Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Recycling volunteers needed for Friday's game
Results are in from the Oct. 29 Game Day Challenge: More than 75 volunteers gathered approximately 6,800 pounds of recyclables in Memorial Stadium. For the final home game on Nov. 25 vs. Iowa, more volunteers are needed.
The 2011 Game Day Challenge, sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is an annual nationwide competition promotes a friendly competition between universities to see who can reduce, reuse, and recycle the most waste during a home football game. Not all the data is in so a winner isn't yet named. UNL, however, logged more than three tons of plastic, cardboard, aluminum and bottles. Read more about this challenge on Today@UNL.
U of Iowa President Mason shares welcome
Sally Mason, President, University of Iowa
"On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students of the University of Iowa, I welcome the University of Nebraska–Lincoln community to the Big Ten Conference. Your long history of academic and athletic excellence makes us proud to count you among our very special membership.
As our football teams prepare to play the inaugural Heroes Game in Lincoln on Nov. 25, let me introduce you to some aspects of the University of Iowa. Read the full welcome on Today@UNL.
Juan Colon
UNL electrical engineering doctoral student wins national research honor
Juan A. Colon Santana, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln electrical engineering doctoral student, has been recognized at the national level for research excellence. The American Vacuum Society has awarded him the 2011 Falicov Prize for outstanding research performed by a graduate student in areas related to magnetic interfaces and nanostructures.
The award honors the memory of Leo M. Falicov, an esteemed professor and prominent theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to magnetism and other fields of solid-state physics. He spent the bulk of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. Read the full press release about this honor.
Help name the former 4-H Building
Would you like to help name the former 4-H Building on the old State Fair grounds? A survey now is open for suggestions of names for the building, which will remain as part of the Nebraska Innovation Campus. The survey, available at http://go.unl.edu/2gy, gives anyone the chance to suggest a name for the building.
The building will be the center of a development of research partnerships that carries Nebraska forward for the next 100 years. The focus of research on Innovation Campus will be food, fuel and water — all key to the lifeblood of Nebraska agriculture.
West Memorial Loop parking closing for stadium construction
Beginning Nov. 26, the west end of the Memorial Mall, Area F3/C1, and loop road, Area A, is being used for construction staging for the East Stadium Improvement Project. A temporary access road will be installed east of the construction staging area to handle vehicular circulation through the mall.
Faculty and staff Area A parking is available in existing parking lots around campus including the Nebraska Champions Club at U Street and Stadium Drive; Sandoz Residence Hall, 18th and Vine streets; and the Boathouse parking lot at 16th and X streets.
