Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Regents approve mixed-use parking/housing facility
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved Friday a campus project that will combine a UNL parking facility with a privately-run housing facility.
The Mixed-Use University Parking and Residential Facility will be located on a 1.7-acre site bounded by R, Q and 18th street and North Antelope Valley Parkway. The parking structure will accommodate 1,654 vehicles and management office space. "The WRAP" housing facility will include 475 beds and be designed primarily for UNL students. The WRAP project will be developed by America First Real Estate Group, which was selected through a competitive bid process. Read more about this facility in Today@UNL.
Faculty to participate in CIC leadership program
The Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs is sponsoring the participation of five UNL faculty members for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Academic Leadership Program.
The fellows for the 2012-13 academic year are: Laurie Bellows, associate dean of Graduate Studies and professor of practice; Nancy Busch, interim dean of Libraries; Archie Clutter, dean of the Agricultural Research Division and director of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station; Valery Forbes, director of the School of Biological Sciences; and Kim Wilson, interim dean of the College of Architecture. Read more about this program in Today@UNL.
Dual JD/MPH degree to be offered next fall
The University of Nebraska is one of only 22 programs in the United States with a dual degree program in law and public health after approval by the Board of Regents on Friday. The JD/MPH dual degree program will be offered beginning next fall from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health and the UNL College of Law.
Only three similar dual degree programs are offered in the region — Iowa, Missouri and Minnesota.
The program packages two approved programs allowing students to obtain expertise and specialized training in public health law. No additional faculty or classes will be needed for the program. Read more about this new program in Today@UNL.
ANDERSEN HALL ROOM 15, 7:30PM
International coorespondent's talk is tonight
Elliot Woods, an international correspondent and contributing editor at Virginia Quarterly Review, will deliver a lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Andersen Hall lecture hall, room 15. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Woods' ongoing multimedia project, "Assignment Afghanistan," won a 2011 Digital Ellie from the American Society of Magazine Editors. The project explores the Afghan conflict. Read more about this talk in Today@UNL.
Lady Gaga's foundation taps Swearer to lead research, advisory board
Susan Swearer will lead a new research board to advise Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation on its youth empowerment and tolerance programs. The group also will work to boost the influence of the foundation's proposals and apply well-founded research to all of the foundation's upcoming programs.
Swearer, professor of school psychology in the College of Education and Human Sciences, will be chairwoman of the six-person group, called the Research and Advisory Board. It includes researchers from New York University, Harvard University and the University of Chicago, among other schools. Read more about this appointment in Today@UNL.
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Johnsgard, Brown to discuss biodiversity in Nebraska
Two distinguished authors and wildlife researchers will lead a forum on the biodiversity of Nebraska, 6 p.m. at Hardin Hall. The presentation, "The Biodiversity of Nebraska Within the Great Plains" by Paul Johnsgard and Mary Bomberger Brown, is free and open to the public.
Johnsgard, a prolific writer about the natural world, is widely recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on ornithology, the study of birds. He will present for the first time his most recent book, "Nebraska's Wetlands: Their Wildlife and Ecology." He also contributed color photographs for Brown's book, "Birds of Southwestern Nebraska," a field guide that published this spring. Read more about this forum in Today@UNL.
New campus visitor guides available
University Communications has free, full-color campus visitor guides available to all UNL offices. The guides are updated annually and feature campus maps, general information about UNL, popular visitor attractions and related contact information.
Copies (available in boxes of 150 guides) are available through Oct. 31 by sending requests to Ken Reining or 402-472-7029. Smaller copy orders are available through City and East campus visitors centers.
Lectures
NEBRASKA UNION, 3PMSymposium, "Jews at the Margins: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Identity, Boundaries and Belonging"
Speakers include Naftali Rothenberg (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel), Netanel Fisher (Hebrew University, Israel), Misha Klein (University of Oklahoma), Philip Schwadel (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Steve Riekes (Lawyer and Independent Scholar), Naomi Leite (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Redox Biology Center Seminar, "Reversible Protein S-Glutathionylation in Redox Regulation — Implications for Thiol Homeostasis"
Dr. John Mieyal, Case Western Reserve University
Entomology Lecture, "Pest Control Innovations at BASF Specialty Products and Career Opportunities"
Bob Davis, BASF
UNL Pagan Life Presentation, "Learn About Paganism" through a Halloween prosperity ritual
Participants and observers welcome
"The Ineffable, the Unspeakable, and the Inspirational: A Grammar"
Visiting Presidential Professor Jonathan Fineberg
Food, Fuel, Water photo contest continues
Anyone with a recent photo taken in Nebraska can enter it to win a free iPad in a new Food, Fuel, Water photo contest. Entrants can submit digital photo(s) representing food, fuel or water taken in the state of Nebraska on the Nebraska Innovation Campus website until Nov. 1.
The contest is part of an upcoming groundbreaking event celebrating the start of construction of the core facilities at Nebraska Innovation Campus. Read more about this contest 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.
