Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Paul Read, UNL viticulturist
UNL is part of $2.5M grant to tackle wine industry obstacles
The UNL viticulture program is part of a multi-state team that received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture Specialty Crop Research Initiative. The grant will tackle the obstacles in vineyards, wineries, tasting rooms and tourism to bring cold hardy grapes to a wider market.
While it's been established that wine grapes can be grown in cold climates, it isn't clear yet how the wine industry that's been developed in the upper Midwest and northeast can take the next steps toward economic viability, said Paul Read, UNL viticulturist. Read more about this grant in Today@UNL.
Mindy Schreiber
Schreiber to claim scholarship at game tonight
UNL junior Mindy Schreiber will be recognized for earning a Big Ten Network LiveBIG Scholarship for Outstanding Service at halftime of tonight's men's basketball game versus Iowa at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Tip-off is scheduled for 8:00 p.m. CT. On February 22, Big Ten Network announced on-air the winners of its BTN LiveBIG Scholarship for Outstanding Service. Schreiber was one of five UNL finalists for the scholarship. Her full essay and profiles of UNL's other four finalists are listed below. Read Schreiber's essay on the Big Ten Network website.
Content Convergence Conference is today
Join other university communicators for a Content Convergence Conference on organizing information on a website. Topics include navigation and terminology used on websites and the audience research that supports it. The session, "Audience Research and Information Architecture," is 1 p.m. in Andersen Hall, room 15. Registration is not required.
This free session is offered by University Communications as part of a series of Content Convergence Conferences designed for UNL staff or faculty who create and update department and college websites. The sessions are open to all faculty, staff and students.
A scene from the musical "In the Heights." Courtesy image.
Lied offers faculty, staff $20 tickets for 'In the Heights'
"In the Heights," winner of four 2008 Tony Awards and the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, is coming to the Lied Center for Performing Arts for 7:30 p.m. shows March 2 and 3.
Faculty and staff can purchase tickets at a discounted price of $20 for either performance. The discount is available online at http://www.liedcenter.org, by calling 402-472-4747 or in person at the Lied box office. Use the offer code "UNL." The offer is valid until 5 p.m., March 2. Read more about these performances in Today@UNL.
Walter Dodds
Dodds to lead Water Seminar Series lecture
The Water Seminar Series continues with "Valuation of Freshwater Ecosystem Goods and Services," 3:30 p.m. in the Hardin Hall auditorium. Walter Dodds, a professor of biology at Kansas State University, will lead the talk.
Lectures in the series are free and open to the public. The series is sponsored by the UNL Water Center and the School of Natural Resources. Dodds' talk will cover how valuation can be used to assess restoration of freshwater ecosystems, costs of eutrophication, and as a framework to describe global human influences. Globally humans have appropriated about 25 percent of freshwater ecosystem goods and services. Read more about this talk in Today@UNL.
Lectures
BEADLE CENTER ROOM E103, 4PMSpring 2012 Biotechnology / Life Sciences Seminar Series - "The Arabidopsis Epigenome"
Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang, The University of Georgia. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
J. Allen Williams Jr.
Increasingly, children's books are 'where the wild things aren't'
Was your favorite childhood book crawling with wild animals and set in places like jungles or deep forests? Or did it take place inside a house or in a city, with few if any untamed creatures in sight?
A new study, researched by a group led by UNL sociology professor emeritus J. Allen Williams Jr. has found that over the last several decades, nature has increasingly taken a back seat in award-winning children's picture books - and suggests this sobering trend is consistent with a growing isolation from the natural world. Read more about this study in Today@UNL.
VPN required for secure remote computer access by Feb. 29
UNL will begin requiring the use of the Virtual Private Network for remote desktop access using the Remote Desktop Protocol beginning Feb. 29. Computer users trying to access office computers or servers from off-campus after Feb. 29 will need to do so using the UNL VPN.
VPN encrypts the UNL data transmitted through an off-campus connection and provides another layer of security to protect you and your data. Computers with open RDP ports have been subject to brute force attacks on a consistent basis over the past several months. Read more about this change in Today@UNL.
