Friday and Weekend, October 12 - 14, 2012
NU, StratCom partner on $84M defense contract
An initial contract worth up to $84 million over the next five years will allow University of Nebraska researchers to work on U.S. military projects and could transform the university into a major player in national scientific and medical research.
The contract was announced Oct. 11 by James B. Milliken, NU president; and Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of U.S. Strategic Command. The partnership between NU and the United States Strategic Command, based at Offutt Air Force Base, created a University-Affiliated Research Center. The UARC will serve as a primary research and development center that supports U.S. Strategic Command missions to deter and detect strategic attacks against the United States and its allies, and to defend the nation as directed. Read more about this partnership in Today@UNL.
UNL hosts Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature
UNL will welcome more than 200 scholars in Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures from around the globe for the 2012 Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature on Oct. 12-14.
Some 70 panels — each with three or four presentations, both in English and Spanish — are planned for this interdisciplinary conference, which is being organized by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. They will cover the Hispanic cultural production of all periods, from the Middle Ages to present day — many times from a transatlantic and multinational perspective. Read more about this conference in Today@UNL.
MARY RIPEMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, SAT 7:30PM
Alloy Orchestra performs Saturday at the Ross
The world-renowned Alloy Orchestra will perform live accompaniment to short films starring Buster Keaton and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.
Tickets, available at the Ross website or at the Ross box office, are $25 general admission; $20 for senior citizens; and $15 for students and members of the Friends of the Ross. Read more about this performance in Today@UNL.
State pilots group funds tower-safety project
A UNL Extension educator is trying to make the skies a little safer for low-flying area pilots. John Hay's goal is to encourage the wind-energy industry to properly mark its weather towers so pilots can see them. The Nebraska Aviation Trades Association, the professional organization of agricultural pilots in Nebraska, awarded a grant to UNL Extension to support Hay's work.
"This is the first grant that we have provided to UNL, and we are pleased that John Hay's project to encourage the wind energy industry to properly mark weather towers will save pilots' lives," said Brian Wilcox of Tilden, president of NATA. Read more about this grant in Today@UNL.
Lectures
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 8AMRedox Biology Center 10th Annual Symposium, "Molecular Mechanisms of Redox Processes"
TBA
Applied Ecology Seminar
Wyatt Hoback, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Chemistry Colloquium, "Catalysts and Nanostructures for Artificial Photosynthesis"
Craig Hill, Emory University
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Study shows childfree women feel most pressure to have kids, but stress least about it
Women who choose to be permanently childfree feel less distress about not having kids than women who are childless from infertility and other reasons, a new national study shows. At the same time, voluntarily childfree women perceive more social pressures to become mothers than women who cannot have children.
"Motherhood is so highly connected with adult femininity in the United States that many women feel that they need to be mothers," said Julia McQuillan, a UNL sociologist and the study's lead author. "Yet we also found that there are women who have low or no distress about not being mothers, even if their friends and family want them to have children." Read more about this study in Today@UNL.
Rec centers adjust hours for fall break
The City Campus Rec Center will reduce hours during fall break, Oct. 12-16. Group fitness and mind and body classes schedules are modified as well. The East Campus Activities Building is open 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 12, and it is the building's final day as the full-time east rec center. Read more information and full schedules in Today@UNL.
UNL.edu now formatted for all devices
The Internet and Interactive Media group of University Communications and Information Services has concluded the first phase in its effort to provide full support to all devices - desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets - by implementing a suite of web technologies collectively known as 'responsive design.' This week, the internal and external homepages were re-launched as 'responsive' designs.
You can see the effects of responsive design in your desktop browser by simply re-sizing your browser window (the page will reformat as the window is narrowed), or by viewing on your tablet or smartphone. Please use the 'feedback' links at the bottom of the page if you would like to let us know of any issues. Thank you.
