Friday and Weekend, March 1 - 3, 2013
Molfese named to national panel to study brain injuries
A UNL psychologist has been appointed to a national committee charged with producing a comprehensive report to Congress and President Barack Obama regarding brain injuries in children and young adults.
Dennis Molfese, professor of psychology and director of the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, is serving on the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Committee on Sports-Related Concussions in Youth. The committee is made up of 14 people with a wide range of expertise from across the United States. Read more about this committee in Today@UNL.
Cosmologist to discuss our expanding universe March 2
Cosmologist Bharat Ratra will discuss the expansion of the universe in a 4 p.m. March 2 lecture in Morrill Hall. The lecture, "Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe," is sponsored by Mueller Planetarium and the Prairie Astronomy Club of Lincoln.
The one-hour talk is free with paid admission to the museum. Admission is free for faculty, staff, students and immediate family with a valid NCard. Read more about this talk in Today@UNL.
HARDIN HALL ROOM 163, FRI 2PM
Lecture to examine election results through geography
The geographical patterns of the 2012 U.S. Presidential election are the topic of a 2 p.m., March 1 seminar led by UNL's J. Clark Archer. The talk, in Hardin Hall, room 163, part of the Geography General Seminar Series, is free and open to the public.
Archer, a geographer in the School of Natural Resources, will explore if the election was a geographically-maintaining election or a geographically-deviating election. The question will be investigated through the application of correlation analysis, factor analysis, and cartographic representations to geographical patters of popular voting in recent presidential elections at the state and county levels.
NEBRASKA CHAMPIONS CLUB, SUN 2:30PM
OLLI open house is Sunday
The UNL Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is hosting an open house at 2:30 p.m. March 3 at the Nebraska Champions Club. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is also free. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNL is one of 120 such institutes across the United States. Partnering with the College of Education and Human Sciences, OLLI UNL promotes lifelong learning for adults 50 years and older. For more information about membership and registration, visit the OLLI website.
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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.
'Women Make Movies' film festival opens at the Ross
The 40th anniversary celebration of "Women Make Movies" plays the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center from March 1-14. The event features classic works from the Women Make Movies catalog alongside new releases. Also showing at the Ross is the Academy Award winning film "Amour."
Women Make Movies started in 1972 as a feminist filmmakers' collective. Today it is an industry-leading nonprofit media arts organization and distributor with more than 550 films in its catalog. The organization continues to bring men and women together to discuss, debate and learn about independent films directed and produced by women. Read more about this festival in Today@UNL.
Women and gender conference opens Friday
The Women's and Gender Studies Program will host a student research conference "Science and Gender Matters: No Limits 2013" on March 1-2. The keynote address on March 1 will feature Janet Kourany, a feminist philosopher of science at the University of Notre Dame. Her lecture, "But What Happens When the Scientists are Women," will issue a challenge to move beyond the assumption that science will be less sound if women conduct it because they are less analytically gifted than men. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is 4:30 p.m. in the Sheldon Museum of Art.
A roundtable on March 2 will feature Sarah Gervais, professor of psychology, and students from her research group. They will discuss "Applying Gender to Psychology Research: Helping Students Create New Knowledge," at 2:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Auditorium. The students will discuss their experience working with Gervais' research team, which applies a gendered analysis to psychology research and works on topics like objectification, obesity stigma, and self-sexualization. Read more about this conference on the Women's and Gender Studies website.
Lectures
HAMILTON HALL ROOM 112, FRI 3:30PMChemistry Colloquium, "Nanobiotechnology: Future Promises for Medicine and Energy"
David Cliffel, Vanderbilt University
Clayton Yeutter International Trade Program Visiting Scholar Lecture
Kym Anderson, University of Adelaide
Science and Gender Matters: No Limits conference keynote, "But What Happens When the Scientists are Women?"
Janet Kourany, University of Notre Dame
