Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Volunteers sought for Formula SAE competition
Volunteers are needed to help with the 2012 Formula SAE competition, June 20-23. This is the first of five years that UNL will serve as host of the national event.
SAE International announced in February 2011 the decision to relocate the Formula SAE competition from Fontana, Calif., to Lincoln. The decision to change venue was made in part because Lincoln's airport offers excellent space and facility features providing better team support and accommodation for future growth. With the move, approximately 250 volunteers are needed to support the more than 1,000 participants from 81 registered teams. Read more about this competition in Today@UNL.
BEADLE CENTER ROOM N172, 4PM
Purdue researcher's talk is today
Kim Buhman
Purdue University researcher Kim Buhman will discuss her work in a 4 p.m. lecture in the Beadle Center, room N172. The talk, part of the Biochemistry/Redox Biology Center Seminar Series, is free and open to the public.
Buhman, an associate professor of nutrition science at Purdue, will discuss "Intestinal Triglyceride Transport and Metabolism: Storage and Secretion." Read more about this lecture in Today@UNL.
(l-r) Shelton Waggener, Dan Duncan, Gary Kebbel
Register for March 21 NU Technology Day workshop
Registration is now open for NU Technology Day, March 21 at the East Union. The daylong information technology conference is free and open to all University of Nebraska faculty, staff and administrators. Register at the NU Technology Day website.
In the opening session, Shelton Waggener, CIO of the University of California, Berkley, will address the transformation of IT to support academic research at R1 universities. During lunch, Dan Duncan, executive director of the Nebraska Innovation Campus Development Corp., will discuss building strategic partnerships; and Gary Kebbel, dean of the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications, will talk about reaching new audiences through the use of mobile and social media. Read more about NU Technology Day on Today@UNL.
Nebraska Innovation Competition is today
The Nebraska Innovation Competition opens at 8 a.m., March 13 at Embassy Suites. This business plan competition is for student-created, managed, and owned ventures. Teams are separated into graduate and undergraduate levels. Each team has 15 minutes to present an idea for a new venture.
The winner of the graduate division will be offered more than $20,000 if their business is started in Lincoln. The winning graduate team also receives a berth into the Texas Venture Labs Competition. The competition is hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurship in UNL's College of Business Administration. Read more about this competition in Today@UNL.
LOVE LIBRARY ROOM 111, 10:30AM
Library workshop examines patent searches
Tracy Bicknell Holmes, a professor and engineering librarian, will discuss "Patent Searching for the Non-Specialist" in a 10:30 a.m. workshop in Love Library, room 111. The presentation is part of the University Libraries' series of free, weekly workshops for faculty, staff and students.
The workshop will explore patents as a rich source of information on a wide variety of topics from chemistry to design to history, with a look at easy-to-use patent sources (Google Patents, USPTO, and PubWest) and search techniques. Read more about this workshop in Today@UNL.
Lectures
WALTER SCOTT ENGINEERING CENTER ROOM 241, 1:45PMPh.D. Dissertation Defense (Engineering Mechanics) - "Peridynamic models for dynamic brittle fracture"
Ph.D. dissertation defense (Engineering Mechanis) by Wenke Hu. Advisor: Florin Bobaru, Ph.D
Entomology Lecture - "Integrated Pest Management in Brazilian Citrus"
Lia Marchi, Entomology Graduate Student
