Tuesday, August 28, 2012
By text-mining the classics, UNL professor unearths new literary insights
Mark Twain once said that all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources. Oscar Wilde put it more bluntly when he said that talents imitate, but geniuses steal.
Matthew Jockers, an assistant professor of English at UNL, has assembled a way to quantify the spirit of those sayings, particularly when it comes to certain authors and the impressions they left on other writers. And in doing so, he's opened a new door for literary theorists to study classic literature. Read more about this research in Today@UNL.
School of Music welcomes Skyros String Quartet for graduate study
The School of Music recruited its first intact graduate string quartet this fall. The Skyros String Quartet comes to UNL for their doctoral education and will study with the Chiara String Quartet.
The Quartet includes Sarah Pizzichemi, violin, from Seattle, Wash.; James Moat, violin, from Toronto, Ontario; Justin Kurys, viola, from Timmins, Ontario; and William Braun, cello, from Tucson, Ariz. Read more about the quartet in Today@UNL.
Volunteers sought for gameday recycling program
Now in its fourth year, UNL's "Go Green for Big Red" recycling program is recruiting volunteers. The program is designed to increase recycling in parking lots and walkways around Memorial Stadium on Husker home football Saturdays. Landscape Services coordinates the effort with Recycling Enterprises.
Last year 150 volunteers put in some 300 hours to keep more than 9,500 pounds of plastic cups, bottles and aluminum cans from entering the landfill. Read more about this program in Today@UNL.
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Tadesse advances Ethiopian projects on water and food security
Tsegaye Tadesse spent a month in Ethiopia this summer advancing several collaborative projects related to food and water on behalf of an interdisciplinary team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Tadesse is a climatologist and remote sensing expert with the National Drought Mitigation Center, based at UNL's School of Natural Resources.
While in Ethiopia, Tadesse visited sites that the project collaborators in Ethiopia identified as good locations to pilot new low-technology wells, and observed that a reliable supply of fresh water could transform many aspects of agriculture, health and community. Read more about this work in Today@UNL.
UNL earns NIH grant for 'Biology of Human' education project
Recent biomedical research has transformed scientific understanding of human biology. But many of these advances haven't filtered into public awareness, hindering our ability to make the best health-related decisions.
A new educational program -- Biology of Human -- will help the public, particularly young people, better understand advances in biomedical research. University of Nebraska State Museum, the Nebraska Center for Virology and UNL sociologists are teaming with children, science writers and multimedia developers to create educational materials for use nationwide. The project is funded by a five-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's Science Education Partnership Award program, known as SEPA. Read more about this grant in Today@UNL.
Lectures
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 3PMFall 2012 Grassland Seminar Series, "Bush Encroachment in Namibia, Southern Africa,"
Walter Schacht, professor of agronomy and horticulture
UNL launches Nebraska App
UNL has launched the Nebraska App, a suite of mobile applications that makes essential university resources available on mobile devices. Students can check grades, access course content and browse the course catalog. They can access the public directory and get in touch instantly, keep tabs on Husker sports, find places on the campus map, stay informed with the latest campus news, watch videos, and even listen to podcasts of popular lectures in iTunesU.
"UNL is moving services to the where the students are in terms of devices and network access"," said Mark Askren, Chief Information Officer. "Students now have a much more powerful connection to UNL via their mobile device." Read more about Nebraska App in Today@UNL.
