Thursday, February 10, 2011
Career Services to Hold Prep Night for Upcoming Career Fair
UNL Career Services is hosting a Prep Night from 4-7 p.m., Feb. 10 to show students to make the most of the upcoming Spring Career Fair.
An panel of employers will be available from 4-5 p.m. to discuss what they look for in prospective employees. Resume reviews will then take place from 5-7 p.m. Attending this event is sure to help any student be ready for the Spring Career Fair on Feb. 15 and 16.
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS JOHNNY CARSON THEATRE, 7:30PM
'Happy Days' to play Johnny Carson Theatre
Thomas Lowry
The Lied Center for Performing Arts has teamed with Tada Productions to present "Happy Days: A New Musical," Feb. 10-13 and Feb. 17-20 in the Johnny Carson Theatre. Show times are 7 p.m., Feb. 10-11 and 17-18 and 2 p.m. Feb. 13 and 20. Tickets are $20 and are available through the Lied box office or their website.
The musical is based on Paramount Pictures' hit television series "Happy Days." Complete with varsity sweaters, hula hoops and jukebox sock hopping, the performance reintroduces one of America's best-loved families, the Cunninghams, as well as the gang at Arnolds. more...
Celebration of Teaching and Learning is Today
Carol Geary Schneider
Carol Geary Schneider, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, returns to UNL Feb. 10 for a one-day symposium celebrating UNL's efforts to improve undergraduate education. A public presentation runs from 2-3:15 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Auditorium with a reception and poster session to follow in the Heritage Room. All faculty and interested members of the UNL community are encouraged to attend the presentation and reception.
Geary Schneider's visit celebrates UNL's first year of Achievement-Centered Education and our on-going work to enhance teaching, learning, and assessment through efforts such as the Peer Review of Teaching; the Faculty Leadership for Writing Initiative; Program Excellence through Assessment, Research, and Learning; and Liberal Education and America's Promise. more...
ANDREWS HALL ROOM 228, 7:30PM
Watkins to Speak on Renaissance Queenship
John Watkins
The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program will host a lecture from John Watkins at 7:30 p.m. in Andrews Hall Room 228. Watkins will be presenting a lecture titled, "Drinking from Your Father's Skull: Late Antique Pre-history of Renaissance Queenship."
Watkins is a professor of English at University of Minnesota. His areas of expertise are sovereignty and queenship, medieval and early modern diplomacy, and premodern political culture.
ACE Course Instructors Encouraged to Submit Grant Proposals
Instructors who teach large, introductory ACE-certified courses are invited to submit grant proposals for the Course Impact Project. The deadline for proposals is Feb. 28. More information and proposal forms can be found at the OUS website.
Approved in January 2008 by UNL faculty, the Achievement-Centered General Education Program is built on student learning outcomes that answer the fundamental question, "What should all undergraduate students--irrespective of their majors and career aspirations--know or be able to do upon graduation?"
Another Year; The Illusionist Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Another Year and The Illusionist. Both films will screen through Feb. 17.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
