Tuesday, November 2, 2010
NET Offers Election Coverage
As part of "Campaign Connection 2010," NET News will provide extensive coverage of election results on General Election Day, Nov. 2.
NET Radio will carry National Public Radio's continuous news coverage beginning at 7 p.m. Locally, NET News will update radio listeners several times each hour after polls close at 8 p.m. Coverage will include the latest numbers from the polls, news focusing on national and statewide races affecting Nebraska and reaction from candidates across the state. more...
NET NEBRASKAHARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 7PM
Paul Alan Cox
Ethnobotanist to Speak Nov. 2-3 on Modern Medicine, Indigenous Knowledge
Ethnobotanist Paul Alan Cox promotes preserving natural resources by preserving traditional ways of life and believes new cures might be found by studying patterns of wellness and disease among indigenous peoples. On Nov. 2 and 3, Cox, executive director of the Institute for Ethnomedicine in Jackson Hole, Wyo., will give presentations at the School of Natural Resources.
Cox will speak on "Indigenous People and Island Conservation" on Nov. 2, at 7 p.m., a talk geared for a general audience. On Nov. 3 at 3:30 p.m., he will present "Linking Environmental Health to Human Health: Cyanobacterial Blooms and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)," which will be a more technical presentation. Both events will be in the Hardin Hall auditorium at 33rd and Holdredge streets and are free and open to the public. more...
Lectures
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 4PMEntomology Seminar - "Plant resistance as a management tool for soybean aphids"
Travis Prochaska, Entomology Graduate Student
Patrice McMahon
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 7PMMcMahon Continues Nebraska Colloquium Series
Patrice McMahon, associate professor of political science, will deliver "Networked Governance: Strengthening American Power or Signaling Its Demise" at 7 p.m., Nov. 2 in the Nebraska Union auditorium as part of the Nebraska Colloquium lecture series. This event is free and open to the public.
McMahon's specialized fields of interest include international security, international relations and comparative politics. She has co-edited and written for books on U.S. foreign policy and human rights and has journals published in Political Science Quarterly, Ethnopolitics and Democratization. more...
Researchers Find Schools That Ban Junk Food at Mealtime are 18% Lighter
Here's some simple math for school officials and parents in the fight against childhood obesity: School lunchtimes minus snack food equals a much lighter student body. Literally.
A new study from UNL has directly estimated the relationship between school food policies and students' weight by examining nutrition policies in schools and coupling it with survey information from students, parents and school administrators. more...
Never Let Me Go; Cairo Time Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Never Let Me Go and Cairo Time. Cairo Time will show through Nov. 4, while Never Let Me Go will screen through Nov. 11.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
