Wednesday, August 31, 2011
UNL kicking off 'Go Green for Big Red' recycling effort
Landscape Services will coordinate a volunteer effort with Recycling Enterprises to encourage recycling at Husker home games again this fall. This effort will focus on parking lots and walkways on the UNL campus around Memorial Stadium.
Recycling bins will be located near waste containers along high-traffic pedestrian walkways leading to Memorial Stadium. Volunteers will walk crowded parking lots with green recycling bags. Tailgaters can take a green bag from the volunteers to keep at their tailgating site to use for plastic and aluminum recycling, and can leave the bags for volunteers to pick up after the game begins. Read more about this effort and how to sign up on Today@UNL.
Pre-proposals sought for early-career research awards
Nebraska EPSCoR's competitive FIRST Award grant program helps fuel research projects of Nebraska's early career faculty. The award grants up to $20,000 for one year, with a 100 percent matching requirement.
Any project that could qualify for support by a National Science Foundation standard research grant is eligible for a FIRST Award. Eligible faculty must be assistant professors in the first four years of a tenure track position and must be eligible to apply for an NSF CAREER Award during the award period. Read more about these award grants on Today@UNL.
Lectures
JORGENSEN HALL ROOM 151, 3:30PMNebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Seminar Series - "New insights into nanomagnetism by spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy"
Hirofumi Oka, Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure
Physics, Halle, Germany
Richard Schilling's watercolor painting "Catherland."
Museum extends Cather-inspired watercolor exhibition
The Great Plains Art Museum is extending, by popular demand, the exhibition "Portraits of the Prairie: The Land That Inspired Willa Cather" through Sept. 25. The exhibition features watercolor paintings and inks sketches by Richard Schilling, from his book of the same title published by University of Nebraska Press in spring 2011.
"This is the land that inspires several of Cather's stories of European immigrants on the prairie," said Amber Mohr, curator of the Great Plains Art Museum. "Schilling has likewise found inspiration in the land's history, geology and ecology. His watercolor depictions of the prairie equal Cather's eloquence of prairie prose — both truly present their love of the landscape in their art." Read more about this exhibition on Today@UNL.
T.N.T Intensive Training to begin at Rec Center today
Get fit with the T.N.T. Intensive Training Program at the UNL Campus Rec Center. The plan lasts 12 weeks and 64 total workouts, and includes a nutrition guide and tools.
T.N.T. is an advanced training program packed with revolutionary workouts proven to transform your overall fitness level. This full body exercise program consists of the effective use of specialized four week cross-training blocks and an individualized specific nutrition plan. Led by a Campus Recreation team of certified group fitness instructors, certified personal trainers and a registered dietitian to keep you from getting bored or hitting a plateau. You will meet three days a week for an endless variety of training sessions, goal setting and infinite support. Read more about this program on Next@Nebraska.
