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Teaching assistant Jill
Detwiler, middle, helps students Zach
Payne, left, and Adam Haave
with their experiment Feb. 28 during
their lab class in Manter
Hall. They were studying leaf structures
as part of their
biodiversity class.
Cather
symposium is April 4-7
A Willa Cather Symposium on
Literature and Opera, "Great
Passions and Great
Aspirations," occurs April 4-7 at UNL.
The early registration
deadline is March 20.
The symposium will focus on Cather's
Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel One of Ours and introduce the newly
acquired George Cather
Ray Collection. The collection includes
letters written by G.P.
Cather (Willa Cather's cousin) to his
mother during World War
I. These letters inspired the author to
create the character
Claude Wheeler, the central character of One
of Ours.
Plenary speakers are Mary Weddle of the Cather
family; Richard
Harris, volume editor for One of Ours of the Cather
Scholarly
Edition; and Steven Trout, author of the forthcoming
Memorial
Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War. The
symposium
will also include panel and paper presentations, exhibits
including
a WWI poster collection, and musical performances.
Activities
occur in the Hewit Center, 1155 Q St., and the Nebraska
Union.
For information, contact Margie Rine, Cather
Project, 472-1919
or mrine3@unl.edu.
Associated activities include performances April 5-7 of The
Bohemian Girl, a an opera by Michael William Bafe. Cather saw
a
performance of this opera in 1888 at the Red Cloud Opera House.
Her
work makes frequent use of its characters, plot and music.
For more
than 70 years after its debut in 1843, it was the most
widely
performed opera in English during a time when opera was
highly
popular entertainment. James Ford, UNL English professor,
and Ariel
Bybee, artist in residence at the UNL School of Music
and an
associate professor of music, are reviving The Bohemian
Girl.
A symposium April 6 in the Nebraska Union, titled "Opera
and Literature: Willa Cather and The Bohemian Girl," examines
the interaction between opera and literature with attention to
The
Bohemian Girl on Cather's fiction. Speakers include Philip
Kennicott, chief classical music critic for The Washington Post;
Richard Giannone, Fordam University and author of Music in Willa
Cather's Fiction; David Breckbill, opera historian from Doane
College; and Ford. For information call 472-6066 or e-mail jford1@unl.edu.
The
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Education Foundation
will sponsor
tours of Willa Cather sites in Red Cloud on April
7. For tour
information, call the foundation at (402) 746-2653
or email info@willcather.org.
The symposia are sponsored by UNL's Libraries, Cather Project,
Department of English, School of Music, Center for Great Plains
Studies and University of Nebraska Press in conjunction with
William Cather Pioneer Memorial and Education Foundation, Nebraska
Humanities Council, Friends of the UNL Libraries and Nebraska
State
Historical Society.
No Limits Conference at UNK
A story the Feb. 28 Scarlet regarding Women's Week activities
omitted that the No Limits Conference is occurring at the University
of Nebraska at Kearney and could have misled readers into thinking
this event occurs in Lincoln. We regret any inconvenience the
publication may have caused.
Investment email, company not sanctioned by UNL
Recently an email was sent to specific UNL employees from
Filbrandt and Co. offering financial investment advice. The location
of meetings for this activity are in both Nebraska and East unions.
Note that this organization and information is not sanctioned
by
nor supported in any manner by UNL.
For more information,
contact Bruce Currin, bcurrin@unl.edu,
472-3105.
Scholarship IN
Society lecture March 12
Valerie Lee
will present "Neo-Slave Narratives: Writing
Race and Gender
for the 21st Century" at 3:30 p.m. March
12 in the Nebraska
Union. The lecture is the seventh in a series
of Scholarship IN
Society speakers co-sponsored by the Office
of Graduate Studies,
African-American and African Studies, and
Women's Studies.
Lee is chair of the Women's Studies department and professor
of
English at Ohio State University. She holds courtesy appointments
in the departments of African-American and African Studies, Comparative
Studies and the Center for Folklore Studies.
Lee is the
author of two books, Granny Midwives and Black
Women Writers:
Double-Dutched Readings and Invisible Man's Literary
Heritage:
Benita Cereno and Moby Dick. She has written several
journal
articles, essays and book reviews. Lee has earned several
awards
for both her teaching and service. Her current manuscript,
Anthology of African American Women's Literature, will be published
in December.
Lee's lecture will draw on this recent work
with legal documents,
feminist theory and critical studies of
whiteness to explore
the question: "Why are African Americans
still writing slave
narratives?"
Scholarship IN
Society is aimed at modeling the myriad career
possibilities
available upon receipt of graduate education. For
information, call
Sara Granberg-Rademacker, graduate student
services coordinator, at
472-5062.
Occupational
medicine support transferred
Effective March 15, all
occupational medicine support, including
pre-employment physicals,
medical surveillance and drug-testing,
is being transferred from
Heartland Comp to Company Care. Supervisors
in need of occupational
medicine support services will need to
contact Company Care
beginning March 15.
Contact people at Company Care are
Lynda Kester (8 a.m. to
3 p.m. Monday-Friday) and Anne Schilts
(8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday-Friday) at 475-6656.
For more information, call Environmental Health and Safety
at
472-4925.
Olson lecture
explores native landscapes in urban settings
Kim Todd, a
landscape architect in private practice and instructor
in the
department of agronomy and horticulture, presents the
next Paul A.
Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies. Her lecture,
"From this
Place - Native Plants in Nebraska Landscapes,"
begins at 3:30
p.m. March 13 in the Great Plains Art Collection
in the Christlieb
Gallery, Hewit Place, 1155 Q St. The lecture
lasts until 5 p.m. and
a pre-lecture reception begins at 3 p.m.
Todd will discuss
how native plants can either be used exclusively
or combined with
hardy, introduced plants for landscapes that
are uniquely
Nebraskan.
CCSW forums debut
report on women at UNL
Two forums presented by the
Chancellor's Commission on the
Status of Women will present the
results of forums last year
that explored what it's like to be a
woman at UNL. The information
from last year's forums was used for
a report for Chancellor
Harvey Perlman and for the CCSW annual
report to the Board of
Regents.
The chancellor will
be present for the first half hour of
the forum to discuss his
response to the reports and describe
his plans to address the
concerns identified. The remainder of
the forum will allow
individuals to express issues to commission
members.
The forums are scheduled for 3 to 4:30 p.m. March 11 in the
Nebraska East Union and 2:30-4 p.m. March 13 in the Nebraska
Union.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Learn Irish
dance March 15
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, learn
Irish dance from
8 to 9 p.m. March 15 in 304/310 Mabel Lee Hall.
The lessons are
hosted by the UNL/Lincoln International Folk
Dancers. Free admission.
No experience or partner required. For
information, contact Eva
Bachman, 472-8669, ebachman1@unl.edu.
Research Office customer service survey
is online
Prem Paul, vice chancellor for research, has
announced a survey
to assess the level of customer service in all
of the areas of
the Office of Research. The survey will include
focus group meetings
with various research-related customers,
meetings with campus
administrators, a campuswide online survey and
a survey of employees
in the Office of Research. The purpose of
this multi-phase review
process is to assess the ability of units
within the Office of
Research to serve and meet the needs of UNL's
faculty and staff.
The online survey is available at http://netdb.unl.edu/unlpoll/.
Everyone is encouraged to take a few minutes to complete the
survey. Fore more information, contact the Office of the Vice
Chancellor for Research at 472-3123 or UNLresearch@unl.edu.
Research clusters info meeting March
15
Prem Paul, vice chancellor for research, will conduct
an open
meeting with faculty and staff at 1:30 p.m. March 15 in
Room
116 of the L.W. Chase Building on East Campus.. The meeting
will
be available statewide (via Satellite Network II) at all
research
and extension centers and extension offices.
Paul will present an in-depth explanation of the recently
released Research Clusters RFP (including the tobacco settlement
biomedical research enhancement funds). He also will explain
the
goals and objectives of this program and answer questions.
He will
also present up-to-date information on other research-related
topics, including F&A (indirect cost) rates/distribution
policy
and cost-sharing recommendations.
Any faculty or staff
member interested in these topics is
encouraged to attend.
For more information, contact the Office of the Vice Chancellor
for Research at (402) 472-3123 or UNLresearch@unl.edu.
Lincoln's death topic of March 7
lecture
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, an
expert in the history of the 19th
century southern United States,
will speak on the assassination
of President Abraham Lincoln at
3:30 p.m. March 7 at the Bailey
Library, 228 Andrews Hall.The
lecture is free and open to the
public.
Wyatt-Brown
is the Milbauer professor of history at the University
of Florida
and the president of the Southern Historical Association.
He has
won teaching awards at Case Western Reserve University
and at
Florida and has appeared in television documentaries for
the
Discovery Channel, A&E and PBS.
His books include:
Southern Writers and Alienation, Southern
Honor: Ethics and
Behavior in the Old South, The Code Duello
in the Old South, Why
Did Johnny Reb Fight So Hard?, Death of
a Nation: Southern
Reactions to Defeat, and The Mask of Obedience:
Male Slave
Psychology in the Old South. His most recent project
is The Shaping
of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1880s.
There will also be an informal discussion of 19th-century
interdisciplinary studies at 3:30 p.m. March 8 at the Bailey
Library.
Direct deposit of
paychecks encouraged
Effective bi-weekly pay date March 7
and monthly pay-date
March 29, employees who are not on direct
deposit will receive
their paychecks via the U.S. Postal Service.
The paycheck will
be mailed on payday.
For a number
of years UNL worked to improve services to employees
by use of the
most recent technology. UNL encourages employees
to sign up for
direct deposit. Direct deposit has a number of
advantages:
- You receive your pay advice several days before payday
so
you know in advance what your pay will be. The pay advice has
all the information that your current pay stub contains.
- On
payday your paycheck is electronically deposited to the
account
or accounts you have indicated. You receive your pay
on time even
during bad weather or holiday closings.
- A printed paycheck
for an employee who is not on direct deposit
will be mailed on
payday to the employee's permanent home address.
There is a
chance that the check may be lost or delayed in the
mailing
process. In addition, paychecks for pay dates occurring
during
the holiday closedown will not be mailed until after the
university reopens in January.
With direct deposit,
you receive your pay faster.
Booksigning date incorrect
Due to incorrect
information from a source, the Feb. 28 Scarlet
made reference to a
booksigning event that had already occurred
by the time the Scarlet
was published. We regret any inconvenience
the publication may have
caused.
Verma joined UNL in
1972
The date Shashi Verma, professor in the School of
Natural
Resource Sciences, joined UNL was incorrectly reported in
the
Feb. 28 Scarlet. He joined UNL in 1972 as a postdoctorate and
joined the faculty in 1974.
Credit Union's 64th annual meeting March 21
Members of
the University of Nebraska Federal Credit Union
are invited to
attend the 64th annual meeting beginning at 6
p.m. March 21 at the
Nebraska East Union. Come for entertainment,
prizes and to learn
about your credit union. Voting for board
members begins at 5:30
p.m., dinner starts at 6 p.m. with the
business meeting and
entertainment to follow.
There is no charge to attend, but
reservations are appreciated.
Call the credit union at 472-2087 to
make a reservation.
Electronic publishing topic of Libraries' symposium
Kate Wittenberg, director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative
at Columbia University, will speak on Electronic Publishing:
New
Models for Scholarly Communication from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
April
3 at the Nebraska Union. The talk will conclude with a
panel
discussion. Panelists include UNL faculty members Kenneth
Price,
Susan Rosowski and Debra Turner from the University of
Nebraska
Press.
As director of EPIC, Wittenberg is responsible for
leadership,
coordination and oversight of EPIC's activities. The
initiative
seeks to create new scholarly and educational
publications through
the use of digital technologies. She also
directs Columbia's
Digital Knowledge Ventures, which provides
online teaching and
learning resources. Wittenberg is project
director for Columbia
International Affairs Online, Columbia
Earthscape and the Gutenberg-e
online history project.
Wittenberg's research includes development of business models
that explore collaboration among scholars, publishers and librarians
in order to create digital resources to enhance education.
The symposium is co-sponsored by the Libraries' Academic Activities
Committee and the Libraries' Scholarly Communications Program.
It
is free and open to the public. For more information, contact
Jean
Dickinson at 472-3545 or jmdickin@unlnotes.unl.edu
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Perennials subject of
March 9 garden lecture
UNL Botanical Garden &
Arboretum presents "Rejuvenating
Your Garden with Perennial
Division" at 10 a.m. March 9
in the East Union. The program is
free, open to the public and
of interest to gardeners of all
levels. Linda Vavrus, owner of
Gardeners-At-Large in Lincoln, is
the speaker.
"When perennials overgrow their welcome
in your gardenscape
or invade and take hostage neighboring
plants," Vavrus said,
"it's time to divide." The
presentation will consider
different kinds of perennials that make
good candidates for multiplication
with division. The whys, when
and how-tos of dividing perennials
will be covered, with special
attention to participants' questions.
Vavrus will demonstrate
different division techniques to best
achieve stress-free
("for the perennial and gardener")
plant propagation.
After a career as a teacher and teacher educator, Vavrus parlayed
her passion for gardening into a second career. Gardeners-At-Large
is an independent gardening and maintenance business for residential
and commercial customers in the Lincoln area. Vavrus is also
a
Lancaster County Master Gardener volunteer.
For more
information or to register, call UNL Landscape Services
at
472-2679.
UNL, UNO annual
joint PDK meeting March 19
The UNL and UNO Phi Delta Kappa
chapters have worked with
PDK International to bring a special
program to the area on March
19. The social hour will begin at 6
p.m. with an Italian dinner
buffet at 6:30 p.m. and the program
begins at 7 p.m. at the Quarry
Oaks Golf Club (Exit No. 426 off
I-80, then south 2 miles).
The program will be a
presentation on the 33rd annual PDK/Gallup
poll on the Public's
Attitudes Toward Public Education. The groups
have invited state
officials including the governor to attend,
along with reporters
from Lincoln and Omaha newspapers.
The speaker will be
Carol Milkulski, area 6A coordinator for
PDK from Wallingford,
Conn. Reservations are due by March 15.
The cost is $15 per person.
Call 466-9040, or e-mail wsheets@radiks.net.
No Scarlet Spring Break Week
Because of Spring Break, the Scarlet will not publish on March
21. The Scarlet will publish March 28, and the deadline for that
edition is noon, March 21.
Tidball Award celebration March 10
Five UNL employees
have been nominated to receive the 21st
Annual Sue Tidball Award.
The celebration will begin 7 p.m. March
10 in the main sanctuary of
St. Mark's on-the-Campus Episcopal
Church and Student Center, 1309
R St.
The nominees are:
- Barb
Burns, central housing custodian;
- Liz Carranza-Rodriguez,
education specialist, Office of Multi-Cultural
Affairs;
- Lola Lorenzo, lecturer, Department of Modern Languages;
- Melanie McQuatters, residence director, Burr-Fedde Hall;
- Rosalee Swartz, recruitment and placement coordinator, College
of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.
The
Sue Tidball Award for Creative Humanity honors people
from the UNL
campus who are nominated by their peers for making
significant
contributions to the development of a humane, open,
caring,
educationally creative and just community on the campus.
More than
200 students, faculty and staff members have been publicly
celebrated as award nominees, and 46 have been named award recipients.
Recipients have ranged from senior faculty and administrators
to
first-year students to secretaries.
On March 10, this
year's nominees will be publicly recognized
and honored, and one or
more will be named award recipients.
Recipients receive a small
check and appropriate plaque. All
nominees receive a framed
recognition certificate and a booklet
made up of the nominations
and supportive letters written on
their behalf
After
the formal program, there will be an informal reception,
including
refreshments, for the nominees, recipients, their families
and
friends, and the attending public, in the church fellowship
hall.
The Sue Tidball Award program is sponsored by the
campus ministry
of Cornerstone-UMHE at UNL, as a memorial to a
former staff member,
widely recognized and admired on the campus
and in the Lincoln
community, who died in 1976. The program is
conducted by an independent
committee of UNL students, staff and
faculty.
The Award Celebration and the reception afterward
are free
and open to the public.
Information: call
476-0355.
Fidelity
consultant on campus March 26 and 27
Free individual
counseling sessions with a Fidelity consultant
are available March
26 in the Nebraska Union and March 27 in
the East Union.
If you have questions concerning investment strategies and
retirement planning regarding your University of Nebraska Retirement
Plan, schedule a counseling session by calling Central Reservation
Systems at (800) 642-7131.
Journalism launches News Net Nebraska
News Net
Nebraska, which debuted March 1 at the College of
Journalism and
Mass Communications, is expected to revolutionize
the classroom
experience for the college's students.
An integrated online
media outlet, News Net Nebraska allows
students and faculty in the
advertising, broadcasting and news-editorial
programs to create and
maintain an online newsroom. It is the
first course to bring
together students and faculty from all
disciplines within the
college in a collaborative effort of this
magnitude. Students
ranging in age and experience from freshman
to graduate levels are
laying the foundation for the curriculum
and setting precedents for
the future of convergence technology.
On NNN, news reaches
the audience through a combination of
written stories, photos,
audio and video clips, as well as Web
links to additional
information. NNN also features an archive
of pictures portraying
the daily scene on campus, a calendar
detailing top daily events
and activities, plus stories that
offer a fresh perspective on news
that affects the university
and Lincoln.
News Net
Nebraska can be found on the Web at http://newsnetnebraska.org.
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.
Funds available from Convocations
Committee
The UNL Convocations Committee will review
applications for
funding requests for fall semester 2002 in April.
The grants,
which are awarded to support speakers visiting UNL, are
generally
$300 to $500. Monies are limited, and the process is
competitive.
The deadline for application is April 15. Guidelines
and applications
may be obtained from Sue Ann Gardner, sgardner2@unl.edu,
472-3545; Dick Voeltz, rvoeltz1@unl.edu,
472-2739,
or the Academic Senate Office.
Credit Union board elections March 15-20
Be a part of
the democratic process that makes credit unions
unique and vote for
your board of directors during office hours
from March 15-20 at
both credit union locations.
This year's candidates are
Gary Aerts, Carmen Anthony, LaRita
Lang, Deb Pearson and Marc
Schniederjans.
Voting will also be from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
March 21 before
the annual meeting at the East Union. For more
information, call
the credit union at 472-2087.
Holocaust Presentation
March 8
Anne Wyatt-Brown will present Holocaust Literature
and Memory
at noon March 8 in 638 Oldfather Hall. Bring your
brown-bag lunches
(beverages will be provided).
Wyatt-Brown is an associate professor of linguistics at the
University of Florida. She is the editor of the University Press
of
Virginia series Age Studies and Aging and Gender in Literature:
Studies in Creativity (Virginia, 1993). In addition, Wyatt-Brown
is
the author of several essays on aging and narrative. Her current
book project is titled The Aging of the Holocaust: A Study of
Holocaust Narratives.
This event is sponsored by the Harris
Center for Judaic Studies
and the Humanities Center.
Text Studies lecture on March 25
Robert Bringhurst, Canadian poet, book designer, and author
of
The Elements of Typographic Style, will present a lecture,
"Why the Face of the Voice is in the Hand," at 7:30
p.m.
March 25 at the Great Plains Center, 1155 Q St.
The lecture
is free and open to the public. For more information,
contact Susan
Belasco, 472-1857 or sbelasco@unl.edu.
This is only a test
Graduate student Aruna
Pochampally places a fabric sample
onto a crockmeter at the textile
testing service in the Department
of Textiles, Clothing and Design
Feb. 27 in the Home Economics
building on East Campus. The
crockmeter is used to determine
how much color will rub off the
fabric before the material is
used in clothing.
Behlen Observatory sets open house for March
8
Views of Saturn and Jupiter or the Orion Nebula M42 are
possible
March 8 during the spring public night at UNL's Behlen
Observatory
southeast of Mead. The observatory will be open from 7
to 10
p.m.
The Orion Nebula M42 is a giant cloud of
gas where it is thought
that stars are still forming. Four hot
stars known as the Trapezium
heat up the surrounding gas and give
the Orion Nebula its eerie
glow. Visitors can gaze at the effect as
well as at Jupiter and
Saturn through the observatory's 30-inch
reflector telescope.
A special treat of recent public
nights at Behlen Observatory
has been the amateur astronomers from
the Lincoln and Omaha astronomy
clubs who bring their telescopes to
share astronomical viewing
with the public. Several star clusters,
M44 and M67, may have
good viewing through the amateurs'
telescopes. They will be near
the south end of the observatory.
Society of Physics students
will also offer demonstrations.
All observatory activities are weather permitting.
UNL
physics and astronomy department speakers will give slide
show
talks in the north concourse, and at least one talk will
be given
regardless of weather and viewing capabilities. The
lectures
are:
- "The Physics of Football," by
Tim Gay, 7:15-7:45;
- "Optical Telescopes for the 21st
Century" by Kevin
Lee, 8-8:30;
- "What's up
in Tonight's Sky" by Ed Schmidt, 8:45-9:15.
Behlen Observatory is at the University of Nebraska Agricultural
Research and Development Center a few miles southeast of Mead.
From Lincoln, take U.S. Highway 77 north to about one-half
mile
past Swedeburg and turn east on Nebraska 63. Follow Highway
63 for
about seven miles to 10th Street (same as Nebraska Spur
78F). Turn
left and go one mile north to Avenue H. Turn right
on Avenue H and
go east about two miles to Eighth Street. Turn
left Eighth Street
and follow it north about 0.7 miles to the
observatory, which will
be seen to the left.
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