Thursday, April 21, 2011
Grad Student, Jennifer Birdsall, Chosen for Fulbright Fellowship
Jennifer Birdsall
UNL graduate student Jennifer Birdsall will take her passion for teaching to another continent this fall through a Fulbright scholarship. Birdsall, who teaches K-5 students with behavioral disorders for Lincoln Public Schools, will travel to Macedonia to help teach English under the Fulbright program.
She will graduate with her master's degree in educational administration from UNL this summer and will travel to Macedonia in October. Birdsall has never studied abroad before or visited Macedonia, but she was drawn to the country through research.
In Macedonia, Birdsall wants to create an electronic pen-pal program between American and Macedonian students. She will use email, Facebook, YouTube, Skype and Twitter to give the students a chance to connect. The plan would let students see how kids their age live in a foreign country. Read more about Jennifer...
Chinese Textiles Scholar's Lecture
Deqing Qin
Deqing Qin, a visiting textiles and clothing design professor from Quingdao University, Shandong Province, China, will deliver a public lecture today. The lecture is 4 to 5 p.m. in Room 225 of the Home Economics Building.
Qin will show design work she is completing during her time in the Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design and also will present work of the fashion design students from Quingdao University. Her sculptural forms use bound resist, metallic devore, and acid dye on silver and gold fabrics.
Her completed work will be on display May 23 to June 3 in the Rotunda Gallery at the Nebraska Union.
HARDIN HALL, 2:00PM
Grassland Studies Hosts Earth Day Celebration
Starting at 2 p.m. today on the second floor of Hardin Hall, the celebration will feature a brief talks and a reception for the book "Generations of Land: Conservation Legacy." The book presents stories of past recipients of the Leopold Conservation Award. Jaclyn Wilson, featured in the book and whose family received the 2006 Leopold Conservation Award, will attend. Read more about this event.
Lectures
JACKIE GAUGHAN MULTICULTURAL CENTER 9:00AM, Romm 202UNL Libraries Visiting Scholar - A Skunk in the Library
Bethany Nowviskie, Director of Digital Research and Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library
Brownbag Lunch Series: Ethics Across the Disciplines - Bullying
Dr. Susan M. Swearer, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Entrepreneur in Residence
Bill and Lee Sapp, Tom and Nancy Osborne
The Discursive Construction of Social Antagonisms - Humanities on the Edge: The Political Turn
Ernesto Laclau, Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Essex and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University
Focus Nebraska
Joel Sartore
Law and Psychology Conference Continues
The conference is free and open to faculty, staff, students and the public.
Today's sessions include: Disability Law and Mental Illness, and Race, Ethnicity, and the Law. Find more information about the conference.
ARCHITECTURE HALL, Kruger Gallery
Kruger miniature gallery presents 'Design Process'
"Spoonocrity" a roombox by third-year interior design student Chynna LaPole. This roombox contains a Sheraton plate stand that functions as a plate and utensil holder.
A new Kruger Gallery exhibition explores the steps a designer takes to understand design problems and develop a final product. The exhibit, "Design Process," runs through March 16, 2012.
This exhibition features the design process of select miniature makers and historic furniture designers, and the process used by collection namesake, Eloise Kruger, to design her miniature collection. Read more about the Kruger Gallery exhibition.
Campus Band Performance
The UNL Campus Band will perform at 7:30 p.m., today in Kimball Recital Hall. General admission is $5 and student/senior admission is $3. Tickets are available for purchase beginning at 6:30.
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/uop.
The Woodmans; Win Win at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Woodmans and Win Win. The Woodmans will screen through Apr. 21, while Win Win will show through May 5.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
