Keeping an eye on speeders
UNL Police Sgt. Jerry
Plessel clocks cars on North 17th Street
during Operation ABC
Mobilization: America Buckles Up Children
on Nov. 20. The UNL
Police Department, with a grant from the
Nebraska Highway Safety
Council, joined 60 other law enforcement
agencies across the state
in the effort to enforce seat belt
laws.
Nominations due for service to student
awards
Across the campus, many of our colleagues devote
extraordinary
personal time and energy in their efforts to serve
students.
Please consider nominating a deserving person for
one of the
following awards. Nominations for either award may be
made by
any UNL student, faculty or staff member or
administrator.
The Chancellor's Award for Exemplary
Service to Students
acknowledges extraordinary and sustained
performance by individuals
serving UNL's students. All UNL
employees are eligible for nomination.
The Student
Foundation/Builders Award for Outstanding Academic
Advising
acknowledges faculty advisers or advising center
staff members who
have demonstrated outstanding advising ability
and who, by their
service to UNL, have made a considerable contribution
to the
educational enrichment of UNL students. This award is
funded by the
UNL Student Foundation and the All University Fund.
The
deadline for nominations for these awards is Jan. 25.
Nomination
forms may be picked up at the Office of the Vice Chancellor
for
Student Affairs, 106 Canfield Administration Building; the
ASUN
office, 136 Nebraska Union; or either of the Student Involvement
Offices, 200 Nebraska Union or 300 East Campus Union.
E-news process for e-mail to all
E-News is a weekly compilation of notices to be distributed
to
all faculty and staff and replaces the sporadic "e-mail
to
all" system. The notices will be entered through a Web-based
form and will include contact information and the ability to
link
to a Web site with more details. The submitted Web forms
will be
automatically compiled, and the week's list of notices
will be
reviewed to ensure that all items are sponsored by a
UNL
department, program or organization. The deadline for submissions
is 5 p.m. on Monday; E-News will be distributed Tuesday evenings.
Items must be sponsored by a UNL department, program or organization.
No commercial or personal announcements are allowed. Announcements
are to have news rather than opinion content. See the sample
E-News
at http://www.unl.edu/o
pcenter/forms/sample.html.
The E-News Web site is
http://www.unl.edu/o
pcenter/forms/E-News.html
and links from the Faculty/Staff
tab on the UNL homepage. The
Web site gives instructions on how to
use E-News as well as how
to submit text-only information to create
a companion Web site
if desired. Questions about E-News should be
directed to the
Information Services Help Desk at 472-3970 or helpdesk@unl.edu.
South African leader to speak Dec.
3
One of the leaders in the transformation of South Africa
from
an apartheid state to a democracy will speak Dec. 3
Maj. Gen. Ashwin C. Hurribunce of the South African National
Defence Force will deliver the lecture, "Collective Leadership:
A Lesson from Africa," at 2:30 p.m. in Room 143 of the College
of Business Administration Building, 12th and R streets. The
lecture and a 4 p.m. reception in the CBA Building are free and
open to the public.
Trained as a physician, Hurribunce
served Umkhonto we Sizwe,
the military arm of Nelson Mandela's
African National Congress,
in various command positions in South
Africa and outside the
country from 1979 until 1993, when the
organization was decommissioned.
Hurribunce, who once served as
Mandela's personal physician,
joined the South African National
Defence Force in 1994 and serves
as its chief of joint training. In
1999, he was acknowledged
as of the "Greatest Achievers of the
20th Century"
by the Society of International Biographers.
Hurribunce's lecture will focus on the role of leadership
in transforming South Africa and the fashioning of the leadership
styles of the individuals at the forefront of that transformation
(including Mandela and Thabo Mbheki, the first two presidents
of
the "new" South Africa).
His visit was arranged
by Bruce Avolio, who joined the Nebraska
faculty this fall as the
Donald and Shirley Clifton chair in
leadership, a position created
through the Othmer endowment.
Hixson-Lied College seeking alumni
award nominees
The UNL Hixson-Lied College of Fine &
Performing Arts
is seeking nominations for these alumni and
supporter awards:
Alumni Achievement Awards: This award is
made to an alumnus
of the college who has demonstrated outstanding
achievement in
overall professional excellence. Alumni Achievement
Awards are
presented to alumni in art, theater and music (which
includes
dance). Alumni achievement award recipients will be
invited to
campus to participate in classes.
Award of
Merit: This award is given to an individual, not
necessarily an
alumnus of the college, who has demonstrated continued
interest in
the college and has shared his or her time, energy
and
guidance.
Student Leadership Award: Presented to a
currently enrolled
student or recent graduate of the college who
has demonstrated
leadership in academics or in student life.
The deadline for submitting nominations is Jan. 4. The Hixson-Lied
College of Fine and Performing Arts Alumni Board will review
the
applications and select the recipients.
Nomination forms
and more information can be found at http://www.unl.edu/fineart
s/alumni.html
or call 472-9355.
Payroll checks available Jan. 2
Bi-weekly payday (Dec. 27) and monthly payday (Dec. 31) paychecks
will not be mailed during the closedown. UNL employees who are
not
on Direct Deposit may pick up their paychecks after 9 a.m.
Jan. 2.
Those employees on Direct Deposit will have their accounts
credited
on Dec. 27 (biweekly) and Dec. 31 (monthly). Payroll
deposit
advices will be mailed to the work address as usual.
All
monthly and biweekly payroll checks for IANR employees
who are not
on Direct Deposit will be mailed on Jan. 2.
Telephone directories can
be recycled
When the new Alltel telephone directories
arrive, please recycle
the old directories. Deposit your old
Lincoln, Omaha or student
telephone directories in the Dumpsters
marked "Office Paper
Only" on Dec. 13, 14, 20 and 21
only. Page 21 of the UNL
Centrex lists office paper Dumpster
locations. If you have any
questions or concerns, call the
Recycling Office at 472-6099.
Do not deposit phone books in desk
side recycling containers.
Holiday mail collection/delivery process
Mail &
Distribution Services will be open Dec. 27, 28,
and 31.
Mail will be delivered Dec. 28 from 7:30-9:30 a.m. to these
campus locations: Nebraska Hall Mailroom, 201 Andrews, Administration
Building Mailroom, Love Library (1700 Y St.), Nebraska Union
Mailroom, CBA Mailroom, Hamilton Hall Mailroom, Graduate Studies,
Manter Hall Mailbox, Oldfather Departmental Offices, Andersen
Hall,
118 Henzlik, Beadle Center, Westbrook, Behlen Lab Mailbox,
1700 Y,
115 Ferguson, Burnett, 202 Ag Hall, Plant Science, Forestry
Science
Lab, Vet Diagnostic Center, Law College, 101 Dental College,
135
Varner, Agricultural Communications Building, 105 Home Economics,
254 Chase Hall, Animal Science, Division of Continuing Studies,
and
Filley Hall (Food Industries).
Faculty and staff in
buildings with no mail service can pick
up mail at 1820 R St., West
Dock, from 7:30-9:30 a.m. on the
dates listed. A university ID card
must be presented. Off-campus
mail, excluding single-piece mail,
will be processed during the
holiday closedown by prior arrangement
only. Regular campus mail
service will resume Jan. 2, 2002.
For more information, call Connie Rohloff at 472-2533, or
Mark
Porter at 472-7029, by Dec. 17.
Holiday closedown Dec. 24 to Jan.
1
The University of Nebraska 2001 Holiday closedown begins
Dec.
24 and continues through Jan. 1, except for essential
designated
operations. Dec. 25 (Christmas Day holiday) and Jan. 1
(New Year's
Day holiday) will be normal university holidays. In
order for
a regular employee to receive pay for a holiday, an
employee
must be in pay status for the full work shift on the last
scheduled
workday before the holiday and the first scheduled
workday after
the holiday.
Employees who have not
taken their floating (working) holidays
should use their floating
holidays for Dec. 24, 26, 27 and 28.
Floating holidays need to be
used before using vacation leave
during the holiday closedown.
Closedown consists of a total of
five working days. Therefore, for
Dec. 31, depending upon the
employee situation, the employee shall
use vacation, day off
or unpaid leave.
Employees who
have not accrued sufficient floating holiday
time to cover the
closedown (i.e. employees hired after the occurrence
of one or more
of these holidays) will use vacation leave or
day off without pay
during the closedown period. The working
holidays for 2001 were:
President's Day (Feb. 19), Arbor Day
(April 27), Columbus Day (Oct.
8) and Veterans Day (Nov. 12).
Reception for Connolly Dec. 7
The UNL Accounting Department will host a retirement reception
in honor of Carol Connolly, staff secretary III, from 2-4 p.m.
Dec.
7 in the Georgian Suite at the Nebraska Union.
In
addition, items are being collected for a memory book.
Mail items
to Annette Shipley, 401 Admin, Lincoln NE 68588-0439
or e-mail
ashipley2@unl.edu
by
Dec. 1.
McAllister reception Dec. 11
NU President and Mrs. L.
Dennis Smith will host a retirement
reception for R. Jean
McAllister from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Dec.
11 in the Great Plains Room
of the East Union. McAllister will
retire on Dec. 21 after 43 years
of service to both UNL and Central
Administration, most recently as
administrative assistant and
executive secretary to the NU
president.
Degree grade
rosters due Dec. 7
Degree Grade Rosters identifying Dec.
22 degree candidates
will be mailed to the faculty on Nov. 26. Dec.
7 is the deadline
for returning the rosters to the Graduation
Services office in
109 Canfield Administration Building.
Information Technology training classes
begin Jan. 22
The Spring Semester 2002 hands-on classes
and seminars offered
by Communications and Information Technology
begin Jan. 22. The
class topics cover fundamental skills for using
the Windows operating
system, creating good computer slide-show
presentations, Web
authoring and putting course material online
with Blackboard.
The schedule includes:
- Windows Part 1: Fundamentals, Jan. 22. Learn mouse and keyboard
shortcuts, how to quickly share data or files between programs,
how to find and recover files and more.
- Windows Part 2: File
& System Management, Jan. 24. Learn
how easy it is to
organize and manage your files and folder structure
and perform
proper system maintenance.
- Using Blackboard, Jan. 31. Learn
how to set up a distance
education course or to provide
supplemental online materials
and communication for courses.
- Using PowerPoint (97 or 2000), Feb. 5. Learn how to create
a
multimedia presentation for use in classrooms, research presentations
or distribution via the Internet.
- Customizing PowerPoint (97
or 2000), Feb. 21. Learn how to
use Masters customize templates,
link to other shows and the
Web from your slide show, and create
a Web version of your slide
show.
- Effective Web
Searching, Feb. 12. Learn how to use top-rated
directory services
and search engines and how to search the "invisible"
Web.
- Web Authoring: Using HTML, Jan. 30 or Feb. 6. Learn the
basics
of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) so you can create or
update
Web pages and correct coding errors.
- Using
Dreamweaver Part 1, Feb. 19 or Feb. 26. Learn how to
use
Dreamweaver's site management features and automated features
for
easy Web page creation and updating.
- Using Dreamweaver Part
2, Feb. 27 or March 5. Learn how to
use Dreamweaver's tables for
page layout, how to create forms,
how to add navigational aids,
and more.
- Web Authoring Seminar: Designing Your Site, Feb. 7.
Provide
tips for planning and designing your Web site and
individual
pages.
- Web and Presentation Graphics
Seminar, Feb. 13. This class
helps you understand terminology and
techniques for preparing
effective and speedy graphics for the
Web or for your computer
slide shows.
- Web Authoring
Seminar: Forms and Data Management, Feb. 14.
Help you understand
terminology and techniques of how to work
with forms.
More information on class topics, time and location of classes,
class fees and registration is available on the Web at: http://cit.
information.unl.edu/
training/classes.htm.
If
you would like to receive the printed flier, "Information
Technology Training Schedule: Spring Semester 2002," call
the
CIT office at 472-5630 or send an e-mail to msolomos@unlnotes.unl.edu
.
Phifer's Hyde lecture
rescheduled for Dec. 10
Architect Thomas Phifer's talk on
"Museum Work and Other
Recent Projects," has been
rescheduled for 3 p.m. Dec. 10
in the Sheldon Auditorium. A
reception will follow his presentation.
Phifer is the
principal of the New York architecture firm
of Thomas Phifer and
Partners, founded in 1996. Phifer views
outstanding architecture as
a result of "a process in which
function, response to the
natural environment, and appropriate
modes of construction dictate
forms, spaces and decoration of
buildings."
The
recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American
Academy in Rome in 1995, Phifer explored means to incorporate
architectural concepts from antiquity into 20th-century building
language during his yearlong residency in Italy. Thomas Phifer
and
Partners has earned praise for important public and private
projects in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Among
their noted accomplishments are the U.S. Federal Courthouse in
Salt
Lake City; Thirty-Third Street Arch in downtown Boston;
and the
Arizona State University Gateway Project.
Phifer was design
partner for 27 major commissions during
his tenure in the office of
Richard Meier and Partners. Among
the most distinguished were the
Museum of Contemporary Art in
Barcelona (1995) and the acclaimed
Canal + Headquarters in Paris
(1992).
Phifer's
presentation as a Hyde Distinguished Lecturer at
UNL is
co-sponsored by the College of Architecture and the Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery.
Agronomy, Horticulture Highlights set
for Dec. 4
By Sandi Alswager, IANR News and Publishing
Expanding opportunities for agronomic and horticultural crops
in
Nebraska through research, extension and teaching will be
the focus
at the University of Nebraska's Agronomy and Horticulture
Highlights program Dec. 4.
NU Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources researchers
and specialists will cover topics
that range from new crops for
the food and horticulture industries
to emerging technologies
and the latest research findings, said
Kenneth Cassman, head
of the Department of Agronomy and
Horticulture.
The annual program runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3
p.m. at Lincoln's
Cornhusker Hotel. It targets a wide range of
participants including
crop consultants, industry professionals,
Cooperative Extension
educators and alumni and friends of the
agronomy and horticulture
department, Cassman said.
"This program has become a tradition that celebrates
the
high quality, high impact and future directions of the wide
range
of programs in our department," Cassman said.
Topics
include endangered species restoration, wildflowers'
links to NU
research, the development of chicory as a Panhandle
crop,
developing the grape and wine industry, white wheat's status,
building a crop genomics program at NU, plant transformation
as a
tool for genetic crop improvement, yield potential and optimum
soil
productivity in corn production.
Poster presentations will
update participants and provide
IANR research results on production
and horticulture issues.
For more information or to
register, call 472-2811.
Past participants have received
Certified Crop Adviser Continuing
Education Units for attending.
Credits again have been applied
for.
Scarlet schedule for
December
The Scarlet publishes Dec. 6, 13 and 20. The
Scarlet resumes
publishing Jan. 10, 2002. Note that Scarlet will
not publish
the week of Jan. 21 because of Martin Luther King
Day.
Nominations for
Fulfilling the Dream Award due Dec. 14
Nominations for the
Chancellor's "Fulfilling the Dream"
Award are due Dec.
14. The award was established in 1997 to honor
individuals who have
contributed to the UNL community or Lincoln
by promoting the goals
and vision of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. The award or
awards are presented each January during
ceremonies at the
university's celebration of the Martin Luther
King, Jr. holiday on
Jan. 21. Previous winners of the award are:
1998 - Keith D. Parker;
1999 - Leola D. Bullock and Miguel A.
Carranza; 2000 - Melvin D.
Jones (posthumous) and Lela K. Shanks;
2001 - Paulette Jones and
Michael W. Combs.
Nominations for this award will be
solicited from students,
faculty and staff at UNL and from leaders
of community organizations
through a mailing campaign. Nominations
should include a letter
of nomination and no more than three
letters of support. Additional
supporting documentation may be
included but is not required.
Submit all supporting
documentation to Tom Simons, chair,
MLK Awards Committee, 321
Canfield Administration Building, University
of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Lincoln, NE 68588-0424.
Appointed individuals of the
University's MLK Day Planning
Committee will review nominations
after Dec. 14 and make recommendations
for the final selection of
the recipient(s) of the Chancellor's
"Fulfilling the
Dream" Award.
Cooking
Cardiologist comes to UNL Dec. 7
Dr. Richard Collins,
"the Cooking Cardiologist,"
will be the Steinhart
Lecturer from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 7
at the Clifford Hardin
Nebraska Center for Continuing Education.
Collins will provide the
latest research on healthy lifestyle
components and provide
first-hand information on cooking for
a healthy heart. His
demonstration will include cooking with
heart-healthy ingredients
and letting the audience taste the
results. For information or to
RSVP, call Vicki Highstreet, 472-4771.
Alumni hosting Children's Holiday Fest
Dec. 8
The Nebraska Alumni Association will host the
Children's Holiday
Fest from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Dec. 8 in the Wick
Alumni Center.
RSVP by Dec. 3 by e-mail to:
<cbirkel@unlalum.uneb.edu>
or call Cherie at 472-2841.
Include the number of children and
number of adults attending.
Seasonal refreshments, entertainment, gifts, holiday crafts,
cheer and a visit form Santa and his elf are part of the program.
In the spirit of the holidays, you are asked to bring a can of
food
to donate to the Food Bank of Lincoln.
University Libraries announce holiday hours
Love
Library will be open selected hours during the holiday
break to
accommodate re-carpeting in the Link. Plan ahead if
you need
reference materials or books.
The library will be open from
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 22, 27
and 28.
The Electronic
Scholarship Center on Love South first floor
(west) will also be
open these hours as a computer lab.
C.Y. Thompson on East
Campus will be open from noon to 5 p.m.
Dec. 26-28. The computer
lab will be available.
All other branch libraries will be
closed.
For more information http://iris.unl.edu.
Economic development topic of Dec. 4
policy seminar
Top university public policy researchers
and practitioners
will offer policy-specific knowledge and
real-world insight at
the Policy Seminar Series 2001-2002,
sponsored by the University
of Nebraska Public Policy Center.
The next seminar will be "Rural and Urban Economic
Development"
on Dec. 4 at Eugene T. Mahoney State Park.
Seminar leaders will be Robert Blair, assistant professor
of
public administration at the UNO; Al Wenstrand, director of
Nebraska Department of Economic Development, and state Sen. Bob
Wickersham.
For information on the seminar series, contact
Peter Longo,
at (308) 865-8497 or longop@unk.edu.
Registration
and fee information is available at 472-5678; e-mail
ppc@unl.edu; or at http://ppc.unl.edu.
Johnsgard
signing latest book today
The University Bookstore will
host a booksigning by ornithologist
Paul Johnsgard from 11:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 29. Johnsgard
will be signing Nature of
Nebraska: Ecology and Biodiversity,
published by the University of
Nebraska Press. Johnsgard is a
Foundation Professor of Biology at
UNL and author of more than
40 books.
Planetarium offers laser, astronomy shows
Mueller Planetarium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
will
present "How to Watch a UFO" as its astronomy
show in
December.
The program will be presented at 2 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays
through Dec. 2 and at 2 p.m. on Dec. 8 and
15.
Admission to planetarium astronomy shows is $4 for
general
admission, $3 for all students and senior citizens. Tickets
go
on sale 30 minutes before show time in the planetarium lobby
in the University of Nebraska State Museum (Morrill Hall), 14th
and
U streets.
The planetarium also announces its laser show
schedule through
December.
This year, the planetarium
will feature a new version of the
"Mannheim Steamroller
Christmas Laser Show," in addition
to "Star Spangled
Laser," a musical tribute to America.
The planetarium will
also celebrate the release of the Pink Floyd
"best"
album, "Echoes," with the laser show
"Echoes of Pink
Floyd" on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
Admission to evening
laser fantasy rock shows is $5 general
admission and $4 for college
students with ID. Laser rock shows
are not intended for children.
Admission to afternoon Laser Visions family shows is $5
general
admission, $4 for senior citizens and college students with
ID,
and $3 for children ages 12 and younger. There is no admission
charge to showings of "Star Spangled Laser," but a
donation is suggested to the many relief agencies linked at the
Web
site http://www.libertyunites.org
.
Tickets go on sale 30 minutes before show time in
the planetarium
lobby in the University of Nebraska State Museum
(Morrill Hall),
14th and U streets. For more information, call
472-2641 or visit
its site http://www.spacelaser.com.
Following is the schedule of Laser Fantasies rock shows
for
the rest of the year: Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 - "Echoes: The
Best of Pink Floyd," 8 and 9:30 p.m.
Following is the
schedule of Laser Visions family shows: Dec.
1 - "Star
Spangled Laser," 3 p.m.; Dec. 2 - "Star
Spangled
Laser," 3 p.m., "Enya," 3:30 p.m; Dec.
8 -
"Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 2001," 3:30 p.m.;
Dec. 9
- "Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 2001," 2 p.m.,
"Laser Country Christmas," 3:30 p.m.; Dec. 15 - "Mannheim
Steamroller Christmas 2001," 3:30 p.m.; Dec. 16 - "Holiday
Laser," 2 p.m., "Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 2001,"
3:30 p.m.; Dec. 22 - "Holiday Laser," 2 p.m., "Mannheim
Steamroller Christmas 2001," 3:30 p.m.; Dec. 23 - "Mannheim
Steamroller Christmas 2001," 2 and 3:30 p.m.; Dec. 29 -
"Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 2001," 2 p.m.; Dec.
30 -
"Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 2001," 2 p.m.,
"Enya," 3:30 p.m.
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