January 2009
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Special Announcement
Welcome Back!
Hope your holiday break was a happy and restful one! Second semester is beginning and with it another application deadline is approaching for the UCARE program. This year the deadline is Friday, February 13.
Over 400 undergraduates at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are currently working one-on-one with faculty mentors in over 60 disciplines through UCARE (or Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences). This innovative program enriches the academic experience of undergraduate students at UNL by allowing them to explore a field of particular interest and learn alongside faculty mentors in a creative activity or research area. Students are paid through payroll; funds are generated by the Pepsi Endowment, created by the contract between the University and the Pepsi-Cola Company, or by the University Program of Excellence. (To learn more about the UCARE program, please visit the UCARE website or visit with Laura Damuth, Director of Undergraduate Research, ucare@unlnotes.unl.edu or 472-5024.)
--Laura Damuth, Director, Undergraduate Research and Fellowship Advising
Announcements and Events
Course Finder locates course equivalents at NU Campuses
- CourseFinder, a new interactive web site, allows students and advisers to locate equivalent courses between the Kearney, Lincoln, and Omaha campuses. Find it on-line at https://coursefinder.nebraska.edu/
- Students, parents, faculty and advisers need to know what courses are equivalent at sister campuses. CourseFinder makes this information available in a more efficient, more reliable, more user-friendly format. It is the result of a yearlong collaboration between the Office of the Provost, NU Computing Systems Network, and the Kearney, Lincoln, and Omaha campuses
- The team designed the database and interactive web interface and reviewed the current equivalents for accuracy. A number of search options are available. Now with just a few clicks a student can find the equivalent of a course taken since 1999 or a course the student plans to take. Once a course is located, clicking on the identifier (ECON211) will bring up detailed course information.
- Equivalency information is provided as a guide and may change without notice.
OASIS
- The University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter of the W.E.B. Du Bois Honor Society will induct its first class on Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 3:00pm in the Culture Center. Dr. Colleen Jones will be the keynote speaker. Light refreshments will be served. Business attire is required. Please come support our young scholars on this historic occasion.
- The 2009 Martin Luther King, Jr. Comittee of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln would like to invite you to come celebrate the legacy of Dr. King with us the week of Jaunuary 19-23, 2009. On Tuesday, January 20th we will celebrate the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States of America with an inaugural watch party during the day and an Inaugural Ball in the Nebraska Union. The ball will begin at 7:00pm. This event is dress to impress meaning ladies get out your gowns and gentlemen put on your best tie and jacket. Music will be provided by DJ D-LUV. This event is FREE FREE FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. http://mlkweek.unl.edu/
E.N. Thompson Forum
Nobel Peace Prize Winner deKlerk to Open Spring Thompson Forum series
On Tuesday, February 10, at 7 p.m. former President of South Africa F.W. deKlerk will deliver the Lewis E. Harris Lecture on Public Policy. The lecture opens the spring series of the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues.
While president of South Africa, de Klerk released Nelson Mandela from prison and presided over the dismantling of apartheid, the adoption of South Africa's first fully democratic constitution and its first multiracial elections. President de Klerk is now chairman of the Global Leadership Foundation, a consortium of former heads of state who promote peace, democracy and development worldwide by providing confidential peer-to-peer advice to governments around the world.
The Harris Lecture was endowed by the SmithKline Corporation (now Glaxo/SmithKline) in honor of its former chairman, Dr. Lewis E. Harris, also founder and former chairman of Harris Laboratories (now MDS Pharma Services). The Harris Lecture was created to examine public policy issues and provide an opportunity for interaction between students, and the business and academic communities in Nebraska.
Other lectures in the Spring series include Sarah Chayes, former NPR reporter on "Notes from Afghanistan" (March 4), the Wilson Dialogue on Domestic Issues featuring Dr. Michael A. Olivas and Dr. Vernon Briggs discussing "Illegal Immigration: Path to Citizenship" (March 25) and Colin G. Campbell on "Citizenship in a Global Age" (April 14). All lectures take place at 7 p.m. at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
For more information on these lectures and links to articles and interviews with the speakers, visit the Thompson Forum website, http://enthompson.unl.edu.
Tickets Available for Spring Thompson Forum Lectures
Tickets are now available for the four Spring 2009 Thompson Forum lectures. All lectures are ticketed events. Tickets are FREE and guarantee you a reserved seat. To request tickets, contact the Lied Center for Performing Arts at 402-472-4747 or 800-432-3231. You may also request tickets in person at the Lied Center, 301 N. 12th Street in Lincoln or download a ticket order form and mail or fax it to the Lied Center at the address or number on the form.
Office of Undergraduate Studies |
(402) 472-1185 |
Dr. Rita Kean, Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Textiles, Clothing and Design
Dr. Tim Alvarez, Interim Director of OASIS
Dr. Patrice Berger, Director of NU Honors Program and Professor of History
Dr. Laura Damuth, Director of Undergraduate Research and Fellowship Adviser
Kelly Dick, Undergraduate Curriculum Associate
Dr. Donald Gregory, Director of General Studies and Associate Professor of English
Gail Hackwith, Administrative Assistant
Dr. Jessica Jonson, Director of Institutional Assessment
Sara Mattson, Administrative Technician
Dr. Nancy Mitchell, Interim Director for General Education
JoAnn Moseman, Academic Transfer Coordinator
Dr. Jeremy Penn, Assessment Associate for PEARL
Marcia White, E.N. Thompson Coordinator and Political Science Adviser
AnnMarie Williams, Academic Learning Communities Coordinator
