Thursday, October 21, 2010
Secord's Findings May Sway Climate Change Ideas
A newly published paper written by a UNL researcher and his team could influence the way scientists think about global warming and its effects.
Researchers found that a major pulse of ancient global warming may have been more complex than scientists previously believed. This pulse of warming may have been preceded or even caused by an earlier pulse of warming, said Ross Secord, assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Nebraska State Museum. more...
Sheldon hosts 'Fall On Campus Photo Contest'
The Sheldon Museum of Art is inviting students to take on-campus photos illustrating what fall means to them. Students can upload the photo to Facebook and tag the Sheldon to officially enter the contest. The winner will receive a $25 certificate to the Sheldon gift store and a photography book.
Sheldon employees will decide the winner. Students have until Oct. 29 to submit a photo for consideration. More information is available on the Sheldon website.
Voting Open for Ribbon-Cutting Dedication
Three finalists have been chosen in the contest to create a memorable ribbon-cutting at the Jorgensen Hall dedication and win an iPad or dollar-value equivalent in merchandise from the UNL Computer and Phone Shop.
Voting is open through noon on Oct. 22.
Vote for your favorite entry now!
Baenziger to Talk About Globalization of Plants
Stephen Baenziger, Eugene Price Professor of Agronomy and Horticulture, will deliver "As American As Apple Pie: The Globalization of the Plants that Sustain Us," at 7 p.m., Oct. 21 in the Nebraska Union Regency Room as part of the Nebraska Colloquium lecture series.
The Nebraska Colloquium intends to raise the level of intellectual discourse among UNL students, faculty and staff under the framework of a campus-wide theme that serves as an organizing mechanism for unit activities and events that would contribute to the them. The 2010-2011 Nebraska Colloquium focuses on the theme "Globalization's Promise."
NEBRASKA COLLOQUIUMNEBRASKA UNION, 11:30AM - 1:30PM
Student-led advertising competition continues Open Access Week
An informational booth about Open Access, a new mode of delivery for academic research, will be staffed from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Oct. 21-22 in the Nebraska Union. Students can stop by, learn about getting the word out on Open Access and register to win a $50 UNL Computer and Phone Shop gift card.
UNL Libraries, ASUN and the Graduate Student Association are sponsoring an advertising campaign to get the word out about Open Access and to increase submissions to Digital Commons. For every e-mail a student sends to a professor explaining how to use the Digital Commons, he or she will be entered into the $50 UNL Computer and Phone Shop gift card raffle. more...
LIED CENTER, 7:30PM
Capitol Steps Bring Comedy Act to Lied Center
The (in)famous comedy troupe from Washington, the Capitol Steps, bring their insightful, irreverent and always amusing musical humor to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lied Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21. Last seen at the Lied in 2009, the troupe had audiences on both sides of the aisle laughing out loud. The show will feature material from their latest album, "Liberal Shop of Horrors," released earlier this year.
The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom ("Don't quit your day job!"), taken together, the performers have worked in a total of 18 Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience. more...
Lectures
JORGENSEN HALL ROOM 136, 4PMNebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Seminar - "Ferro-Orbital Order and Rich Magnetic Structures of Iron-Based Superconductors"
Dr. Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory, N.Y.
The Cedric Evans Memorial Lecture - "Learning Language"
Ruth G. Millikan, Board of Trustees Distinguished Prof.of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Connecticut
Restrepo; Harmony And Me Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Restrepo and Harmony And Me. Both films will show through Oct. 21.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
