Thursday, March 29, 2012
Bill Watrous
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PMTrombonist Watrous in concert March 29 for Week of Jazz
The School of Music welcomes jazz trombonist Bill Watrous during A Week of Jazz, March 27-29. Watrous will lecture, give a master class, and perform in concert with the Jazz Orchestra and Big Band Jazz at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall.
Tickets for this concert are $5 for general admission, $3 for students and seniors and will be available at the door approximately one hour before the performance. Read more about this performance in Today@UNL.
HAMILTON HALL ROOM 112, 3:30PM
Weisser to talk at seminar
Wolfgang Weisser
Wolfgang Weisser, professor of Technische Universität München, will present "Natural Enemies, Meta Community-Dynamics and Alarm Signaling in Aphids" in a School of Biological Sciences Seminar, 3:30 p.m. in Hamilton Hall 112.
Weisser, chair for terrestrial ecology in the Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, studies the ecology of species interactions and the consequences of these interactions at the population, community and ecosystem level. His talk will have two focuses: aphid meta-population and meta-community dynamics in the field under the influence of predation and host plant quality; the role of top-down and bottom-up forces in aphid alarm signaling.
Audrey Johnson, left; and Christine Baughman.
Baughman, Johnson win national Client Counseling Competition
Nebraska Law 3Ls Audrey Johnson and Christine Baughman won the National Championship at the American Bar Association Law Student Division's 39th Annual Client Counseling Competition held March 16-17 at North Carolina Central University's College of Law.
Baughman and Johnson, the Regional winners from Region 8 of the ABA's 12 National competition regions, competed against eleven other American teams at the national competition. Their victory makes them the best in a large field of law-student teams: this year 137 teams from 91 law schools went to Regional competitions in 12 regions of the U.S. Read more about this competition in Today@UNL.
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER CONFERENCE ROOMS A, B, & C, NOON
'Little Me Can Live a Big Life' book talk with author Allman
Peter Allman has written a book titled "Little Me Can Live a Big Life." It is a unique, compelling, yet simple collection of paradoxes that invite the reader to unlock the mystery of living a bigger life that includes the "both/and" thinking of paradoxes. Allman will be giving a presentation on the psychological and spiritual truths of paradoxes, and how to embrace "both/and" thinking which will create a bigger and healthier life.
The talk begins at noon in the University Health Center, Lower Level, Conference Rooms A, B, and C. All are welcome. Read more about this talk in Today@UNL.
Lectures
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, 5PMHumanities on the Edge: "Biopower/Biopolitics" - "What to do in a Crisis: A Biopolitical New Deal"
Michael Hardt, Professor of Italian Studies and Literature, Duke, and Professor of Political Literature, European Graduate School
Symposium examines landmark 1862 legislation
Researchers across the continent have come to UNL for a three-day symposium, March 28-30, focused on exploring the impact of four landmark pieces of legislation passed by Congress in 1862. These laws fundamentally shaped the Great Plains.
That year, Congress passed the Homestead Act, the Morrill Act that created the nation's land-grant colleges and universities, the Pacific Railroad Act and the act that established the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Also, 1862 saw the Dakota War, a conflict that set the nation on a path of military suppression of the region's American Indians. The symposium, "1862-2012: The Making of the Great Plains," is sponsored by the University of Nebraska's Center for Great Plains Studies in collaboration with Homestead National Monument of America near Beatrice. Read more about this symposium in Today@UNL.
