Friday and Weekend, October 28 - 30, 2011
Academic Affairs, Student Affairs realign to work toward State of U goals
Chancellor Harvey Perlman
Dear Colleagues,
I have been very encouraged by the response both from within and outside the university to the transformative goals I proposed in the State of the University address – To create an academically talented student body of 30,000 students, increase our six-year graduation rate to 70 percent, hire 160 more tenure track faculty and increase the number of other faculty and staff who can support our goals, double the number of noteworthy national and international awards received by our faculty, and increase our total research expenditures to $300 million. Read the full letter from the Chancellor on Today@UNL.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, SUN NOON-4PM
Día de los Muertos celebration is Oct. 30
Sheldon Museum of Art celebrates its fifth annual Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead celebration, noon to 4 p.m., Oct. 30. The event is free and open to the public. The museum's Great Hall will be elaborately decorated for the art and cultural celebration. The decorations include colorful papel picados (punched-paper art) hanging from the windows.
Entertainment includes music by Mariachi Zapata; Josephina Niggli's play "Sunday Costs Five Pesos" performed by students from the Lincoln High School Theater Department, and folkloric dance by Fiesta Mexicana of the Heartland. Read more about this event on the Sheldon website.
Lectures
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER CONFERENCE ROOMS, FRI 8:30AMGrand Rounds Discussion - "Enrichment, Stress, and Aging"
Dick Dienstbier, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Clinical Psychology Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Psychology Colloquium - "Landmarks, Landscapes and Boundaries: Cognitive Maps and Bird Navigation"
Verner P. Bingman, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University
Department of Agricultural Economics Seminar Series
Dr. Richard Gray, Professor in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources at the University of Saskatchewan
Chemistry Colloquium - "Constructing Co-crystals Using Molecular Sense and Supramolecular Sensibility"
Professor Christer B. Aakeroy, Kansas State University
Mathematics Colloquium - "Visual Transduction: Illuminating Biology with Mathematics"
Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt University. Refreshments will be served in 348 Avery at 3:30 p.m.
UNL on 'top-producing list' for Fulbrights
The Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship international educational exchange program, announced a complete list of colleges and universities that produced the most 2011-2012 U.S. Fulbright Students -- and UNL is on that list of the top 45 research institutions whose students were awarded Fulbright scholarships.
This news comes on top of the September announcement that UNL was listed in U.S. News and World Report as one of the top 28 institutions in the US for undergraduate research and creative activities. Laura Damuth, UNL's fellowship adviser and director of undergraduate research, administers the Fulbright competition, advising students on their applications. Read more about this success on Today@UNL.
JACKIE GAUGHAN MULTICULTURAL CENTER ROOM 212, FRI 12:30PM
Lecture examines link between economy, crime
Richard Rosenfeld
Richard Rosenfeld will speak from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Oct. 28 in room 212 of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center.
Rosenfeld is Curators Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His research focuses on the impact of economic conditions on crime trends. His talk is titled "The Economy and Crime: The Role of Inflation." Read more about this lecture on Today@UNL.
New plant and soil science eLibrary offers worldwide collaboration
An expanded Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary website will give students, adult learners, teachers and industry a place to learn interactively and globally.
The new site at http://passel.unl.edu offers more collaborative tools and uses social media to accompany its animations, lessons and wealth of information and course materials, said Deana Namuth-Covert, plant science educator and eLibrary director.
Namuth-Covert said the new site will give current users a place to work together and share ideas. In addition, the site has a new look and new tools to continue drawing in users from across the state, country and world. "We thought 'what if we could get a group of biology teachers together?'" Namuth-Covert said. "By creating a community-like space, they and other groups would be able to share ideas and have discussions using social media tools." Read more about this website on Today@UNL.
Get to know the Big Ten: Michigan State
The Michigan State Spartans visit Lincoln on Oct. 29 for a Big Ten Conference football game pairing two of the nation's top ranked teams. The Spartans are also ranked among one of the best academic universities in the world.
Michigan State University is one of the top 100 universities in the world (Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2011 Academic Rankings of World Universities and Times Higher Education's World University Rankings, 2011-12). In addition, 14 Spartan academic programs rank in the top 10 nationally (U.S. News and World Report), and four graduate programs are No. 1 in the nation. Read more about Michigan State on Today@UNL.
Image from "Senna"
'Senna,' 'Westend Films' open today at the Ross
"Senna," a fast-paced documentary about Formula One racing, and "The Westend Films," a collection of short and feature-length German films from Markus Mischkowski and Kai Maria Steinkühler, open today at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Mischowski and Steinkühler will be at the Ross Oct 28 and 30.
The filmmakers of "The Westend Films" will hold question-and-answer sessions at 6 p.m. Oct. 28, and 3 p.m. Oct. 30. This is the first time the directors have screened the entire series together. The films show daily, Oct. 28 to Nov. 2. Read more about these films and see show times on the Ross website.
