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Philip
Zach, a junior art major, sketches the elephants on
display in the
University of Nebraska State Museum on Feb. 15
for his visual
literacy class. Zach said he chose the elephants
because of their
texture, shadows and good solid form.
UAAD workshop focuses on financial
freedom
"You, Your Money and Your Future: Financial
Freedom"
will be from 8:30 a.m. to noon (registration at 8
a.m.) on March
12, and from 1 to 4:45 p.m. (registration at 12:30
p.m.) on March
13 in the Nebraska Union.
The
following areas will be covered: debt-free living (March
12) and
basics of investing and financial planning (March 13).
The workshop
is free to UAAD members; $10 for nonmembers and
UAAD guests. You
must attend both days to receive the sessions
listed above.
To register, send information to Vicki Highstreet, 55 CRec,
0232. Include your cost object number if charging to your department,
or include a check for $10 paid to the order of UAAD. Include
your
name, department, address, telephone number and e-mail.
Former
Education, Baseball Executive Budig to Speak March
4
University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumnus Gene Budig will lecture
on his new book, "A Game of Uncommon Skill," at 10
a.m.
March 4 in room 202 of Teachers College Hall, 14th and Vine
streets.
The book includes Budig's reflections on his
experiences as
president of Illinois State University and West
Virginia University,
as chancellor of the University of Kansas and
as the last president
of baseball's American League. Budig spent 23
years as a campus
CEO before heading the AL from 1994 to 2000. He
is on the faculty
of Princeton University and is a visiting scholar
at the College
Board.
The lecture is free and open to
the public and will be followed
by a discussion period.
"A Game of Uncommon Skill" is designed to be of
interest to aspiring college presidents, governing board members,
faculty and students of academic administration. It was published
by the American Council on Education, the College Board and ORYX
Press as part of the ACE Series on Higher Education. It also
provides some unique insight on Major League Baseball and its
relationship to colleges and universities.
Author Kenny Fries speaks Feb. 28
Author Kenny Fries will present "Toward a New Paradigm:
A
Social Model of Disability, at 2 p.m. Feb. 28 in the Bailey
Library, 228 Andrews Hall. At 7:30 p.m. he will read from his
new
book The History of My Shoes: A Poet Looks at Darwin, the
Body, and
Cultural Difference in the Nebraska Union. Both events
are free and
open to the public. A reception and book-signing
will follow the
evening reading.
Fries is a distinguished writer of poetry,
non-fiction and
plays. He is also a noted editor of an anthology
and guest poetry
editor of a major journal. He has an MFA from
Columbia University
and is associate professor at Goddard College,
where he teaches
creative nonfiction, poetry, playwriting and
fiction in the MFA
program.
Fries has also published
four volumes of poetry. The Healing
Notebooks won the 1991 Gregory
Kolovakos Award for AIDS Writing
and was a finalist for the Lambda
Literary Award, as was his
volume Anesthesia. His poems have
appeared in many journals,
including The American Voice, The
Evergreen Chronicles, The Kenyon
Review, the Disability Rag and
Ploughshares. Fries is also the
editor of Staring Back: The
Disability Experience from the Inside
Out.
Fries'
visit is sponsored by the UNL Committee for Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual
and Transgender Concerns and is co-sponsored by the
UNL English
Department, the Creative Writing Program, Prairie
Schooner, the
Humanities Center and the Faculty Convocations
Committee.
For more information, contact Barbara DiBernard, 472-1828,
bdibernard2@unl.edu.
Campus beauty,
recycling topics of workshop March 6
Two identical
workshops, "Campus Beautification, Landscape,
Gardens and
Arboretum, Litter, Trash and Recycling," will
be on March 6.
The workshops will occur from 9 to 10:30 a.m.
in the Nebraska
Union, and again from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the East
Union.
Representatives from the UNL Recycling and Landscape Services
will present the workshop. These representatives will be available
to answer questions you may have about Recycling and Landscape
Services. More information can be found at: http://
busfin.unl.edu/purchase/admin_services_workshop.htm.
Eating Disorders Awareness Week Feb.
25-March 1
A week to Turn Beauty Inside Out is planned in
observance
of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Feb. 25 to
March
1.
This marks the sixth year UNL has observed
the week. Campus
sponsors hope the week will help foster a healthy
environment
in which students can develop self-esteem and
self-respect based
on wellness principles.
Sponsors
welcome students, faculty, staff and the public to
attend each of
the Turn Beauty Inside Out events. All events
are free.
The Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis A.C.T.-Out
Ensemble will perform Living the Image at 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Feb.
25 in the Nebraska Union Ballroom. The performance examines
the
relationship between body image issues and the effects those
issues
have on relationships with others in the sufferer's life.
Living
the Image looks at what influences a poor body image and
what feeds
the disorder. The piece also looks at what effects
eating disorders
and poor body image have on those around the
sufferer.
Turn Beauty Inside Out week also includes a Body Bazaar: Uniting
Body, Mind and Spirit from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 25 in the main
lounge of the Nebraska Union. A collection of booths from NU
and
Lincoln organizations will be on hand providing information
on
health and fitness, stress management, student services and
other
issues.
Throughout the week media awareness displays,
illustrating
how advertising perpetuates unrealistic and sexist
images of
men and women, can be viewed at the Nebraska Union and
Campus
Recreation. "Room with a View" will be on display
from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 25 to March 1 in the Rotunda Gallery at
the Nebraska Union. "Room with a View" is an exhibit
visually depicting four specific stages of an eating disorder:
Images, Distortion, Despair and Hope.
SHINE (Students
Helping Individuals Nurture Esteem) will present
the following
three programs:
- Mirror, Mirror will increase
awareness of unrealistic portrayals
of men and women and their
bodies in the media and encourages
acceptance of body size and
image. It will be presented at 6:30
p.m. Feb. 26 at the Nebraska
Union.
- The Dreaded 15 and the Supplement Craze promotes
proper nutrition,
moderate exercise and a positive self-image;
the reality behind
supplementation, body image and health; and
suggests ways for
coping with the stress of college life. It will
be presented
at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Nebraska Union.
- How to Help a Friend is an opportunity to learn to recognize
the signs and symptoms of anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating.
It will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Nebraska Union.
Turn Beauty Inside Out began as a national outreach
campaign
sponsored by the Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention
organization,
a national nonprofit organization. Turn Beauty Inside
Out is
sponsored by the Eating Disorders Education and Prevention
Student
Association, the University Health Center, Campus
Recreation,
the Women's Center, University Program Council, SDRMA,
Parents
Association, Student Alumni Association, Student
Foundations,
NE Consortium, and Lazzari's.
UNL, Metro Tech team up on culinary
program
By Ashley Anderson, IANR News and
Publishing
Starting this fall, UNL and
Metropolitan Community College
in Omaha will offer a new culinary
science option that combines
culinary artistry, nutrition and
science.
Marilynn Schnepf, chair of UNL's nutritional
science and dietetics
department, said the partnership builds on
UNL's strong nutrition
and food science program and MCC's
award-winning culinary arts
program.
"We're
partnering to make the most of our resources,"
she said.
"Combining the strengths of our existing programs
will enhance
the educational opportunities for students."
UNL will
offer courses in nutrition, food safety, food properties,
food
composition, quality assurance and product development.
MCC's
curriculum includes menu and service management, food preparation
and culinary skills.
At MCC, students will be able to earn
an associate's degree
in culinary arts and management with a
Culinology option. Culinology
is a registered trademark of the
Research Chef's Association,
which helped define this
discipline.
MCC graduates can apply at UNL to pursue a
bachelor's degree.
At UNL, students will be able to earn a
bachelor's of science
degree in nutritional science and dietetics
with a culinary science
option after taking culinary classes at MCC
or other approved
culinary institute. The UNL program is offered
through the College
of Human Resources and Family Sciences.
"The strength of the program is its integration of culinary
arts, food science and nutrition," Schnepf said. "Our
ultimate goal is to have a graduate able to develop a second
generation of convenience products that taste good and are nutritious
and easy to prepare."
Michael Cheng, coordinator of
culinary arts and management
at MCC, said food science courses will
give students who take
this option an edge over their peers.
"The student who wants to be a research chef will be
ahead
of those who don't have the food science background,"
Cheng
said.
Other careers for culinary science graduates include
product
research and development manager or chef, culinary
director,
culinary research technologist or quality assurance
specialist.
UNL's and MCC's programs have been approved by
the Research
Chefs Association, an organization that serves the
needs of professionals
in culinary research and development.
For more information on this new option, contact UNL's nutritional
science and dietetics department at 472-3724 or Metropolitan
Community College at (402) 457-2513.
Peer review project seeks participants
The UNL peer
review of teaching project is looking for a limited
number of
department teams to participate in next year's project
(2002-2003).
Teams consist of four (or more) full-time
faculty at UNL from
the same department (or same general area).
Over the course of
the year, team members will develop a written
case study on one
of their courses. A key outcome is to help
faculty members document
their teaching and to involve teams in
discussions of teaching
and student learning. Some questions they
will explore include:
What are different approaches for teaching?
How does one measure
student learning? What can we expect from our
students? How does
one document teaching efforts? What is the right
balance among
student and peer voices in the evaluation of
teaching? How does
one use student assessments to guide and improve
course instruction
and content?
Team members each
receive a $1,500 stipend for time devoted
to project activities. In
addition, each team's department receives
$2,000 to support the
group's academic work.
An overview of the project plan for
next year is available
at: http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/unl
2002/.
Interested faculty should e-mail peerreview@unl.edu
by
March 20 to express an interest in participation and to obtain
more
information. Department teams will be selected in early
April.
Arts & Humanities Enhancement Fund
announced
Prem Paul, vice chancellor for research, has
announced a new
three-year pilot program designed to foster
research, scholarship
and creative activity in the arts and
humanities to increase
UNL's competitiveness for external
grants.
This fund is designed as seed money for longer-term
projects
and $50,000 will be available for awards for the summer of
2002
and the 2002-2003 academic year. This fund will provide a
maximum
award of $7,500 and requires a match from the grantee's
department
and/or college. Awards will be made based on creative or
scholarly
merit; overall long-term plan of the applicant for the
project,
overall potential for generating external funding and
producing
prominent scholarly/creative work. Cross-disciplinary
collaborations
are preferred.
Application deadline is
April 1 and notification will be made
May 10. For more information,
call the Office of the Vice Chancellor
for Research at 472-3123 or
e-mail UNLresearch@unl.edu.
For
complete information regarding the application process, see:
http://www.unl.edu/research/
arts.html.
E-news process for e-mail to all
E-News is a weekly compilation of notices distributed to all
faculty and staff and replaces the "e-mail to all"
system. The deadline for submission is 5 p.m. Monday; E-News
is
distributed Tuesday evenings. Submitted items must be sponsored
by
a UNL department, program or organization. No commercial or
personal announcements are allowed. Announcements must have news
rather than opinion content. Submit items to: http://www.unl.edu/e-news.
To view a sample submission, see: http://www.unl.edu/e-news/sa
mple.html.
Previously announced URL links are still
active but the above
are updated links.
Pay notices advise on vacation status
A new feature has been added to the employee pay advice for
those who are on direct deposit. In the lower right hand section
of
the pay advice you will find a "Vac use by 12/31."
This
is the new use or lose vacation hours feature that has been
added
to show employees how many carryover hours must be used
before the
end of the calendar year. Those who receive a paper
check will not
have this feature.
For more information call City Campus
Payroll at 472-2010;
East Campus employees should contact the
Finance and Personnel
Office 472-3473.
College of Law Open
House is March 2
The University of Nebraska College of Law
will host its annual
open house from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 2 at
Ross McCollum
Hall, East Campus Loop and Fair Street.
The program will provide information about preparing for law
school, the admission process and career opportunities. Open-house
guests will experience a law school class, and current students
will share their law college experiences. Refreshments will be
served. For more information, call the College of Law's Admissions
Office at 472-2161. Reservations are recommended.
working it
out
Senior agronomy major Dana
Wiens works out Feb. 15 in the
East Campus Recreation Center. For
rec center hours, contact
the Office of Campus Recreation.
Extension
Web site offers community presentation info
A new
Cooperative Extension Web site offers eight programs
for community
presentations. Topics cover grief, family issues,
leadership,
health and fitness.
The site,
<http://communityprograms.unl.edu>, contains
materials that
can be printed and used by community leaders to
present programs to
club meetings, civic groups or professional
organizations. Each
program includes a teaching outline for the
facilitator and a
handout for participants.
The programs reflect a variety of
topics that extension faculty
cite as issues within their
communities and are based on research
from around the world. The
programs:
- Aim for Fitness: Building personal
fitness by making small
changes in daily activities.
- Growing Communities of Character At Work: Strengthening job
skills and understanding why strong character is important in
the
workplace.
- Long Term Care: Options, Costs and Preparation:
Planning
for the oldest stage of life.
- Parents Again:
Grandparents Becoming "Grand" Parents:
Guidance to
grandparents faced with raising their grandchildren.
- Positive
Communication in Families: Aspects of communication
that bring
family members closer and activities that help increase
positive
interaction in the home.
- Servant Leadership: Supporting
people who choose to serve
first and lead as a way of expanding
service to individuals.
- Telemedicine: The Future is Here:
Basics of telemedicine's
current uses and related future issues
for providers and consumers.
- When a Loved One or Dear Friend
Dies: Understanding psychological
and social aspects of grief
after a death and learning effective
ways of enduring loss and
growing positively.
Copies of program materials are
available in county extension
offices.
Applications due Feb. 28 for UNL secondary
logos
The following item was sent to Vice Chancellors,
Deans, Directors,
Campus Communicators on Feb. 5 from Meg Lauerman,
director of
University Communications, and Vi Schroeder, manager of
Publications
and Photography regarding the Secondary Logo Review
Process.
The new University of Nebraska and individual
campus wordmarks
(logos) were approved by the University Board of
Regents in June
2001. With the evolutionary implementation of the
new wordmark
replacing the "worms" logo, questions have
arisen regarding
graphic standards for business correspondence,
approval and use
of secondary logos in conjunction with the
university wordmark,
and our approved campus icon.
Wordmark Implementation
The new wordmark should
replace the "worms" logo,
campus nameplates and other
logos not approved through this process.
Please continue to use
current supplies of letterhead, publications,
forms and other
materials, and be prepared to change to the new
wordmark when
reproducing or designing new materials.
- Graphic standards for the use of the wordmark and electronic
files of the wordmark are available at http://www.uneb.edu/LogoStandard
s.
- The wordmark must appear on all printed materials
and Web
sites.
- The wordmark must be printed only in
approved colors (black,
black and PMS 186, or reversed out of
color)
- The affirmative action statement is not part of the
wordmark;
it should be used separately in printed materials.
Business Correspondence
Approved
standards for the use of the new wordmark on business
correspondence (letterhead, envelopes, note cards, business cards)
are available at: http://www.uneb.edu/LogoStandard
s.
Secondary logos and taglines are NOT allowed on business
correspondence.
Questions about the standards should be directed to
Vi Schroeder
at 472-3543.
Requests for exceptions to
the graphic standards for business
correspondence will be handled
in the same way as requests for
secondary logos as outlined
below.
Approved Campus Icon
The academic
"N" has been approved as the icon for
the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
- The "N" icon may
be used only as a watermark in
business correspondence. Printing
Services will print letterhead
on the new "N" watermark
paper for University of Nebraska-Lincoln
units. Requests for
exceptions should be directed to Vi Schroeder
at 472-3543.
- The "N" icon may be used in publications, advertising
and on web pages; however, the new wordmark must also be used
prominently and tastefully.
- The "N" cannot be used
instead of the wordmark
except in specific circumstances such as
on banners or merchandise.
Secondary Logos
Secondary logos are not allowed on business correspondence;
however, there may be cases in which they may be used on other
publications. Secondary logos may no longer be used unless they
are
approved through the University Identity Committee.
All
decisions on new or existing secondary logos are to be
made by May
31, 2002. The committee will expedite decisions whenever
possible.
The review process will remain in place after May 31,
2002, for
those units that have a legitimate interest in developing
a
secondary logo as a marketing tool.
Secondary Logo
Approval Process
The secondary logo approval process for
the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln campus will be as follows:
- By Feb. 28, 2002, campus units with a new or existing
secondary
logo may submit a request for approval
- By
March 31, 2002, recommendations on the requests will be
reviewed
by the chancellor. If a request is denied, the unit
will be
notified immediately. If a request is recommended for
approved,
the request will be sent on to the University Identity
Committee.
- By May 31, 2002, the University Identity Committee will make
recommendations to the president regarding all forwarded requests.
Campus units will be notified as soon as decisions are made.
Requests for Approval
(Requisite forms may be obtained
by contacting Vi Schroeder.)
- By Feb. 28,
2002, submit completed request form(s) and a
copy of the new or
existing logo to: Vi Schroeder, 420 Nebraska
Hall 0524.
- The request will be reviewed by a campus review committee
and
recommendations forwarded to Chancellor Perlman. The chancellor
will recommend approval or deny the request by March 31, 2002.
Decisions regarding the design of new exterior campus
signage
are not yet finalized.
If you have questions
about the wordmark, the secondary logo
approval process or any
other information in this memo, please
feel free to contact Vi
Schroeder at 472-3543. Thank you for
your help in working through
this process.
Tuskegee Airmen alumnus speaking Feb. 21
The UNL Air
Force Reserve Officer Training Corps will host
Charles A. Lane Jr.,
a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S.
Air Force and one of the
famed Tuskegee Airmen of World War II.
Lane will address
the Air Force ROTC cadet corps at 3:30 p.m.
Feb. 21 in the Nebraska
Union.The event is free and open to the
public.
The
Tuskegee Airmen were more than 1,300 African-American
men trained
as fighter pilots during World War II. Four hundred
and fifty of
these men, under the command of Col. Benjamin O.
Davis Jr. (the Air
Force's first African-American general), fought
over North Africa,
Sicily and Europe. The Tuskegee Airmen were
feared by the Germans
and revered by the white bomber crews they
protected. During the
course of their 200 escort missions, no
U.S. bombers were lost to
enemy aircraft.
Lane flew 26 combat missions during World
War II, flying P-51
fighters, escorting B-17 and B-24 bomber
aircraft. He retired
from the U.S. Air Force after serving 27
years, primarily as
a communications-electronics staff officer.
Lane managed Greater
Omaha Community Action, an Omaha-based poverty
program, from
1970 through his retirement in 1992. He is a member
of Tuskegee
Airmen Inc., and also serves as a Civil Air Patrol
squadron commander
in the north Omaha area.
Architect James S. Polshek To Speak at UNL
Feb. 28
James Polshek, the architect who designed the
American Museum
of Natural History's glass cube design in New York,
will speak
at 3 p.m. Feb. 28 in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
His lecture
is, "History of the Future - Connections and
Transformations."
Polshek, founding partner and senior
design principal of the
Polshek Partnership, a New York
architecture firm, is February's
Hyde Distinguished Lecturer,
cosponsored by the College of Architecture
and the Sheldon Memorial
Art Gallery. A reception will follow
at 4 p.m.
The
Polshek Partnership is active in new building design,
historic
preservation and adaptive reuse, and planning. Recent
projects
include the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center,
Newseum/Freedom Forum Foundation Headquarters, Rose Center for
Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History, the
American Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts in Napa, Calif.,
and
the addition to the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at
Stanford
University.
Polshek received a master of architecture
degree from Yale
University Graduate School of Architecture in
1955, and in 1956
was a Fulbright Fellow at the Royal Academy of
Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
He was made a fellow of the American
Institute of Architects
in 1972. From 1972-1987, Polshek was dean
of the faculty of the
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning,
and Preservation and
special adviser to the president for planning
and design at Columbia
University, where he is a professor of
architecture.
Malaysian Night Events March 9
The annual Malaysian
Night will begin at 7 p.m. March 9 in
the Centennial Ballroom of
the Nebraska Union.
This yearly event is held to promote
Malaysian culture to
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This
year's theme is "Mesmerizing
Malaysia." Malaysia is a
multi-ethnic, tropical country
in South East Asia. Malaysia's rich
culture and unique traditions
will be shown during Malaysia Night
through various cultural
performances and cuisines.
The dress code is formal. Tickets are $15 and will be on sale
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 14 in the Nebraska Union booth area.
Tickets have sold out fast in the past, so come early.
For
more information call Kevin Ham at 438-7194, wen123@hotmail.com,
or
visit http://www.un
l.edu/numsa/numsa2001/mn2002/mn2002.htm.
TRIO day Feb. 23
In recognition of National TRIO Day, the UNL Multicultural
Affairs office will hold a conference from 9:30 a.m. to noon
Feb.
23 in the Nebraska Union.
Administered by the federal
Department of Education, TRIO
programs provide academic support
services to promote students'
educational achievement from grade
school through doctoral study.
The programs serve students whose
parents do not have a college
degree, students from low-income
families, and students with
disabilities.
UNL's
Multicultural Affairs office operates five TRIO projects:
Upward
Bound, Educational Talent Search, Upward Bound Math/Science
Initiative, Student Opportunities and Services, and the Ronald
E.
McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement program.
Students
will be welcomed to the TRIO Day conference by staff
members of
Sen. Chuck Hagel and Rep. Doug Bereuter. The conference
will
feature a presentation by TRIO program alumni, interactive
sessions
for academic and personal development, and an awards
ceremony.
The first TRIO programs were established in the 1960s to expand
opportunities for students who might otherwise be denied access
to
a college education. Nearly 700,000 students are now served
each
year by the TRIO programs.
The TRIO Day conference is open
to the public. For information,
call 472-2027.
Copier productivity workshop Feb. 27
A copier productivity workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Feb. 27 in the Nebraska Union, and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb.
28 in
the East Union.
The workshop will demonstrate the latest in
copier technology.
Demonstrations, training and refreshments will
be continual each
day. For more information, visit: http://busfin.un
l.edu/purchase/announcements.html.
Observatory to look at early lives of
stars
Winter is a good time of year to study the early lives of
stars.
This month's public night at the UNL Student Observatory
will
provide a glimpse into the formative and early adult years
of a
star life as well as show spectacular views of Jupiter,
Saturn and
the moon.
The viewing is from 7 to 10 p.m. Feb. 22.
Admission is free,
and children are welcome. The observatory is on
top of the Stadium
Parking Garage, 10th and T streets. It is
unheated, so visitors
should dress accordingly.
The
most impressive nearby stellar nursery is the great Orion
nebula,
located about 1,500 light years away in the so-called
"sword" of Orion. Orion's sword is directly below the
three prominent stars that make up Orion's belt. In the big 16-inch
telescope of the Student Observatory, the Orion nebula is a swirling
mass of gas and dust.
"The Orion nebula is one of
those things people just
keep coming back to again and again in a
telescope," said
UNL astronomer Martin Gaskell. "It is
just so fascinating
to look at."
The region of
gas seen in the telescope is about two dozen
light years across.
The center of the nebula is lit by four massive
stars called the
Trapezium.
Star formation is going on in the nebula as one
is watching,
and the stars seen are considered to be very young,
astronomically
speaking. After viewing the Orion nebula, attendees
will then
be able to see what the Orion nebula will become in 300
million
years or so by looking at the star cluster M 37 located
about
three times further away in the constellation of Auriga.
The giant planets Jupiter and Saturn that have been prominently
seen all winter will still be on display. The gibbous moon, which
will be close to Jupiter, will also be viewed.
UNL offers 2nd ACT prep
workshop
UNL will provide its second statewide ACT Test
Prep workshop
to high school students from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CST
on March
16.
The workshop, featuring Friend High
School guidance counselor
and experienced ACT test consultant Joe
Gallagher, will convene
in the Clifford Hardin Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education
and will be broadcast simultaneously to Test
Prep Centers in
Broken Bow, Chadron, Falls City, Kearney,
Lexington, Norfolk,
Omaha, Scottsbluff, Sidney, Thedford and West
Point.
The 3 1/2 hour workshop is designed to provide
students with
test-taking strategies to improve their test scores,
give students
a chance to work through sample problems and offer
tips on reducing
stress during testing. Cost is $20; a snack is
provided.
In November, UNL delivered the first statewide
workshop of
its kind, broadcasting to four Nebraska sites.
Responding to
increased interest, UNL increased the number of
broadcast test
sites for the March workshop to 11. Students and
parents are
encouraged to make reservations early because of
limited space.
Deadline for registration is March 8.
For more information about attending the workshop, students
or
their parents should talk to their high school guidance counselor
or call Joan Kunzman in the UNL Admissions Office, (800) 742-8800,
extension 8376 (toll-free), or 472-8376 in Lincoln. Registration
fliers can also be downloaded from the UNL admissions Web site
http://www.unl.edu/nuhuske
r/index.shtml.
Free
tickets available for Gorbachev lecture Feb. 20
Free
tickets will be available Feb. 20 to attend a lecture
by Mikhail
Gorbachev, the final president of the former Soviet
Union, as part
of the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues March
14 at the Lied
Center.
His address, "Russia: Retrospect and
Prospect,"
will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the 2,276-seat Lied
Center. Tickets
will be available at the Lied box office or by
calling 472-4747,
(800) 432-3231 or fax 472-4730. There is a limit
of four tickets
per person. All tickets are general admission.
Doors open at
9 a.m. the day of the lecture and tickets are valid
until 10:15
a.m., at which time non-ticket holders waiting in line
will be
admitted to any empty seats. Ticket holders are urged to
arrive
by 10 a.m. to allow time to clear security.
Backpacks, book bags or other large parcels will not be allowed
into the Lied Center. Handbags and other items will be subject
to
search.
Overflow seating will be available in the Nebraska
Union,
room posted. The event will also be broadcast live on
Lincoln
public-access cable Channel 21, UNL Campus Channel 8, KRNU
radio
(90.3 FM), via satellite at Learning Centers in Scottsbluff,
Norfolk, Grand Island and North Platte and at other sites throughout
the state through NebSat 104, and via streaming video on the
UNL
Web site http://www.unl.edu.
Water,
Environmental fests seeking volunteers
Volunteers are
needed at two youth water and environmental
festivals that will be
held in Grand Island and Lincoln during
UNL spring break.
"We need any and all students, staff or faculty who are
enthusiastic about educating Nebraska youth on water and environmental
topics. No experience or special skills required," said
Bob
Kuzelka, director of Environmental Studies Program.
Volunteers are needed at The Groundwater Foundation's Children's
Groundwater Festival at Central Community College in Grand Island
on March 18 and 19. Volunteers are also needed for the Earth
Wellness Festival at Lincoln's Southeast Community College, 8800
O
St., on March 21.
Both festivals are all-day events where
volunteers may be
asked to help with set-up, tear-down, assisting
presenters and
other duties, Kuzelka said. Lunch will be
provided.
Those interested in volunteering should contact
Kuzelka at
either the Environmental Resource Center, 345 Nebraska
Union,
472-8823; the UNL Water Center, 103 Natural Resources Hall,
East
Campus, 472-7527; or e-mail rkuzelka1@unl.edu.
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