Tuesday, August 23, 2011
N The Know Discusses Fellowships
In this episode of "N The Know," University of Nebraska-Lincoln Director of Undergraduate Research and Fellowship Advisor Laura Damuth discusses student achievements at UNL. See all of our fellowship recipients at http://go.unl.edu/fellowships
Campus Rec Centers offer free fitness classes this week
All group fitness and mind/body classes at the Campus Rec centers are free Aug. 22-28. Ninety-nine classes will be offered during the week at varying times each day. Fitness classes are open to currently enrolled UNL students and Campus Rec members.
Most classes are offered weekdays, 6:15 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the Campus Rec Center and during the noon lunch hour at the East Campus Activities Building. A limited number of classes meet on weekends. Read more about these classes on Today@UNL.
Sand Volleyball, Flag Football, and Softball leagues now forming
Upcoming registration deadlines are rapidly approaching for fall intramural sports. Visit the Intramural Office to sign-up a team or get more information on the Campus Rec website.
Upcoming deadlines include:
- 4-on-4 Sand Volleyball: Registration Due: August 24th, Play Starts August 30th
- Tennis Singles and Doubles: Registration Due: August 30th, Play Starts Sept. 6th
Lectures
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM, NOONTuesday Talk: "Chinese Mosaic Patchwork"
Marin Hanson, IQSCM Curator of Exhibitions
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Ryan Larson of Fullerton, NE, right, helps Taylor Walgren of Osceola, NE, pile her belongings onto a cart as she moves into the Harper Schramm Smith Residence Halls. Residence hall move in days, August 18, 2011. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Breanna Borenpohl talks with Ashley Hughes in the Schramm Residence Hall elevator Thursday. The two freshman from Tecumseh, NE, are roommates. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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It takes many hands to zip a futon mattress into its cover. Powers Schurrer, right, gets help arranging his residence hall room from his sister, Annah, mom, Colleen, and dad, Mike. Powers is a freshman. Annah is a third year architecture student. They are all from Yankton, SD. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Roommates Alex Carr, left, and Michael Cerone, both Millard South graduates, work to loft Carr's bed as part of moving in day. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Jordan Baumbachm, a junior from McCook, NE, helps her brother, Brad, make his bed during move in day. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Ashley Pieper, right, Kimberly Folk, center, and Ashley's mom, Michelle, find a comfortable place to talk in the hall while Ashley's brothers and dad try to assemble a futon frame in the room. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Shawn Erwin, a sophomore from Fort Calhoun, NE, assembles a futon with his dad, Tim. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Tyler Maguire, a freshman from Norfolk, NE, carries his clothes into Harper Residence Hall. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Miranda Benneman, a sophomore from Omaha, carries her belongings into her room in the Village, an apartment-style residence hall. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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From right, Aliza Brugger, Elizabeth Winans, Ethan Bonham and Mike Eversoll recite the Cornhusker Pledge at the New Student Convocation at the Devaney Center. The annual Big Red Welcome for thousands of new and returning Huskers starts today with New Student Convocation. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Thousands of freshman students return from the New Student Convocation at the Devaney Center. The annual Big Red Welcome for thousands of new and returning Huskers starts today with New Student Convocation. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Mellophone player Erica Ahlschwede flows with the rest of the Cornhusker Marching Band. The blur is caused by a slow shutter speed. The annual Big Red Welcome for thousands of new and returning Huskers starts today with New Student Convocation. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Andrew Nguyen, a senior from Lincoln, is held aloft by the other members of the trombone section after Nguyen won the march off contest held during the marching band concert. A full slate of welcome back events, including a celebration and festival, continue through Aug. 21. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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New students participating in the tunnel walk rush onto the Memorial Stadium field. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Caitlin Klosterman, left, and Abby Uecker hug after opening their bids Saturday afternoon. The two were both accepted into Kappa Kappa Gamma. Sorority Recruitment Bid Day 2011. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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New members of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority run toward their house along S Street. Sorority Recruitment Bid Day 2011. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Alpha Phi upperclassmen greet their new sorority sisters Saturday afternoon in a controlled collision of hugs and screams. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
Helpful links
New buildings, construction for semester
Four new buildings at or near completion greet UNL faculty, staff and students as the fall semester begins today.
They include the Nanoscience Metrology Facility at 16th and W streets at the north end of the Jorgensen Hall, the physics building that opened last year. The 32,000-square-foot building will provide state-of-the-art laboratories, shared research facilities and administrative space in a central location. Core facilities, equipment, labs and faculty currently are located in several buildings across campus. Half of its $13.8 million cost came from $6.9 million of federal stimulus funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The building is scheduled to be ready for occupancy in early December.
Two major practice facilities in Athletics are also scheduled to open this fall. The $18.7 million Hendricks Training Complex on the south side of the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Nebraska Innovation Campus will include a new men's and women's basketball practice facility and create space for a new wrestling facility. The complex has 71,420 square feet of new construction, plus 4,000 square feet of renovation in the Devaney Center. A $4.75 million indoor practice facility for baseball and softball is scheduled to be completed in September north of Haymarket Park and east of Bowlin Stadium. The 22,000-square foot building will feature a large indoor practice area, along with restrooms and storage facilities. Read more about campus updates on Today@UNL.
The CMS detector before testing using muon cosmic rays that are produced as high-energy particles from space crash into the Earth's atmosphere generating a cascade of energetic particles.
LHC experiments eliminate more hiding spots for Higgs boson
Two experimental collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, announced today that they have significantly narrowed the mass region in which the Higgs boson could be hiding. The ATLAS and CMS experiments excluded with 95 percent certainty the existence of a Higgs over most of the mass region from 145 to 466 GeV (giga, or billion, electron volts). They announced the new results at the biennial Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India.
Watch a video of Gregory Snow discussing the Higgs boson particle.The Higgs particle is the last not-yet-observed piece of the theoretical framework known as the Standard Model of particles and forces. According to the Standard Model, the Higgs boson explains why some particles have mass and others do not.
"This is a really significant result and I would say that in a way, it's the most important result that has emerged since the Large Hadron Collider came into operation a year and a half ago," said Greg Snow, professor of physics and astronomy at UNL, founding member of UNL's experimental high-energy physics team, and a collaborator on the CMS experiment since 1993. Read more about this breakthrough on Today@UNL.
Great Plains Quarterly features immigration, Yankton Sioux, time zones
In the summer issue of Great Plains Quarterly, an academic journal published by the Center for Great Plains Studies, researchers wrote about late 19th-century immigration to the Great Plains, the political economy of the Yankton Sioux during the 1930s, and social disruption created by the current time zone boundaries.
In "Immigration to the Great Plains, 1865-1914: War, Politics, Technology and Economic Development," Bruce Garver explores the immigration to the Great Plains in the context of the international political and economic changes. He writes about the transformation of the Great Plains from a sparsely inhabited frontier to a region of thriving cities and commercial agriculture. "This transformation took place in the remarkably short time of 49 years, during which Europe and North America enjoyed unprecedented peace and prosperity," wrote Garver, professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Read more about Great Plains Quarterly on Today@UNL.
