview, review of plan benefits, and a question-and-answer session. There is no cost for the sessions. more...
Lectures
BEADLE CENTER ROOM E103, 4PMBiotechnology/Life Sciences Fall 2010 Seminar Series - "Protein Intrinsic Disorder and Cell Signaling"
A. Keith Dunker, Indiana University School of Medicine
Get Low; Exit Through The Gift Shop Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Get Low and Exit Through The Gift Shop. Both films will show through Sept. 7.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
