Proulx lecture is highlight of
conference
The Plains Humanities
Alliance, one of nine interdisciplinary
regional centers funded by
the National Endowment for the Humanities,
will host a national
conference, "Regionalism and the Humanities,"
Nov. 20-22
at the Cornhusker Hotel, 333 S. 13th St. Author E.
Annie Proulx
will give a lecture as part of the conference.
The
alliance, based at UNL, is dedicated to preserving and
promoting
the cultural heritage of the Great Plains region.
Conference sessions will be at the Cornhusker Hotel from 9
a.m.
Nov. 20 through 2:30 p.m. Nov. 22. A pre-conference tour
of Willa
Cather's hometown of Red Cloud will be offered Nov.
19. Scholars
and regionalists from each of the nine NEH regional
centers, as
well as others from across the country, will attend
the
conference.
Proulx, award-winning author of the novels
Postcards and The
Shipping News, will present an original talk,
"The Role
of Region in Fiction," that will include
readings from her
works from 7:30-9 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Nebraska
Union. A book
signing at the Great Plains Art Collection at Hewit
Place, 1155
Q St., will follow the reading. The lecture and signing
are free
and open to the public. Seats at the lecture will be
reserved
for conference registrants.
Proulx became
the first woman to win the prestigious PEN/Faulkner
book award, in
1993, for Postcards, her debut novel. The award
is conferred by
fellow authors from a group of about 300 novels
and short stories.
The following year she won a Pulitzer Prize
and the National Book
Award for The Shipping News.
Proulx began writing fiction
in her 50s, when Scribner published
her collection of short
stories, Heart Songs, and Postcards.
She is also the author of a
collection of short stories, Close
Range, Wyoming Stories, and
another novel, Accordion Crimes.
Proulx's newest novel, That Old
Ace in the Hole, was published
in 2002.
Additional
featured conference speakers are William R. Ferris,
past chairman
of the National Endowment for the Humanities and
a leader in
Southern studies and African American music and folklore;
and Gary
E. Moulton, the Thomas C. Sorensen professor of the
American West
at UNL and the recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson
Award of the
American Historical Association for his 13-volume
edition of the
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, published
by the
University of Nebraska Press.
More than 40 conference
sessions will allow scholars from
around the country to explore
aspects of regionalism as an idea,
concept and practice. Conference
topics will include the legacy
of Puritans in New England, surfing
on the Pacific coast, pioneers
on the Great Plains, or the new
urbanism in Florida.
Conference registration is $110.
Student registration is $45.
For more information and a full copy
of the conference program,
Cather tour information and lodging
details, visit the Plains
Humanities Alliance website at <www.unl.edu/rcplains>
or
call the alliance office at 472-9478.
Press to offer 'hurt' book sale
The Friends of the
University of Nebraska Press will sponsor
a hurt book sale from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Press warehouse
dock, 401 N. Ninth
St. The warehouse is on R Street between Eighth
and Ninth streets
in the Haymarket.
A large selection of books will be
available, include books
on the Civil War and the Lewis and Clark
Expedition; western
Americana; sports; science fiction; and books
by classic Nebraska
authors such as Willa Cather, Mari Sandoz, John
G. Neihardt and
Wright Morris. Featured in the sale will be titles
from the popular
line of Bison Books.
Paperbacks will
be $2, and hardcover books will be $4. Or
customers can fill a bag
of books for $10.
For more information, call 472-7946.
For more information
on the University of Nebraska Press, visit
<www.nebraskapress.unl.edu>
;.
State Winter Party will be Dec. 5
The eighth annual
State Winter Party will be Dec. 5 at Agricultural
Hall, State Fair
Park. This is an adult party for state employees,
including UNL
employees, contractors, temporary workers, their
significant
others, spouses and friends. No tax dollars are involved
with this
event; the party is funded through ticket sales and
aluminum can
recycling and is coordinated by volunteers.
The party is
from 6:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dancing begins at 8
p.m. with
entertainment provided by DJ Craig Estudillo, voice
of the Lincoln
Stars. A sandwich buffet and appetizers are provided,
as is a cash
bar.
Tickets must be purchased in advance for $10 per
person and
will be sold until Dec. 1.
To buy tickets,
call Linda Ybarra at 472-4641.
Degree Grade Rosters due Dec. 5
Degree Grade Rosters
identifying Dec. 20 degree candidates
will be mailed to faculty on
Nov. 25. The deadline for returning
the rosters to the Graduation
Services Office in 109 Canfield
Administration Building is Dec.
5.
Scarlet schedule
The Scarlet will not publish Nov. 27
because of Thanksgiving.
The deadline for information to be
submitted for the Nov. 20
Scarlet is noon Nov. 13. The deadline for
information to be submitted
for the Dec. 4 Scarlet is noon Nov.
26.
Call 472-8518 or 472-8515 for more information.
Big Red Road Show Exhibitor Deadline is
Nov. 21
The deadline for exhibitors to request space at
the Big Red
Road Show is Nov. 21. All colleges, departments and
campus offices
and organizations are invited to reserve exhibit
space online
at <www.roadshow.unl.edu>.
UNL's second Big Red Road Show will be Feb. 29, 2004, at the
Omaha Civic Auditorium. Last year's event attracted more than
1,500
people and received widespread coverage from the Omaha
media.
Donations
to crisis leave Due Dec. 12
Employees wishing to donate
vacation days to the UNL crisis
leave pool may do so by 5 p.m. Dec.
12. The crisis leave pool
is for UNL employees who are facing
serious health problems or
other personal crisis and have taken all
of their own available
sick, vacation and compensatory leave.
Employees who have completed their original probation and
who
earn vacation leave may donate up to five accrued vacation
days per
calendar year to the crisis pool.
To donate, print out a
Crisis Leave Donation Form from the
web, <http://hr.unl.edu/er/crisis.cfm>.
Return or fax the completed form to the payroll department
by
the deadline. City Campus forms should be sent through campus
mail to 406 Administration (0436) or by fax to 472-0134. IANR
employees may submit forms to 313 Agricultural Hall (0705) or
fax
to 472-9847.
For more information on crisis leave, call
Human Resources
at 472-3101 or visit <http://hr.unl.edu>.
Conference focuses on
issues of people of color in academia
An annual conference
examining issues relating to people of
color in predominantly white
academic institutions will be Nov.
17-18 in Lincoln at the Holiday
Inn Downtown, 141 N. Ninth St.
The conference will feature
nationally known keynote speakers,
invited plenary sessions, panel
discussions, workshops and more
than 40 concurrent sessions on
topics including the search for
community on campus, recruitment
and retention, and multicultural
learning styles. This year's
conference theme is "Affirmative
Approaches to Ensuring
Diversity."
Featured speakers are:
- Gilberto Cardenas, assistant provost and director of the
Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Cardenas has worked in immigration for more than 20 years and
is
a nationally recognized scholar in Mexican immigration.
- Linda
R. Crump, assistant to the chancellor for equity, access
and
diversity programs at UNL.
- Dorothy Hayden-Watkins, assistant
administrator for equal
opportunity programs at NASA. In her role
she provides oversight
for agency policy and programs in
discrimination and complaints
processing.
- Carl
Holmes, longtime legal advocate for people of color
and
researcher for the NAACP during the landmark school desegregation
case Brown v. Board of Education.
- Janet C. Lu, head of
library public service and professor
of library information
technology at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Lu is an expert in
Chinese culture.
- Bryant K. Smith, director of multicultural
affairs and international
student services for Millikin
University in Decatur, Ill. Smith
is responsible for coordinating
activities toward ethnic minority
and international students.
Registration will be from 7:30-8:30 a.m. Nov. 17 and
8-8:30
a.m. on Nov. 18. Costs are $249 for full registration, $129
one-day
registration, $99 student registration, and $50 student
one-day
registration. To register, call Faye Massa at 472-2423.
A full conference agenda and other information is at <http://conferences.unl.edu/
people03>.
The conference is sponsored by UNL, the
Nebraska State Department
of Education, Nebraska Wesleyan
University, South Dakota State
University and Wayne State
College.
Roadside geology is
seminar topic
The geology of Nebraska will be the topic
Nov. 19 of the next
Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies.
"Impressions
on the Plains" will run from 3:30-5 p.m. at
the Great Plains
Art Collection, 1155 Q St. The seminar and a 3
p.m. reception
are free.
Professors Harmon Maher Jr.,
George Englemann and Robert Shuster
of the Department of Geography
and Geology at the University
of Nebraska at Omaha will tell how to
read the stories in the
rocks, sediments and landscapes across
Nebraska.
Maher, Englemann and Shuster have traveled the
state as geological
tourists in developing the Roadside Geology of
Nebraska. The
book will be available to buy at the seminar.
UCARE offers research symposium
The UCARE Fall Symposium for Undergraduate Research will be
from
3-6:30 p.m. Nov. 19 in the Nebraska Union. Presentations
and poster
displays will showcase the research efforts and creative
activities
of some of UNL's undergraduates in Agricultural Leadership,
Agronomy and Horticulture, Animal Science, Architecture, Art
and
Art History, Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Chemistry,
Family
and Consumer Science, Geosciences, Interior Design, Mathematics,
Modern Languages, Nutritional Science and Dietetics, Physics
and
Astronomy, Psychology, School of Natural Resource Sciences,
and
Textiles, Clothing and Design.
For a detailed program of
the event please visit the "Fall
Symposium" page on the
UCARE website: <http://www.unl.edu/ucare/sy
mposium.pdf>.
Contact Laura Damuth, UCARE Coordinator, for
more details at
<Ldamuth1@unl.edu>.
Faculty, staff directories
distributed
The 2003-2004 UNL Centrex Directories are now
being distributed.
For questions about directory orders, call Linda
Geisler at 472-3713.
Old Centrex directories can be
recycled by removing and discarding
the plastic binding and placing
the paper and covers with office
paper recyclables. Recycling
questions can be directed to Scott
Lindberg at 472-9139.
Arboretum wants tales of gardening
disasters
The Nebraska Statewide Arboretum is seeking true
gardening
disasters stories, for possible publication in the 2004
Spring
Affair News, which is mailed to more than 10,000 gardeners
statewide.
Stories may be published anonymously. The deadline for
submitting
stories is Nov. 21. Stories can be any length, but they
may be
edited or shortened.
Send stories to Nebraska
Statewide Arboretum, Attn: Karma
Larsen, UNL, P.O. Box 830715,
Lincoln, Neb. 68583-0715 or e-mail
to <klarsen1@unl.edu>.
Auditions Nov. 23-24 for 'vagina
monologues'
Auditions will be held later this month for
the February 2004
production of The Vagina Monologues, sponsored by
the University
Health Center Sexuality Education eXchange and the
UNL Sociology
and Women's Studies departments.
Auditions will be from 1-5 p.m. Nov. 23 and 6-9 p.m. Nov.
24 at
the Temple Building, Room 301.
The Vagina Monologues is
based on interviews that Eve Ensler
conducted with women and gives
voice to many women's experiences.
It's an annual fund-raiser for
the Rape Spouse Abuse Crisis Center
and Fresh Start-Lincoln.
For more information, call Pat Tetreault at 472-7447 or e-mail
<ptetreault1@unl.edu>.
Cowboy Poet to Perform tonight
Cowboy poet R.P. Smith will perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in
the
Great Plains Room of the Nebraska East Union.
Smith is a
cattle rancher from Broken Bow. His poetry draws
from his daily
life on the ranch and the experiences of his family
and friends
over generations of ranch life. Smith has performed
for thousands
of people in 14 states.
This event is free and open to the
public and is sponsored
by the University Program Council, a
volunteer student organization
designed to address the
co-curricular, social, recreational,
cultural and educational needs
of the UNL campus.
Archeological Lecture Nov. 16
The Archaeological
Institute of America will sponsor a lecture
by Robert Bozell,
associate director for archeology at the Nebraska
State Historical
Society. His topic will be "Discovering
Engineer Cantonment:
The 1819-1820 Winter Quarters of the Long
Expedition from
Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains." He will
speak at 2 p.m.
Nov. 16 in room 15 of Richards Hall, and the
lecture is free and
open to the public.
During the winter and spring of 2003,
the historical society's
archeology division discovered
"Engineer Cantonment,"
the winter quarters of the
1819-1820 Long Scientific Expedition
from Pittsburgh to the Rocky
Mountains. Located at the base of
the Missouri River bluffs a few
miles north of Omaha, the site
was discovered using a painting of
the quarters by expedition
member Titian R. Peale with
ground-penetrating radar, surveys
and utility-line trenching.
Excavations have produced a variety
of early American period
artifacts and food remains in the ruins
of log cabins built by
members of this expedition. The site is
in pristine condition and
is the oldest Euro-American site discovered
in Nebraska.
Bozell specializes in the archaeology of the Great Plains
and
has published widely on Native American Plains and historical
archeological topics. He is also the curator of anthropology
at the
historical society.
For more information, call
472-5342.
Emeriti
association to Meet Nov. 20
The UNL Emeriti Association
will meet at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 20
at the Nebraska East Union. The
room will be posted. Steve Taylor,
UNL department chair of Food
Science and Technology, will speak
on "How Safe Is Our
Food?"
For more information, call Wilma Crumley at
435-0287.
Thanksgiving mail
delivery
Campus mail will not be delivered or picked up on
Nov. 27
and 28 because of Thanksgiving. Regular campus mail
service
will resume on Dec. 1.
For more information,
call Mail Services at 472-9970.
Demonstrations of ESS scheduled
Employee Self Service
(ESS) allows you to view your pay advice,
benefit plans,
reimbursement claims, bank information, W4 form
and update contact
information online through a website.
Beginning Nov. 17,
you will also be able to submit you NUFlex
enrollment changes using
ESS instead of mailing in the paper
forms.
Demonstration of the ESS screens will be held on:
- Nov. 18, 3-4:30 p.m., Nebraska East Union.
- Nov. 19, 10:30
a.m. to noon, Nebraska Union.
- Nov. 20, 8:30-10 a.m., Nebraska
Union.
- Nov. 24, 1:30-3 p.m., 116 L.W. Chase Hall.
The Nov. 24 presentation will be available on Neb*Sat
Channel
106.
Registration for these demonstrations is
not required.
See the website for additional information
about ESS: <http://ess.nebraska.edu>.
UAAD seeks nominations for Oldt,
Donaldson awards
The University Association for
Administrative Development
is seeking nominations for the Carl A.
Donaldson Award for Excellence
in Management and the Floyd S. Oldt
Award.
The awards are given at the Founder's Day lunch by
Chancellor
Harvey Perlman. This year's lunch will be from 11:50
a.m. to
1 p.m. Feb. 11.
The Donaldson Award is given
to employees who exemplify superior
organizational skills, promote
teamwork, communicate effectively,
pursue professional growth and
support subordinates' professional
development.
The
Oldt Award honors managerial/professional employees who
display
exceptional service and dedication to UNL and are creative,
innovative and active in the university.
Recipients of each
award receive a plaque and a $1,000 stipend.
Any non-faculty
permanent employee who has been at UNL for five
years or more with
a 50 percent or greater FTE and holds management
responsibilities
is eligible. Members of the UAAD awards committee,
the chancellor's
cabinet and past recipients are ineligible.
Nomination
forms are due Jan. 12 to UAAD. The UAAD Awards
Committee will send
a cover letter and supplemental questionnaire
to the immediate
supervisor and two references of all nominees.
The committee will
ask each nominee to pick his/her own references.
When nominating an
individual, please allow time for the supervisor
and references to
respond by Jan. 17.
For more information, visit <http://uaad.unl.edu/comm
ittees/awards.htm>.
To get a nomination form or for more
information, contact Constance
Walter at 472-8309 or <cwalter3@unl.edu>.
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>.
University Health Center to offer flu
vaccinations
The University Health Center at 15th and U
streets will offer
flu vaccinations to UNL faculty, staff and
students. Vaccinations
are available by appointment or during these
clinics:
- 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 18 at the
University Health Center;
- 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 19 at the
Nebraska East Union, third
floor.
Flu
vaccinations cost $15; payment by cash or check is required
at the
time of the vaccination. Employees should bring their
Blue Cross
Blue Shield insurance cards for possible reimbursement.
For
information, call 472-5000.
Nominations Sought for 2004 'Fulfilling the Dream' Award
UNL is seeking nominations for the 2004 Chancellor's "Fulfilling
the Dream" Award.
The award was established in 1997 to
honor individuals who
have contributed to the UNL community or the
wider Lincoln community
by their exemplary action in promoting the
goals and vision of
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The award
or awards are presented
each January during ceremonies at the
university's celebration
of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The
2004 presentation
will be Jan. 19.
Nomination
materials, including a letter of nomination and
no more than three
letters of support, should be sent by Dec.
12 to Tom Simons, Chair,
MLK Awards Subcommittee, 321 Canfield
Administration Building, UNL,
Lincoln, NE 68588-0424. The awards
subcommittee will review the
nominations and make recommendations
for the final selections to
the MLK Day Planning Committee and
UNL Chancellor Harvey
Perlman.
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