Thursday, May 5, 2011
UNL in the National News: April 2011
National media outlets featured and cited UNL sources on a number of topics in the past month. Appearences included features in the Boston Globe and BigThink on Sarah Gervais' research research into the effects of the "objectifying gaze." Kenneth Price, English and American literature, was the subject of wide national coverage April 12, when he announced his find of nearly 3,000 previously unknown documents by Walt Whitman in the National Archives. This discovery was covered by The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Reuters, and others.
Dussault Selected as Dean of Graduate Studies
Patrick Dussault
Patrick Dussault, Charles Bessey professor of chemistry at UNL, has been selected the new dean of Graduate Studies at the university. Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Ellen Weissinger announced the appointment today. Dussault will take over duties as graduate dean June 1, pending approval by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.
Dussault has been at UNL since 1988, as assistant professor (1988-94), associate professor (1994-2001) and full professor. He was chemistry department chair from 2001-2007. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from University of California at Irvine, and a Ph.D in organic chemistry from California Institute of Technology. His research interests are peroxide synthesis, oxidations in organic chemistry, chemical biology and nanostructured materials. He was a postdoctoral fellow for the National Cancer Institute at Duke University. from Today@UNL
Spring Semester Final Exams this Week
Finals week begins this week. Students can review the final exam schedule available from the Record and Registration website.
Need a quiet place to study? Try the Career Resource Center, Room 225 in the Nebraska Union. Career Services is offering private rooms and a quiet study atmosphere 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. during finals week May 2-6. Open to all UNL students and free Pepsi while supplies last.
Lectures
FILLEY HALL ROOM 210, 1:30PMDepartment of Agricultural Economics Seminar Series - "2010 Census Results and Nebraska's Changing Demographics"
David Drozd, Research Coordinator at Center for Public Affairs Research,
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Policy is Critical Piece of Water for Food Puzzle
Of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute's three focus areas - research, education and policy - it may be the last one that proves most daunting in determining how to feed a growing world population with less water, several experts said May 4. Read the rest of this story at Today@UNL.
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Video from the Conference:
- Keynote dialogue (with Jeff Raikes, Kebede Ayele, and Soumen Biswas)
- Industry Leaders Panel (featuring Mogens Bay, chairman and CEO, Valmont Industries; Carl Hausmann, managing director, Global Government and Corporate Affairs, Bunge Ltd.; and Kerry Preete, senior vice president of global strategy, Monsanto Co.; moderated by John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, Harvard University)
- Crop Water Productivity: Filling the Gaps (featuring Pasquale Steduto, head, Water Unit, and deputy director, Land and Water Division, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Italy)
Student Move Out Beginning
Finals week begins today. During this time, UNL will have approximately 5,000 students moving out of the residence halls.
Plan for extra travel time because areas around the residence halls will be congested. Watch for barricades, closed traffic lanes, and parking cadets providing traffic control. If possible, consider alternate parking and/or travel routes to avoid areas around residence halls through May 6.
