Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Journalism hosts annual J Days recognition, events
Students, alumni and distinguished professionals will be honored during the week-long J Days celebration, which kicked off April 1 with the annual honors convocation. Dianne Lynch, president of Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., delivered the Seline Memorial Lecture.
The Seline family established the Seline Memorial Lecture fund in memory of their parents to support an annual lecture at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. The fund recognizes S. Allen and Kathleen D. Seline for the years they devoted to helping the young people of Nebraska. Read more about J Days in Today@UNL.
Poser chairs search for new provost
The University of Nebraska has commenced a national search for the position of executive vice president and provost. Linda Ray Pratt, who has served in this role since 2006, plans to step down on June 30 to return to teaching in the Department of English at UNL.
University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken named a 10-member search committee that represents the student body, faculty and administration to identify, recruit and recommend candidates for position. The committee is chaired by Susan Poser, dean of the College of Law. Other members include: Faisal Ahmed, student regent, University of Nebraska Medical Center; John Bartle, acting dean, College of Public Affairs and Community Service, UNO; Charlie Bicak, senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, UNK; H. Dele Davies, vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of graduate studies, UNMC; Ronnie Green, vice president/Harlan vice chancellor of the Institute for Agriculture and Natural Resources, UNL; David Lechner, vice president for business and finance, University of Nebraska; Jim Lewis, professor, mathematics, UNL; Sarah Thompson, professor and assistant dean, College of Nursing, UNMC; and Sharon Wood, chair of history, UNO. Read more about this search in Today@UNL.
Lindsey Andersen
Andersen selected for Fulbright scholarship to Brazil
Lindsey Andersen, a political science and international studies major, has been named a Fulbright Scholar. The Omaha native plans to use her Fulbright to travel to São Paulo, Brazil, for nine months in 2013 to research the role of grassroots human rights movements in Brazil's transitional justice efforts.
Because her Fulbright award will not be applicable until March 2013, Andersen will have almost an entire year after graduating in May 2012 to get started on her career before she travels to Brazil. "I hope to have an internship in Washington, D.C., at an NGO or think tank during this time," Andersen said. Read more about Andersen in Today@UNL.
Giovanni Gadda
BEADLE CENTER ROOM N172, 4PMBiochem/Redox seminar features Gadda
Georgia State University researcher Giovanni Gadda will discuss his 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. Gadda, an associate professor of chemistry, will discuss " Choline Oxidase and Related Systems."
Gadda's research interest is in the general area of the mechanistic enzymology of redox enzymes, with a specific interest in flavin-dependent enzymes. His long-term objectives are to understand how enzymes can influence the energetics of reaction intermediates and transition states. Results from Gadda's laboratory aided in the reclassification of two-nitropropane dioxygenase as nitronate monooxygenase in 2010.
NEBRASKA UNION, 3PM
Discussion on including masculinities in Women's and Gender Studies
UNL faculty members Jan Deeds, Iker González-Allende, and James Garza will discuss what it means to incorporate masculinities into Women's Studies Programs at a round table discussion 12:30 p.m., April 3 in the Nebraska Union. The presentation is part of the Women's and Gender Studies Colloquium.
In 2004, the Women's Studies Program voted to change its name to the Women's and Gender Studies Program, embracing the idea that gender is not just about the study of women and changing notions of femininities but also the study of gender more broadly, including the study of men and changing notions of masculinities. Join us for a discussion with three UNL Faculty members about what it means to incorporate masculinities into Women's Studies Programs. We will talk about the new intellectual insights this shift in focus has yielded, the effect it has on the types of courses taught and the students to whom it can appeal, and the controversies about this shift that remain. Read more about this discussion in Today@UNL.
