Monday, March 5, 2012
Margaret Jacobs
Jacobs earns fellowship to support book project
Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor's Professor of History, has been awarded a highly competitive fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. The fellowship will support her latest book project, which continues a line of research that in 2010 helped her win a top honor in her field.
Jacobs' latest project explores the history of the fostering and adoption of American Indian children within non-Indian families. She intends to use her yearlong fellowship, which starts Aug. 15, to write the book manuscript. The project will significantly contribute to studies of American Indian history, gender history, family history, studies of colonialism, and American and world history overall. Read more about this fellowship on Today@UNL.
Matt Schaefer
Master of Laws program offers online degree option
The Space, Cyber and Telecommunications Law program will offer an online Master of Laws degree to attorneys in the fall.
Through the online program, students will attend classes live through the use of Adobe Connect technology. Students will be able to ask questions as well as view and participate in class. Online students will have up to six semesters to complete degree requirements. Read more about this offering in Today@UNL.
Panelists from left: Harvard President Drew Faust and Law Professor Charles Ogletree; Alyssa Rodemeyer; Kathleen Sebelius; Deepak Chopra; David Burtka; UNL's Swearer (Photo: Rose Lincoln, Harvard)
Swearer helps launch Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation
On a typical Wednesday, Susan Swearer would be in her office in the basement of Teachers College Hall, preparing for classes and perhaps chatting with co-workers about her family or unseasonably warm weather. Instead, she was in snowy Boston, on a Harvard University stage with Lady Gaga, asking the pop icon how best to empower young people during the kickoff of Gaga's much-ballyhooed Born This Way Foundation.
Maybe not a typical day at the office, but for UNL's nationally renowned anti-bullying expert, it's starting to come with the territory. Swearer, a professor of school psychology in the College of Education and Human Sciences, helped Gaga launch the new foundation -- which addresses issues like self-confidence, well-being,anti-bullying, mentoring and career development through research, education and advocacy -- by leading sessions at a morning symposium at Harvard and then by participating on a select panel with the singer and others. Read more about this launch in Today@UNL.
A scene from "A Separation."
Ross hosts pair of Iranian films, including Academy Award winner
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, "The Separation," and clandestine documentary, "This is Not a Film" are now screening at the Ross.
Set in contemporary Iran, "A Separation" is a drama about the dissolution of marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer's suffering father. When Simin's request fails, she returns to her parents' home and Termeh decides to stay with her father. During his wife's absence, Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father. He hopes his life will return to a normal state but discovers that the new maid has been lying to him.
"This is Not a Film" was shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes. The documentary depicts the day-to-day life of director Jafar Panahi during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his sentence — six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking — Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight and reflecting on the meaning of the art of film making. Read more about these films on the Ross website.
Geisinger appointed to educator performance standards team
Kurt Geisinger
Kurt Geisinger, professor of educational psychology, has been appointed to a 28-member commission to craft performance standards for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation. The commission is a 15-month commitment.
The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation was created in 2010 by the merger of two separate accreditors, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and the Teacher Education Accreditation Council. Read more about this appointment in Today@UNL.
Lectures
BURNETT HALL ROOM 107, 3:30PMPsychology Colloquium - "How you look says a lot about who you are: The relationship between political temperament and visual behavior"
Mike Dodd, Ph.D., UNL, Deparment of Psychology
Plant Pathology Seminar - "At the Interface: Understanding the Magnaporthe oryzae — Plan Host Interaction at the Molecular Level"
Jessie Fernandez, master's student in UNL's Wilson Research Group
