Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Grant celebration today
Join Chancellor Harvey Perlman and Prem S. Paul, vice chancellor for research and economic development, at 2 p.m. today to celebrate a nearly $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation for research to improve surveys. The celebration is in Omaha at The Gallup Organization's Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive.
Visitors can park in the main lot, enter the main building and ask for directions to the Great Plains Room. The research project, "Reducing Error in Computerized Survey Data Collection," is funded by NSF in cooperation with the U.S. Census Bureau and includes important industry partnerships.
Learn the art of creating effective Web videos
University Communications will host a session on shooting effective videos for the Web at 2 p.m., Nov. 30 in the lower level auditorium of Andersen Hall. Attendees will learn how to create original videos and how to access existing videos. Registration is not required.
This session is offered as part of a series of Content Convergence Conferences designed for UNL staff members who are charged with creation and upkeep of department and college websites. New tools are now available that will make that task easier. Read more about this series on Today@UNL.
Lectures
SCOTT ENGINEERING CENTER ROOM N105, 10AMMechanical & Materials Engineering - M.S. Thesis Defense - "Design, Analysis, and Testing of In Vivo Surgical Robots"
Tyler Wortman. Advisor: Shane Farritor.
Nebraska Gateway for Nutrigenomics Series - "Unraveling Vitamin E Biosynthesis for Enhanced Antioxidant Content of Crop Plant"
Edgar Cahoon, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry - UNL
SNR Fall Research Seminar - "Nebraska Water and Energy Flux Measurement, Modeling, and Research Network (NEBFLUX): Progress and data on measuring plant physiology and evapotranspiration for various vegetation surfaces"
Suat Irmak from Biological Systems Engineering
Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Seminar Series - "Novel Hydrogen Rich Phases under Pressure"
Eva Zurek, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York, Buffalo
Mechanical & Materials Engineering - M.S. Thesis Defense - "Effect of Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Protein Micropatterns on the Behavior of Human Neuroblastoma Cells"
Ishwari Poudel.
Advisor: Jung Yul Lim.
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 11:30AMRev. Jackson's diversity lecture is today
The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., will deliver the keynote address in the Nebraska Black Leadership Symposium at 11:30 a.m., today at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The speech is a ticketed event. Free tickets remain available through the Lied Center for Performing Arts ticket office.
Jackson is one of America's foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past 40 years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. In 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Read more about this lecture on Today@UNL.
Survey to assist with adding new bike racks on campus
Bicycles are increasingly popular on both campuses over the last couple of years. The university recognized this increase has caused a lack of available bike racks during peak times on campus.
The university plans to respond to this increase by installing more bike racks over the winter months in time for spring semester.\ Landscape Services asks students, staff and faculty let them know areas where more racks are needed by filling out a short survey. Read more about bike use on campus on Today@UNL.
EAST CAMPUS ACTIVITIES BUILDING FITNESS ROOM, 5:15PM
Temporary East Campus rec center is topic of two sessions
UNL Campus Recreation will share details about the Fleming Fields Annex Building (the temporary East Campus rec center) and the timeline for moving into it, during two information sessions. They will meet in the East Campus Activities Building Fitness Room. Times are 5:15 to 6 p.m., Nov. 30; and 12:15 to 1 p.m., Dec. 1. Read more about these sessions on Today@UNL.
BEADLE CENTER ROOM E103, 4PM
Lynch to present 'Mutation and Evolution'
Michael Lynch
"Mutation and Evolution," will be presented by National Academy of Sciences member Michael Lynch, at 4 p.m., Nov. 30 at the Beadle Center. The seminar is free and open to the public. Lynch is a distinguished professor of biology at Indiana University. Lynch will discuss the importance of understanding the mechanisms of evolution.
Lynch says: "Understanding the mechanisms of evolution and the degree to which generalities exist among phylogenetic lineages requires information on the rate at which mutations arise and their effects at the molecular and phenotypic levels. Read more about this talk on Today@UNL.
UNL's Mary Guest (center) receives the NASPA award from Patricia Telles-Irvin, NASPA president, and Timothy Alvarez, UNL's assistant vice chancellor for student affairs.
Guest receives higher ed support staff award
Mary Guest received the annual support staff recognition award from the NASPA Student Affairs in Higher Education group. Guest, who has worked at UNL since 1998, is administrative assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs.
The NASPA award recognizes a member of the support staff at a NASPA IV-West member institution campus. Read more about this award on Today@UNL.
