Wednesday, March 7, 2012
NEBRASKA UNION, 4PM
Career Services hosts "Find a Major" workshop
General Studies and Career Services are collaborating to help students "find a major" during this workshop from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. The workshop will educate students about various resources you can use to identify interests, careers, and majors. Free and open to all students.
HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM
Water series wades into flooding of 2011
The Water Seminar Series continues with a discussion about flooding along the Missouri River in 2011. The talk, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Hardin Hall auditorium, will be led by Kevin Grode of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This is the ninth presentation out of 16 scheduled for 2012.
Lectures in the series are free and open to the public. The series is sponsored by UNL's School of Natural Resources and the Nebraska Water Center, a part of the Daugherty Water for Food Institute. Read more about this talk in Today@UNL.
Chiara String Quartet
Chiara presents Hixson-Lied concert
The Chiara String Quartet will present the next concert in the Hixson-Lied Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. at Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $20 for the general public, $10 for seniors and $5 for students. Tickets are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 402-472-4747, or at the door.
The concert includes Schubert's String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor, Quartettsatz; Bartok's String Quartet No. 3; and Haydn's String Quartet D Major, Op. 76, No. 5.
NEBRASKA EAST UNION GARDEN ROOM, NOON
Nutrigenomics seminar to feature Lai
Rebecca Lai
Rebecca Lai, professor of chemistry, will discuss "Folding-based Electrochemical Biosensors" at noon in the East Union's Garden Room. The talk, part of the Nebraska Gateway for Nutrigenomics Seminar Series, is free and open to the public.
Lai's research focuses on understanding biomolecular interactions, exploiting this understanding in the design of a generalizable and robust electrochemical biosensing platform, and constructing devices incorporating this platform to solve real-world analytical problems. She joined the UNL Department of Chemistry in August 2007. She received her bachelor's degree in biochemistry from California State University in 1999 and her doctorate in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. She worked as a post-doctorate fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2003 to 2007.
BEADLE CENTER ROOM E103, 4PM
Bioinformatics prof to lead lecture
Gavin Conant
The Spring 2012 Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar Series continues with Gavin Conant at 4 p.m. in the Beadle Center, room E103. Conant, an assistant professor of bioinformatics at the University of Missouri, will present "Gene Dosage and Interaction in the Structure and Evolution of Metabolism." Lectures in the series are free and open to the public.
The seminar is preceded by a 3:30 p.m. reception.
Lectures
JORGENSEN HALL ROOM 136, 4PMNebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Seminar - "Graphene at the Interface"
Dr. Branden Kappes
Colorado School of Mines
