Thursday, November 15, 2012
ConAgra Foods, Nebraska Innovation Campus collaboration to be announced Nov. 16
"Breaking Ground for the Future" is the theme of a ceremonial event and major announcement Nov. 16 on a new level of collaboration between UNL and ConAgra Foods. The collaboration includes expanded research and development projects at Nebraska Innovation Campus. The collaboration will be announced at an event at 3 p.m. Nov. 16 at Van Brunt Visitors Center. Live-streamed video will be available online.
The collaboration announcement marks the first commitment from a private-industry tenant at the new campus. The Nebraska Innovation Campus concept was developed in 2007 and became reality on Jan. 1, 2010 when the state transferred the former State Fairgrounds to UNL. The 249-acre tract is designated to be transformed into the public-private research and technology development center. Read more about this announcement in Today@UNL.
Redepenning to give talk at NanoScience Cafe
UNL chemistry professor Jody Redepenning will be featured in the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience's next Nanoscience Cafe. The discussion is 7 p.m. at The Mill-Downtown, 800 P St.
Redepenning will talk about discoveries in composite biomaterials leading to hard tissue replacement for injured soldiers and others. The talk is free and suitable for a general audience. Read more about this discussion in Today@UNL.
INDIGO BRIDGE BOOKS, 7:30PM
Poetry reading features S. Carolina writer
The Prairie Schooner Visiting Writers Series continues with a reading by South Carolina poet Charlene Spearen, 7:30 p.m. today at Indigo Bridge Books, 701 P St., No. 102. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will include poems from Spearen's book, "A Book of Exquisite Disasters" (University of south Carolina Press).
Spearen is an assistant professor and chair of humanities at Allen University in Columbia, S.C.
'Blood Rivals' blood drive competition is Nov. 15-16
The "Blood Rivals Blood Drive Challenge," a blood drive competition between UNL and the University of Iowa, is Nov. 15-16. The drive is 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 15 in Mari's Lounge in Sandoz Residence Hall, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 16 in the Bloodmobile parked along 16th Street near Nebraska Hall.
The blood drive is organized by the Innocents Society, Residence Hall Association and the Nebraska Community Blood Bank. Read more about this competition in Today@UNL.
Commission on the Status of Women seeks volunteers
Volunteers are needed to serve three-year terms on the Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women. The positions are open to faculty and staff. Applications are due by Nov. 30.
The purpose of the Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women is to enhance the status of all women at UNL by advising the chancellor on issues pertaining to gender equity and on specific concerns of women faculty, staff and students at the university. For more information, or to apply, go to Commission website.
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Heuermann Lecture features World Food Prize Laureate
Catherine Bertini, World Food Prize Laureate, will deliver the next Heuermann lecture at 3:30 p.m. Nov 15 in the Hardin Hall Auditorium. She will discuss "Where America Must Lead: Ensuring the World Can Fieed its People." A reception is 3 p.m. in the Hardin Hall lobby.
Now a professor of public administration and international relations at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, Bertini also is co-chairwoman of the Global Agricultural Development Initiative of The Chicago Council of Global Affairs. Read more about this talk in Today@UNL.
Lectures
BEADLE CENTER ROOM E228, NOONBiochemistry Graduate Student Seminar
Nathan Palmer
Discipline-Based Education Research Meeting, "Teaching Pre-Service Science Teachers How to Teach Inquiry By Example: A Case Study of a Geoscience Field Course"
David Harwood and Leilani Arthurs, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Register with UNL Alert to receive weather-related closure, emergency info
Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to subscribe to UNL Alert to receive information for weather-related closings and campus emergencies. The alert system allows subscribers to receive up-to-the-minute details sent on a variety of devices.
Announcements of weather-related closures of UNL are available through a variety of media — including UNL Alert and area television and radio stations. Read more about UNL Alert 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.
