Scarlet schedule
The Scarlet will not publish Oct. 23 because of Fall Break.
The
deadline for submissions for the Oct. 30 edition is noon
Oct.
23.
For information, call 472-8518 or 472-8515, or e-mail
<scarlet@unl.edu>.
Retirement party planned
A retirement party will be held for George Tuck and Mike Stricklin,
professors of news-editorial at the College of Journalism and
Mass
Communications, from 4-6 p.m. Oct. 24 at the college's newsroom,
231 Andersen Hall.
RSVP to Judy Yeck in the college's
dean's office at <jyeck1@unl.edu>.
Homecoming Fall Blood Drive
The
Campus Red Cross, Arnold Air Society, the College of Agricultural
Sciences and Natural Resources and the Homecoming Committee student
organizations are hosting the Fall Blood Drive from 11 a.m. to
5
p.m. Oct. 16 in the Nebraska Union Ballroom. To register, visit
<www.don8bld.org>, click on "Donor Information,"
then "Appointments Online" and look for the "UNL
Fall Blood Drive" box. Walk-ins are also welcome. For more
information, call Andy Link at 472-7405 or e-mail <alink2@unl.edu>,
or call the
Community Blood Bank at 474-1781.
College shows dental artifacts during open house
The
Dental Museum at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
College
of Dentistry, located in Lincoln, is now on display.
The museum has
one of the largest regional collections of historical
dental
equipment and artifacts dating from the 1850s.
Included on
display are tooth extraction instruments dating
from the 1500s,
period dental offices from the 1850s to the 1930s
and thousands of
artifacts including dental cabinets, X-ray machines
and
instruments.
The collection is in the lower level at the
UNMC College of
Dentistry at 40th and Holdrege streets. Free
parking is available
on the east side of the building.
The museum is open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 16; 8 a.m. to
5
p.m. Oct. 17; and 8-11 a.m. Oct. 18.
For more information,
call Stan Harn at 472-1353.
First Grant Writing Seminars Oct. 20-21
The Office of
Research and Graduate Studies has announced
the 2003-2004 schedule
of grant-writing seminars. "Write
Winning Grants" will be
presented on Oct. 20-21. These seminars
will be presented by
Stephen Russell and David Morrison of Grant
Writers Seminars and
Workshops, LLC.
"Write Winning Grants" will be
presented in two
concurrent sessions - one focusing on NIH
proposals and one on
NSF proposals. These seminars are designed for
faculty members
and others interested in developing grant proposals
to these
and other funding agencies. The NIH seminar will be at the
Nebraska
East Union, and the NSF seminar will be in E103 Beadle.
"Getting Started as a Successful Grant Writer and
Academician"
will be presented on March 5-6, 2004. This
seminar, designed
for junior faculty members, post-doctoral
associates, research
faculty and graduate students, introduces
participants to the
proposal writing process and to strategies
designed to get them
started in their academic careers.
Registration for these seminars is on a first come-first served
basis. To register for these seminars, visit
<www.unl.edu/research>.
For more information, contact the
Office of Research and Graduate
Studies (email: <UNLresearch@unl.edu>,
or
call 472-2851).
Blackboard
and Photoshop training series offered by Information
Services
Learn Blackboard tools to assist and enhance your instruction.
This series of workshops covers creating quizzes, using discussion
boards, the gradebook and more features of Blackboard.
Faculty and staff can learn a range of Photoshop techniques
commonly used in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Our workshops
will cover selections, layers, photo retouching and more.
For more information on these workshops and how to sign up,
visit: <http://itg.unl.edu/training>.
Voice Mail And E-mail in One
Place
Information Services-Communications now offers a
voice mail
enhancement called EVM for Octel. Notifications of new
voice
mail messages and, optionally, the messages themselves are
sent
to a client's e-mail account as MP3 attachments, allowing
e-mail
and voice mail to be reviewed from one place. This feature
is
$1.50 per month. Sign up for this feature between now and Nov.
1, and the installation charge will be waived. Call 472-3434.
Combined Campaign begins today
The University of Nebraska United Way/CHAD/Community Services
Combined Campaign kicks off today and will continue through Nov.
7.
Kickoff events will be from 10-11 a.m. today at the Nebraska
Union
and 2-3 p.m. today at the Nebraska East Union.
Volunteers
throughout the UNL campus and NU offices in Lincoln
will distribute
packets containing campaign information and pledge
cards to all
employees. The co-chairmen of this year's campaign
are Bruce
Currin, assistant vice chancellor for Human Resources,
and Owen
Yardley, chief of police of the University Police Department.
The NU Combined Campaign raises money for 38 United Way-supported
agencies and their programs; the Combined Health Agencies Drive
(CHAD), a group of 14 member health and education agencies; and
the
Community Service Fund, a coalition of 24 nonprofit organizations
promoting safe and healthy communities and fostering social change.
Participants in the fund drive can earmark their contributions
for specific agencies or choose to have their contributions distributed
among all the programs covered by the combined campaign. They
can
make a one-time contribution or contribute throughout the
year
through payroll deduction or quarterly or semi-annual direct
billing.
UNL's contribution for 2003 increased slightly
over contributions
in 2002, which were up 7.9 percent over the
previous year. This
placed UNL as the top contributor in the public
sector in the
county and in the top 10 among all employers.
For more information on this campaign drive, call Nanda Ramanathan
at 472-8033 or Sharon Wacker at 472-8416.
Van Etten to give Chancellor's Series
lecture
The university resumes the Nebraska Lectures: The
Chancellor's
Distinguished Lecture Series with a 4 p.m. lecture
Oct. 30 in
the Nebraska Union Auditorium.
James Van
Etten, Allington Professor of Plant Pathology and
recent inductee
into the National Academy of Science, will speak.
His lecture,
titled "The Unusual Lifestyle of Giant Algal
Viruses,"
will be geared toward a general audience, he said.
He plans to talk
about some of the general properties of viruses,
and about the
specific properties of the viruses he discovered.
In 1981,
Van Etten and a colleague discovered the first of
what is now known
to be a new family of viruses. Members of the
family, called
Phycodnaviridae, infect algae and are among the
most genetically
complex viruses ever found. They have about
375 genes; in
comparison, HIV contains 12 genes.
The Nebraska Lectures
are intended to share with the public
the important research and
scholarly activity conducted by faculty
at UNL. Van Etten's lecture
is free and open to the public. A
reception follows the lecture in
the Heritage Room of the Nebraska
Union.
The Nebraska
Lectures: The Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture
Series is
co-sponsored by the UNL Research Council, the Office
of the
Chancellor and the Office of Research and Graduate Studies.
President Smith
to talk on ethics in science
University of Nebraska
President L. Dennis Smith will deliver
a lecture titled "The
Science, the Promise, and the Politics
of Biomedical Research"
at 8 p.m. Oct. 22 in the Nebraska
Union auditorium.
The talk, aimed toward a general audience, is free and open
to
the public.
Modern biomedical research, including research
on stem cells,
offers the promise of curing many serious diseases.
But that
research has raised moral and ethical questions, and
resolving
those questions may become a key to progress in the
biomedical
sciences.
Smith was a member of the Board
of Scientific Counselors for
the National Institute for Child
Health and Human Development
from 1990 to 1995. He was a member of
the Space Science Board
of the National Research Council from 1984
to 1991, and served
as chair of the Committee on Space Biology and
Medicine from
1986 to 1991.
In spring 2002, Smith won
the annual American Association
for the Advancement of Science
Award for Scientific Freedom and
Responsibility. AAAS is the
world's largest general scientific
society and is publisher of
Science.
Smith became president of the University of
Nebraska in 1994.
Previously, he served as executive vice
chancellor of the University
of California at Irvine, and earlier
served on the faculty at
Purdue University. He received his Ph.D.
in 1964 in experimental
embryology and his bachelor's degree in
1959 in zoology and chemistry
from Indiana University.
His talk is the first in a series of lectures about science
and
science issues sponsored by the UNL Chapter of Sigma Xi,
the
scientific research society. Smith's lecture is co-sponsored
by the
School of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and
Sciences.
For more information about this and future talks, call
Professor
Anthony Starace, president, UNL Chapter of Sigma Xi,
at 472-2795 or
e-mail <astarace1@unl.edu>.
CUSC Safety Fair
The
Chancellor's University Safety Committee will sponsor
a campuswide
employee safety fair from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct.
23 in the Nebraska
Union. The open house will feature the latest
safety products, as
well as free refreshments and prize drawings.
Throughout the day,
short training sessions will be provided
by manufacturer
representatives.
For more information, call Lisa Tobiason
at 472-6513.
Theology for
Lunch Program Oct. 24
The Theology for Lunch series will
present "Community
in Support Systems" by Steve Liechti
on Oct. 24 in the Nebraska
Union. Bring your lunch at 11:30 a.m.,
and the discussion will
begin at noon.
Liechti is
executive director of Pastoral Counseling of Lincoln.
Theology for Lunch is sponsored by Cornerstone, the Lutheran
Student Center, the Religious Studies Department and St. Mark's
on
the Campus.
Turkeys on sale
Through Oct. 31
The UNL Animal Science Graduate Student
Association is again
sponsoring its Thanksgiving turkey sale.
Fresh, Nebraska-grown,
self-basting Thanksgiving turkeys are for
sale for $1.20 per
pound. Four sizes of turkeys are offered: small
(8-12 pounds);
medium (12-16 pounds); large (16-20 pounds); and
extra large
(20-24 pounds).
To order, call 472-6408
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through
Friday through Oct. 31.
Turkeys may be picked up at the Animal
Science Department from 8
a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 24 and 25.
For more information, e-mail
Sandra Senneke at <ssenneke78@hotmail.com>.
Come On
Home Celebration Oct. 17
The Nebraska Alumni Association
will host the 11th annual
Come on Home Celebration from 5-7:30 p.m.
Oct. 17 at the Nebraska
Champions Club.
The event,
which is free and open to the public, will include
the NU Spirit
Squad; a concert by the Scarlet and Cream Singers;
Molley the
Trolley tours of campus lawn displays; 2003 Homecoming
Royalty;
free pizza and soft drinks; the Lincoln Fire Department's
Kid ID
program; online Homecoming lawn display voting; and a
live
broadcast of Sports Nightly with Gary Sharp.
Visit <www.HuskerAlum.com>
for
more information or call the alumni association at 472-2841.
The Come on Home Celebration will be followed by a free Laser
Light Show at 8 p.m at the Ed Weir Track.
Google.com scientist to Speak Oct. 23
Mehran Sahami will present "The Past, Present and Future
of
Web Information Retrieval" at 3:45 p.m. Oct. 23 in 217
Ferguson Hall. Refreshments will be served from 3:30-3:45 p.m.
in
114 Ferguson.
Sahami is a senior research scientist at
Google and is also
a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at
Stanford University.
At Google, Sahami conducts research in machine
learning technologies
to help improve information access. At
Stanford, he teaches classes
in programming methodology and
discrete mathematics. Before his
current positions, Sahami managed
the data mining research and
development group at Epiphany for
several years and was involved
in a number of machine learning
research projects at Stanford,
Xerox PARC, SRI International and
Microsoft Research.
Event
Scheduler Available on AccessGrid PRISM
The AccessGrid
Event Scheduler at the Priority Initiative
in Simulation and
Modeling, or PRISM, provides users with a monthly
guide to future
events on AccessGrid. If a user is interested
in a particular
event, the Event Scheduler provides the user
with a form to let the
staff at AccessGrid PRISM know about the
interest in the event. If
there is sufficient interest for an
event, the event can be
organized at the AccessGrid facility
at 121 S. 13th St., Suite 304
(in the Miller and Paine building)
so that users can participate in
the event.
The Event Scheduler is available at <http://rcf.unl.edu/p
rism/scheduling/Login.php>.
For more information, visit
<http://rcf.unl.edu/prism/>.
'Discovering Your Financial
Personality' lunch session is
Oct. 29
Kathy
Prochaska-Cue will offer tips on "discovering your
financial
personality" and point out spending habits and
trends, as well
as ways to create a healthier spending lifestyle.
The event is at
11:30 a.m. Oct. 29 at the Nebraska East Union.
This session is free
but reservations are requested; call the
credit union at
472-2087.
Free 'Get the
Facts on Credit Scoring' Lunch and Learn is
Oct. 21
Jason Opp with the Credit Bureau of Lincoln will explain the
credit-scoring system and give tips on how to improve a credit
score at the Lunch n' Learn at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 21 in the Nebraska
East Union. Participants should bring their own lunches. Reservations
are requested by calling the credit union at 472-2087.
UNL and state can purchase goods at NU Auction
website
A new internet-based auction system called NU
Auction allows
State of Nebraska agencies and UNL departments to
buy and sell
surplus items.
It operates like the
popular eBay auction service, allowing
users to post items for sale
(along with photographs) or bid
on items for purchase. The service
is not for personal sales
or purchases. Users can keep tabs on
current bids for the duration
of each auction.
Recent
postings on the site included a number of Apple computers,
printers
and office furniture.
"If the items do not sell
within the university system,
the seller will have the option for
the university to post the
item on eBay if the item is on the
department's current inventory
listing and has an initial cost of
$5,000 or more. The national
buyer community may bring money back
into the university for
replacement equipment," said Todd
Jensen, instructional
technology project manager in UNL Information
Services.
Even with the new technology, traditional
surplus auctions
will continue. However, as always, these do not
return money
to departments.
Before NU Auction, when
a department wished to sell items,
it would send notice to the
Inventory Department, which in turn
would send notice of items for
sale to university property managers
and state agencies on an
e-mail listserve. If no sales resulted,
the item could then be
placed on a formal public bid. This process
will also continue, but
NU Auction offers a wider audience and
a more convenient method of
bringing buyers and sellers together
within the university and
state.
"It is being utilized as a system that will
operate in
unison with the property manager and state agency
notification
listserve," Jensen said. "I feel that the
audience
will be expanded as well as the ability to communicate on
a wider
level, universitywide or even state agency-wide."
Officials are optimistic about the future of the system.
"If it's used and used properly by the departments, it
could provide a real benefit," said Carl Hutchison, associate
director of purchasing and inventory. "It could speed some
things up as far as listing, transfer and sales of equipment.
Hopefully, it gives people who are looking to buy a convenient
place to search for these items."
Creation of the
system came at low cost; Nobel Khandaker,
a UNL computer science
major and Information Services student
employee, modified some open
source (no-cost) software to fit
the needs of the university.
The bottom line is a better bottom line.
"With
tight budgets, it may be an opportunity for departments
to bring
some money back into their budgets," Hutchison
said.
Russian Week set for end of
October
Russian Week, featuring a culture night, lectures
by renowned
international speakers, a film and a poetry session,
will be
Oct. 23-29 at UNL. The week is sponsored by the UNL Russian
Club
and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures to
bring
the Russian-speaking community in Lincoln and students of
Russian
together.
A schedule of events follows. All
events are free and open
to the public except where noted. For more
information, call
Mila Saskova-Pierce at 472-1336.
Oct. 23: Russian culture night will be celebrated from 6:30-8:30
p.m. at the Culture Center, 333 N. 14th St. Traditional Russian
food will be sold, and a dance to modern and traditional music
will
be held. Cost is $2.
Oct. 27: Princeton University
Professor Emeritus Charles Townsend
will speak on "Teaching of
Russian and Slavic Languages
in the United States" at 3:30
p.m. at the Nebraska Union.
Oct. 27: The film
Passions, directed by Kira Muratova, will
be shown from 7-9 p.m. at
the Nebraska Union. Muratova is a native
of Moldova and a Soviet
dissident. With the end of censorship,
she became renowned for
previously undiscovered films from the
1960s and 1970s, as well as
contemporary works.
Oct. 28: Yuri Potapov, an assistant
dean at Udmurt State University
in Izhevsk, Russian Federation,
will speak on "The Region
between Volga and Ural in the
Russian Federation: Histories and
Cultures" from 10-11 a.m. at
the Nebraska Union. Potapov
has developed instructional
technologies at his institution.
He also teaches legal English and
German and has published in
the field of technology effectiveness
in distance education.
He is a visiting scholar at UNL.
Oct. 29: A poetry reading will be from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at
the
Nebraska Union. Students and others interested in Russian
poetry
can attend and read their favorite poem by a Russian poet,
in
Russian or English.
Holiday
closedown will require 2 vacation days
UNL will be closed
Dec. 24 through Jan. 4, 2004, for the official
UNL holiday
shutdown.
The eight days off (Dec. 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31
and Jan. 1
and 2) must be designated on time cards as follows:
- Two days (Dec. 25 and Jan. 1) are paid holidays.
- Four days are to be taken as floating holidays, vacation
or
leave without pay. Employees should indicate on their timesheets
what type of leave is to be used for these days. Floating holidays
and vacation must be posted for all eligible employees, both
hourly and salaried.
- The remaining two days need to be taken
as vacation days
or leave without pay. Employees will need to use
one 2003 vacation
day and one 2004 vacation day, which may be
carried over from
a balance in 2003 or may be a date accrued in
January 2004.
In order for a regular employee to
receive pay for a holiday,
an employee must be in pay status for
the full work shift on
the last scheduled workday before the
holiday and first scheduled
workday after the holiday.
Refer to the Human Resources website for further details:
<http://hr.unl.edu/ge
neral/holidayschedule.cfm>.
Essential non-exempt
(hourly) employees required to work a
holiday will be paid for the
holiday plus the hours worked. When
employees are required to work
a holiday, departments may choose
one of these options:
- Employee receives holiday pay (earnings type HOL) plus
pay
for the hours worked on the holiday.
- Employee
receives pay for the hours worked and takes the
holiday (hour for
hour) with pay at a later time. Use earnings
type BHOL (banked
holiday to record the banked holiday earned)
and BKUS (banked
holiday used when the hours are used).
- Employee receives
holiday pay (earnings type HOL) plus pay
for the hours worked and
takes the holiday at a later time without
pay.
These options require prior approval from the employer's department.
Essential exempt (salaried) employees required to work on
a holiday will be given alternate time off for hours worked on
the
holiday (hour for hour). The employee and supervisor should
agree
upon the time taken.
Pay during holiday
closedown:
Bi-weekly payday is Dec. 24, and monthly
payday is Dec. 31.
Employees on direct deposit will have their
accounts credited
on those dates. Monthly and bi-weekly payroll
checks for UNL
City Campus and IANR employees not on direct deposit
will be
mailed Jan. 5, 2004. Payroll deposit advices will be mailed
to
work addresses as usual.
These instructions and
dates apply to UNL and the Institute
of Agriculture and Natural
Resources. The IANR Finance Office
will not send separate
instructions.
For more information, call the Payroll Office
at 472-2010
or the IANR Finance Office at 472-1421.
Al Jazeera reporter to speak Oct.
22
Omar al-Issawi, one of the original creators of Al
Jazeera,
the satellite news operation serving the Arab world, will
provide
an insider's perspective on war, peace, politics, media and
culture
in the Arab world at a 7 p.m. lecture Oct. 22 at Kimball
Recital
Hall.
Al-Issawi is said to be one of the
Middle East's most celebrated
journalists, and as a reporter and
producer for Al Jazeera, his
insights into the Iraq war and its
repercussions have caught
the attention of the Bush administration.
He has appeared many
times on Larry King Live, and his dispatches
broadcast to tens
of millions of Arabs have gained him
international acclaim.
Al-Issawi worked previously for the
BBC and has covered events
in Yemen, Sudan, Afghanistan, Croatia
and elsewhere around the
globe. In 1995 al-Issawi and colleagues
came under attack while
covering the assault on Krajina in the
Balkans. A BBC reporter
was killed; al-Issawi was shot and
wounded.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Purses, backpacks,
briefcases and parcels of any kind will not be
allowed into the
lecture hall.
Sponsors for the event
are the UNL College of Journalism and
Mass Communications, the
Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor
of Academic Affairs, the
Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing
Arts, Nebraska Press
Association and Nebraska Broadcasters Association.
'Roots' tour wraps up at Arboretum
The "Back to Our Roots Tour" of the Nebraska Statewide
Arboretum will conclude at Maxwell Arboretum on the UNL East
Campus
from 2-5 p.m. Oct. 19. The Roots Tour has been a series
of
"garden parties" across Nebraska celebrating the
Arboretum's 25th anniversary.
The festivities at Maxwell
Arboretum begin with tours of the
arboretum led by Jeff Culbertson
and Justin Evertson, panelists
on the Backyard Farmer television
program. Bob Henrickson, also
of Backyard Farmer, will lead
"Kids Tree Trek," a tree
identification experience for
children ages 12 and under. Both
activities run from 2-3 p.m.
Music and refreshments will be provided. Lincoln band Hot
Rosin
will perform Celtic music from 2-3 p.m., followed by a
brief
program with remarks about the history and work of NSA
and
concluding with a reading of nature poems by Nebraska poet
Twyla
Hansen. The festivities will wrap up with the Sarabande
String
Quartet performing classical music. Hot apple cider and
pastries
will be provided. Blankets or folding chairs are recommended
for
the performances.
For more information about the event,
call the Arboretum office
at 472-2971 or visit <http://arboretum.unl.edu>.
Schedule
for TIAA-CREF counseling sessions
A TIAA-CREF consultant
will be in the Nebraska Union on Oct.
29 and 31 and the Nebraska
East Union on Oct. 30 to provide free,
one-on-one counseling
sessions on investment planning issues.
The room will be
posted.
Sign up by calling (800) 842-2009 or going to
<www.tiaa-cref.org>
and choosing Meetings/Counseling.
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: <www.unl.edu/e-news>.
IS Offers Info on Digital Cameras
Information Services is offering workshops for faculty and
staff
that could be helpful in selecting and using a digital
camera.
PS6-Photoshop for photographers: 1-3 p.m. Oct. 20 and
10
a.m. to noon Oct. 23, both in 107 Architecture Hall. Learn
the
advanced Photoshop techniques that professional photographers
use.
Everything from color correction to sharpening images will
be
covered.
Digital Cameras: 1-3 p.m. Oct. 27 and 10
a.m. to noon
Oct. 30, both in 107 Architecture Hall. Learn
everything from
the basics of photography to the latest info on
digital cameras.
For more information on cost and signup,
visit <http://itg.unl.edu/training>
and look under "Faculty Staff Workshops."
CBA Eminent Speaker Series
The
College of Business Administration and the Department
of Marketing
will present Leonard L. Berry at 1 p.m. Oct. 17
in CBA 128. His
presentation, "Reflections and Lessons From
My Services
Marketing Journey" traces the evolution of his
work in
services marketing. Berry has been identified as the
most frequent
contributor to the English-language services marketing
literature
in the world. During the 2001-2002 academic year,
he was a visiting
scientist at Mayo Clinic studying health-care
service.
For more information, visit <www.cba.unl.edu/>
or call the
Department of Marketing at 472-2316.
Administrator for Sept. 11 victims fund to speak Oct. 17
Kenneth R. Feinberg, special master of the federal Sept. 11
Victims Compensation Fund, will discuss the fund in an Oct. 17
lecture at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
The
lecture will begin at noon in the auditorium of Ross McCollum
Hall,
East Campus Loop and Fair Street. It is free and open to
the
public.
Feinberg was appointed special master of the fund
by Attorney
General John Ashcroft. In that capacity, he developed
and promulgated
the regulations governing the administration of the
fund and
is presently administering all aspects of the program,
including
evaluating applications, determining appropriate
compensation
and disseminating awards.
One of the
nation's leading experts in mediation and alternative
dispute
resolution, Feinberg has taught at Georgetown University
Law
Center, University of Pennsylvania Law School, New York University
School of Law, the University of Virginia Law School and Columbia
Law School. He has also served as special master in such cases
as
Agent Orange, asbestos personal injury litigation and Dalkon
Shield. He was also one of three arbitrators selected to determine
the fair market value of the original Zapruder film of the Kennedy
assassination and was one of two arbitrators selected to determine
the allocation of legal fees in the Holocaust slave labor litigation.
For more information, call 472-8374.
Incorporate journal articles and electronic
books into your
Blackboard course
A workshop on
Journal Access will be from 3-5 p.m. Oct. 17
in 107 Architecture
Hall.
This workshop will teach how online scholarly
literature can
be integrated into online curriculum. Learn to
create direct
links to online, full-text journal articles and
electronic books
from a syllabus, reading list, assignment or
discussion forums
in Blackboard or other course management
platform. Techniques
for keeping a curriculum continuously updated
by creating persistent
links to dynamic search strategies in
scholarly databases will
also be introduced. Concepts and tools
covered include Digital
Object Identifiers, durable links,
NetLibrary, TDNet and CrossRef.org.
For information on
signing up, visit <http://training.unl.edu>
or
e-mail <training@unl.edu>.
Phi Beta Delta seeks award
nomination
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 awards
and nomination/application forms are
available on the International
Affairs web site (<www.unl.edu/iaffairs>,
at
"Opportunities"). The deadline for receipt of
nomination/application
forms and letters of support is Oct. 24.
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