Moeser Investiture Ceremony April 26
An investiture ceremony for Chancellor James Moeser is set for Friday,
April 26, in the Lied Center for Performing Arts. A committee of faculty,
managerial/professional and office/service staff representatives, chaired
by Lawrence Mallett, director of the School of Music, is planning the
ceremony. It will be open to the public, and members of the university
community will be invited to attend. Watch the Scarlet for further
details.
Fernea to Discuss Islamic Women at Thompson Lecture March 6
Author Elizabeth Fernea will deliver the next lecture in the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues at UNL.
Fernea's lecture, "Islamic Women Today: New Challenges, Changing Roles" will be presented at 3:30 p.m. March 6 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Her lecture is the fourth in this year's Thompson Forum series, which concludes April 16 with Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel.
Thompson Forum lectures are free and open to the public. They are also available by satellite at sites statewide, including College Park at Grand Island, state colleges, community colleges, and high schools.
A writer, teacher and filmmaker, Fernea has lived in the Middle East
for nearly 12 years. With her husband, anthropologist Robert A. Fernea,
she has done research in Iraq, Egypt and Morocco.
Smith Names Omaha Institute Advisory Board
University of Nebraska President L. Dennis Smith has named the members of the Board of Policy Advisers for the new Omaha Institute of Information Science, Technology and Engineering.
The institute's purpose is to promote and facilitate collaborative activity between UNL and UNO in the areas of engineering and information science and technology. It is a joint-venture between the UNL College of Engineering and Technology and the UNL College on Information Science and Technology.
The 11-member board of policy advisers will be chaired by Walter Scott Jr., chairman and president, Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc. The board will recommend plans, programs and activities for the Institute operations and assist the University of Nebraska Foundation in seeking financial support.
The board members are Robert Bates, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Guarantee Mutual Life Insurance Co.; John Boyer, partner in the Fraser Stryker Vaughn Meusey Olson Boyer and Bloch law firm; John Gottschalk, president and chief executive officer, Omaha World-Herald Co.; John Heindel, vice president, Lucent Technologies, Inc.; Leonard Kearney, vice president, Kiewit Construction Group, Inc.; Jack McDonnell, executive vice president and chief financial officer, First Data Resources, Inc.; Anthony Raimondo, president and chief executive officer, Behlen Manufacturing, Inc., Columbus, Neb.; Phillip Schrager, chairman and chief executive officer, Pacesetter Corporation; Lewis Trowbridge, president of Mammel and Associates Insurance; Joyce Wrenn, vice president, information technology, and chief information officer, Union Pacific Railroad.
The Omaha Institute, the new UNO College of IS&T, and engineering
education program improvements were approved by the Board of Regents at
its Feb. 24 meeting.
International Space Station to Land at UNL
Visitors will get a look inside the International Space Station when a NASA display stops at UNL in April. Life-size models of the living quarters and science laboratory modules will be exhibited inside two 48-foot trailers.
The exhibit arrives on campus April 24 and will be open to the public April 25 through May 1. Visitors can tour the exhibit on weekdays and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free.
The display demonstrates the unique environment in which three to six astronauts will live and work for months while orbiting the earth. The exhibit includes a food preparation area, a space toilet, an astronaut bed and a science work station.
The International Space Station is a cooperative project between the United States, Canada, Japan, Russia and the nations of the European Space Agency. It will take 34 space flights to build the space station that is scheduled for completion in the year 2002.
The NASA exhibit at UNL coincides with National Astronomy Day April
27. An exhibit of telescopes, computer astronomy and astrophotography
will be on display near the space station exhibit and in the lobby of
Mueller Planetarium at the State Museum, 14th and U streets on the UNL
campus. A special program on space exploration and the space station will
run at Mueller Planetarium to coincide with the space station exhibit.
Husker Band to Show its Colors in Ireland
Not everyone will be wearing green at the traditional St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin, Ireland, March 17. There will be at least 204 musicians wearing scarlet and cream
That's right. The national champion UNL Cornhusker Marching Band will finally make its long-anticipated trip to the Emerald Isle.
After a three-year fund-raising effort and cancellation of plans to participate in the 1995 parade, director of bands Jay Kloecker said it was "either now or never" if the band was to make the trip.
"Our original plan was to raise enough funds to be able to take everybody without anyone having to pay their own way," Kloecker said. "We came to realize, though, that it was outside our capabilities to do that, but we did raise a pretty good chunk of money. We divided that up by the number of band members who would be able to go and asked them to come up with the balance. I felt pretty good that 204 out of 265 are going to be able to go."
The 204 band members and 10 staff members will leave Lincoln March 14
and return March 22. They'll spend three days in Dublin, where a
60-member wind ensemble will give a concert performance at the arts
center at the former Royal Dublin Hospital. They will then spend two and
a half days in southern Ireland, where they'll participate in a band
pageant in Limerick March 18. The band will end its trip with two nights
in London.
Part-time Student Week is March 4-7
Nontraditional students will be able to get a close look at what UNL has to offer during UNL Part-time Student Week March 4-7 at the Clifford Hardin Nebraska Center for Continuing Education.
A series of four free evening sessions is scheduled, beginning with CBA Advising Night from 4-8 p.m. March 4 in room 162. This session is open to all current UNL Evening Programs students admitted to CBA undergraduate or graduate degree programs. UNL Evening Programs offers all of the courses required for undergraduate degrees in business administration, economics, finance, management and marketing as well as for a master of business administration degree. Students should call 472-1392 by Feb. 29 to schedule a 30-minute appointment.
The second session is the Adults Back-to-College Workshop from 6:30-9 p.m. March 5 in the Omaha Room. This session is geared toward prospective, transfer and returning students. Representatives will be on hand from nine UNL colleges, Graduate Studies, Admissions, Scholarships and Financial Aid and Registration, as well as the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Prospective students interested in UNL's Summer Reading Course Program will be able to meet one-to-one with Summer Reading Course faculty and register for courses from 5-6:30 p.m. March 6 in the Nebraska Room. Courses are available in anthropology, classics, educational psychology, English, family and consumer sciences, history, political science, psychology and sociology.
The final session is the College Majors and Related Careers Workshop
from 6-7:30 p.m. March 7 in the Columbus Room East. A counselor from the
UNL Career Services Center will provide information to enable students to
avoid a trial-and-error process of career decision-making and help them
explore the relationships of various college majors and careers.
Nebraska's Countryside -- From Red Oak to Ragwort
Anyone who has driven across Nebraska knows that the countryside around Lincoln looks much different from that around Scottsbluff.
In the March 3 Sunday Afternoon with a Scientist program at the University of Nebraska State Museum, James Locklear, director of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, will use props and audience involvement to demonstrate why and how the plant life of Nebraska varies so greatly from east to west.
Locklear's program, "Rainshadow, Red Oak and Ragwort: Understanding Nebraska's Kaleidoscope of Plants," will also include a slide show featuring some of the more important and interesting members of the major plant communities in Nebraska.
For 10 years, Locklear has collected, propagated and grown Great Plains wildflowers as garden and landscape plants.
He has also conducted studies of rare plants and writes extensively about Great Plains native plants. He has published articles in numerous national and regional publications and wrote two chapters of the forthcoming book "Rock Garden Plants of North America."
Locklear will make his presentations at 2, 2:45 and 3:30 p.m. at the
museum, located in Morrill Hall. His program is free, but a donation of
$1 is suggested for museum visitors over the age of 2.
Ashfall Fossil Beds is March 6 Olson Seminar Topic
"Ashfall Fossil Beds: Paleontology in the Public Eye" will be the subject of the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the UNL.
The seminar will be delivered from 3:30-5 p.m. March 6 at the Great Plains Art Collection on the second floor of Love Library by Michael Voorhies, professor of museum and geology at UNL and curator and coordinator of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Nebraska State Museum. The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception in the Great Plains Art Collection are free and open to the public.
A joint project of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the NU State Museum, Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park near Orchard opened in 1991. It tries to answer the public's questions about paleontology, such as where fossils are found, how fossils are formed, and what paleontologists do at a dig.
The site gives visitors a first-hand look at ongoing excavations where
skeletons of rhinoceroses, camels, three-toed horses, sabertooth deer and
other animals are buried in a thick bed of volcanic ash.
Sue Tidball Award Ceremony March 10
The 15th Annual Sue Tidball Award Celebration will be at 7 p.m. March 10 in St. Mark's on-the-campus Episcopal Church and Student Center.
The Sue Tidball Award for Creative Humanity honors persons from the UNL campus who are nominated by their peers for making significant contributions to the development of a humane, open, caring, educationally creative and just community on campus.
Six 1996 nominees will be publicly recognized and honored, and one or more will be named award recipients. The program will include the now-traditional appearance of the Local Folds String Band, and entertainment by Lincoln comedian T. Marni Vos.
Following the program, there will be an informal reception in the church fellowship hall. Nominees are Denise Borton, University Housing; Sonia Holliman, residence hall student assistant; Joan Mendoza-Gorham, Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs; Kathy Parker, residence halls; Charles Rensink, University Housing; and Christine Timm, Career Services Center.
For more information call Larry Doerr at 476-0355.
Lincoln Internet Group Meets March 27
The next meeting of the Lincoln Internet User's Group will be at 7
p.m. March 27 in the Henzlik Hall auditorium. Kandace Bragg with the AIM
Institute of Omaha will discuss recruiting and job searches on the
Internet. For additional information, contact Nancy Khawand, 477-2028 or
by e-mail to nkhawand@unlinfo.unl.edu.
Workshop Promotes Teaching by Web
The Teaching and Learning Center will host "Using the World Wide Web to Promote Teaching and Learning: Part II" from 8 to 9:15 a.m. March 5 in 265 Mabel Lee Hall. Charles Ansorge, TLC associate for instructional technologies, will facilitate a discussion on how instructors are using the World Wide Web at UNL.
John Orr will demonstrate Web pages he created for use in teaching mathematics on campus. Dave Hibler will discuss the impact of this teaching technique on student learning and the advantages and disadvantages of using Web resources. Bruce Sandhorst, Mark Sumner and Aaron Hoiser will demonstrate resources available to support the creation of Web sites, and Michelle Fagen will show how faculty can link their home page to the university's Web site.
To register, contact the Teaching and Learning Center, e-mail
unltlc@unlinfo.unl.edu or call 2-3079.
Technology Group Hosts Software Designer
The Technology Group will host Julian Pugh at a noon meeting March 15 in the New Media Center. Pugh, president of Spring Branch Software, Inc., is the author and designer of the educational software programs "MacNumerics II," "MacCalculus" and "Points, Lines and Planes in Space." These programs are the teaching programs used in several thousand high schools and universities. Discussion and demonstration of how educational software differs from task-oriented software will be featured. Techniques used in designing and using software to teach mathematics and statistics, will be demonstrated in the New Media Center. The meeting will feature hands-on activity by the participants.
All UNL faculty are invited to attend. Pre-registration is not
required.
Biometry Offers Data Entry Service
The Department of Biometry is once again offering data entry for
individuals seeking input with verification of information such as
research data, surveys, and field data. Statistical graphics such as SAS
graphs, charts and text slides can also be made for professional-looking
presentations. Stop by 103 Miller Hall or call 2-2903 for current rates.
SIS+ Training March 12 at Wick
The Student Information Systems Program will offer an SIS+ training
session 3 to 4:30 p.m. March 12 in the Wick Alumni Center. The class will
cover logging onto SIS+ and an overview of accessible SIS+ screens. These
sessions are offered to faculty and staff free of charge. Since space is
limited, registration is required. For more information or to register,
send e-mail to sistrain@unl.edu or call Angie Parnell at 2-8008.
Women's Week Activities Scheduled March 5-12
An annual week of activities celebrating women will be offered March 5
to 12 in 338 Nebraska Union. Check the Scarlet calendar for a
schedule of topics and times.
Excise Tax Refunds on Airline Tickets
On Dec. 31, 1995, the federal government failed to renew the 10 percent Excise Tax, which applied to all airline tickets. Airline tickets purchased after Dec. 31 no longer have the Excise Tax included in the purchase price of the ticket. Due to this tax change, all airline tickets purchased in 1995 for travel in 1996 are due a refund of this tax.
Those seeking refunds should be aware that certain airlines (i.e., American, Northwest, United) will automatically refund the Excise Tax to the credit card used as payment for the airline ticket after travel is completed. This could take several months or billing cycles to register on a credit card statement. Several airlines will process the Excise Tax refund utilizing their own refund form.
Another option to obtain an Excise Tax refund from an airline is to
complete and file IRS Form #8849. Please call 1-800-829-3676 to request
this form from the IRS.
Credit Union Annual Meeting is March 28
The University of Nebraska Federal Credit Union's annual meeting will be March 28 at the East Union. Hors d'oeuvres will be served beginning at 5:15 p.m. The business meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Members will elect four people to the board of directors. These volunteers set the policies and services of the Credit Union.
Nominees are Agnes Adams, Arthur Bryant, Michael Hager, James Main, Pamela Peters, David Reifschneider, Marc Schniederjans and Theodora Walker.
Voting times for the elections are 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. March 22,
25, 26 and 27 at the Credit Union Office, and 5:15 to 6 p.m. March 28 in
the East Union.
United Way Seeks Volunteer Help
The following are community volunteer needs listed by the United Way Volunteer Center. The Volunteer Center has information about more than 300 additional volunteer positions with more than 200 non-profit agencies and programs in the community. For more information call the Volunteer Center at 441-7700.
On ETV
Program Examines Native American Gaming
Brad Penner examines the Native American casino question in the "Perspective" segment of Statewide, the Nebraska ETV Network's weekly news series at 8 p.m. March 8.
The program, which repeats 1:30 p.m. March 10, also provides up-to-the
minute news reports from across the state and other features of interest.
UNL's Knoll Featured on 'Roger Welsch'
Robert Knoll, author of Prairie University, will be the special quest on Roger Welsch & airing 8:30 p.m. March 8 on all stations of the Nebraska ETV Network.
Knoll's new book offers an in-depth look at the rich history and
heritage of UNL. Knoll is a distinguished professor emeritus of English
at UNL.
Special Profiles Life of Bob Devaney
The triumph of Tom Osborne and his Cornhuskers has been much in the news lately, but before there was Osborne, there was Bob Devaney. When Devaney retired as Nebraska football coach to become the University of Nebraska's Athletic Director in 1973, after leading the Cornhuskers to back-to-back championships in 1971 and 1972, he was the winningest college coach in the country.
"Coach Devaney," airing at 7 p.m. March 4 on the statewide Nebraska
ETV Network, traces Devaney's rise from the rough-and-tumble working
class neighborhood of his childhood in Saginaw, Mich., through the ranks
of high school and college coaching, and on to back-to-back national
championships.
A Look at Last of the One Room Schools
The joys and hardships of the one-room school experience are shared in the Nebraska ETV Network series Last of the One Room Schools, broadcast 7 p.m. March 7 on the statewide public television network.
Schools like Burr Oak near Broken Bow, Neb., are becoming a thing of the past. At the beginning of the century, more than half of the students in the United States learned their beginning lessons in one-room schools. Today, less than 1 percent of students attend such schools.
Last of the One Room Schools documents this traditional way of
education before it passes into history. Author Roger Welsch narrates the
series.
New Life for America's Old Barns
Are the old farm barns of America falling down from neglect and disuse? Many probably are -- but at least 500 of them have been given new life through ambitious rehabilitation projects undertaken across the nation.
Barn Again! tells the story of how these distinctive forms of
American architecture and symbols of a vanishing way of life were
restored to their former strength and beauty through a project sponsored
by the National Trust for Historic Reservation and Successful
Farming magazine. The special is being rebroadcast 9 p.m. March 5 on
the statewide Nebraska ETV Network.
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