Wednesday, January 5, 2011
UNL joins national study to find better, early treatment for schizophrenia
Will Spaulding
UNL researchers are partnering with local mental health care providers in a national study that aims to improve early treatment for people affected by schizophrenia.
The Community Mental Health Center of Lancaster County has been selected to participate in the early treatment study, as a result of efforts coordinated by Will Spaulding, director of the UNL Psychology Department's Serious Mental Illness Research Group.
Lincoln is one of 35 sites nationwide participating in the study. The nationwide effort will gauge the impact of using coordinated and aggressive treatment of schizophrenia during the earliest stages of the illness to reduce the likelihood of long-term disability that people with schizophrenia often experience, help those people lead productive, independent lives and lessen the burden on public systems often tapped to pay for their care. more...
(from left) Chancellor Harvey Perlman, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, and athletic director Tom Osborne
Chancellor Perlman honored as Midlander of the Year
UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman was noted for "Scoring Points for UNL" in a front-page story in the Omaha World-Herald Dec. 26. Perlman is the World-Herald's 2010 Midlander of the Year.
The story by reporter Henry Cordes documents the increase in research funding, rise in national quality rankings, and increases in six-year graduation rates and students with top ACT scores during the past 10 years under Perlman's watch. But the story points to UNL's transition from the Big 12 to the Big Ten as Perlman's "biggest legacy." Sources for the story included former chancellor Graham Spanier, NU president J.B. Milliken, faculty, business leaders and athletic boosters.
Orlan Exhibit Continues at Sheldon
The exhibition "Orlan: The Harlequin Coat" continues at the Sheldon through Jan. 30. The exhibition coincides with the publication "Fabulous Harlequin: Orlan and the Patchwork Self." The book, published by the University of Nebraska Press, was edited by Jorge Daniel Veneciano, director of the Sheldon, and Rhonda Garelick, professor of English and art and director of the Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium.
For four decades Orlan has interrogated every defining aspect of being human - gender, ethnicity, religion, beauty, physiognomy, and even physiology itself - through an endlessly mutating oeuvre that defies categorization. Orlan is most famous for her series of cosmetic-surgery performances in the 1990s in which she reconfigured her face and body as a critique of the standards of beauty imposed on women. more...
