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Nancy
Swarts, staff secretary for the Department of Family
and Consumer
Sciences, gives a treat to Ethan Hutchinson, 3,
for Halloween in
the Home Economics Building on East Campus.
Ethan was part of a
group of children from the Ruth Staples Child
Development Lab that
trick-or-treated around East Campus. Ethan
is the son of Mark and
Teri Hutchinson of Lincoln.
Virtual Homecoming 2002
University alumni and friends
unable to return to campus can
tune in to homecoming festivities at
the "Virtual Homecoming"
Web site, http://www.homecoming.husker
alum.com/
beginning Nov. 3. The Web site features a lawn
display contest
in which the winner will receive the
"Homecoming Herbie
Alumni Choice Award." Visitors to the
site can vote online
for their favorite lawn display. The site also
includes a calendar
of events, homecoming court and royalty
information, photographs
of homecoming activities, a message board
and more.
Alumni Homecoming
Celebration Nov. 8
The Nebraska Alumni Association will
hold its 10th annual
"Come On Home Homecoming
Celebration" from 5-7:30 p.m.
Nov. 8 at the Nebraska Champions
Club. The event is free and
open to the public with parking around
the Champions Club.
The event will include tours of campus
aboard Molley the Trolley
and homecoming lawn displays, free pizza
and soft drinks courtesy
of Valentino's and Pepsi, performances by
the NU Spirit Squad
and the NU Juggling Club, children's face
painting and door prizes.
At 6:45 p.m., a special color guard
presentation will salute
all veterans in attendance, the 2002
Homecoming Court will be
introduced, and the Scarlet and Cream
singers will perform.
For more information, visit the
Alumni Association's Web site:
<www.huskeralum.com>.
Examination Services - Final Exam
Scoring
Final exams for the fall semester will be Dec.
16-20. Faculty
members who plan to have final exams scored by
Examination Services
and are using the service for the first time
should call Cindy
Knight, 472-9763, or Peg Johnson, 472-2611, to
obtain a scheduling
form. Current Exam Services users will receive
an e-mail with
a blank final letter form to schedule their finals.
If participants
have exams scheduled after 3 p.m. Dec. 20, they
should call Knight
for more information on exam scoring.
Exam Services will observe the scheduled university holiday
closedown beginning Dec. 21. All exams must be picked up by 4
p.m.
Dec. 20. Regular office hours will resume at 8 a.m. Jan.
2.
For more information or answers to other questions about the
scheduling of final exam scoring, call Exam Services at the numbers
listed above.
NU Speaker
Series to Examine Effects of Welfare Reform
Ten years ago,
then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton promised
to "end
welfare as we know it." Many believe passage
of the Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunities Act in
1996 came close to
accomplishing that.
Passage of the act precipitated inquiry
into the effects of
the new law on the well-being of low-income
children and their
families. The findings from these studies are
just becoming available
as Congress re-examines the provisions of
the 1996 legislation.
Three researchers will present their
findings about these
effects in a UNL lecture series,
"Children, Families and
Welfare Reform." All lectures are
free and open to the public
and begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union.
The lectures are:
Nov. 11 -
"The Impact of Maternal Welfare and
Employment Transitions on
Children's Well-Being: A Look at Family
Process," Rebekah
Levine Coley, assistant professor of applied
developmental and
educational psychology at Boston College.
Nov. 25 -
"Parent, Student and Worker: The Multiple
Roles of Low-Income
Teen-age Mothers After Welfare Reform,"
Ariel Kalil, assistant
professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Studies at the University
of Chicago.
Dec. 2 - "Do Effects of Welfare
Policies on Children
Differ by Race/Ethnicity?" Hiro
Yoshikawa, assistant professor
of psychology at New York
University.
The series is sponsored by the NU Family
Research and Policy
Initiative in cooperation with the Center on
Children, Families
and the Law and the departments of sociology,
psychology and
communications studies. For brochures or more
information, call
472-9330.
TIAA-CREF Individual Counseling Sessions For November
A TIAA-CREF consultant will be in the Nebraska Union on Nov.
13,
15, 19 and 20, and the Nebraska East Union on Nov. 14 and
21 to
provide free one-on-one counseling sessions regarding investment
planning issues. The room will be posted.
Sign up by
calling (800) 842-2009 or going to the Web page,
<www.tiaa-cref.org>,
and
choosing Meetings/Counseling.
Holiday closedown information
UNL will be closed for
the holidays from Dec. 21 to Jan. 1.
Staff and faculty will return
to work Jan. 2.
Employees are reminded that in order to
receive all of these
days off as paid time, they will need to take
two days of vacation
during the closedown. Four floating holidays
acquired during
the 2002 year and the holidays of Christmas and New
Year's Day
will cover most of the time off during the closedown.
Two vacation
days are required to cover the additional two
days.
For more information, call Human Resources at
472-3101.
UNOPA Hosts 21st Annual Bosses' Luncheon
The
University of Nebraska Office Personnel Association will
sponsor
its annual Boss of the Year Award and Bosses' Luncheon
at 11:45
a.m. Nov. 12 at the Nebraska East Union.
The speaker will
be Ed Zimmer, a preservation planner with
the Lincoln-Lancaster
County Planning Department. The topic,
"Lincoln's Diverse
Past," explores the diverse people,
groups and institutions
that have enriched Lincoln since the
1870s. Zimmer works with
property owners, neighborhood groups
and public agencies to
research and protect Lincoln's heritage.
More information
about this event will be included in the
UNOPA Notes newsletter.
Non-members are welcome to attend and
can contact JoAnn Barry to
register. Write her at 55 CRec, 0232,
call 472-3467, or e-mail
<abarry1@unl.edu>.
Ready to go for a
ride
Stoney Scheer, senior fish and wildlife major, bridles a horse
in preparation for a ride during the advanced equitation course
Oct. 31 in the arena at the Animal Science Complex on East Campus.
The course teaches horse training methods and gives students
a
chance to train young horses for riding.
Scholar to Discuss Theory of Link Between
Genetics and Leadership
Richard Arvey of the University of
Minnesota will discuss
his work on linking genetics to leadership
in a lecture Nov.
8.
Arvey is the land grant chair of
human resources and industrial
relations at Minnesota's Industrial
Relations Center. He will
deliver his speech, "Nature Vs.
Nurture: The Determinants
of Leadership," from 2:30-4 p.m. in
Room 132 of the CBA
building. He will present the results of his
study using a sample
of 650 identical and fraternal male twins to
estimate the degree
to which leadership is influenced by genetic
factors.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Arvey earned his doctorate in industrial and organizational
psychology at Minnesota, has taught at the universities of Tennessee
and Houston, and was a visiting professor at the University of
California at Berkeley. He specializes in the areas of organizational
behavior and employee selection.
NIMEC Conference Nov. 15 and 16
The second annual
NIMEC Conference will be Nov. 16 at the
Nebraska Union. The theme
of this cultural event is "Embracing
Stronger Community
through Cultural Exchange."
Participants will
experience many cultures of the world through
interactive
workshops, presentations and a keynote address by
Janet Lu titled
"Diversity: A Way of Life." The conference
also provides
a safe place to discuss the issues that individuals
from these
cultures face.
This conference was the winner of last
year's Chancellor's
Award for Educational and Entertaining Program
of the Year. This
year's conference also will contribute to the
university's goal
of creating a more diverse educational experience
for its students,
faculty and staff. Students from outside of
Lincoln may stay
with host families over the weekend.
There is a $10 registration fee, and there are 20 domestic
student scholarships available on a first-come, first-served
basis.
Please apply on the Web site or at NIMEC booth in the
Nebraska
Union on Nov. 8, 11-13. For more information and a participant
registration form, visit <www.unl.edu/FoFStu/nimec>,
or by e-mail <unlnimec@yahoo.com>.
Retirement reception for
Brinkerhoff
All are invited to attend a retirement
reception for David
Brinkerhoff from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Nov. 19 in the
Great Hall of
the Wick Alumni Center. A short program will begin at
4:30 p.m.
Brinkerhoff joined the faculty of the Department
of Sociology
at UNL in 1978. He was appointed associate vice
chancellor for
academic affairs in February 1993 after serving as
acting and
interim associate vice chancellor in 1990 and 1991
respectively.
He also served as acting senior vice chancellor from
July 1,
2000, to Jan. 7, 2001.
For more information,
call Academic Affairs at 472-3751.
Fidelity Individual Counseling Sessions For November
A
Fidelity consultant will be on campus Nov. 12 in the Nebraska
Union
and Nov. 13 at the Nebraska East Union to provide free
one-on-one
counseling sessions regarding investment planning
issues. The room
will be posted.
Sign up by calling Reservation Systems at
(800) 642-7131.
Entomology
course to be offered for high school, college
credits
By Dan Moser, IANR News and Publishing
UNL will offer an
entomology course via distance education
at four high schools next
spring, allowing students to earn high
school and college credits
at the same time.
The pilot project is part of a national
and state "seamless
education" emphasis that seeks to
ease students' transition
from high school to college, said Tiffany
Heng-Moss, assistant
professor of entomology in UNL's College of
Agricultural Sciences
and Natural Resources.
Insect
Biology, which will be taught from the UNL campus and
offered with
various distance education technologies at Mead,
Laurel-Concord,
Nebraska City and Burwell high schools, will
be available for high
school credit, college credit or both.
The course, which will count
toward the Essential Studies-Science
and Technology requirement for
most of UNL's colleges, will be
taught by Heng-Moss and Connie
Reimers-Hild, distance education
coordinator for the entomology
department.
The new dual-credit offering has advantages for
the high schools,
students and UNL. The course will offer high
schools another
science course, which helps them meet national and
state science-curriculum
standards without having to spend new
resources. High school
students get a head start on their college
careers amid familiar
surroundings, improving their chances of
graduating in four years.
This move also reflects UNL's
continued interest in distance
education, even as it rethinks how
it offers such learning amid
tightening budgets.
The
dual-credit course is a natural progression in the agricultural
sciences curriculum that the university's Agricultural Research
and
Development Center at Mead and other Institute of Agriculture
and
Natural Resources faculty and staff helped launch. The curriculum
was first started at Mead High School several years ago, and
then
at the other three schools this fall, said Dan Duncan, director
of
ARDC.
It also addresses concerns raised last year by the
National
Commission on the High School Senior Year, which said that
increased
cooperation between secondary and higher education is
essential
in today's economy.
Heng-Moss,
Reimers-Hild, CASNR professor Arlen Etling and
others will evaluate
the program after the spring semester, with
plans to expand Insect
Biology to other high schools.
"This is only the first
course in a series of many we
expect to offer" for dual credit
at high schools, Reimers-Hild
said.
In addition to
ARDC and the entomology department, other university
partners in
the project include the College of Agricultural Sciences
and
Natural Resources; the Department of Agricultural Leadership,
Education and Communication; the Office of Extended Education
and
Outreach; and the Admissions Office.
Inclement weather
policy: As winter nears, faculty and
staff are asked to remind
themselves of the university's inclement
weather policy. It can
be found at: <http://busfin.unl.ed
u/hr/inclementweather.htm>.
Change to Radiation Safety
Manual
Environmental Health and Safety has made a revision
to the
safety protocol for AmBe neutron gauges in Appendix V in the
Radiation Safety Manual. The changes are available on the EHS
web
site, <http://ehs.unl.edu/radiat
ion_safety.html>.
Step inside the
chamber
Senior agronomy major Soren St. Denis
takes notes while measuring
photosynthesis on corn plants in
a Beadle Center growth chamber
Oct. 30. St. Denis was
charting the reactions for Professor Thomas
Elthon.
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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 e-news, see: <http://www.unl.edu/e-news/sa
mple.html>.
Women's
Studies Colloquium Nov. 11
The UNL Women's Studies
Colloquium,"Surviving as a Feminist
Activist Beyond Women's
Studies," begins at 3:30 p.m. Nov.
11 in the Nebraska Union.
Join faculty and students in the women's
studies program for a
discussion with Marcee Metzger, director
of the Rape/Spouse Abuse
Crisis Center of Lincoln and the first
Melba Cope Women's Studies
Community Associate.
Metzger has been working to end
violence against women and
children since 1976. She began as an
undergraduate at UNL on
the Rape Crisis Line. She assisted in
writing the grant to create
a spouse abuse crisis line at Open Door
Health Center, a program
of Family Services Association. She was
the first program director
for that project, in 1978. She also
worked at a battered women's
shelter in California and was the
coordinator of UNL's Women's
Resource Center. Metzger did a
graduate assistantship at UNL
as an interpersonal violence
counselor and became the executive
director at the Rape Spouse
Abuse Crisis Center when it incorporated
as an independent agency
in 1989. She continues to hold this
position. She is active in many
organizations related to her
work.
Movie Night at The Culture Center
In celebration of Native American Month, The UNL Culture Center
is showing a movie, "The Last of the Dogmen," at 6:30
p.m. Nov. 20 at the Culture Center. The movie is free and refreshments
will be provided.
The movie tells the story of a bounty
hunter assigned to retrieve
three criminals from the mountains of
Montana. When he discovers
that the trio has disappeared from the
area, he learns that 17
others have vanished from the same locale.
He attempts to unravel
the mystery, which leads to the discovery an
undiscovered tribe
of Cheyenne Indians.
For more
information on the movie night, please call 472-5500
or e-mail
<culturecenter2@unl.edu>.
Law College Fall Pre-Law Open House Set
Nov. 16
The College of Law and the College of Arts and
Sciences Advising
Center will co-host a fall pre-law open house
from 9:15 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 16 at Ross McCollum Hall on East
Campus.
The open house is targeted to students who are
early in their
college careers and who are interested in learning
more about
law school and career opportunities in law. The program
will
provide information about preparing for law school. Current
law
students and alumni will share their law college experiences
with the open house guests during a free pizza lunch.
For
more information, call the College of Law admissions office
at
472-2161. Reservations are recommended.
Large Passenger-Van Training
An additional class of
Large Passenger-Van Training has been
scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon
Nov. 19 at the Nebraska Union.
To register for training,
call Environmental Health and Safety
at 472-4925 or email <ehs@unl.edu>.
The
large-van policy can be found at <http:
//transportation.unl.edu/travel_programs.html#Large_Van>.
Only UNL faculty, staff and students age 21 and over may drive
a
large passenger-van.
HR Requisition Date Moved Up For
Thanksgiving Week
Requisitions must be received in Human
Resources, 407 Canfield
Administration Building, by 5 p.m. Nov. 25
for advertising and
posting vacancies to the job list for Dec. 2.
The Human Resources
Employment Office has moved up the date because
of Thanksgiving
break.
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