Monday, March 7, 2011
Dean candidate Law at public presentation today
Mark Law
Mark Law, a candidate for dean of the College of Engineering, is one of five selected by the search committee for campus visits Feb. 20-March 9. Law will give a public presentation 3:30 p.m. today at Walter Scott Engineering Center room 237.
Law is associate dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at Florida, and previously was professor and chair of the university's electrical and computer engineering department. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Iowa State and a master's of electrical engineering at Stanford, also earning his Ph.D at Stanford University. He worked at Hewlett Packard for three years before joining faculty at Florida in 1988. His research interests include integrated circuit devices and reliability.
Lectures
HAMILTON HALL ROOM 548, 3:15PMNebraska Center for Materials & Nanoscience and Dept. of Chemistry Seminar - "Effect of Doped Transition Metals on Hydrogen Interaction in Complex Hydrides"
Qingfeng Ge Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Mathematics colloquium - "Cubic orders and their lattices"
Ryan Karr, University of Central Florida. The talk will be preceded by refreshments at 3:30pm in Avery 348.
Nebraska Center for Materials & Nanoscience and Dept. of Chemistry Seminar - "Top-Down Approach to Fabricate Organic Dyes for Solar Cells"
Dr. Lichang Wang Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program - "The Pastimes of George Ferrers: Reconstructing the Life and Career of a Tudor Renaissance Gentleman"
Charles Beem, University of North Carolina Pembroke
UNL in the National News: February 2011
National media outlets featured and cited UNL sources on a number of topics in the past month. Appearances included:
Wheeler Winston Dixon, film studies, was quoted by the Christian Science Monitor on Feb. 25 in a pre-Oscars piece about the changes in and role of mass media and communication technology in films. On Feb. 27, he was quoted by the Houston Chronicle about the best-film finalists' historical accuracy.
Sarah Gervais, psychology, had her work about the effects of the objectifying gaze on women's cognitive functions featured in a three-page story by ABCNews.com.
KEIM HALL ROOM 264, 4PM
Plant Pathology Lecture Series Continues
The Plant Pathology Department's Spring Seminar series continues March 7 with a lecture by doctoral student Jessie Fernandez. Her lecture, "Redox and Rice Blast: How Sources and Destination of NADPH Facilitate Infection by Magnaporthe oryzae," is at 4 p.m. in 264 Keim Hall.
Fernandez is part of the Wilson research group. Lectures in the series are free and open to the public. more...
Waste Land; Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2011: Animation and Live Action at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Waste Land and Oscar-Nominated Shorts of 2011 in Animation and Live Action. Screenings for all films will run through Mar. 10.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
