Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Landry will interview for Buffett institute director Feb. 15-16
Susan Landry
The second of four finalists for the position of founding executive director of the Buffett Early Childhood Institute, Susan Landry, will interview Feb. 15-16, including a presentation at UNL 4 p.m. at the Van Brunt Visitors Center at UNL.
Landry, the founding director of the Children's Learning Institute at the University of Texas-Houston, will speak at the open forum for faculty, staff and members of the public who are interested in meeting her and learning about her vision for the Buffett Institute. Read more about this candidate in Today@UNL.
BEADLE CENTER ROOM E103, 4PM
UNMC's Guda will talk on protein sequence classifications
Dr. Chittibabu Guda
"Bioinformatic mining of class-specific motifs in protein sequence classification," will be presented by Dr. Chittibabu Guda, University of Nebraska Medical Center. The 4 p.m. talk is part of the spring Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar series and will be in Room E103 of the Beadle Center.
In protein sequence classification, identification of the short sequence elements or n-grams that can precisely discriminate between different classes is a more interesting scientific question. Discriminative n-grams are short peptide sequences that are highly frequent in one class but are either minimally present or absent in other classes. Read more about this talk in Today@UNL.
CBA professors Roger Butters (left) and Carlos Asarta are working with McGraw-Hill to develop a digital curriculum for economics
Econ profs team with publisher to develop all-digital course
Introductory economics courses at colleges and universities will soon be taking a giant step forward in the digital age. McGraw-Hill Higher Education and UNL are developing the first fully digital curriculum for economics.
The curriculum, offered in English and Spanish, will feature a range of multimedia components and will be functional on McGraw-Hill's course management platform, Connect, and through a variety of other learning management systems. When published in 2014, UNL students may have access to the Connect course through UNL's Blackboard course-delivery platform. Read more about this curriculum in Today@UNL.
CAMPUS RECREATION ROOM 230, 5:30PM
Campus Rec hosts free 'Intro to Yoga' workshop
Discover the benefits that yoga can bring to your fitness and wellness at the 'Intro to Yoga' workshop from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Feb. 15 in Campus Rec Center, room 230.
Free for UNL students and CREC members and $6 for the public. Limited to 25 people. Sign up at the Campus rec Center or call 402-472-3467.
Raikes School team to demo potential award-winning app
Students from the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management are in the running for a $50,000 prize for their app development skills. TradeKing, an online stock and options broker, created a contest challenging college student teams to develop the best trading application, and a student team from UNL's Raikes School is one of seven finalists. The students will participate in a live-streamed demonstration event on Feb. 15 in which the winner will be revealed. Read more about this contest in Today@UNL.
Lectures
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PMOlson Seminar - "The Great Sioux Uprising - 1862"
Hugh Reilly, Associate Professor, School of Communication, UNO
"Mutual Admiration: Collectors and Artists"
Michael James, internationally renowned studio quilter and chair of UNL's Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design
