Thursday, March 10, 2011
White House Asks Swearer to Share Bullying Expertise
Susan Swearer
The Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools and the Obama administration have asked Susan Swearer, associate professor of school psychology, to share her expertise on the causes of and solutions for bullying during a conference this week at the White House.
Swearer, a national expert on the subject, is among a select panel of researchers taking part in the White House Conference on Bullying Prevention, which will take place in the East Room on March 10. The conference, which begins at 9:30 a.m., will be live-streamed at the White House website more...
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7:30PM
Lied Center Hosts Garrison Keillor
Best-selling author, Grammy Award winner, and host of NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion," Garrison Keillor returns to the Lied Center at 7:30 p.m. March 10 with more homespun tales of his Lake Wobegon days.
Tickets are $52/$46/$40 general admission, and $26/$23/$20 for students. Tickets are available by calling 402-472-4747 or at the Lied Center website.
Lectures
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PMA Research & Region Event: Changing Places
Public Panel Presentation moderated by UNL professor Kenneth Price.
Panel members: Eric Sanderson, Wildlife Conservation Society, NYC; Philip Ethington, UCLA professor of history and political science; Kenneth Winkle, UNL professor of history
School of Biological Sciences Seminar - "Sex as an option: reproductive polyphenism in aphids"
Dr. Gregory Davis, Bryn Mawr College
CSE Colloquium Series - "Real-Time System Design Under Physical and Resource Constraints"
Faculty Candidate, Tam Chantem
VAN BRUNT VISITORS CENTER, 4PM
'Celebration of Graduate Student Work' is Today
The annual "Celebration of Graduate Student Work" will be held from noon to 4 p.m., March 10 in the Van Brunt Visitors Center. Twenty-two graduate students from three colleges will display their work at the showcase. The event is free and open to the public.
"This event gives us a wonderful opportunity to showcase the work of our graduate students in the arts in an informal setting, one in which the students can have a personal dialogue with those who come to view the various graduate projects," said Giacomo M. Oliva, dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. "It also offers our graduate students an opportunity to interact and share their work with graduate students from the Colleges of Architecture and Education and Human Sciences." Visitors will have the opportunity to view the work, talk with the graduate students about their creative process and ask questions about their projects. more...
GAUGHAN MULTICULTURAL CENTER ROOM 202, 7:30PM
'Readings From the Underworld' Is Tonight
UNL's Classic Literature Club will host Stanley Lombardo, professor of classic at the University of Kansas, at 7:30 p.m., March 10 in the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center room 202. Lombardo will perform excerpts from his translations of Homer, Virgil and Dante.
The event is free and open to the public.
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.
