Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Researchers reveal more clues on how plants fight disease
By studying how a disease-causing bacterium attacks plants, UNL researchers have made important discoveries about how plants defend themselves against invaders. The information is helping them improve agricultural crops' armor against a broad range of diseases.
Plant pathologist James Alfano, graduate student Anna Joe and co-authors recently reported their findings in the European Molecular Biology Organization Journal. The work builds on Alfano's earlier discovery of a component in plant immunity that was reported in Nature, the international weekly journal of science, in 2007. Read more about this research in Today@UNL.
Talk features Sports Illustrated photographer
Damian Strohmeyer, a Boston-based photographer who has been taking photos of people and sporting eventss for more than two decades, will deliver a presentation at 6:30 p.m., March 5 in Andersen Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Strohmeyer has been affiliated with Sports Illustrated magazine for more than 20 years, the past 14 as a staff photographer. His prior experience includes stints at The Topeka Capital Journal and the Denver Post newspapers. His work has been featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated over 60 times. Read more about this talk in Today@UNL.
UNL in the national news: February 2013
National media outlets featured and cited UNL sources on a number of topics in the past month. Read a full list of national media appearances 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.
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 7PM
Gun violence conversation is tonight
More than 58,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War — about the same number killed by firearms in the United States every two years. More than 4,400 Americans died in the first seven years of the Iraq War — about the same number killed with guns in the United States every seven weeks.
Few Americans question that the nation has a gun violence problem. What they do question is why and what can be done about it. Those answers will be the focus of a two-hour interactive public conversation on gun violence in America at 7 p.m. March 5, at the Nebraska Union Auditorium. Read more about this conversation in Today@UNL.
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
UNL Symphony Orchestra to perform
The UNL Symphony Orchestra will feature winners of UNL's 2012-2013 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Solo Competitions during a 7:30 p.m. March 5 concert in Kimball Recital Hall. The performance will include music by Rachmaninoff, Rossini, R. Strauss, Beethoven and Wagner. Tyler Goodrich White, professor of music, conducts the orchestra.
The concert will begin with the orchestra performing the overture to "Candide" by Leonard Bernstein. It will end with "Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey" from Die Gotterdammerung by Richard Wagner, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. Read more about this performance in Today@UNL.
Lectures
ENTOMOLOGY HALL ROOM 202, 4PMEntomology Lecutre, "Dengue Fever in Brazil: Disease Outlook and Management"
Camila de Oliveira, graduate student
Biochemistry and Redox Biology Center Seminar, "Simulation of Cellular Biochemical System Kinetics"
Daniel Beard, UNL
Community Conversation, "Encounters: Photography From the Sheldon Museum of Art"
Come willing to talk, listen, and look with other participants. We encourage you to bring one meaningful photograph to share.
Parking permit fees unchanged; meters to increase
Parking fees will be unchanged for UNL permit holders and increase for some parking meter users.
Dan Carpenter, director of parking and transit services, said - pending approval by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents - the cost of faculty, staff and student parking permits will remain at current rates for the 2013-14 academic year. However, the cost to park at a meter on City Campus will increase to $1 per hour for the majority of metered spaces and to $1.25 per hour for three high demand areas. Meter fees on East Campus will remain unchanged. Read more about parking fees in Today@UNL.
