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Focus the Nation

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Focus the Nation

January 28 - February 1, 2008

 

Join students across the U.S. in a collaborative discussion on global warming.

Focus the Nation is a nationwide effort to coordinate teams of faculty and students at more than one thousand colleges, universities and K-12 schools to engage in an interdisciplinary discussion about global warming.

 

Monday, January 28

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.; Low-Carbon-Footprint Meal; CPN and East Campus

Tuesday, January 29

Professor Lectures - Nebraska Union Auditorium

  • 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Tim Wentz - Engineering
  • 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Sandi Zellmer - Environmental Law
  • 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. James Swinehart - Geosciences

7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Speaker: Chelsea Sexton Lecture, Who Killed the Electric Car; Nebraska Union, Auditorium

Wednesday, January 30

Professor Lectures - Nebraska Union Auditorium

  • 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Carolyn Johnsen - Journalism
  • 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Andy Graybill - History
  • 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. Peter Hind & Panel - Architecture
  • 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Ken Dewey - Natural Resources
  • 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Richard Perrin - Agricultural Economics

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.; 2 Breakout Rooms with Pizza; Hardin Hall

7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Webcast; Hardin Hall

Thursday, January 31

Professor Lectures - Nebraska Union Auditorium

  • 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Dennis Schulte - Biological Systems Engineering
  • 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. John Janovy - Biological Sciences
  • 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Dave Harwood - Geosciences

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.; speaker - Ken Mankoff; Auditorium
Title: Pale Blue Truth
Subject: An oral presentation of Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"

Friday, February 1

12-1:00 p.m.; Lunch with politicians and lecture professors; Nebraska Union, Regency suite

1:00-3:00 p.m.; Political Roundtable; Nebraska Union, Colonial Room

 

Full schedule at: http://events.unl.edu

Sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Studies, ASUN and the E.N. Thompson Scholars.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Pepsi Endowment Fund.