Friday and Weekend, September 28 - 30, 2012
Homecoming parade, pep rally are today
The UNL Homecoming parade is 6 to 7 p.m. today. The theme is "Once Upon a Homecoming." A pep rally, which will include the Alumni Association's Homecoming Jester competition, follows the parade, 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the Nebraska Union Plaza.
The parade will begin at 14th and Vine streets, proceed east on Vine to 16th Street, turn south on 16th to R Street, and turn west to finish at the corner of 13th and R streets. Bus routes on and near the parade route will begin closing at 4 p.m. Read more about homecoming events in Today@UNL.
COLLEGE OF LAW, FRI NOON
Clement to deliver Lane Lecture Friday
Paul D. Clement, former Solicitor General of the United States, will deliver the Winthrop and Frances Lane Foundation Lecture, "The Robert Court Comes of Age," at noon Sept. 28 at the College of Law.
Clement served as the 43rd U.S. Solicitor General. Clement joined the Department of Justice in February of 2001. Before his confirmation as Solicitor General, he served as Acting Solicitor General for nearly a year and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General. He has argued over 60 cases before the United States Supreme Court, including the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Read more about this talk in Today@UNL.
Free Chinese Film Festival featured at the Ross
A selection of recent Chinese films will show Sept. 28 to Oct. 4 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. The films are sponsored by the UNL Confucius Institute. Also showing at the Ross is Mike Birbiglia's heartfelt comedy "Sleepwalk with Me."
Admission to the Chinese film festival is free. For a complete schedule, go to the Ross website.
#UNL24 stories document day in our lives
Photos of Dairy Store ice cream, books, science experiments, band practice, coffee and Pepsi, computer screens, campus landmarks, homecoming preparations, getting around campus and applying for graduation -- these were some of the many mages and stories being told mostly by students during the first-ever "a day in the life" social media event on Sept. 24.
Thousands of photos and posts later, #UNL24 is but a memory -- and a website. Visit http://unl24.unl.edu/ to see the wide array of social media posts via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram from thousands of participants from across the world.
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'Social Technology' talk is Friday
The Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management is hosting a lecture on the impact that social technology has on business. The lecture, led by Mike Betzer, CEO for Social Dynamx, is 2 to 3 p.m. Sept. 28 at the Kauffman Center.
Betzer's lecture, "Social Technology Will Change Business Forever," and a 3 p.m. reception are free and open to faculty, staff and students. An RSVP to raikesschool@unl.edu is requested. Read more about this talk in Today@UNL
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, FRI 7:30PM
Heuermann Lecture to feature 4 former ag secretaries
Feeding the world is the topic when four former U.S. secretaries of agriculture discuss "The Land-Grant Mission of 2012 — Transforming Agriculture for the 2050 World," 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28, at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
The event is the first Heuermann Lecture of the 2012-2013 season. It features these former agricultural secretaries: Nebraska U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns, Nebraska native Clayton Yeutter, John Block and Dan Glickman. The lecture is free, but tickets are needed. Free general admission tickets are available by calling the Lied Center ticket office, 402-472-4747. Read more about this lecture in Today@UNL.
Lectures
HARDIN HALL ROOM 163, FRI 3PMApplied Ecology Seminar, "Improving telemetry technology for wildlife studies"
M. Can Vuran of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UNL
Chemistry Colloquium, "NMR and Drug Discovery: A Systems Biology Perspective"
Professor Robert Powers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Mathematics Colloquium, "Nonlocal Models in Solid Mechanics: Overview, Applications, Challenges, and Multiscale Modeling"
Pablo Seleson, University of Texas - Austin. Refreshments will be served in 348 Avery 3:30-4 p.m.
"The Layered Landscape"
Rick Darke, author of The Wild Garden. Tickets are $10 for arboretum members, $14 for general public and free to UNL students with valid I.D.
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.
