Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Field is new director of Engler agribusiness program
Tom Field
Tom Field is the new director of the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program and the Paul Engler Chair of Agribusiness Entrepreneurship at UNL's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. "I am really excited about this opportunity to be a steward of Paul Engler's gift. I have a high regard for Paul Engler and for his business and the career he built. I also feel fortunate to work with Mark Gustafson," said Field, who started his position Jan. 3, but will work with Gustafson, who is continuing as the program's founding director, until the end of June.
Before coming to Nebraska, Field was the executive director of producer education for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association in Centennial, Colo. Read more about Field on Today@UNL.
CAMPUS RECREATION ROOM 230, 5:30PM
Campus Rec offers Free fitness and strength workshops
Tom Field
Campus Rec is offering fitness & strength training workshops today. The session is free for UNL students and Campus Rec members. Admission for others is $6.
The session, entitled 'Core Cuts,' will meet from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Campus Rec Center, room 230. This presentation will show new ways to strengthen and tone your core beyond crunches. everyone wanting to learn fundamental strength exercises. Participants are asked to wear exercise clothes for this workshop. Pre-registration is encouraged but not required.
NASA researcher to give free lecture
Kurt Polzin, electric propulsion project leader at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, will speak at 3 p.m., in Scott Engineering Center, room 237. Polzin, hosted by the electrical engineering program, will discuss pulsed inductive thrusters and his work for NASA. The lecture is free.
Lectures
HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 3:30PMSpring 2012 Water Seminar Series, Surface and Groundwater Modeling Subseries - "Using Hydrologic Models to Estimate the Impact of Climate Change on River Flows, Water Supply Reliability and Ecosystem Responses"
Richard Palmer of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Satterlee to deliver free recital today
Robert Satterlee
Pianist Robert Satterlee will play a free, open to the public recital, 7:30 to 9 p.m., in Kimball Recital Hall.
Satterlee, associate professor of piano at Bowling Green State University, is a guest artist visiting Paul Barnes, professor of music. The performance will include "Two Etudes (Homage to William Albright)" by David Gompper; "Bodacious Gaits" by Doug Opel; "La folia II: Lacuna" by Marilyn Shrude; "Vendaval" by Gabriela Lena Frank; "Torn" by Evan Chambers; "Estela: Rag Latino" by William Bolcom; "Prelude and Toccata" by Evan House; and "Five Chromatic Dances" by William Albright. Read more about this recital in Today@UNL.
Douglas Seefeldt
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PMBuffalo Bill's Great Plains lead off spring Olson seminars
A talk on the early life and times of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody will lead off the spring semester series of the Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies.
Douglas Seefeldt, an assistant professor of history and a faculty fellow in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL, will present "Buffalo Bill's Great Plains, 1846-1879," in a seminar at 3:30 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Museum. Read more about this seminar in Today@UNL
Marina Camboni
ANDREWS HALL BAILEY LIBRARY, 5:30PMWGS spring colloquium to examine masculinity issues
Women's and Gender Studies Program's spring 2012 colloquium series opens today when Marina Camboni offers a talk exploring the use and abuse of manliness in the translation of Walt Whitman's works. Among other roles, Camboni is a professor of Anglo-American language, culture and literature at the University of Macerata, Italy, and co-founder of the Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association. Her talk, "Whitman's Leaves, Gambreale's Fogelie d'erba, and the Language of Futurism and Fascism," begins at 5:30 p.m. in Bailey Library, located on the second floor of Andrews Hall. It is co-sponsored by the Department of English. Read more about this lecture in Today@UNL
