Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Research moving closer to cracking silicon barrier
The ability to improve silicon transistors is reaching its fundamental limit, so researchers are searching for new ways to keep making electronic devices faster and more powerful. University of Nebraska-Lincoln physicists and colleagues have taken a major step toward breaking that silicon barrier.
UNL physicist Evgeny Tsymbal and colleagues demonstrated that a nanostructure with unique properties may hold the key to creating much smaller, more powerful electronics. They reported their findings in Nature Materials, published online this week. This work builds on predictions by Tsymbal, Bessey Professor of Physics and Astronomy and director of UNL's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, and colleague John D. Burton, reported in Physical Review Letters in 2011. Read more about this research in Today@UNL.
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 7:30PM
Writer in residence gives reading
Award-winning poet Li-Young Lee is a writer in residence at UNL through March 1. He will give a public reading at 7:30 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Museum, with a reception and book signing to follow. The reading is free and open to the public.
Lee is the author of "Behind My Eyes; Book of My Nights," which won the 2002 William Carlos Williams Award; "The City in Which I Love You," which was the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and "Rose," which won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award. He has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, among many other awards. Read more about Li-Young Lee in Today@UNL.
Haecker honored by American College Health Association
Nathan Haecker, a physician at the University Health Center, was awarded the Affiliates New Professional Award by the American College Health Association. ACHA is a national nonprofit association that represents the interests of college health professionals and the campus communities they serve.
Haecker has been a physician at the UHC since 2008 and has served as chief of staff since 2009. He has been instrumental in the creation of a nursing triage system and has been a super-user of the electronic health record, developing documentation templates to reflect best practices and to improve patient documentation. Haecker contributes to planning and strategy for clinical services and was actively involved in the Health Center's AAAHC accreditation process. Read more about this award in Today@UNL.
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UNL releases documents related to student health services
UNL has released two documents related to the proposed outsourcing of the University Health Center to Bryan Health. The documents, "Response to Issues raised by RFP Evaluation Committee" and "University Health Center proposal facts," are provided in PDF format.
Content Convergence Conference is today
This session will provide background and information on wide variety of 'big picture' communications initiatives and events, including details of May commencement in Memorial Stadium. This is a great opportunity and challenge. Director of Events and the Visitor Center Annette Wetzel, and Assistant Director from the Office of the Registrar, Jennifer Verhein, will join us for a brief and insightful discussion on how the UNL community can work together to make this an exceptional event. Read a full schedule for this conference in Today@UNL.
Parking, bus stop impacted by WRAP construction
Construction of the 18th and R streets parking structure and private housing development will begin March 1.
The project will displace faculty, staff and student parking in the 18th and R streets parking lot (located between 18th Street and North Antelope Valley Parkway and Q and R streets). It will also close an intercampus bus stop (StarTran route 24) on the north side of R Street between 17th and 18th streets. An alternate bus stop for west-bound passengers will be located at the corner of 17th and Q streets. Read more about this construction in Today@UNL.
ALEXANDER HALL WEST ROOM 201, 1PM
NUgrant Basics: Routing Proposals
The Office of Research will offer a NUgrant Basics help session on at 1 p.m. in 201 Alexander West. This session covers logging on to NUgrant, submitting and routing a proposal and basic reporting functions. Read more about this session in Today@UNL.
Lectures
HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 3:30PMSpring 2013 Water Seminar Series, "Resistance and Resilience of Aquatic Communities to Low Flow Disturbance"
Annika Walters, University of Wyoming
Supercomputing Mini Workshop, "Getting Started with Supercomputing in 20 Minutes"
Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang, XSEDE, a NSF-funded national supercomputer network. Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar, "Learning from Natural Immunity to HIV-1: Developing Effective Vaccine and Identifying Novel Target for HIV-1 Prevention and Treatment"
Ma Luo, University of Manitoba. Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
