Wed, Oct 8 @ 3:30pm: Campus Housing & Community Fair
Find your next home sweet home! The Campus Housing Fair brings apartments, property managers, and resources together so you can explore your best living options—on and off campus—all in one place. Plus, check out local businesses with fun products and opportunities to make campus life even better. Don’t miss this exciting event! (Union Greenspace)
Thurs, Oct 9 @ 12pm: Book Talk: The Rural Lawyer, by Hannah Haksgaard
The Rural Reconciliation Project at the University of Nebraska College of Law - along with the Greater Nebraska Connections student organization - will host Hannah Haksgaard, Professor at the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law, at the University of Nebraska College of Law. Professor Haksgaard will be discussing her new book, The Rural Lawyer: How To Incentivize Rural Law Practice and Help Small Communities Thrive (Cambridge University Press; 2025). The presentation will address policy responses to the rural lawyer shortage and will include a discussion of what the rural practice of law is like for new attorneys. This is a free public event - Bring your own lunch. The Project will provide dessert. (111 McCollum Hall, East Campus)
Thurs, Oct 9 @ 6pm: Law School Personal Statement Workshop
Join us for our Personal Statement Workshop that will give you guidance on starting your personal statement. Make sure you have a document open as our goal is that you have a working draft of your personal statement when you leave! Register here: https://law.unl.edu/personal-statement-workshop/
Fri, Oct 10 @ 12pm: Global Café: Making a Difference – Careers in Global Aid and Diplomacy
Join us for a conversation with Sarah Atwood Barma, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer and development professional, as she reflects on evolving trends in global development and humanitarian aid.
You’ll walk away with:
>>Insider insights into how this field is changing
>>A clearer picture of what skills, mindset, and experience help you stand out
>>Practical steps you can take now, while still at UNL, to prepare
Sarah is a former recipient of Critical Languages, Fulbright, and Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships, bringing first-hand experience across international settings.
Coffee and pastries will be served. Don’t miss this chance to engage, ask questions, and chart your path in global impact. (OLDH 827)
Tues, Oct 14 @ 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: https://go.unl.edu/caps_ps
Tues, Oct 14 @ 6:30pm: A Conversation with Dr. Vivek Murthy
Dr. Vivek Murthy, the 19th and 21st U.S. Surgeon General, has reshaped dialogue and strategies around mental health, workplace well-being, social connection, and the impact of technology on health, informing policy in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. He authored “Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World” and has contributed to major news outlets and medical journals. Murthy co-chairs the WHO Commission on Social Connection, a global effort to improve health outcomes through stronger human connection. In this fireside chat with H. Dele Davies, MD, interim chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Dr. Murthy will explore ways to turn the challenges of loneliness and isolation into opportunities for deeper connection. Dr. Murthy’s authoritative yet compassionate voice uniquely bridges public health, personal well-being, and organizational success, offering actionable insights for all. Tickets are required. (Lied Center for the Performing Arts)
Wed, Oct 15 @ 3pm: Pre-Health Opportunities Fair
Are you a Pre-Health student? Join us at the Pre-Health Opportunities Fair to learn more about ways you can get involved with shadowing, volunteering, research, patient contact hours, and more as an undergraduate student. Many local healthcare organizations will be represented. We hope to see you there! (Nebraska Union Ballroom)
Wed, Oct 15 @ 3:30pm: The Robert Knoll Lecture Series Presents: Stefan Schoberlein: “Deep-Dyed Heretic: Walt Whitman’s Populist Poetics”
Stefan Schöberlein, associate professor at Texas A&M University, Central Texas, will discuss “Deep-Dyed Heretic: Walt Whitman’s Populist Poetics.” Frequently called the “poet of democracy,” Whitman was banned in his day, and he remains provocative and challenging now. How did a man-loving man, disabled in his final decades and never affluent, come to be widely regarded as the national poet? And how and why did he become an inspiration for democratic movements worldwide? Can he speak to our current political problems (in case you’re curious, he hated tariffs with a passion)? (ANDR 228/Bailey Library)
Wed, Oct 15 @ 4pm: 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: https://go.unl.edu/caps_ps
Thurs, Oct 16 @ 12pm: Health Equity Grand Rounds: Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young: “Immigration, Mental Health, and Health Care Access among Latinos in Rural Communities”
Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, PhD, MPH, will join us for our October Grand Rounds event to discuss “Immigration, Mental Health, and Health Care Access among Latinos in Rural Communities.” Dr. Young is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Merced. In her presentation, Dr. Young will share key findings from the Policies Influencing Rural Latino Health (PIRLH) Study, a population-based survey examining how U.S.- and foreign-born Latinos experience and navigate immigration policy in rural communities in California and Arizona. She will explore the relationship between immigration policy and the well-being of this population and share lessons learned from conducting research with hard-to-reach populations. Dr. Young is an immigrant health scholar whose research focuses on understanding the impact of the U.S. immigration system on the health and well-being of immigrants and their families. She has developed new frameworks and measures to examine the intersections of immigration policies, citizenship/legal status, and health, and has conducted some of the first empirical studies demonstrating that immigration policy drives health inequities. A guiding principle in her work is partnering with immigrants and community members as active contributors in the design and interpretation of research. This event is FREE and open to the public. Register here for the Zoom link: https://unl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ac17pjndTjCggLoY1Bnnlg
Thurs, Oct 16 @ 4pm: 2025 Carroll R. Pauley Lecture: Phil Clark – “Rwanda Under Kagame: Assessing 25 Years of Welfare, Security, and Reconciliation in Rwanda”
Phil Clark is a Professor of International Politics at SOAS University of London. His research and teaching focus on conflict and post-conflict issues in Africa, with a particular interest in justice, reconciliation, peacebuilding and welfare in the Great Lakes region. This lecture examines Rwanda’s paradoxical trajectory since Paul Kagame became President in 2000. While the country has attracted regular criticism for its crackdown on dissent at home and abroad and its involvement in conflict in the wider Great Lakes region, it has experienced a remarkable recovery since the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. This includes the peaceful return of hundreds of thousands of convicted genocide perpetrators to the same communities where they committed crimes in 1994. Meanwhile, Rwanda has built one of Africa’s most expansive social welfare systems, with heavy investment in healthcare and education. These policies have helped increase Rwandans’ average life expectancy from 47 to 69 years under Kagame’s presidency. How has a state often depicted as authoritarian, led by a President commonly described as a dictator, achieved these substantial social and economic gains? What does this mean for Rwanda’s long term social equilibrium? And how does the Rwandan case illuminate wider debates about democracy and authoritarianism in the 21st century? This lecture will tackle these pressing questions, drawing on the speaker’s more than 20 years of conducting field research in Rwanda. (Platte River Room South, Nebraska Union)
Thurs, Oct 16 @ 6pm: Open SARV Workshop
Engage in conversation with fellow Huskers in a safe and inclusive environment while increasing a shared sense of responsibility and community. First-year undergraduate students are required to attend an in-person SARV workshop. OPEN workshops are intended for first-year students who do not live on campus or for students who missed their workshop in their residence hall. Undergraduate students (of any level) who want to increase their understanding about sexual assault and relationship violence are welcome to join this open session. Facilitated by trained undergraduate Huskers CARE Peer Educators, SARV workshops are designed to help undergraduate students:
• Gain awareness of and increase understanding of sexual assault and relationship violence.
• Learn about programs and resources available on campus and in the community.
• Be empowered to become active in daily life through prevention of power-based violence by knowing how to intervene.
• Increase a shared sense of responsibility to prevent sexual violence and help create a safe community.
REGISTER HERE: care.unl.edu/sarv-workshop