Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Husker baseball offers free faculty/staff admission
The Cornhuskers baseball team will honor UNL faculty and staff during the March 27 game with former Big 12 rival Kansas State University. All UNL faculty and staff will receive free entry to the game with a valid NCard. The game starts at 6:35 p.m. at Hawks Field. More details available at Huskers.com.
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM, NOON
Tuesday Talk: Reclaiming the Past: Craft, Activism, Femininity, and Feminism
Christine Humphrey, a graduate of the Textile History - Quilt Studies masters program will present a talk, "Reclaiming the Past: Craft, Activism, Femininity, and Feminism" at noon at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum.
UNL's Jason Head (top left) is on a research team that discovered fossils of Titanoboa, the world's largest snake. In the photo, Head holds the vertebrate of Titanoboa (left) with one from a modern anaconda.
Head, Titanoboa featured in Smithsonian special
The world of a prehistoric snake — a nightmarish giant, measuring longer than a Tyrannosaurs Rex or a modern school bus — is being brought to life in part by UNL's Jason Head. Watch a video about this research.
The snake, Titanoboa, and the research team will be featured in a 90-minute, Smithsonian Channel special on the discovery. “Titanoboa: Monster Snake” premiers April 1 at 7 p.m. CDT on the Smithsonian Channel (Time Warner’s HD Channel 95). Read more about this special in Today@UNL.
Hire Big Ten Plus Virtual Career Fair, Mar. 27-29
UNL Career Services invites you to participate in the Hire Big Ten Plus Virtual Career Fair, March 27-29. This is a unique and free event that connects you to employers in an efficient, effective and environmentally conscious way. Submit a resume to employers of interest and then arrange a chat session to discuss opportunities and your qualifications.
- Get interviews without ever leaving your computer
- Avoid waiting in long lines
- Save your valuable time by searching for a job online
- Meet employers which may not attend on-campus events
Register today at the Hire Big Ten website.
"Be The Change" Week is March 26-31
The LGBTQA Resource Center is hosting an activity-filled week March 26–31 focused on how individuals can to "be the change" in the community. All events are free and will be in the Nebraska Union. Open to all.
Addtionally, the LGBTQA Resource Center and Allies and Advocates for GLBT are co-hosting the 2nd Annual Prairie Pride Film Festival March 28-31 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Read more about Be The Change Week and see a full list of events in Next@Nebraska.
Lectures
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 4PMEntomology Lecture - "Evaluation of Switchgrass for Resistance to Piercing-sucking Insects"
Kyle Koch, Entomology Graduate Student
