E-News: October 9, 2001 ------------------------------- 1. Scholarship IN Society -- Ms. Maria Martin, NPR's Latino USA 2. Cash Prizes Offered for Innovative Uses of Soybean Contest! 3. ONLINE Cater Ordering - Now Available 4. "Meet the Cartoonists" 5. Women's Studies Colloquium 6. Nebraska Multicultural Exchange Conference, October 12-13 7. Research Council Grant Deadline Nears 8. Colloquium:"Abstraction in Pigeons? Parallels to Human Cognition" 9. The Wide Blue Road 10. Building Relationships With Children in a New Culture 11. Instructional Technology Mentoring Program 12. Faculty/Staff Bowling Team Needed 13. Emergency Student Response Task Force members needed 14. Case Studies in College Teaching 15. Anti-Evolutionism in 20th-Century America ********************************************* Scholarship IN Society -- Ms. Maria Martin, NPR's Latino USA The Graduate Studies Office is proud to host Ms. Maria Martin, executive producer of LatinoUSA, the first English language radio show produced from a Latino perspective, distributed by National Public Radio, as part of the fall Scholarship IN Society speaker series. Ms. Martin will be presenting"Making Radio... Making a Difference: Reflections of a Public Radio Journalist" on Thursday, October 11 at 3:30 P.M. in the Nebraska Union, room posted. http://www.unl.edu/gradstud/ ********************************************* Cash Prizes Offered for Innovative Uses of Soybean Contest! Sponsored by the Nebraska Soybean Board and UNL Industrial Agricultural Products Center, open to all students enrolled in a Nebraska college or university. Develop an original product using soybeans, enter by March 1st, and win up to $3,500! May work with faculty advisor, individually or with a team. http://agproducts.unl.edu ********************************************* ONLINE Cater Ordering - Now Available You can now order your catered refreshments ONLINE through University Catering. With just a few clicks of your mouse, you can have your refreshments delivered to your office or to your next meeting at the City Union. We are glad we can provide this service to the UNL community. http://www.unl.edu/neunion (click on ONLINE Catering) ********************************************* "Meet the Cartoonists" From 9 - 11am on Saturday, October 13 The Great Plains Art Collection at 12th and Q Street will host a "Meet the Cartoonists" event in conjunction with an ongoing exhibition entitled "Low Art: The Serious Business of Funny Pictures". Local cartoonists Paul Fell (Lincoln Journal Star) and Bob Hall (comic book creator) will team up with Bob Staake, award winning cartoonist and illustrator from St. Louis, MO, who counts Mad Magazine among his myriad clients. The trio will be in the gallery to meet cartoon fans, answer questions, and autograph a free special edition poster. The event is free and open to the public http://www.unl.edu/plains/gallery/gallery.html ********************************************* Women's Studies Colloquium "Popular Piety and Women's Confessional Practice" will be presented on Thursday,October 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union by Dyan Elliot, professor of History at Indiana University-Bloomington. This presentation is free and open to the public. For more information go to; http://www.unl.edu/e-news/submissions/Womens.Study.Colloquium.html ********************************************* Nebraska Multicultural Exchange Conference, October 12-13 The Nebraska Multicultural Exchange Conference opens this Friday, Oct 12, 7pm at Culture Center. Workshops run all day Saturday, 8:30-4, at East Campus Union, panel discussion on Muslim culture and Islamic religion 12:45, int'l dinner at Morrill Hall 6:00 pm, and (free) dance at City Union at 8:00pm. Public welcome. Fee $25. (Dinner only $10 ) Call 472-0382 or see http://www.unl.edu/FoFStu/nemec/nemec.htm ********************************************* Research Council Grant Deadline Nears October 15 is the deadline for submitting applications for the faculty research grants offered by the University Research Council. Please click on the website below for details. Jeff Elwell, Chair University Research Council http://www.unl.edu/research/council.html ********************************************* Colloquium:"Abstraction in Pigeons? Parallels to Human Cognition" Everyone is welcome to attend the UNL Department of Psychology Colloquium Series presentation on Friday, October 12th at 10:30am in 12 Burnett Hall! Edward A. Wasserman, Ph.D., a psychology professor in the Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Program at the University of Iowa, will give a presentation entitled: "Abstraction in Pigeons? Parallels to Human Cognition". Dr. Wasserman's research interests involve the comparative analysis of learning, memory, and cognition. Specific projects concern conceptualization, causal judgment, and visual object recognition. Students and faculty from all departments, as well as the public, are invited to join us for this event and future Department of Psychology Colloquiums. The presentation is free and no reservations are needed. ********************************************* The Wide Blue Road This beautiful, deeply affecting film from 1957 was resurrected and restored by Milestone Films. It stars Yves Montand as an outlaw fisherman on a small Italian island. Showing Saturday, October 13 and Sunday, October 14 only. Showtimes are available on the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater website. http://www.rossfilmtheater.org ********************************************* Building Relationships With Children in a New Culture A workshop, "Building Relationships With Children in a New Culture: Parenting Issues in Vietnamese Families," will be presented Monday, Oct. 22, 8:30-Noon at the Lancaster Extension Education Center, 444 Cherrycreek Road, Lincoln. Cost is $10. Call 441-7180 to register. For more information go to; http://www.unl.edu/e-news/submissions/Building.Relationships.With.Children.in.a.New.Culture.html ********************************************* Instructional Technology Mentoring Program A new program has been launched at UNL to pair faculty experts in instructional technology with colleagues interested in acquiring additional technology skills. Faculty interested in working with a mentor are encouraged to complete a short online survey to indicate their interest. http://www.unl.edu/faculty_mentor ********************************************* Faculty/Staff Bowling Team Needed Currently there is an opening for one additional team in the Faculty/Staff Bowling League at the Nebraska East Union "Lanes 'n Games". The leagues bowls on Wednesday nights at 6pm. ********************************************* Emergency Student Response Task Force members needed A new ad hoc ASUN committee, the Emergency Student Response Taskforce, has 4 open seats (2 Greek, 2 off-campus). The Taskforce will be define possible protocols in the case of potential crises that could affect the lives of students. Apply at the ASUN office (136 City Union) if interested. ********************************************* Case Studies in College Teaching This discussion group uses case studies to reflect on and discuss key teaching issues. Meets Thursday, October 18, in the Selleck Hall Private Dining Room from 7:30-9:00 a.m. Breakfast is provided. Facilitated by Karl Hostetler, Curriculum and Instruction. Graduate students and part-time faculty are welcome to attend. To register, call the Teaching and Learning Center at 2-3079 or email us at teaching@unl.edu. http://www.unl.edu/teaching ********************************************* Anti-Evolutionism in 20th-Century America Free public lecture by Ronald L. Numbers, U. Wisconsin-Madison, October 18, 7:30 PM, 117 Bessey Hall. Dr. Numbers is an eminent scholar of creationism and of the conflicts between science and religion. His books include THE CREATIONISTS (1993) and the Templeton Prize-winning DARWINISM COMES TO AMERICA (1998). Numbers is Coleman Professor and Chair of the Dept. of History of Science and Medicine at U. Wisconsin-Madison. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *