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April 12, 2001
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Final Weekly Scarlet May 3The final weekly Scarlet for semester will publish May 3. The Scarlet will publish monthly in the summer, June 14 and July 12. Weekly publication resumes in August. Deadlines for the summer issues are June 7 and July 5. Also, please note that the Scarlet office does not make address changes for university employees. These are made by departments using the Personal Data Form. When employees leave the university or are hired, the PDF triggers the address deletion or initiation. Employees who remain on the payroll as on-call or other status will continue to receive the Scarlet regardless of whether they keep regular hours. Non-university employees can make address changes by contacting Diane Taurins at 321 Canfield, 0424. Emeriti Association Meeting April 19The UNL Emeriti Association will meet at 12:30 p.m. April 19 at the East Union. Ian Newman, professor of health education, health and human development, will speak on "Alcohol and Antibiotics: Progress in World Health." If inclement weather forces meeting cancellation, there will be announcements on radio stations KFOR 1240 or KLIN 1400 the morning of April 19, or members can call the University Operator at 472-7211. Sigma Xi Student Paper Competition April 14The University of Nebraska Chapter 007 of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, will hold its Seventh Annual Student Paper Competition from 8 a.m. to noon April 14 in 327 Keim Hall on East Campus. Graduate and undergraduate students from many disciplines will present talks on their research. Refreshments will be provided. Contact Stephen Ducharme, 472-8590, sducharme1@unl.edu, for more information. Theology for Lunch Program April 20The April Theology for Lunch brown bag lunch presentation will be "Diet and Exercise: Christian Conscience in the Public Square," by Chuck Bentjen, at 11:30 a.m. April 20 in the Nebraska Union. Bentjen is public policy director with the Nebraska Synod of the ELCA. The event is sponsored by the Program in Religious Studies, UNL, in cooperation with St. Mark's Episcopal Church, the Lutheran Student Center and the United Ministries in Higher Education. Phi Beta Kappa Spring Initiation Dinner April 19Phi Beta Kappa Spring Initiation Dinner will be April 19 at the East Union. The social hour is at 6 p.m., the initiation ceremony at 6:30 p.m., followed by a dinner honoring the newly initiated members. After the dinner will be an address by Linda Pratt, English, "Can the Liberal Arts Survive the Information Age?" The initiation, dinner, and talk are open to any interested persons. Reservations for dinner are $16, and can be made by calling Monica McBroom, 472-2891, or Don Jensen, 472-3144, before April 16. Technologies for Visually Impaired Subject of April 19 Lecture"You Don't Have to Have Sight to Have Vision," will be presented by Reginald Golledge at 3:30 p.m. April 19 in 213 Avery Hall. Golledge is a professor of Geography and Spatial Cognition at University of California-Santa Barbara. Severely visually impaired himself, Golledge discusses specially designed innovative technologies that have benefited his work as a teacher and researcher. He offers his perspective on the concept of "disability" and contrasts that with the notion that connects disability to social oppression. Golledge emphasizes the theme of searching for independence and self-help to facilitate reintegration into academia. Golledge has written/edited 15 books, over 69 chapters in a variety of other books and published over 100 major articles in journals catering to interests in geography, transportation, psychology, regional economics, environment and behavior, and issues regarding blind people. His main research interests are wayfinding behavior, person-environment relations, spatial cognition, and cognitive maps and mapping. He is a 2001 distinguished academic alumnus of the University of Iowa, and president of the Association of American Geographers 2000. The lecture is sponsored by the Equity, Access and Diversity Programs, Anthropology and Geography Departments, the UNL Academic Senate Convocations Committee, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Human Rights/Human Diversity Initiative, and a grant from the Ford Foundation. For more information call the UNL Geography Department at 472-2865. Faculty Sought to Teach in Europe in Spring 02Applications are due May 10 from UNL faculty members interested in serving as director of the "Spring Semester in the Czech Republic and Greece" program in 2002. This program enables 20-25 Nebraska students to study in the Czech Republic (Olomouc University) and northern Greece (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) for 11 weeks every spring. One faculty member is selected from UNL, UNO, UNK or Wayne State College to direct this 12-credit program. The program is conducted from late March to early June and is considered a full semester's assignment. This allows the director to utilize January, February and most of March for research before departing with the students for Europe. The director will be provided with all expenses for the time spent abroad (transportation, food, housing, insurance and program-related expenses). Departments will be provided with a small stipend to help defray some costs associated with the release of the director for the semester. Faculty members interested in applying to direct the 2002 program should request a more complete description from International Affairs (472-5358). Letters of application, endorsed by the department chair/head, including a statement explaining how these European venues will be used to enhance learning, a description of a four-hour independent study project to be offered, his or her c.v., and two teaching testimonials should be sent by May 10 to Peter Levitov, associate dean of International Affairs, 420 University Terrace, 0682. Electronic Media and Humanities Is April 12 TopicDavid Seaman, founder and director of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, will address the cultural shift in communications from the printed page to the electronic screen in a talk beginning at 3:30 p.m. April 12 in the Nebraska Union. Seaman has spoken extensively on the subjects of Internet technologies and digital libraries. His talk will center on the effect of electronic text on humanistic studies. The Electronic Text Center is internationally known for humanities computing and digital library development. The content posted by the center at no cost is read by tens of thousands of people daily. Seaman's talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Text Studies Initiative, the department of English, and University of Nebraska Libraries. Olson Seminar April 18 Looks at Nebraska VineyardsPaul Read, UNL professor of viticulture, and Ed Swanson, co-owner of Cuthills Vineyards, will talk about Nebraska's winemaking industry at 3:30 p.m. April 18 in the Christlieb Gallery, 1155 Q St. The lecture, Nebraska: The Next Napa Valley?, is part of the Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies and is free and open to the public. A reception following the seminar will feature samples of Nebraska wines. Those attending the reception must be at least 21 years old. The passage of the Nebraska Farm Wineries Act in the mid-1980s prompted the beginning of a small but rapidly growing industry. Until Cuthills opened in December, 1994, there were fewer than 10 acres of commercial grapes and no commercial wineries in Nebraska. Now, four wineries are operating and more than 200 acres of commercial grapes are grown in Nebraska. More acreage and additional wineries are sure to sprout. Research conducted at UNL under Read's direction and the studies done on commercial vineyards such as Cuthills, James Arthur Vineyards, Lover's Leap and Blue Valley Vineyards will also be discussed. For more information, contact the Center for Great Plains Studies, 472-3082. Early Registration Open for Ecospheres ConferenceEarly registration is open until April 15 for Ecospheres, an international conference and forum that targets the connections and relationships between the issues of land, water, populations and culture, technology and the environment. The conference will occur June 10-13 at the Embassy Suites. Ecospheres is sponsored by UNL and the Omaha-based Joslyn Castle Institute for Sustainable Communities. The primary objectives for the conference include: 1) building awareness of the issues and interdependencies of land, water and populations, 2) providing the attendees with foundations for public policy to support sustainability, and 3) providing youth with an opportunity to help determine the direction for a sustainable future. Speakers at the three-and-half day conference include Roger Kennedy, former director of the National Park Service; Lester Brown, chairman of the Worldwatch Institute, and Werner Fornos, president of The Population Institute. Other featured keynote speakers include Daniel Botkin, president of The Center for the Study of the Environment; Richard Swett, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark; and Susan Seacrest, president of The Groundwater Foundation. Registration is available on-line or by calling the Division of Continuing Studies at 472-2175. Ecospheres is offering a limited number of need-based scholarships for individuals who wish to attend the program. Each scholarship recipient will be awarded complimentary full registration. E-mail your request for application materials to acpp1@unl.edu. Additional conference information is available on the web at: http://www.unl.edu/ecospheres. That's SeacrestAn article in the March 22 Scarlet misspelled the name of a presenter for the Water Center's seminar. The gentleman's name is Kent Seacrest. Psychology Hosting 49th Motivation SymposiumThe 49th annual Nebraska Symposium on Motivation is scheduled for April 12-13 at the Nebraska Union. Scholars from Asia, Europe and North America will explore various aspects of this year's theme, "Cross-cultural Differences in Perspectives on the Self." Topics will include an analysis of how well-being and effective functioning are understood in various cultures and an examination of how cultural values and norms mediate between conceptions of the self and subjective experience. This year's presenters include Hazel Rose Markus of Stanford University, Joan G. Miller of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ype. H. Poortinga of Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the University of Leuven in Belgium, Kuo-Shu Yang of the National University of Taiwan, Steve Heine of the University of British Columbia and Sheena Iyengar of Columbia University. The symposium is supported by a generous gift from Cora L. Friedline to the University of Nebraska Foundation in memory of Harry K. Wolfe, her professor and the founder of the NU department of psychology. On-line Workshop Looks at Learner-Centered SyllabusThe Teaching and Learning Center will offer an on-line workshop, "Constructing a Learner-Centered Syllabus," from June 11 to 29. The interactive workshop in syllabus construction will demonstrate how to: o Articulate your teaching philosophy; o Clarify and write your course objectives; o Identify activities, assignments, and assessments suited to your course objectives; o Construct or revise a course syllabus, ready for use in the fall semester; o Review the course syllabi of other participating faculty members and offer constructive feedback. The workshop facilitator is Laurie Bellows, instructional consultant with the Teaching and Learning Center. The workshop will run for three weeks. New modules will be introduced about every third day, giving you time to complete activities and assignments at a pace that's most convenient for you. Occasional virtual chat sessions will be scheduled well in advance so you can make plans to participate. To register, send e-mail to teaching@unl.edu. On the subject line, please write 'Online Syllabus Workshop'. Include in the body of the message: Your name, your campus address and zip code, your campus phone, and your e-mail address. Register by April 15 and attend the face-to-face orientation meeting from 1 to 3 p.m. April 20 in the New Media Center, 163 Mabel Lee Hall. You'll receive an overview of the workshop, meet workshop facilitators and other workshop participants, and get a brief introduction to Blackboard. Holder Retirement Reception April 22A retirement reception for Birdie H. Holder will be from 2 to 4 p.m. April 22 in the Heritage Room of the Nebraska Union. Holder, a past recipient of the Teachers College Distinguished Teaching Award, is closing out a distinguished 29-year career within Teachers College. She has held faculty positions within the Department of Vocational and Adult Education and the Center for Curriculum and Instruction. Holder was chair of the Department of Vocational and Adult Education from 1988 to 1996. In addition, she has represented Teachers College and UNL on numerous state and national organizations during her tenure. For more information, call 472-1696. April 20 Reception Planned for SneddonsThe Department of Civil Engineering is planning a retirement reception for Roy V. Sneddon and Kathleen Sneddon on from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. April 20 in the Board Room of the Wick Alumni. All friends and associates of the Sneddons are invited. The Sneddons plan to retire from UNL at semester's end. In addition to being a member of the faculty in the Department of Civil Engineering, Roy Sneddon was interim department chair from 1996-1997. He has been active in various professional activities including the presidency of the Nebraska Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was chairman of the UNL Academic Planning Committee and a member of the UNL Academic Senate. His service to the community through his church, and otherwise, has also been extensive. Kathleen Sneddon has been a lecturer in the English as Second Language program in the UNL English Department. Scholarship IN Society Lecture April 19Joseph Trimble will present "Bridging Spiritual Sojourns and Social Science Research in Ethnocultural Communities," at 3:30 p.m. April 19 in 115 Burnett Hall. Trimble's presentation is co-sponsored by the Institute for Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies. Trimble, a cross-cultural psychologist, is a fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. His credentials include more than 30 years of experience in interdisciplinary studies in psychology, anthropology, and sociology, at several institutions across the United States. Much of Trimble's research has focused on American Indians and Alaska Natives specifically addressing issues such as drug and alcohol prevention, identity-formation and development, training cross-cultural counselors, self-esteem, stereotypes, and examining facets of measurement equivalence across different ethnocultural groups. He has held offices in the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and the American Psychological Association; and holds Fellow status in three divisions in the APA. He is the past president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (1999-2000), Division 45 of the American Psychological Association. Trimble currently is a member of the Risk, Prevention, and Health Behavior Initial Review Group for the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health. Scholarship IN Society is aimed at modeling the myriad of career possibilities available to students upon receipt of a graduate education. They strive to include individuals with both scholastic and non-academic careers to better realize the breadth of career opportunities. Clements Retirement Reception May 4A reception in honor of L. Davis "Dave" Clements will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. May 4 in the East Union. Clements retired from UNL Jan. 5. Clements came to UNL in 1984. He chaired the Department of Chemical Engineering until he assumed the temporary position as director of the Office of Agricultural Materials in Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 1993. Upon his return, he accepted a joint faculty position among the Departments of Animal Science, Biological Systems Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. One of Clements' most recent endeavors was to identify and develop procedures to recover useful co-products from the waste stream while processing of meat products. In retirement, Clements is pursuing personal business interests. Free Car Buying/Leasing Seminar April 12Are you in the market for a new or used vehicle but are unsure whether you should buy or lease? If you are, then you should attend the free Car Buying / Leasing Seminar at 6:30 p.m. April 12 at the UNL Clifford Hardin Center. Learn about financing, trade-ins, leasing, and other car buying services offered at your credit union. Hear from the car buying experts with Members Only Auto Center and discover the ease of buying or leasing your next vehicle. To make your reservation, call the University of Nebraska Federal Credit Union at 472-2087. Roundtable Discussion on Jerusalem April 13"Jerusalem and the Politics of Identity: A Roundtable Discussion" will be at noon April 13 in 538 Oldfather Hall. Participants are Jean Cahan, director, UNL Harris Center of Judaic Studies; Bob Hitchcock, director, UNL Human Rights Initiative; Jeff Spinner-Halev, UNL Schlesinger Associate Professor of Social Justice; and Dave Forsythe, UNL Charles Mach Distinguished Professor of Political Science. The discussion will focus on the place of Jerusalem in national, regional, and international politics. The UNL Judaic Studies Program will provide lunch and soft drinks to the first 25 who make a reservation. Call Doreen Wagenaar, at 472-9561, or e-mail dwagenaa@unlnotes.unl.edu . Watts Retirement Reception May 11The Biological Systems Engineering Department will host a reception for Darrell Watts from 3 to 5 p.m. May 11 in the Arbor Suite at the East Union. The reception is free. A dinner for Watts will be May 12, in the Great Plains Room at the East Union. The social hour will begin at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:30 p.m. The cost of the dinner is $20 per person with payment in advance. For reservations for the dinner, call Ann Fiedler at 472-6373. Watts will be retiring after 30 years of service at the University of Nebraska. He began his career with UNL's Colombian project in Bogota in 1971. He returned to Nebraska in 1972 and held a research and extension position at the West Central Station in North Platte for five years. He transferred into a teaching and research appointment on campus until 1982 when he was named leader of the MIAC project in Morocco. Watts returned to campus in an extension/research role in 1988. A major accomplishment in water and nitrogen management under irrigated conditions was the MSEA project in Central Nebraska for which he served as co-leader. In lieu of gifts, Watts wishes to establish a one-time international travel scholarship for a student in BSE. Watts and his wife, Lois, will match contributions to the fund. The department will present a book of letters to Darrell from friends and colleagues. Submit letters on 8 x 11-inch paper with a 1-inch margin for inclusion in the book. Send reservations, letters, and/or contributions by May 1 to Ann Fiedler, Biological Systems Engineering Department, UNL, L.W. Chase Hall, Lincoln, NE 68583-0726. Summer Multimedia and Technology Courses AvailableInformation Services offers introductory classes for the latest multimedia software throughout the year in 163 Mabel Lee Hall. They provide an easy, low cost way to keep your skills fresh on the latest technology tools for teaching and research. Workshops generally run for two hours, and cost $20. One-hour sessions are $10 and Blackboard introductory courses are free. Payment is due upon registration and may be made using a cost object or by check. Refunds are allowed up to 48 hours in advance only. Substitutions are allowed. To register, contact Sheila at 472-9050 or register in the 501 Building, Room 118. Space is limited and reservations are required. For more information regarding workshop content, you may contact Leona Barratt at 472-6163 or email at lbarratt@unl.edu. o Blackboard - This course will help you to set up a basic course on Blackboard and give you a chance to familiarize yourself with the tools and features available. Feel free to bring your own material for use in Blackboard. There is NO FEE for the Blackboard Intro workshop, but we request that you register in advance.10 a.m. to noon, May 30; 1 to 3 p.m., June 4; 1 to 3 p.m., June 19; 10 a.m. to noon, July 3; 2 to 4 p.m., July 19; 1 to 3 p.m., Aug. 6, and 10 a.m. to noon, Aug. 14. o Basic HTML/Composer, 10 a.m. to noon, May 17. This workshop will teach you how to quickly and simply put your syllabus on the web or create your own web pages using Netscape. The basics of HTML will also be covered. o Macromedia Dreamweaver, 2 to 4 p.m., May 25. Dreamweaver is an advanced website creation tool that combines sophisticated web page design tools (including JavaScript, forms, behaviors, etc.) with powerful website management tools. You should be familiar with basic website or HTML design before registering for this workshop. o Adobe Acrobat, 1 to 2 p.m., June 5. This 1-hour workshop will demonstrate using Adobe Acrobat to create PDF (portable document format) documents to share with others regardless of platform or software. Also demonstrated will be linking features within Acrobat as well as shareware/freeware alternatives for creating PDF's. This workshop is $10. o Microsoft PowerPoint 2001, 2 to 4 p.m., June 11. Use this multimedia presentation software to create professional presentations incorporating sound, images and video for classroom instruction or web use. o Intro to Adobe Photoshop - 10 a.m. to noon, July 31. Use this professional image editing software to learn techniques for retouching, color correction, cropping, resizing, and saving in various file formats. o iMovie - 10 a.m. to noon, Aug. 2. Using this software that comes free with most new iMac computers, video can be easily edited and manipulated. Learn to import video and make edits. Next, add transitions, effects, titles and music to your movie. iMovie is simple enough for novice users but powerful enough to easily produce a completed project. No video editing experience required. |
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