Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Water Seminar to Feature New Bio Sci Director
Valery Forbes
Valery Forbes, the new director of UNL's School of Biological Sciences, will lead a water seminar at 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Jan. 19 in the Hardin Hall auditorium. The lecture, "Assessing Risks of Toxic Chemicals to Aquatic Ecosystems - Challenges and Opportunities," is free and open to the public.
Forbes was appointed director of biological sciences in September. She took over the new post in January. She previously worked at Roskilde University in Denmark in a dual role as dean of natural sciences and head of the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change. Forbes completed her education at State University of New York, earning a doctorate in coastal oceanography and a master's degree in marine environmental science.
Apply for May Graduation by Jan. 28
The deadline to apply for May graduation is Jan. 28. The "Application for Graduation" and $25 fee (for each degree) should be submitted to Graduation Services, 109 Canfield Administration Building.
Forms are available at the registration and records website or in 109 Canfield. The graduate commencement ceremony is May 6; undergraduate commencement is May 7. Graduating students may pick up regalia 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., April 19-20 at the Wick Alumni Center.
Lectures
BEADLE CENTER ROOM N172, 4PMRedox Biology Center/Biochemistry Department Faculty Candidate Seminar - "The Structural Basis of Multifunctionality in a B12 Trafficking Chaperone, CblC"
Markos Koutmos, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan. Refreshments will be available prior to the seminar.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program Lecture - "The Index of Prohibited Books and Hebrew Learning in 16th Century Europe"
Steve Burnett, University of Nebraska
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program Lecture - "Spiritual Meridians: John Dee's Astronomical Influence on Elizabethan Drama"
Jason Gildow, Southeast Community College
Mary Bomberger Brown, Piping plover at nest
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PMEndangered Species Conservation Talk to Lead Off Spring Olson Seminars
A talk on threatened and endangered species conservation will lead off the spring semester series of Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Mary Bomberger Brown will discuss "A Partnership Model for Sustainable Threatened and Endangered Species Conservation in Nebraska: The Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership," in a seminar at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 19 in the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St.
Brown is program coordinator for the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership at UNL. A native Nebraskan, she has held research biologist positions at Princeton, Yale, and Tulsa universities. She studied cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonoto) for 25 years at UNL's Cedar Point Biological Station near Ogallala before moving to the Conservation Partnership. more...
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 7PM
Van den Berg to Lead 19 Honors Forum
Hendrik van den Berg
Hendrik van den Berg, professor of economics, will lead the next Honors Forum lecture, 7 p.m., Jan. 19 in the Nebraska Union auditorium. He will discuss "Rethinking Globalization: How International Economics is Broadening its Perspective."
The lecture is free and open to the public. The Nebraska Colloquium is a series of lectures designed to engage the entire UNL community in thoughtful discussion of important issues. The theme for the 2010-11 series is "Globalization's Promise."
NEBRASKA UNION, 5PM
Student Veterans Group to Meet Today
The University of Nebraska Student Veterans Organization will meet at 5 p.m., Jan. 19 in the Nebraska Union. The UNSVO seeks to help student veterans enrolled at UNL. The group is open to anyone interested in veteran concerns.
The Jan. 19 meeting agenda includes electing officers and planning for spring events. The UNSVO meets at 5 p.m., the second Wednesday of each month. Future meetings are Feb. 9, March 9 and April 13. more...
Tiny Furniture; Made in Dagenham Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Tiny Furniture and Made in Dagenham Tiny Furniture will screen through Jan. 20, while Made in Dagenham will show through Jan. 27.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
