Tues, Sept 23 @ 12pm: Prevent Suicide Training
PREVENT SUICIDE is a free 60-minute in-person training for University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, faculty and staff. Anyone can help. Know the risk factors and warning signs. Learn how to intervene. During the in-person session, you will:
* Increase Your Knowledge: learn the warning signs associated with suicide.
* Name the Concerns and Ask: increase your confidence about communicating openly about suicide.
* Provide Support and Resources: expand awareness about resources.
* Connect To Help: learn how to take action when supporting others.
Preregistration is required.
Tues, Sept 23 @ 12:30pm: UCARE Workshop: UNL Libraries Researcher ToolKit
Join us for an introduction to essential researcher tools available at the UNL Libraries to assist you with your research project! This workshop will cover how to access the information you need, using tools and technology, and more. All undergraduates are welcome - we hope to see you there! Please register.
Tues, Sept 23 @ 4pm: MCAT Workshop
The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) is an important piece of your application to medical school. We’ll review the content of the exam, discuss considerations for when to take it, and share preparation strategies and resources. (221 Love Library South)
Wed, Sept 24 @ 12:30pm: Gilman Scholarship Info Session
Interested in studying or interning abroad, but not sure how you’ll fund it? The Gilman Scholarship Program provides awards of up to $5,000 for students receiving Pell Grants to study or intern abroad on credit-bearing programs. Come to this in-person info session to learn more. The U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program (Gilman Program) enables students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad, providing them with skills critical to our national security and economic prosperity. To be eligible for the Gilman Program, applicants must be receiving a Federal Pell Grant during the time of application or provide proof that they will be receiving a Pell Grant during the term of their study abroad program or internship. (137 Louise Pound Hall)
Wed, Sept 24 @ 4:30pm: Prevent Suicide Training
PREVENT SUICIDE is a free 60-minute in-person training for University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, faculty and staff. Anyone can help. Know the risk factors and warning signs. Learn how to intervene. During the in-person session, you will:
* Increase Your Knowledge: learn the warning signs associated with suicide.
* Name the Concerns and Ask: increase your confidence about communicating openly about suicide.
* Provide Support and Resources: expand awareness about resources.
* Connect To Help: learn how to take action when supporting others.
Preregistration is required. (East Campus Union, Arbor A)
Thurs, Sept 25 @ 4pm: Gaining Experience as a Pre-Law Student
There are many ways to gain experience as a pre-law student, with opportunities on campus, in the local community, and beyond. With so many options, it can be hard to know where to begin getting involved. Attend this workshop to reflect on which skill sets you would like to develop as a pre-law student and plan for your involvement as you prepare to apply to law school. (221 Love Library South)
Fri, Sept 26 @ 12:30pm: IGNITE featuring Erica Larsen-Dockray
Erica Larsen-Dockray, a lecturer in the EMA program, is an Animation and Media Artist, Educator, Entrepreneur, Playworker, and Activist. She is owner/operator of her studio, ‘eek art’, devoted to her art practice which includes hybrid installations consisting of varying elements of painting, moving image, dance, theater, interactivity, and experimental projection. Her work has been shown domestically and internationally in cultural institutions such as the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, The Great Plains Art Museum, Future Studio Gallery, The New Children’s Museum and at the Art Festival Kesenian, Indonesia. She is the founding director of the Calibraska Arts Initiative launched in 2013. Every summer since, she has returned to her home state of Nebraska, often bringing a variety of professional artists with her to teach unique art and media offerings. It currently tours six different cities and includes an internship program, educator training, free virtual workshops with her partners at Nickelodeon Animation Studio and more. She is a trained playworker and co-founded SCV Adventure Play Foundation focused on self directed play space and education. Erica is a strong advocate for environmental justice and spent over a decade representing her previous community against the Chiquita Canyon Landfill expansion turned disaster. She recently re-located from Los Angeles to Lincoln, Nebraska and is reconceptualizing her creative life and exploring exciting new collaborations. (Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts)
Fri, Sept 26 @ 3pm: Gilman Scholarship Essay Writing Lab
If you are Pell-eligible, you qualify for the Gilman Scholarship, which can help you pay for studying abroad, up to $5000. Before submitting your essays, make sure you get feedback from one of our walk-in essay feedback advising sessions. The Writing Lab is laid back. Feel free to come to write, get essay feedback, talk through requirements, and ask any questions. (101 Louise Pound Hall)
Mon, Sept 29 @ 12:30pm: Forging the Czech Nation: The Czech Manuscripts in the National Movement
The medieval manuscripts forged by Václav Hanka and his collaborators in the 1810s were perfect vehicles for the expanding Czech national movement of that time. A number of the qualities the manuscripts presented were particularly valuable to the nationalist entrepreneurs, “awakeners” bringing the Czech nation to the consciousness of their fellow Czech speakers and soliciting their engagement. This talk will examine some of these important qualities, including the (supposed!) age of the manuscripts, their artistic qualities, their representation of Czech nationhood, and their modeling of Czech patriotic behavior, all of which made them ideal recruiting documents. (301 Burnett)
Wed, Oct 1 @ 5:30pm: River Selby to read from memoir Hotshot: A Life on Fire
From 2000 to 2010, River Selby was a wildland firefighter whose given name was Anastasia. This is a memoir of that time in their life—of Ana, the struggles she encountered, and the constraints of what it means to be female-bodied in a male-dominated industry. An illuminating debut from a fierce new voice, HOTSHOT is a timely reckoning with both the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefighting. By the time they were nineteen, Selby had been homeless, addicted to drugs, and sexually assaulted more than once. In a last-ditch effort to find direction, they applied to be a wildland firefighter. Two years later, they joined an elite class of specially trained wildland firefighters known as hotshots. Over the course of five fire seasons, Selby delves into the world of the people—almost entirely men—who risk their lives to fight and sometimes prevent wildfires. Simultaneously hyper visible and invisible, Selby navigated an odd mix of camaraderie and rampant sexism on the job and, when they challenged it, a violent closing of ranks that excluded them from the work they’d come to love. (Francie & Finch Bookshop, 130 S. 13th St)
Fri, Oct 3 @ 5:30pm: Teo Shannon discusses A Chronology of Blood: Poems
A stunning debut collection by a gifted poet, “A Chronology of Blood” explores major traumas in the author’s life. Autobiographical in nature, the book is broken into three sections that each deal with a trauma the author has endured, and it explores a range of themes including gun violence, conversion therapy, misuse of drugs, addiction, and domestic violence. But hope balances the anger, harm, and pain. Above all, Shannon is a survivor, learning to incorporate these experiences into a life filled with healing and lived on his own terms. Teo Shannon holds a PhD in English from UNL and is a cofounder and a co-EIC of the literary journal Cotton Xenomorph. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He lives in Michigan. (Francie & Finch Bookshop, 130 S. 13th St)