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Steve Rodie, associate professor
of agronomy and horticulture,
talks about landscape design to
visitors at NU Landscape Connections
on Sept. 14 on East Campus.
This gathering combined two events,
Gardener's Gala and Festival of
Color.
International
Affairs' Study Abroad Extravaganza Sept. 24
UNL's
International Affairs will have its Fall 2002 Study
Abroad
Extravaganza from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 24 outside the
Nebraska
Union.
This event allows students to gather information on
study-abroad
programs and learn about the experiences of recently
returned
participants.
The Fall 2002 Study Abroad
Extravaganza will feature study-abroad
programs for 2003, such as
programs in Spain, France, Czech Republic,
Italy and Germany.
Information about financial aid and scholarships
will be available,
and a returnees' photo contest and a $250
scholarship drawing also
will be offered.
Last year more than 500 students studied
abroad, covering
almost all continents.
All students
and faculty are invited to this event. For information,
call
472-5358.
Faculty Forum
Sept. 25
A faculty forum on teaching for success in lower
division
courses, "Focus On Faculty: Teaching For
Success,"
will be from 3:30-5 p.m. Sept. 25 in the Nebraska
Union. Joy
Ritchie, professor of English, director of the UNL
women's studies
program and a member of the UNL Academy of
Distinguished Teachers,
will convene and moderate the forum. She
will be assisted by
members of the Focus on Faculty: Teaching for
Success group of
faculty and staff: Peter Bleed, associate dean,
College of Arts
& Sciences, and anthropology professor; Jim
Carr, chemistry
professor and member of the UNL Academy of
Distinguished Teachers;
Cal Garbin, associate professor,
psychology; Vanessa Gorman,
associate dean, College of Arts &
Sciences, and associate
professor, history; Elizabeth Ingraham,
assistant professor,
art and art history; Michael James, senior
lecturer, textiles,
clothing and design; Kevin Lee, lecturer,
physics and astronomy;
Debra Mullen, academic learning communities
coordinator; Tim
Wentz, associate professor, construction
management.
Forum participants can express their views and
converse with
peers on the relationship between the lower-division
student
experience and the students' choice to continue their
studies
at UNL.
For more information, e-mail Joy
Ritchie at jritchie1@unl.edu.
Grantsmanship Seminar set for Oct.
21-22
The Office of Research & Graduate Studies is
sponsoring
a grant-writing seminar, "Write Winning
Grants," Oct.
21 and 22 at the Nebraska Union. It will be
presented by renowned
grant-writing consultant David C. Morrison
and will meet from
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 21 and 8:30 a.m. to
noon Oct. 22. The
workshop is geared toward faculty interested in
external funding
and will be useful to those with previous, current
or no prior
funding.
Morrison is a professor, grant
writer and administrator and
has helped thousands of faculty
members across the country improve
their grant writing skills and
obtain external funding. Morrison's
company, Grant Writers'
Seminars and Workshops, LLC, has been
working with UNL faculty for
more than a year.
The focus of this seminar will be to
improve grantsmanship
skills that are required to pursue federal
funding successfully.
Although the workshop will focus specifically
on grant proposals
to the National Institute of Health, the
National Science Foundation
and the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
the information can be
used to help prepare a grant application to
any agency in any
discipline.
The Office of Research
and Graduate Studies will fund the
tuition and materials for the
first 120 UNL faculty members who
register for this seminar.
Participants will be required to attend
the entire seminar and must
agree to submit at least one proposal
for competitive external
funding within the next year.
To register, e-mail Peg
Filliez at pfilliez1@unl.edu
in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies and indicate which
of these three federal agencies you're most interested in: NIH,
NSF
or USDA. Because of the limited number of spots available,
those
interested should register as soon as possible.
Degree Application Deadline Sept. 27
Sept. 27 is the deadline for applying for a degree to be received
on Dec. 21. A $25 non-refundable degree application fee must
accompany the Application For Degree form. The fee applies only
to
the term indicated on the application and is not transferable
to
another term. Applications are to be filed at the Graduation
Services Office, 109 Canfield Administration Building.
 Blue sage, Salvia
azurea, is one of several
hundred plants that can be found in
FloraSearch, the Nebraska
Statewide Arboretum's searchable web
guide to native plants.
Plant, flower field guide now on Web
"They don't
know the plants right outside their back
door."
That comment by a teacher from Nebraska's Sandhills was one
of
the reasons for creating a Web-based native plant project
just
being unveiled by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, according
to
director Jim Locklear.
"Nebraska has a wealth of
beautiful plants native to
this region, but often we fail to pay
attention to things we
see daily," Locklear said. So this Web
site, called FloraSearch,
was created to allow users to search the
information based on
any or several of these criteria: flower
color, plant height
and texture, location in state, month of bloom
and plant family.
The search will produce a list of the plants
meeting those criteria
and display photos and brief descriptions of
the plants selected.
Locklear sees the Web site as a useful
resource in many ways.
"It will be helpful in science
curricula for plant identification,
understanding of plant
communities and as part of Nebraska's
heritage and history,"
he said.
In addition, gardeners and landscape designers
will be able
to find choices of hardy plants to use in landscapes,
while nature
enthusiasts will find it useful as a field guide and
search mechanism,
Locklear says.
Most field guides
categorize wildflowers by color or by the
season in which they
bloom. FloraSearch, Locklear said, provides
a narrower search by
allowing several criteria to be searched
at once. For example, a
user seeking a blue flower that blooms
in September can specify
those two characteristics and will receive
a list of nine
plants.
Locklear said the photos are one of the best
features of the
Web site. They were taken by Jon Farrar,
photographer and editor
for NEBRASKAland, for Wildflowers of
Nebraska and the Great Plains.
Since this book is no longer in
print, Locklear said, "FloraSearch
will ensure the photos and
information remain accessible as a
reference for
Nebraskans."
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.
Kawasaki Reading Room to mark 10-year
anniversary
Commemorative events for the 10th anniversary
of the Kawasaki
Reading Room for Japanese Studies in the Department
of Modern
Languages and Literatures will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sept.
24 at the reading room and the Embassy Suites hotel.
The reading room, 1126 Oldfather Hall, supports teaching of
the
Japanese language and culture and connects the people of
Japan and
Nebraska. The center was opened on Sept. 24, 1992.
It was made
possible by a gift from Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing
Corp., USA,
which also provides ongoing support. The reading
room reflects the
vision of Takehiko Saeki, former president
of Kawasaki USA.
The reading room contains about 5,000 books and journals,
800
videocassettes and 250 audiotapes. Japanese television is
received
via satellite.
Commemorative events include talks by
Kawasaki USA President
Shin-ichi Tamba, UNL Chancellor Harvey
Perlman and Arts and Sciences
Dean Richard Hoffmann, which will be
from 10 a.m. to noon at
the reading room. Reiko Harpending will
present a history of
the collection, and Noriko Asato will talk
about her research
into Japanese-American history.
A
luncheon will be from 12:15 to 1:45 p.m. at the Embassy
Suites,
1040 P St. From 1:45 to 2:30 p.m., students who participated
in
overseas programs in Japan will talk about their experiences.
A
closing reception will be from 2-3 p.m. at Embassy Suites.
Those wishing to attend the events should call Reiko Harpending
at 472-5544.
UNL Research
Council Application Deadlines Approaching
The UNL Research
Council's application deadlines for 2002-2003
are approaching.
Applications for faculty seed grants, grants-in-aid
and
interdisciplinary research grants must be received by Oct.
15.
Applications for Visiting Research Scholars and Symposia/Distinguished
Lecturers are due Oct. 15 and Feb. 14.
Applications will be
received from any UNL faculty member
on a continuous appointment,
research associate professors, research
assistant professors and
senior lecturers.
For complete program descriptions and
application forms for
all programs, visit http://www.unl.edu/resear
ch/council.html
or call Peg Filliez, 472-2851.
CGLBTC Meeting Sept. 20
The Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns
will meet at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in Conference Room F on the lower
level of the University Health Center.
The CGLBTC consists
of faculty, staff and students who are
interested in ensuring that
UNL meets its goal of administering
all its educational and
employment programs and related support
services in a manner that
does not discriminate against anyone
based upon their sexual
orientation or gender identity. They
meet biweekly throughout the
academic year. At least once a year,
they report to the chancellor
on the status of gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender people on
campus.
For more information, call 472-7447.
University Flying Club
The University Flying Club provides a low-cost way for UNL
faculty, staff and students to learn to fly or to gain additional
flying experience. Through a special arrangement with Crete Aviation,
University Flying Club members have access to Cessna 150 aircraft
for $35 per flight hour and $25 per month for those months that
the
member uses the aircraft. Likewise, a Piper Cherokee 180
is
available for $55 per flight hour and $50 per month. Call
Darrell
Nelson at 472-2045 for more information.
University Has Agreement with America
West
The university has an airline volume agreement with
America
West. This is valid for tickets issued on or before Dec. 31
and
traveling on or before Feb. 14. The agreement offers discounts
to university employees for business or companion travel. For
information, call University Travel Services at 486-4111.
EHS programs cut waste, save money
By Anne Potts
Special to the Scarlet
Every day, people work to change the world through their actions.
Here at UNL, there's a group of staff members who are working
to
save the Earth.
These people are part of the Department of
Environmental Health
and Safety's Waste Minimization Program. Since
1998, the projects
enacted by this program have eliminated about
2,010 liters of
chemical waste per year. Waste minimization
programs are used
by the Entomology Department, Food & Science
Technology and
the Agronomy Department.
Not only do
these programs eliminate waste, they eliminate
cost as well. Each
year, because of the ability to recycle and
reuse chemicals, the
Waste Minimization Program has saved UNL
more than $38,000 on the
purchase of new chemicals. According
to Tonya Bernadt, waste
minimization program coordinator, for
every dollar spent on
equipment, $7 are saved on the chemical
accusation and disposal
costs.
How is all this done? One of these projects used by
the Entomology
Department recycles chemicals with what is called a
rotary evaporator,
which acts as a type of large washing machine
for chemical waste.
Used mixtures from experiments are placed in
the machine and
are put into a sort of spin cycle that separates
out water and
contaminates, creating new chemicals and solvents
(including
flammable liquids and corrosive chemicals) that can be
used again.
Contaminates found in used chemicals can include cell
tissues,
heavy metals and even DNA. Using this rotary evaporator
has led
to a 50 percent decrease in solvent usage, as well as a 50
percent
decrease in used chemical disposal costs.
Another project, used by the Nutritional Sciences Department,
uses what are called HPLC columns. These columns are used to
discover the compositions of chemicals. All chemicals are sent
through columns, which filter out the different elements and
compounds found in the chemical. Then the column produces a paper
band, which indicates what chemical components were filtered
into
it. The lightness or darkness of the band indicate what
components
were found. This project has avoided the generation
of about 240
liters of hazardous waste per year, reduced the
cost of chemicals
by about $3,500 per year, and reduced disposal
costs by about $150
per year.
One other interesting waste reduction project has
been the
Department of Environmental Health & Safety and
Recycling
Services' use of recycled glass and concrete to create
sidewalks
on UNL's East Campus. This project reduced the cost of
disposing
of the waste.
The program's actions have
been noticed and have earned several
awards and honors. The
Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality
has awarded the
Department of Environmental Health and Safety
a grant for more than
$68,000 to continue the Waste Minimization
Internal Grant Program.
Under this program, UNL departments are
eligible for grant funding
to purchase equipment that will help
reduce the volume or toxicity
of wastes. This state grant also
will fund development of
informational materials on feasible
waste minimization alternatives
at colleges and universities
to be posted to the EHS web page.
Anne Potts is a senior advertising major at UNL's College
of
Journalism & Mass Communications.
Astronomer discusses sun, superflares
The sun seems
stable, but what if it isn't? Bradley Schaefer,
an astronomer at
the University of Texas, will address this in
an illustrated public
lecture at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25 at the Nebraska
Union Auditorium.
Astronomers have recently discovered that dozens of stars
that
are twins of the sun have huge flares that could kill all
earthly
life if they were to happen on our sun. Fortunately,
our sun has
had no such "superflares" within recorded
history.
Schaefer will discuss the big impact superflares may
have had on
the origin and existence of life in the universe.
Schaefer
has published many papers on a wide variety of topics.
He is also
an astronomy writer for Sky & Telescope, the leading
popular
magazine on astronomy. He is a popular speaker at amateur
astronomical conventions.
Schaefer's lecture is part of a
series of events marking the
25th anniversary this fall of Hyde
Observatory, Lincoln's public
observatory in Holmes Park.
More information on Schaefer's lecture is available at http://www.neb-star.org/scha
efer.html.
For additional information on upcoming Hyde
anniversary events,
visit http://www.hydeobservatory.info.
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Celeste Knapper with her purchase at The Edge of
Campus convenience
store on the first floor of the 17th and R
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Mueller show studies Milky Way
Mueller Planetarium is studying the Milky Way through the
planetarium astronomy show "The Milky Way of Bart Bok"
now through Dec. 1.
The late husband and wife team of Bart
and Priscilla Bok studied
the Milky Way from several major
observatories in the Northern
and Southern hemispheres.
"The Milky Way of Bart Bok" highlights the work
of
the Boks and concludes with a live tour of the night sky.
The
program was written and produced by Jack Dunn, coordinator
of
Mueller Planetarium.
The program will be presented at 2
p.m. Saturdays and Sundays
except on home football game days.
Mueller Planetarium is in
the University of Nebraska State Museum
at 14th and U streets.
For information, call 472-2641 or visit http://www.spacelaser.com.
Observatory views edge of solar
system
The UNL Student Observatory will offer views of
Uranus and
Neptune, the two remote giant planets at the edge of the
solar
system, the almost-full moon and other attractions during its
Sept. 20 public night.
The observatory will be open from
sunset, about 7:30 p.m.,
until 11 p.m. on the roof the Stadium
Parking Garage, 10th and
T streets. Visitors of all ages are
welcome.
Visitors who arrive at sunset will get a last
chance to get
an evening view of Venus for more than a year. Venus
is now quickly
moving between the sun and the Earth and it will not
return to
the evening sky again until the end of 2003.
September is a good month for seeing Uranus and Neptune, which
are not visible to the naked eye and are the most distant of
the
four giant planets in the solar system, UNL astronomer Martin
Gaskell said.
"Most people have never seen these
planets, so here is
a chance," he said.
As the
sun sets Friday, a bright, very nearly full moon will
rise in the
east. The full moon looks strikingly different in
a telescope
compared with a crescent or gibbous moon, Gaskell
said.
If time permits, visitors will be shown views of some double
star systems. These are systems that differ from our solar system
because they have more than one star orbiting in them. A UNL
astronomer will be on hand to answer astronomy questions.
The observatory will not be open if the sky is overcast. Its
next public night is Oct. 25.
For more information about
the Student Observatory, call Gaskell
at 472-4788, e-mail mgaskell1@unl.edu
or visit the
observatory's Web site, http://ww
w.physics.unl.edu/directory/gaskell/stdobs.html.
Garden writer to speak
Acclaimed garden writer Rick Darke will present lectures at
3:30
p.m. and 7 p.m. Sept. 30 on ornamental grasses and the American
woodland garden.
Darke's talks will be the 2002 Roger D.
Uhlinger Memorial
Lectures in Horticulture, hosted by the Nebraska
Statewide Arboretum.
Author, photographer and landscape
design consultant, Darke
served on the staff of Longwood Gardens
for 20 years. He received
the Scientific Award of the American
Horticultural Society in
1998 and is widely recognized for his
book, The Color Encyclopedia
of Ornamental Grasses.
His newest book, The American Woodland Garden, has just been
released by Timber Press.
"Celebrating Grasses in the
American Landscape"
will be at the Nebraska East Union and
will preceded by refreshments
and an informal visit with the
speaker at 3 p.m. The afternoon
seminar is co-sponsored by the UNL
Center for Grassland Studies.
Darke's evening lecture,
"The American Woodland Garden:
Capturing the Spirit of the
Deciduous Forest," will begin
at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of
Nebraska Union. A reception will
begin at 6 p.m., and copies of
Darke's books will be available
for sale and for signing by the
author.
Both lectures are free.
Nebraska East Union Faculty/Staff Bowling
League
League bowling begins Sept. 25. Start time is 6
p.m. Wednesdays,
and teams will be composed of four bowlers.
Entries are due by
5 p.m. Sept. 20. Send them to Room 314, East
Union, 0923.
For more information, call Gerry Van Ackeren,
472-9627.
New NCards Offered
to Faculty and Staff
UNL faculty and staff can trade in
their old ID cards for
new NCards Sept. 23-27. The new cards will
have individuals'
library number printed on the front of the
card.
The NCard Office is in the lower level of the
Nebraska Union.
For information, call the NCard Office at
472-7339.
Culture Center
movie night
The Culture Center will host a movie night at
6:30 p.m. Sept.
25. The movie will be If These Walls Could Talk.
There will be
a discussion of perspectives concerning the societal
and cultural
implications of abortion after the movie. This
discussion will
be well monitored and will include speakers from
each side of
this issue.
Refreshments will be
provided. For information, call the Culture
Center at 472-5500.
Noted Czech Genealogist Slated for
Czech Banquet
Miloslav Rechcigl will be the invited
speaker at the Second
Annual Czech Language Foundation Awards and
Recognition Banquet
at 5 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Cornhusker Hotel
Ballroom. The title
of his talk is "A Journey Through Four
Centuries Plus of
Czech and Slovak Immigration to the
U.S."
A Czech meal will be served. There will be a
silent auction
from 5 to 9 p.m. The highest bidders will be
announced at 9:30
p.m. A polka dance will be from 8-11 p.m.
Rechcigl is president of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts
and
Sciences. He is a native of Mlada Boleslav, Czechoslovakia,
but has
lived in the United States since 1950. Rechcigl is a
well-known
scientist, historian, writer and prominent genealogist,
specializing in Czech and Slovak immigration and genealogy.
Tickets for the banquet and dance are $30 in advance, $35
at the
door. Tickets for the dance only are $5 in advance, $8
at the
door.
To register, send a check payable to the Czech
Language Foundation
to: Jeanette Smith, 4311 S. 46th St., Lincoln,
NE, 68516.
For information, call 472-1336 or the CLF at
(888) 249-3597.
Breaking
Taboos
Jewish Art and Jewish History: Ezra Mendelsohn,
professor
at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, will speak on modern
Jewish
history at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1 at the Great Plains Gallery,
1155
Q St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Mendelsohn will address how images created by Jews and non-Jews
can cast light on major issues in modern Jewish history. These
issues include nationalism, identity, acculturation and assimilation,
and relations between Jews and non-Jews.
Mendelsohn is
professor in the Institute of Contemporary Jewry,
and Russian and
East European Studies, at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem. He holds
a doctorate from Columbia University and
is widely published in the
field of Jewish history and culture,
especially pertaining to the
20th century.
The talk is sponsored by the Harris Center
for Judaic Studies.
Mendelsohn is the Norman and Helene Krivosha
Lecturer for 2002.
Deadlines
Approach for Award Applications
Application forms for two
universitywide awards, the Peter
Kiewit Student Entrepreneurial
Award and the Walter Scott Entrepreneurial
Business Award, are due
Oct. 14. Application forms are available
at http://www.nebraska
.edu/news/news_awards.shtml
or by calling Rachael Black at
472-5242. Submit applications
to Rachael Black, Office of the
Provost, University of Nebraska,
3835 Holdrege Street, Lincoln, NE
68583-0743.
International
Society Announces Award Program
Phi Beta Delta, the honor
society of international scholars
at UNL, has established a program
to recognize a faculty member,
a domestic undergraduate or graduate
student and an international
undergraduate or graduate student.
Information about the program and nomination/application forms
are available from the International Affairs Web site at http://www.iaffairs.unl.edu
(click on "Opportunities") or from International Affairs
at 420 University Terrace, or by calling 472-5358. The deadline
for
receipt of nomination/application forms and letters of support
is
Oct. 15.
Parking Advisory
Committee Meeting Sept. 27
The Parking Advisory Committee
will meet at 3 p.m. Sept. 27
in the Parking and Transit Services
Conference Room, 625 Stadium
Drive, Suite A.
The campus community honors Sept. 11
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Students study a list
of victims' names during
the commemoration event on the
Nebraska Union plaza. Several
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Chancellor Harvey Perlman watches an honor guard
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Several campus events were held to
honor and commemorate the
anniversary of the terrorist attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001. Many
gathered at the plaza north of the Nebraska
Union at noon for
speeches, music and a balloon release.
Help Admissions ID future students
The following e-mail to all was sent Sept. 12 by Alan Cerveny,
Dean of Admissions.
Greetings from the Office of
Admissions. Student recruiting
is a campuswide effort, and I would
like to take this opportunity
to thank you for your support this
past year. We have had a good
recruiting year and are very pleased
by the size and academic
profile of this year's new freshman and
transfer student classes.
One of the keys to success is the
special emphasis we place
on personalizing our recruiting process
for prospective students
through our many faculty, student, and
recruiter contacts. This
is certainly a challenging task with more
than 50,000 prospective
students contacting the Office of
Admissions each year. But through
our travels, visits, phone calls,
emails, postcards and letters,
we want our prospects to feel
informed, wanted and appreciated.
As we begin a new
recruiting cycle, I would appreciate your
assistance and support in
identifying prospective students who
may be interested in the
academic opportunities available to
them here at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. We know that
even with the thousands of high
school and transfer student prospects
that are already being
recruited for enrollment in 2003, it is
very likely that there are
some talented students who are not
in our database.
If you have names of students you would like to make sure
we
have on our prospect lists, particularly your children, grandchildren,
family friends or relatives, I would appreciate it if you would
please e-mail me their names, year in school, and mailing addresses
to acerveny2@unl.edu.
Again, thank you for your support of our recruiting program
this
past year!
Alan Cerveny, UNL Dean of Admissions.
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