Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Josephine R. "Jo" Potuto
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM | WATCH LIVE STREAMPotuto's Nebraska Lecture on NCAA
Among college sports fans, the National Collegiate Athletics Association is often scrutinized, discussed and criticized. In her spring Nebraska Lecture, Josephine R. "Jo" Potuto will discuss her research on how the NCAA works -- or, in some cases, doesn't -- and why.
The free public lecture, "The NCAA: Who, What, When, Where, How and Certainly Why," will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union auditorium. The presentation is part of The Nebraska Lectures: Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series. Read more about this talk in Today@UNL.
BEADLE CENTER ROOM E103, 4PM
Biofabrication is topic for biotechnology seminar
James Culver
"An Infectious Approach to Biofabrication," will be presented by James Culver, University of Maryland. The seminar begins at 4 p.m., preceded by a reception at 3:30 p.m. in Beadle Center E103. The seminar is free and open to the public, part of the spring 2012 Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar Series.
Culver said: "Studies in our laboratory utilize RNA plant viruses as templates for the "bottom up" self-assembly and patterning of novel nanomaterials. Read more about this scholarship in Today@UNL.
Don Worster
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7PM | WATCH LIVE STREAMPioneer of environmental history to deliver Thompson Forum lecture
Donald Worster, prize-winning author, professor and lecturer regarded as one of the pioneers of environmental history will close out the 2011-12 season of the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues tonight.
Worster, who holds the Hall Distinguished Professorship Chair in American History at the University of Kansas, will present "An Unquenchable Thirst: How the Great Plains Created a Water Abundance and Then Lost It." The talk will begin at 7 p.m. at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Read more about this lecture in Today@UNL.
JACKIE GAUGHAN MULTICULTURAL CENTER UBUNTU ROOM, 3PM
Mendoza to talk about bike ride across the U.S.
Louis Mendoza
Louis Mendoza, an author and scholar who rode his bicycle 8,000 miles around the country to understand how Latino immigration has changed the United States will offer a free public lecture 3 p.m. at the Gaughan Center.
Louis Mendoza, chair of the Department of Chicano Studies and vice provost to the Office for Equity and Diversity at the University of Minnesota, will be the keynote speaker of the Institute for Ethnic Studies' Spring Celebration. His talk, "Conversations Across Our America," will be in the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center's Ubuntu Room beginning at 3 p.m. A question-and-answer session, book signing and reception will follow. Read more about this lecture in Today@UNL.
HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM
Howitt to speak at water seminar
Richard Howitt
The Williams Memorial Lecture -- "Integrating Hydrology and Economics: The Challenge of Practical Modeling" will be presented by Richard Howitt from the University of California, Davis on in the East Campus Hardin Hall Auditorium from 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Howitt is a professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and department chair at the University of California at Davis. He has been a faculty member at U.C Davis since 1975. His current research interests are in the following areas: disaggregated economic modeling methods, testing market mechanisms for the allocation of natural resources, experimental economics, and implementing empirical dynamic stochastic methods. Read more about this talk in Today@UNL.
Great Plains Art Museum presents new exhibit on U.S.-Sioux conflict
The Great Plains Art Museum has opened "Confrontations and Conciliatory Acts: Art and Artifacts of U.S. and Sioux Nation Conflict," a new permanent collection exhibition in the museum's Lentz Gallery.
The exhibition coincides with the Center for Great Plains Studies' 38th Interdisciplinary Symposium "1862-2012: The Making of the Great Plains" and contains works from the museum's permanent collection, loans from private collections and ethnographic artifacts from the University of Nebraska State Museum. Read more about this exhibition in Today@UNL.
Lectures
HAMILTON HALL ROOM 112, 2PMCNFM and Chemistry Dept. Seminar - "Latex Nanoparticles as Pseudostationary Phases for Electrokinetic Chromatography with UV and Mass Spectrometric Detection"
Chris Palmer, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry with the University of Montana, Missoula
