Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Hydrologist to explain flooding causes
David Pearson
David Pearson, senior service hydrologist at the National Weather Service in Omaha, will present "The Missouri River Flood of 2011: Its Causes and Impacts," at 7 p.m., Nov. 8, in the Hardin Hall auditorium. The talk, organized by the School of Natural Resources, is free and open to the public.
"The driving force for this flood was heavy rainfall and above-normal snowpack in Montana and the surrounding mountains," Pearson said. "If you've got heavy precipitation at the beginning of the river, at no point can that water leave the system. It has to travel through every reservoir." Read more about this talk on Today@UNL.
Civic Engagement partners with Big Ten Network for scholarship award
UNL's Civic Engagement program is partnering with the Big Ten Network LiveBIG initiative to award a $1,000 scholarship for outstanding service. LiveBIG is designed to highlight university students engaged in service and to promote additional voluntary engagement with community non-profit agencies, schools, health care facilities, etc.
The Big Ten Network will award the $1,000 Scholarship for Outstanding Service to one UNL student. To be eligible, students need to serve a minimum of 10 unpaid hours between today and Dec. 9 with a not-for-profit community partner. Each scholarship applicant must submit a 500- to 1,000-word essay about the volunteer community engagement experience. Read more about this award on Today@UNL.
Susan Reverby
NEBRASKA UNION, 7PMLegacy of 'reprehensible' medical studies is focus of lecture
Two U.S.-conducted medical studies on hundreds of people decades ago without their informed consent will be the focus of a 7 p.m. lecture today in the Nebraska Union. The experiments — one infamous and one brought to light last year — sought answers about sexually transmitted diseases, but ultimately raised questions about the biomedical community's ethical considerations.
Susan Reverby, a professor of women's and gender studies at Wellesley College and a renowned medical historian, will present "The U.S. Syphilis Studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala: How Should We Think About Them Now?" The event is free and open to the public. Read more about this lecture on Today@UNL.
UNL in the national news: October 2011
National media outlets featured and cited UNL sources on a number of topics in the past month. Appearances included: Charles Braithwaite in communication studies, 2011 graduate Kyle Basarich and communications major Elizabeth Kinnel being quoted in an Oct. 26 USA TODAY College story about how intercultural video chatting can help bridge global cultures.
NEBRASKA UNION; NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 10AM - 2PM
Insect Science Club honey sale starts today
The Insect Science Club's annual honey sale starts today in the Nebraska and Nebraska East unions. The sale includes honey bears, jugs, creamed and comb honey, beeswax candles, and lip balm.
The sale will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in both unions. If items are still available, the sale will continue 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Nov. 9 in the East Union.
