Banking executive speaks at
leadership forum
UNL
alumna Carrie Tolstedt, executive vice president for community
banking for Wells Fargo, addresses the leadership forum facilitated
by Dean Cynthia Milligan, background, last week at the College
of
Business Administration. Tolstedt, a 1982 graduate, oversees
community banking for 23 states for Wells Fargo. Photo
by Richard Wright.
Quilt center plans weekend of events for symposium
Wild by Design, the first symposium organized by UNL's International
Quilt Study Center, will be today Feb. 28 and March 1. The IQSC
and
the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery are co-sponsoring the symposium
to
provide a forum focusing on the innovative, creative and unique
elements of quilts, both historic and contemporary. The symposium
will feature leading scholars and artists associated with textile
history, quilt studies and textile art.
More than 200
people have registered for the symposium, and
registrations
continue to come in, said Patricia Crews, director
of the IQSC.
Keynote speaker Miriam Schapiro is a leading figure in the
feminist art movement and was recently awarded the College Art
Association's Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement.
She is recognized internationally as a leader in two art movements:
the feminist art movement and the pattern and decoration movement.
She will lecture at 7 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Invited speaker Ellen Dissanayake is known internationally
for
her claim that humans, both as individuals and societies,
biologically require the arts. She lived and worked for 15 years
in
non-Western countries, helping to create her perspective that
considers artmaking to be a normal, natural and necessary component
of our human nature. She will speak at the closing session at
11
a.m. March 1 in the Nebraska Union auditorium. Cost is $15
per
person for non-registered participants for this lecture.
In
addition to the keynote addresses, concurrent sessions
will be
offered Friday morning and afternoon and Saturday morning.
Presenters will deliver papers on topics such as Feminism and
the
Art Quilt Movement, Growth through the Activity of Craft,
Looking
at Quilt Design through the Lens of Science and the American
Quilt.
An exhibition organized in conjunction with the
conference,
"Wild by Design: Two Hundred Years of Innovation
and Artistry
in American Quilts" is on view at the Sheldon
Memorial Art
Gallery. On Friday afternoon, participants can attend
a tour
led by curators Janet Berlo, IQSC visiting faculty fellow
and
University of Rochester art history professor, Patricia Crews,
IQSC director, and Carolyn Ducey, IQSC curator.
All
conference sessions are open to the public, but preregistration
is
required. Advance registration is $115 and includes lunch,
breaks
and curator-led tours of two related exhibitions on campus.
For
information or to register, call 472-7232 or visit <http://quiltstudy.unl.edu>,
then click on Wild by Design Symposium.
The symposium is
sponsored by UNL's International Quilt Study
Center with support
from many departments across campus.
NU on Wheels Vigil Remembers Student
NU on Wheels will
host a vigil in memory of Laura Cockson
at 8 p.m. March 10 in the
Nebraska Union auditorium.
Cockson was a student killed by
a drunk driver in 1999. The
event is to emphasize the importance of
using the safe-ride-home
program. The event is free.
March Schedule For TIAA-CREF Counseling
Sessions
A TIAA-CREF consultant will be in the Nebraska
Union on March
5, 7, 26 and 27 and in the Nebraska East Union on
March 6 and
25 to provide free one-on-one counseling sessions
regarding investment
planning.
Sign up by calling
(800) 842-2009 or visiting <www.tiaa-cref.org>
and
clicking on Meetings/Counseling.
Text Presentation March 6
Julia Flanders, project director of the Brown University Women
Writers' Project, will give a presentation, "Therefore I
Am?:
Problems of Agency in the Digital Text," at 4 p.m.
March 6 in
the Bailey Library, Andrews Hall.
This event is sponsored
by the Text Studies Steering Committee
and the Women's Studies
Program. For information, e-mail Susan
Belasco at <sbelasco@unl.edu>.
Nobel Prize-winning chemist to speak
March 7
Sir John E. Walker, who won the 1997 Nobel Prize
in chemistry,
will present "Power in Biology" at 2 p.m.
March 7 in
room 110 of Hamilton Hall. A reception precedes the talk
at 1
p.m. in room 549 of Hamilton Hall. Walker is visiting UNL as
the most recent awardee of the Georgi-Militzer Lectureship.
Walker shared the prize with two other scientists for discovering
the mechanism of the enzyme ATP synthetase. This enzyme is found
in
all forms of life. It is responsible for making ATP, or 5'-adenosine
triphosphate, the short-term energy-storage molecule in the cell.
This enzyme is the last step in a process that converts food
molecules into ATP.
Research office plans grant-writing
seminar
The Office of Research and Graduate Studies is
sponsoring
a free seminar, "Getting Started as a Successful
Grant Writer
and Academician," from noon to 5 p.m. March 7 and
8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. March 8 in the Nebraska Union. The seminar,
presented
by Grant Writers Seminars & Workshops, LLC, is
directed primarily
toward graduate students, post docs, junior
faculty and research
faculty, although all faculty and staff
members are welcome to
register. Participants must attend both
sessions, and lunch is
provided March 8. Seating is limited.
The deadline for reservations is March 3. To register, contact
Peg Filliez at 472-2851 or <pfilliez1@unl.edu>.
The objective is to introduce participants to the proposal-writing
process and to strategies designed to get them started in their
academic careers.
Retirement
incentive program under way
The NU Board of Regents has
given final approval to a Retirement
Incentive Program. The
deadline to sign up for the program is
5 p.m. April 30.
All full-time tenured faculty members who, by Sept. 1, will
be
at least 59.5 years of age and have completed 10 years of
service
at the university are eligible to participate in the
program.
Faculty may choose between two options: retiring fully
by Sept. 1
or moving by Sept. 1 to a part-time special appointment
at .5 FTE
for up to three years, to be followed by full retirement.
Program benefits are described in the policy as approved by
the
Board of Regents and are available at <www.unl.edu/svcaa/retire2003.
html>. The contracts to be used to sign up for the program
are
available in PDF format at the same site. Note that there
are three
contracts: a retirement contact for tenured faculty
under 65; a
retirement contract for tenured faculty over 65;
and a contract for
phased retirement for faculty 59.5 years of
age and above. There is
no upper age limit on participation in
the program.
For specific information about the retirement and health benefits
offered through the program, call Greg Clayton at Benefits at
472-2600. For more information, call Evelyn Jacobson at 472-3751;
Alan Moeller at 472-2871; or Jelena Gude at 472-5264.
Governors honored
Five former U.S. governors who are
alumni of the University
of Nebraska College of Law were honored by
the college Feb. 22.
The ceremony included the unveiling of busts
of the men. Three
of the governors honored were, from left, Frank
Brenner Morrison,
Nebraska governor from 1961-67; Charles Thone,
Nebraska governor
from 1979-83; and U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, who was
Nebraska's governor
from 1991-99. Photo by Tom
Slocum.
Next Career
Spotlight is March 4
Career Services will offer a Career
Spotlight from 4:30-5:30
p.m. March 4 at the Nebraska Union. The
Career Spotlight program
is a service to students who are undecided
about their majors
and want to learn more about career options in
specific areas.
Students will be able to speak with panelists who
work in a chosen
field to learn more about jobs in that area.
The March 4 Career Spotlight focuses on human services and
public services career options. The panel includes:
- Larry Holmquist, Federal Bureau of Investigation;
- Nikki
Fulkner, Federal Reserve Bank - Omaha Branch;
- Scott Berryman,
former legal counsel to the Nebraska Legislature;
- Shawn
Kraus, Transfiguration;
- Sandy Delano, Lincoln Regional
Center;
- Jan Zegers, Certified Master's in Social Work
(private practice
and consultant).
More
about this program is at <www.unl.edu/career
s/events/spotlight.htm>.
Jupiter on display at public viewing
Jupiter, the king
of the planets, has returned to the evening
skies, and the UNL
Student Observatory will celebrate the event
with a free public
planet viewing from 7-10 p.m. Feb. 28.
To astronomers,
Jupiter is definitely the king of the planets:
It is by far most
massive of the planets in our solar system,
and it is usually the
one that appears biggest in a telescope,
too. The storm activity in
the clouds of Jupiter and the motions
of the four Galilean moons
orbiting the planet can be followed
in the big telescope at the
observatory.
There is no charge for admission to the
observatory. Children
are welcome. The observatory is unheated, so
dress accordingly.
The UNL Student Observatory is on the
roof of the Stadium
Parking Garage, 10th and T streets. The
observatory will not
be open if the sky is overcast. In case of
questionable weather,
call the observatory at 472-4728.
The observatory's next public viewing will be for Lincoln's
celebration of Astronomy Day on April 6.
For information
about the Student Observatory, call Martin
Gaskell at 472-4788 or
e-mail <mgaskell1@unl.edu>.
Conference to
focus on reproductive health
The Nebraska Union will be
the site March 12-13 of a conference
focusing on reproductive
health called "Issues Impacting
Sexual Health An Update."
The conference will offer information
on many areas of reproductive
health, including youth development
and sexual health, HIV and
women, communicating with teens about
sexuality; sex education on
campus, and more.
Keynote addresses will be given by Kent
Klindera, director
of Advocates for Youth in Washington, D.C., and
Judith DeSarno,
president of the National Family Planning and
Reproductive Health
Association.
Fees are $45 for one
day, $70 for both days, and include meals,
parking and
continuing-education credits. Registrations are due
March 5.
Pamphlets with more information on the conference are
available
from University Health Center Community Health Department.
For
other information, call Julie Reno at 471-0163 or email <julie.reno@hhss.state.ne.us
>.
This conference is sponsored by the UNL University
Health
Center Community Health Department sexuality education
program,
and others.
Women's Week events focus on leadership
Women's Week
2003 will explore dimensions in leadership, focusing
on the roles
of gender, age and culture in developing leadership
skills.
Programs are scheduled daily March 3-7; all events are free
and
open to the public unless otherwise noted. For more information
call the Women's Center at 472-2597.
Scheduled events
include:
- Journalists Patrisia Gonzales and
Roberto Rodriguez will
speak at 7 p.m. March 3 in the Nebraska
Union Auditorium. Gonzales
and Rodriguez write the syndicated
column "Column of the
Americas" to express their
political, cultural and economic
views. They also speak
nationwide to address immigration issues,
demographic trends,
violence and trauma and media roles. They
will also discuss their
most recent documentary, "The Aztlanahuac
Project."
- Jean Kilbourne, an award-winning campus speaker, will present
"The Naked Truth: Advertising's Image of Women" at
7
p.m. March 4 in the Nebraska Union Ballroom. Kilbourne created
the award-winning documentary "Killing Us Softly" and
is internationally recognized for her work on alcohol and tobacco
advertising and the image of women in advertising. She has received
a special recognition award from the Academy for Eating Disorders.
- Also on March 4, the Women's Studies Association will host
"Shakespeare's Sister," a reading of women authors,
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Bailey Lounge at Andrews Hall. The Chancellor's
Commission on the Status of Women Award ceremony will begin at
9:30 a.m. in the Nebraska Union. Chancellor Harvey Perlman will
present the award to someone who has contributed positively toward
the status of women at UNL. The University Chorale will perform.
- Laurie Whitehawk will present "Native Artist's View
of
Contemporary Native Imagery and Culture" from 11:30 a.m.
to
1 p.m. March 5 in the Nebraska Union. Whitehawk is a Winnebago
artist working with UNL's Artist Diversity Residency Program
to
bring her culture and art to students.
- Also on March 5, the
UNL Culture Center will host "Lessons
in Leadership," a
panel discussion with minority women leaders
from the community,
from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Call the Culture Center,
333 N. 14th St., at
472-5500 for more information.
- Carolyn Gage, a nationally
recognized lesbian playwright
and author, will be at UNL on March
6 for a discussion about
lesbian theater. Gage's program,
"Lizzie Borden & Lesbian
Theatre: Axes to Grind,"
will be from 3:30-5 p.m. at the
Great Plains Art Collection, 1155
Q St. A reception and book-signing
will follow. Gage will perform
her play, The Second Coming of
Joan of Arc, at 7:30 p.m. March 7
at the 7th Street Loft, 504
S. 7th St. A book-signing will
follow. Tickets will be on sale
at the door. Call Barbara
DiBernard at 472-1828 for more information.
- Also on March 7,
the keynote presentation during the Cather
Circle's "Life's
Transitions" seminar will take place
at the Wick Alumni
Center. Joyce Bryan Strout, a UNK and UNL
alumna and CEO of J.B.
Strout & Co. in South Barrington,
Ill., will speak at 10 a.m.
on "Women Adapt to Change, Don't
We? Or Do We? Well,
Maybe!"
For more information, call the Women's
Center at 472-2597
or visit <www.unl.edu
/involved/womens_center/events.shtml>.
Women's Week
is sponsored by the UNL Women's Center in partnership
with Elliott
Elementary School's Arts in Education grant. Many
UNL offices and
academic departments also sponsor events, as
well as Lincoln Public
School District departments.
Events surround Kilbourne lecture
Jean Kilbourne, a two-time National
Association of Campus
Activities "Lecturer of the Year,"
will speak March
4 at UNL.
Kilbourne will present
"The Naked Truth: Advertising's
Image of Women" at 7 p.m.
in the Nebraska Union Ballroom.
In this lecture, she will examine
advertising images of women
and explore the relationship between
media images and societal
problems such as violence, sexual abuse
of children, rape and
sexual harassment, teen pregnancy and eating
disorders.
In addition, Kilbourne, whose documentaries
include "Killing
Us Softly," "Slim Hopes" and
"Pack of Lies,"
will lead a student discussion at 3:30
p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
Student leaders will be able to talk
with Kilbourne about her
work and learn how they can turn her
lecture into action on campus.
Students interested in attending
should RSVP to the Women's Center,
472-2597, by March 3.
Nominations sought for UNL Spirit of
Service Award
The UNL Spirit of Service Award honors UNL
students, faculty
or staff who volunteer their time and energy to
improve UNL and
Lincoln. Honor these trustees of the community by
nominating
yourself, someone you know or a student group for the
2003 Spirit
of Service Award, sponsored by Service Learning,
Student Involvement
and UNL.
Applications can be
obtained on the Volunteer Services website
at <www.unl.edu/involved/volunte
er>
or from the Student Involvement office in the Nebraska
or East
Union. Applications are due March 5. The selection
committee
will review applications and choose the award recipients
during
the third week in March.
Everyone who is
nominated for their volunteer spirit will
receive recognition for
their efforts at the Chancellor's Leadership
Recognition Ceremony
on April 18.
For information, call Michaela Policky or
Gagan Bakshi at
Student Involvement, 472-2454.
Archaeology Lecture March
4
The Department of Art and Art History will present a
public
lecture on Greek archaeology at 7 p.m. March 4 in 15
Richards
Hall. Professor Hector Williams will speak about a recent
and
controversial discovery in Greece: the proposed burial site of
Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great.
This talk,
"Who's Buried in 'Philip's Tomb' at Vergina,"
surveys the
burial of a Macedonian king of the late 4th century
B.C. at Vergina
in northern Greece. Williams will examine the
architectural,
archaeological, artistic and forensic evidence
for the identity of
the man buried in the tomb, which is also
a treasure house of gold,
silver and bronze objects. This lecture
is sponsored in conjunction
with the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation.
Williams is
professor of classical studies at the University
of British
Columbia and directs its two archaeological projects
at Mytilene
and Stymphalos in Greece. He is immediate past president
of the
Archaeological Institute of America (Canada) and served
on the
AIA's U.S. board for more than 10 years as an academic
trustee. For
10 seasons he was associate director of UBC's excavations
at
Anemurium on Turkey's southern coast.
The lecture is free
and open to the public. For more information,
call Michael Hoff,
472-5342.
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>.
NSave
available
Do you have a backup program in place to backup
your important
data files? If your computer had a hard drive crash
or virus
would you be able to recover your data?
If
the answer to those questions is no, then NSave is the
answer.
Information Services offers a backup/recovery service
called NSave
for a small monthly fee. The software is installed
on the desktop,
and the backup/recoveries are done over a network
connection. No
external devices or tapes are needed. For information,
go to <nsave.unl.edu>
or call the
NSave support specialist at 472-6843.
March UNOPA program focuses on spring
As Nebraskans
look forward to spring, UNOPA members are also
looking forward to
their March meeting, "Birds in Your Backyard."
UNOPA will
meet at 11:45 a.m. March 11 in the Nebraska East Union
and will
learn about backyard birds.
Ron Johnson, an Extension
wildlife specialist and professor
of wildlife biology, will talk
about plant selection for birds.
He will discuss what to look for
when choosing plants, including
trees, shrubs and herbaceous
plants, to attract birds; why and
how to have a more natural
landscape; and tips for success and
fun when including birds in
your outdoor plans. The registration
flier is in the March issue of
UNOPA Notes. Non-members are welcome.
For information, call Pat
DeStefano, 472-8726 or e-mail <pdestefano2@unl.edu>.
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