Monday, April 4, 2011
J Days 2011 Celebration is April 4-8
J Days is a week-long celebration April 4-8 about the accomplishments of the students and faculty of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. The schedule includes networking, free coffee, Who's Line is it anyway? show with broadcasting, Mocktails with the Ad Club, PB&J day with UNL PRSSA, raffle sponsored by ACES, multiple speakers and more.
Check in to RSVP and get the latest schedule on The Student Advisory Board event page on Facebook.
McCoy Wins BEA Best of Competition Award
Barney McCoy
Barney McCoy, an associate professor of journalism is receiving a Best of Competition award from the Broadcast Education Association in the radio hard news reporting category. He is among 15 faculty and students from across the United States whose work will be honored at the 9th Annual BEA Best of Festival King Foundation Awards Ceremony in Las Vegas, Nev., on April 11.
McCoy's entry, "Kosovo Elections: Democracy in Transition," was broadcast on NET radio. It focused on Kosovo's national election held on Dec. 10, 2010. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February 2008. McCoy lectured at the Kosovo Institute of Journalism and Mass Communications in March 2010 and is currently producing a documentary about the country. more...
Lectures
ANDREWS HALL ROOM 228, 7:30PMMedieval and Renaissance Studies Program Lecture - "Death and the Maiden: Perilous Resonances of Convent Music in Holbein's Dance of Death"
Craig Monson, Washington University
Londa Schiebinger
GAUGHAN MULTICULTURAL CENTER ROOM 212, 7:30PMTalk in Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering is Today
At 7:30 p.m. in Room 212 of Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Londa Schiebinger will introduce the Stanford Gendered Innovations Project, where they are developing state-of-the-art "Methods of Sex and Gender Analysis" for basic and applied research in science, medicine, and engineering. Gendered innovations-fueled by sophisticated gender methods-stimulate the creation of new gender-responsible science and technology, and by doing so enhance the lives of both men and women around the world.
Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science in the History Department at Stanford University and Director of the EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering Project. From 2004-2010, Schiebinger served as the Director of Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. more...
Children take part in an Ivy Day ceremony at the University of Nebraska in 1922. The ceremony dates back to 1889.
Ivy Day Celebrated by Innocents Society, Mortar Board
Students, faculty members and alumni were honored during UNL's annual Ivy Day ceremonies April 2. The event, co-sponsored by Mortar Board and the Innocents Society, recognizes the outstanding contribution of students selected to serve in the two organizations, as well as the achievements of current members and notable underclassmen and seniors.
Ceremonies were at the Nebraska Champions Club. The event concluded with the traditional planting of the ivy by the 2011-12 presidents of the socieities, Alex Brodersen of Coleridge for the Mortar Boards and Callie Helms of Sioux Falls, S.D., for the Innocents Society. more...
Kaboom; Poetry at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Kaboom and Poetry Both films will screen through Apr. 7.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
