An uncommon sight (and smell)
on campus
An Animal Control officer watches a skunk that wandered onto
City Campus on Nov. 21. The critter wandered around the bushes
north of the Nebraska Union before crawling around the rocks
of the
fountain. The officer tranquilized the skunk and carted
it away.
Photo by David Fitzgibbon.
Research offices to offer open house Dec.
8
The campus community is invited to an open house at the
Alexander
Building West, 312 N. 14th St., sponsored by the Office
of Research
and Graduate Studies and Prem Paul, vice chancellor for
research.
The open house, 3-4:30 p.m. Dec. 8, will showcase
the four
Office of Research divisions now located in the building.
They
are the Office of Technology Development, the Office of
Sponsored
Programs, Research Compliance Services and the Office of
Proposal
Development.
Personnel in these four offices
had previously been scattered
in buildings across and even off
campus, Paul said. Some were
working in the Beadle Center,
Whittier, Tech Park, Varner Hall
and Canfield Administration
Building.
"Consolidating our personnel into a one-stop
shop helps
us provide better services to our clients," Paul
said. "This
is a convenience for our researchers and also
helps tie us our
economic developments more closely with the city
of Lincoln."
Paul said he was pleased to be sharing
the building with the
Office of Admissions.
"Two
very public arms of the university are now serving
as one of the
front doors to the university," he said.
About 40
Office of Research employees work in the newly renovated
space that
once housed the University of Nebraska Press offices,
which are now
in the Haymarket. The building is the former home
of Union
Insurance Co.
The open house offers a chance to learn about
the services
provided by the various units in the Office of
Research and Graduate
Studies and also can help attach a person to
the name at the
top of an e-mail or the voice on the telephone.
Refreshments will be served. The event is a "stop in
when you can" open house with no formal program or remarks
scheduled.
Agronomy, horticulture event highlights news
By Sandi
Alswager, IANR News Service
Agronomy and Horticulture
Highlights will feature the latest
in research, teaching and
extension activities from the UNL Department
of Agronomy and
Horticulture.
The annual event from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Dec. 11 at the Cornhusker
Hotel highlights the department's
programs and offers an opportunity
to get to know those in the
department who are leading these
efforts, said Kenneth Cassman,
department head.
Presentations, posters and panel
discussions by NU Institute
of Agriculture and Natural Resources
agronomists and horticulturists
will cover timely issues, Cassman
said.
The program draws diverse participants including crop
consultants,
industry professionals, farmers, Cooperative Extension
educators
and alumni and friends of the department, he said.
This year's presentations include discussions on the new South
Central Agricultural Laboratory, alfalfa in Nebraska, the professional
golf management major, mutual benefits of international work-INTSORMIL,
Growing Corn in a Computer: The Hybrid-Maize Simulation Model
and
Its Application to Production Agriculture, pesticide use
patterns
on recreational turf, and seasonal grazing strategies
on range and
pasture.
Guests will be invited to submit written questions
about the
presentations and the department's programs to be
addressed by
a panel at 1 p.m.
Poster displays
throughout the day will provide IANR research
results on a variety
of field production and horticulture issues.
Certified Crop
Adviser Continuing Education Units will be
available. Participants
need their CCA certification number to
register for the units.
For more information about the program or to register, call
JoAnn Collins at 472-2811.
For lodging reservations, call
(800) 793-7474. Mention the
Agronomy and Horticulture Highlights
program for the conference
rate fee.
FPC to aid with online registration
The UNL Food Processing Center will help with online registration
of food facilities to comply with the Public Health Security
and
Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act. FPC staff will
guide
participants through the free process in McCook and North
Platte on
Dec. 5, Grand Island on Dec. 8, and Scottsbluff on
Dec. 9.
Facilities that process, manufacture, pack or hold certain
foods
need to register in this program. Grocery stores, farms
and
restaurants do not need to register.
For information, call
472-3553, e-mail <jstratton1@unl.edu>
or
visit <www.fda.gov/furls>.
Supplement To Centrex Available
The complete work address and phone numbers for the Agricultural
Research & Development Center in Ithaca, the Northeast Research
& Extension Center in Norfolk, the Haskell Ag Lab in Concord
and the South Central Ag Lab in Clay Center were omitted from
the
2003/2004 Centrex Directory.
An addendum to the directory
has been created and can be found
at <http://telecom.unl.edu
/centrex/addendum.pdf>.
These units may be called
from any on-campus phone at no cost
by calling the abbreviated
calling number as shown in the directory.
| Haskell Ag Lab: |
3-XXXX |
(402) 584-XXXX |
| Agricultural Research &
Development Center
|
4-XXXX |
(402) 624-XXXX |
| Northeast Research & Extension Center |
5-XXXX |
(402) 370-XXXX |
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 or
fund-raising, content. Submit items to: <www.unl.edu/e-news>.
Workshops presented for grant
seekers
Two mini-workshops on Foundation Center services
for grant
seekers will be presented by Jeanetta Drueke, coordinator
of
the Love Library FC Cooperating Collection, on Dec. 19. The
first
workshop from 10-10:30 a.m. will focus on general information
on grants and foundations and information available on the FC
website. The second workshop from 10:45-11:15 a.m. will focus
on FC
Search, a database designed to help nonprofit organizations
identify appropriate foundations for their grant proposals.
The workshops will be in the ESC room on the first floor of
Love
Library.
To register for one or both sessions, call Drueke
at 472-2525
or e-mail <mdrueke1@unl.edu>.
UNOPA Meets Dec. 9
The
next UNOPA meeting will be at 11:45 a.m. Dec. 9 at the
Champions
Club. Entertainment featuring classical and holiday
music will be
provided by Adrienne Dickson, mezzo soprano, and
Jack Rinke,
piano.
For more information about the meeting, call Debbie
Hendricks
at 472-9685.
UNOPA members are reminded to
bring their unwrapped gifts
and the original stars/ornaments from
the Giving Tree program
to the meeting. Members are buying gifts to
help children from
Cedars Home and low-income seniors from the
Victorian Home.
Others interested in supporting this cause
can pick up ornaments
from the trees in the Nebraska and East
Unions or call Amy Stewart
at 472-8172 or Tricia Liedle,
472-9537.
In addition to the items requested on the
stars/ornaments,
the organizations have requested some larger
items. Anyone interested
in buying larger items should call one of
the UNOPA officers
for more information.
AMICO Library subscription termination
notice
On Dec. 31, the UNL Libraries will stop subscribing
to AMICO
Library, the digital library of visual and documentary
resources
of the Art Museum Image Consortium. UNL is contractually
obligated
to destroy "all AMICO works mounted on or
distributed by
university computer systems or on fixed
media."
Anyone with works obtained from AMICO Library
must destroy
them by Jan. 1.
Examination Services Final Exam
Scoring
Examination Services is available to score final
exams, which
will be given Dec. 15-19. First-time users should call
Exam Services
at 472-2611 for scheduling information. For questions
about finals,
call or e-mail <examservices@unlnotes.unl.edu
>.
All exams must be picked up by 4 p.m. Dec. 22.
Regular office
hours will resume Jan. 5.
December schedule for Fidelity counseling
sessions
A Fidelity consultant will be in the Nebraska
Union on Dec.
8 and the Nebraska East Union on Dec. 9 to provide
free, one-on-one
counseling sessions on investment-planning issues.
The room will
be posted.
Sign up by calling
Reservation Systems at (800) 642-7131.
Employee and
Dependent Scholarship Program allocation deadline
Employees and dependents that wish to use the Employee and
Dependent Scholarship Program to fund classes to be taken during
the spring 2004 semester have until Jan. 20 to allocate the hours
at the Tuition Remission website. Visit <http://frontier
-s.unl.edu/uniface/trp/run/trplogin>.
Business, Finance Policies now online
UNL's Business and Finance division has completed a comprehensive
web page offering quick links to a variety of university policies
and procedures. The page is linked from the UNL home page, <www.unl.edu>, under "UNL
Quick Links," select "policies."
The site
allows easy access to hundreds of policies including:
NU
systemwide, UNL, academic, auxiliaries, facilities, fiscal
affairs,
human resources, information technology, police and
safety,
students and athletics.
The site, which has been under
construction for three or four
months, also adds policy information
that has not previously
been available online, said Christine
Jackson, vice chancellor
for business and finance.
Discussion to
address future of NU Presidency
Omicron Delta Kappa will
offer a roundtable discussion, The
Future of the NU Presidency, at
7 p.m. Dec. 4 in the Great Hall
in Kauffman Residence Center. The
event is open to the public.
This roundtable will
discuss the role of the NU president
and how this will be shaped by
the selection of a new president.
Speakers will include Richard
Hoover, a senior lecturer in Educational
Administration; NU Regent
Charles Wilson; and Philip Schoo, superintendent
of Lincoln Public
Schools. Charlyne Berens, associate professor
of News-Editorial,
will moderate the discussion.
The purpose of the
roundtable discussions is to educate UNL
faculty and students about
campus issues and to promote political
awareness and involvement.
The audience will have the chance
to ask questions of the
speakers.
Omicron Delta Kappa is an honorary leadership
society for
undergraduate and graduate students and faculty. For
information,
call Michelle Schrage at 490-4192 or e-mail <msjump99@aol.com>.
ALLTEL Directory Distribution &
Recycling
Lincoln Alltel phone directories are now being
distributed
on campus. Old phone books may be recycled Dec. 17-19
at marked
Dumpsters at these locations:
City
Campus
- Memorial Stadium, between west and
south stadiums;
- Architecture Hall;
- Love Library,
between the library and CBA;
- Nebraska Union: 14th Street
sidewalk between the Union and
Canfield Administration Building;
- near Oldfather Hall;
- near Hamilton Hall;
- Teachers College Hall, off the plaza;
- Selleck Quadrangle:
in the middle, near Seaton, Benton and
Fairfield Halls;
- Nebraska Hall, under the link
East Campus
- on the north end of the middle island on East Campus
Mall;
- Arbor Drive, near C.Y. Thompson Library;
- NETV building;
- west side of the cul-de-sac near Keim
Hall;
- Animal Science Complex;
- Dental College;
- Law College.
Call Linda Geisler at 472-3713 or
email <lgeisler1@unl.edu>
with questions on directory orders. Recycling questions can be
directed to Scott Lindberg with the Recycling Office at 472-9139
or
email <slindberg2@unl.edu>.
Workshop to
teach more about Blackboard
Learn to use Blackboard to the
fullest at a workshop by Information
Services. Instruction will
cover how to use Excel to create grade
rosters and how to use
Word's tracking feature to add comments
and track changes in
student documents.
The workshop is $20 and will be from 3-5
p.m. Dec. 12 in 107
Architecture Hall.
Register by
calling 472-9050 with a cost object number, or
pay by check in room
118 in the 501 Building.
Registration is limited. For
information, visit <www.unl.edu/is/training.htm
>.
It's time to take note
of bad-weather policy
Faculty and staff should remind
themselves of the university's
inclement weather policy, which can
be found at <http://busfin.un
l.edu/bfsite/inclementweather.cfm>.
The chancellor
decides whether to close the university because
of severe weather
on the recommendation of the vice chancellor
for business and
finance. Radio and television stations should
be notified of
closing information by 6 a.m. for day classes
and by 2 p.m. for
night classes.
Selected positions have been identified as
essential during
weather closings, such as police officers,
snow-removal personnel
and others. These employees are made aware
of this designation
when they are hired. Employees should assume
they are not essential
personnel during a weather emergency unless
they have been told
otherwise.
If the university
closes during the day so students and employees
can get home
safely, the campus will be notified through deans,
directors and
department chairs.
Degree Grade Rosters due Dec. 5
Degree Grade Rosters identifying Dec. 20 degree candidates
have
been mailed to faculty. The deadline for returning the rosters
to
the Graduation Services Office in 109 Canfield Administration
Building is Dec. 5.
Layman
Award Request for Proposals sought
Layman Awards provide
seed money for projects that will enhance
faculty members' ability
to obtain external funding or produce
scholarly work. Layman Trust
Funds of $289,682 will be available
for awards for summer 2004 and
the 2004-2005 academic year. The
maximum award per faculty member
is $10,000.
For information, visit: <www.unl.edu/resear
ch/2004_
Layman.html>.
Student Design Project Exhibition Dec. 10
The 12th
annual Student Design Project Exhibition will be
from 3-5 p.m. Dec.
10 in the Great Plains Room of the Nebraska
East Union.
Hosted by the UNL Department of Biological Systems Engineering,
this fall-semester event showcases design projects by students
in
Agricultural, Biological Systems, and Industrial Engineering.
For more information, call Gail Ogden at 472-3953 or Eileen
Curtis at 472-3905.
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.
NSF CAREER/NIH K01 Awards Workshop
The Office of Research and Graduate Studies will host an NSF
CAREER/NIH K01 Awards workshop from 10:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Jan.
26
in the Nebraska Union. The workshop will familiarize pretenure
faculty with these prestigious career development awards and
offer
insights into the application process.
The National
Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development
(CAREER)
Program and the National Institutes of Health K01 Awards
provide up
to five years of funding to enable faculty to develop
careers as
outstanding teacher-scholars and to achieve independent
research
funding.
The workshop will feature proposal-writing
advice from recent
UNL recipients and will be presented in two
sessions. The morning
session will focus on NSF CAREER Awards; the
afternoon session
will be devoted to the NIH K01 Award program. All
workshop participants
are invited to attend a free noon lunch.
Registration for this workshop is first-come, first-served
and
ends Jan. 15. For more information or to register, visit
<www.unl.edu/research>,
call the Office of Research and Graduate Studies at 472-2851
or
e-mail <UNLresearch@unl.edu>.
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>.
Holiday closedown reminder
UNL
will be closed for the holidays beginning Dec. 24; staff
and
faculty will return to campus Jan. 5.
Employees are
reminded that to receive all of these days off
as paid time, they
will need to take one day of vacation from
calendar year 2003 and
one day of vacation from calendar year
2004 during the
closedown.
For more information, call Human Resources at
472-3101 or
visit <http://hr.unl.edu/ge
neral/holidayschedule.cfm>.
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