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Members of the Geography Student
Organization paint a map
of the United States on the playground of
Lincoln's Norwood Park
Elementary School on March 23. The map
measures 35 feet by 25
feet and was painted by 12 members of the
organization. Stephanie
Lawson, principal of the school, said the
school liked the colorful
addition to the playground, and it also
helps teach geography
skills. Photo courtesy of the
GSO.
White House
science deputy to speak April 23
Kathie Olsen, a key
policy official for the White House, will
deliver a kick-off
address at 3:30 p.m. April 23 in the Nebraska
Union Auditorium. The
speech is free and open to the public.
Olsen is associate
director of the Office of Science and Technology
Policy in the
Executive Office of the President. She will speak
on federal
funding priorities for science and technology and
on new federal
initiatives.
The speech is the pre-opening event for the
UNL Research Fair
the next day, April 24. The fair, sponsored by
the Office of
the Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of Graduate
Studies,
will bring program officers from several federal agencies,
such
as the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, to talk about funding priorities and other new initiatives
of interest to research faculty.
Olsen began her position
in August 2002 and serves as Director
John Marburger's deputy for
science. Before her confirmation,
she was chief scientist at the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration. She served at the
administrator's senior scientific
adviser and principal interface
with the national and international
scientific community.
Before joining NASA in May 1999, Olsen was the senior staff
associate for the Science and Technology Centers in the National
Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities.
She
has served a number of positions, including a stint as
acting
deputy director for the Division of Integrative Biology
and
Neuroscience at NSF, where she has worked and held many science-related
positions dating back to 1984.
Olsen received her
bachelor's degree in science with honors
from Chatham College,
Pittsburgh, Pa., majoring in biology and
psychology and her
doctorate from the Department of Psychobiology
at the University of
California, Irvine.
She has been associated with the
Harvard Medical School and
the State University of New York at
Stony Brook.
Her research on the neural and genetic
mechanisms underlying
the development and expression of behavior
was supported by grants
from the National Institutes of Health.
Grant-writing workshop in May
Researching and writing grant proposals and negotiating with
funding sources will be the focus of a five-day workshop May
5-9.
The Grantsmanship Training Program will be at the
Lancaster
County Extension Education Center, 444 Cherrycreek Road.
Those
with proposals in progress should bring them to the
workshop.
Registration is $775 per person, with a $50
discount for more
registrants from the same organization.
Send payment to: Program Registrar, The Grantsmanship Center,
P.O. Box 17220, Los Angeles, CA, 90017.
Call the center at
(800) 421-9512 or Gary Bergman at 441-7180
for information.
Russian Culture
Night April 17
The UNL Russian Club will present Russian
Culture Night from
6:30-8:30 p.m. April 17 in the Culture Center.
The event will
feature Russian music, food and dancing.
The cost is $2. Tickets will be available at noon April 17
in
the Nebraska Union. For information, contact Mila Saskova-Pierce,
472-1336, <msaskova-pierce1@unl.edu>.<
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April Schedule for Fidelity
Counseling Sessions
A Fidelity consultant will be in the
Nebraska Union on April
17 and 23 and in the Nebraska East Union on
April 15 and 24 to
provide free one-on-one counseling sessions on
investment planning.
Sign up by calling Reservation Systems, (800)
642-7131.
Schedule For
TIAA-CREF Counseling Sessions
A TIAA-CREF consultant will
be in the Nebraska Union on April
23 and 24, and in the Nebraska
East Union on April 22 to provide
free one-on-one counseling
sessions on investment planning.
Sign up by calling (800)
842-2009 or visiting <www.tiaa-cref.org>
and
clicking on Meetings/Counseling.
A Blackhawk touches down at UNL
Army ROTC cadet Chad Thomson
checks his weapon as a Blackhawk
helicopter comes in to land April
3 on the practice fields behind
the Cook Pavilion. The Army ROTC
conducted an air assault mission
as part of its Leadership Lab
class with cadets conducting an
assault, setting up a perimeter and
searching for and recovering
a downed aviator. The Doane College
campus in Crete acted as
enemy territory. Photo by
Richard Wright.
Arboretum event kicks off spring
By Karma Larsen,
Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
The 17th annual Spring Affair
plant sale will be in the Lancaster
Building at Nebraska State Fair
Park from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April
26. More than 400 plant species
will be offered for sale - twice
as many as in recent years.
The event is free and open to the public.
One of the new
plant categories offered this year is rock
or trough garden
plants-miniaturized plants with unique texture
and foliage, most of
which require good drainage and are drought-tolerant.
"One of the great things about trough gardens and rock
gardens is that they can be done in a very small space. They're
terrific choices for people with small gardens," said Bob
Henrickson, assistant director of horticulture programs for the
Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. He recommends placing trough gardens
in a visible, prominent place where they can be viewed up-close.
This year's plant sale is moved to the Lancaster Building
at
State Fair Park with a series of talks and programs scheduled
for
the nearby Youth Complex.
Plant talks will begin at 10 a.m.
with Harlan Hamernik, co-owner
of Bluebird Nursery, talking about
the 2003 plant offerings.
Other talks include:
- "Dry, Dry Again," Jan Riggenbach on selecting
hardy
plants, 10 a.m.
- "Designing with Native and
Introduced Grasses,"
with Jim Kluck of Dublin Nurseries,
11:30 a.m.
- "Insects: Weather or not, Here They
Come!" by UNL's
Fred Baxendale, 11:30 a.m.
- "Creative Containers for Seasonal Interest" by
Bertine Loop, 1 p.m.
- "Landscaping with Native
Plants" by Bob Henrickson,
1 p.m.
The
final talk at 2:30 p.m. is a general question-and-answer
session.
Spring Affair is sponsored by the UNL Botanical
Garden and
Arboretum, the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum and the
State Fair
Park Arboretum. Money raised through the event funds
educational
programs offered by the three organizations. For
information
or to request a newsletter, call 472-2679 or visit
<http://busfin.unl.edu/unlbga>.
Chemistry's Hamilton Award Lecture is April 17
The
2003 Hamilton Award Lecture is at 3:30 p.m. April 17 in
117 Bessey
Hall. A reception will precede the lecture at 2:45
p.m. in room 548
of Hamilton Hall.
Eric N. Jacobsen, the Sheldon Emory
Professor of chemistry
at Harvard University, will received the
22nd Cliff S. Hamilton
award. Jacobsen's award lecture is titled
"Discovery, Study
and Application of Asymmetric
Catalysts."
Jacobsen is a chemist in the area of
catalyst development
for stereoselective synthesis.
Annual steam outage set for May
The annual steam outage will occur on City Campus only May
11-17
if weekly high temperatures average 60 degrees or above.
During
this week, the centralized steam distribution system will
be shut
down. This outage allows for required maintenance of
equipment,
including replacing and upgrading key components of
the
university's utility system.
During this outage, heating or
process steam will not be available
in those building systems
served by campus steam.
For information or to inform staff
about research processes
requiring steam or any other implications
of this outage, call
Clark deVries, utility services director, at
472-9444 or e-mail
<cdevries1@unl.edu>.
Free Composting Workshops
Cooperative Extension of Lancaster County and the City of
Lincoln Recycling Office offer free workshops to teach successful
composting. Attendees will receive a free compost bin or composting
thermometer.
These composting workshops are offered in
April; all run from
7-8 p.m.:
- April 15,
Belmont Recreation Center, 1234 Judson St.;
- April 17, Calvert
Recreation Center, 4500 Stockwell St.;
- April 22, Easterday
Recreation Center, 6130 Adams St.;
- April 24, Irving
Recreation Center, 2010 Van Dorn St.
From May to
October, hands-on composting demonstrations will
be presented the
third Saturday of each month at 8:30 a.m. at
the City Yard Waste
Composting Demonstration Site, 50th and Colby
streets.
For information about the workshops or demonstrations, call
Cooperative Extension in Lancaster County at 441-7180.
Register now for
Bright Lights program
Registration is now open for the
summer 2003 Bright Lights
program. This nonprofit program offers
educational opportunities
for children in kindergarten through
ninth grade in offerings
running in June and July.
This summer, the colleges of Architecture and Engineering
and
Technology will each sponsor one-week camps for Bright Lights
students from July 14-18. The architecture students will learn
to
design a structure to sit on existing topography and blend
into its
natural setting. Engineering participants will design
and build
projects that demonstrate concepts such as ergonomics,
hydrology or
aerodynamics. Both sessions are for students who
have completed
sixth, seventh or eighth grades.
For information about
Bright Lights, visit <www.brightlights.org>.
Convocations Committee Grants
Available
The UNL Convocations Committee will review
applications for
funding for the fall 2003 semester in April. The
grants, which
are awarded to support speakers visiting UNL, are
generally between
$300 and $500. The deadline for application is
April 15.
For guidelines and application forms, e-mail
Richard Voeltz
<rvoeltz1@unl.edu>,
Julia
Torquati <jtorquati1@unl.edu>,
or
<kgriffin2@unl.edu>.
Completed applications should be sent to the Academic Senate
Office, 420 University Terrace, Suite 200 (0684).
Buhler to give
reading
Stephen Buhler, professor of English, will read
selections
from his book, Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof,
at 3
p.m. April 17 at the University Bookstore, basement of the
Nebraska
Union.
In honor of the opening night
performance of Macbeth in UNL's
Howell Theatre, Buhler will focus
on Roman Polanski's 1971 screen
version of the play. Excerpts from
that production will be shown,
along with scenes from other
Shakespeare-inspired films.
Buhler's book will be available
for sale and signing at the
reading.
For information,
call the bookstore at 472-8560.
English professor to read at Lee Booksellers
Jonis
Agee, UNL professor of English and creative writing,
will read from
her new book, Acts of Love on Indigo Road, at
7:30 p.m. April 11 at
Lee Booksellers, 56th Street and Highway
2. Copies of this and
Agee's other books will be available for
sale and signing after the
event.
Acts of Love on Indigo Road contains 25 new stories
and selections
from her previously published books. Agee also has
written four
novels, several books of short fiction and a poetry
collection.
For information about this reading, call
420-1919.
Archaeological Institute of America Public Lecture April
14
The Lincoln/Omaha Society of the Archaeological
Institute
of America presents its seventh and final presentation of
the
season at 7:30 p.m. April 14 in room 15 of Richards Hall.
Cemal Pulak, research scientist and professor at the Institute
of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, will present
"The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun, Turkey,"
an
account of the discovery and investigation of an underwater
archaeological discovery in the Mediterranean Sea.
Pulak
holds the Frederick R. Mayer Fellowship in Nautical
Archaeology. He
also is the vice president for the Institute
of Nautical
Archaeology in Turkey. Pulak has directed the excavation
of three
shipwreck sites, ranging in date from the Late Bronze
Age through
the 16th century A.D., and participated in the excavation
and
underwater investigation of many shipwrecks.
The lecture is
free and open to the public.
Nebraska Chapter of Sigma Xi Banquet set for April 24
The Nebraska Chapter of Sigma Xi will hold its annual member
induction and awards banquet on April 24 at Windsor Stables,
1024 L
St. Hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Dinner
will be served at 7 p.m.
Registrations need to be submitted
by April 11.
Awards will be presented recognizing an
outstanding scientist,
young scientist, graduate student, high
school science teacher,
science librarian and technical support
specialists. In addition,
the Nebraska chapter will honor Alexandra
Basolo from the School
of Biological Sciences. She has been awarded
the 2003 Young Investigator
Award by the Society's National Board
of Directors. The award
carries a $5,000 honorarium.
Registration forms are available from R.L. Pardy, treasurer,
Nebraska Chapter of Sigma Xi, 348 Manter Hall of Life Sciences,
UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-0118.
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,
not 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>.
Wrappin'
and Grillin' Party April 23
Abel/Sandoz residence halls
will celebrate spring with a "Wrappin
and Grillin" party
from 4:30-6:15 p.m. April 23.
During this evening meal,
the dining service staff will try
to break the world record by
making a 300-foot-long turkey and
cheese wrap sandwich. In
addition, grilled steaks and chicken
will be available at the
cookout, with all the trimmings, on
the north side of Abel/Sandoz
dining hall.
The public is welcome at $6.65 for adults or
$3.35 for children.
Degree
Grade Rosters Due April 25
Degree grade rosters
identifying May 10 degree candidates
will be mailed to the faculty
on April 11. The deadline for returning
the rosters to the
Graduation Services Office in 109 Canfield
Administration Building
is April 25.
Tornado policy
created
This policy has been established for assisting
those with
mobility impairments or physical disabilities in the
event of
a tornado warning:
Prior planning and
practice of evacuation routes to tornado
shelters listed on posters
in university buildings is important
particularly for individuals
with mobility impairments or physical
disabilities.
Supervisory personnel and course instructors are responsible
for
identifying and escorting individuals with mobility impairments
or
physical disabilities located in their offices/facilities
or
classrooms to safety in a tornado shelter in the event of
a tornado
warning.
The elevators may be used to transport
individuals with mobility
impairments or physical disabilities and
their escorts to tornado
shelters. Visually impaired and hearing
impaired individuals
may be escorted down the stairs to tornado
shelters but may require
assistance in moving in crowded staircases
and in finding the
tornado shelter.
In the event of
a power failure, individuals who are unable
to use the stairs and
their escorts should move to an interior
location without windows
and call the university operator at
472-7211 who will notify the
appropriate emergency personnel
with the location.
NETV tackles Cuba project
The Nebraska ETV Network is launching "Nebraska Connects
with Cuba," a statewide outreach project funded by a $20,000
grant from news producers MacNeil/Lehrer Productions' By the
People: America in the World initiative. "Nebraska Connects
with Cuba" explores how national public policy, specifically
as it pertains to Cuba, impacts Nebraskans and includes activities
to encourage people to participate and share opinions on this
topic.
"Nebraska Connects with Cuba" builds on
the experiences
of UNL College of Journalism students and NETV
staff on a recent
trip to Cuba as part of a combined UNL depth
reporting class
and production shoot. NETV also received a $1,500
grant from
the Nebraska Humanities Council to facilitate the
community discussions.
Among the events open to the public
are moderated panel discussions
in Kearney, Norfolk and Columbus.
An April 29 event at the Wick
Alumni Center in Lincoln will feature
the UNL journalism students
involved with the project.
A series of special reports on Nebraska's relationship with
Cuba
have already aired as a part of "Statewide," NETV's
weekly news journal. NETV will broadcast a one-hour program at
8
p.m. May 22 that tells the stories of Nebraskans with ties
to
Cuba.
3 UNL professors to
speak at AAUW event
The American Association of University
Women of Nebraska will
offer its Educational Equity Forum 2003 -
Facing Today's Challenges
from 1:30-5 p.m. April 26 at the Platte
River State Park in Louisville.
Three UNL professors will
speak at this event. Gwendolen Hines,
assistant professor of math,
will discuss the UNL math department's
nationally recognized
program for recruiting and supporting women
in the department. Mary
Anne Holmes, research associate professor
of geosciences, will
present results from her nationwide study
funded by the National
Science Foundation on barriers to the
advancement of women
geoscientists in academia. Anna Shavers,
associate professor of
law, will discuss the affirmative action
program for the College of
Law and the implications of challenges
to similar programs at other
universities.
Registration is $10 by April 21, $12 at the
door. For more
information about the forum, call Patricia Funk at
571-4506.
New centrex
listings
The 2003-2004 Centrex white-page listings will be
extracted
from the employee records maintained in the SAP database.
This
change eliminates duplicate efforts and simplifies the process
employees use to update their personal records on campus.
All regular employees will be listed in the white pages. Graduate
assistants, students, temporaries and on-call employees will
not be
included. Individual listings will consist of these items:
- Name as recorded on each employee's personnel record.
The
listing may also include "known as name."
- Work address and work phone number. One phone number will
be
listed, and it should be the primary phone number.
- Titles/Department Name. A maximum of four paid titles may
be
listed.
- Degrees. A maximum of three degrees may be listed
(associate
degrees and above).
- Personal data. Home
address, phone number and spouse/partner
information can be
listed but is optional. Employees must choose
to print all or
none of this information.
The yellow page updating
process has not changed.
Update sheets for the Centrex will
be mailed in mid-April
so employees can validate their personal
information.
For information, call your departmental human
resource specialist,
Pat Amedeo at 472-0255, or Linda Geisler at
472-3713.
Director for
plains humanities alliance sought
The senior vice
chancellor of academic affairs seeks applications
and nominations
for the position of director of the Plains Humanities
Alliance. The
PHA is an NEH- and privately endowed humanities
initiative and is
one of nine centers established in the country
to promote the
humanities by collaboration among humanities educators,
scholars,
professionals and the public.
The Plains Humanities
Alliance is now working on establishing
an advisory board in
relationship with partners in Nebraska and
throughout the
five-state plains region; developing and designing
an online
annotated bibliography of books and a cultural inventory
about life
on the plains; coordinating a seminar series and a
visiting
scholars program; planning a national conference on
regionalism and
the humanities for November; and developing PHA
financial
resources, including fund raising.
The director position is
a .25 FTE assignment supported by
the endowment with course buyouts
and partial summer support.
The director is responsible for
coordinating alliance activities
and initiatives and supervises a
.75 FTE program coordinator
and a contract-basis electronics
coordinator. The director draws
from humanities faculty at UNL and
representatives from partner
institutions in the five-state region
to support the academic
activities, programs and projects of the
alliance.
The director is expected to hold a tenured
position at UNL
with scholarly interests that complement the
alliance's mission.
The deadline for applications and
nominations for this position
is May 1. The starting date is Aug.
18.
Applications should include a letter of interest,
current
vita and the names of three references. Applications and
nominations
can be made by letter, phone or e-mail to Evelyn
Jacobson, Search
Chair, Academic Affairs, 208 Canfield
Administration, campus
ZIP code 0420, or e-mail to <jgude1@unl.edu>.
Asian Cultural
Celebration April 28
The Culture Center will offer an
Asian cultural celebration,
The Many Faces of Asia, April 28 at the
Culture Center, 333 N.
14th St.
The evening starts
with a dinner from 6-7 p.m., with a program
to follow.
This event is free. For information, call 472-5500.
NU offers leadership academy in June
Participants can improve their problem-solving and leadership
skills at the University of Nebraska's Community Leadership Academy.
The academy is June 23-25 on UNL's East Campus. The training
combines sessions in leadership theory with hands-on practice
and
coaching from leadership experts. After the three-day program,
participants will have access to consultations and advice from
their faculty coach through December.
Registration is $140
per person by April 18 and $160 after.
It includes breakfasts,
three noon meals, one evening dinner,
refreshments during breaks
and program materials. For information
or to register, call Janice
or Sandi at 472-2808.
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