The Scarlet will next be published on Aug. 14. The deadline for that issue is 5 p.m. Aug. 7. For information, contact Kim Hachiya at 472-8844 or Diane Taurins at 472-8518 or email the Scarlet at scarlet@unlinfo.unl.edu. The Scarlet resumes weekly publication Aug. 21. Deadlines are 5 p.m. the week prior to publication.
Faculty and staff are invited to attend Chancellor James Moeser's State of the University Address, beginning at 11 a.m. Aug. 21 in the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The All University Picnic will follow the speech. The address will not only chart the course for the coming year, it will begin the dialogue critical to moving the university forward in the next reallocation process.
Bruce Currin, assistant vice chancellor for human resources, announced that revisions have been made to the Human Resources Policies and Procedures.
Currin said that work on the revisions began several months ago when members of the campus community were invited to give suggestions and comments about proposed changes. Some of the changes and additions came out of the input received at that time. Others were universitywide policies implemented in recent months by Central Administration.
Currin pointed out that one does not have to read the entire policy document to know what changes were made. A "What's New" section summarizing recent revisions appears at the beginning of the policy document on the Human Resources homepage
Human Resources policies can be viewed on the Human Resources homepage http://www.unl.edu/unlhr/ hrhomepage.html. Questions or comments may be addressed to Human Resources, 472-3101.
Communications and Information Technology is offering the summer quarter of hands-on computer training classes beginning July 29. Topics covered include Windows 95, WordPerfect 8, Netscape Navigator, Eudora, and HTML. These classes meet in the computer lab in the Animal Science Complex on East Campus and vary in length from 3 to 5 hours.
Information on registration cost, class topics, and schedule of classes is available on the Web at: http://www.ianr.unl.edu/compute/classes.htm. You may also register for the classes at this site.
Information on self-study opportunities is available on the Web at: http://www.ianr.unl.edu/compute/ .
The University's Year 2000 Task Force will meet at 1:30 p.m. July 29 in the Nebraska Union. Future meetings as well as university status reports for the Year 2000 can also be found on the web http://www.unl.edu/year2k. Call 472-7690 for more information.
Beginning in 1999, the department of history will have a faculty exchange with the Australian National University in the Australian capital of Canberra.
History department Chair Dane Kennedy said it is hoped the agreement will eventually lead to more opportunities for student exchanges and further faculty exchanges between the two universities. Kennedy said the agreement, which was created earlier this year, came about after Nebraska history professor John Wunder served as a visiting fellow at ANU's Humanities Research Centre in 1997.
As part of the Purchasing Department's continuing efforts to encourage and attract women and minority vendors as potential suppliers, we now have available extra copies of the 1998/99 Minority Business Directory. This directory is published by the Omaha Regional Minority Purchasing Council. This directory is a comprehensive listing printed exclusively for the promotion of ethnic minority firms in the Greater Omaha and Lincoln metropolitan areas.
For a copy, contact Bill Bode, materiel services administrator, Purchasing Department, 1700 Y St., (0645), 472-3609.
Purchasing Card training will begin at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 20 in the Business Services Complex, 1700 Y St. Contact Darla Huff, 472-5050, to register for this session. Space is limited.
A retirement reception will be held for Paul Bartlett from 2 to 4 p.m. July 30 at the Abel Sandoz Food Service North dining room. Bartlett has been the warehouse manager at Food Stores for 37 years.
Degree grade rosters identifying Aug. 15 degree candidates will be mailed to the faculty on July 22. The deadline for returning the rosters to the Records Office is Aug. 4.
Get your camera and hiking boots - or maybe your hip waders - and don't forget a copy of "Wetlands - Understanding A Resource," a new publication on Nebraska wetlands.
"The tabloid presents an overview of Nebraska's often unique and sometimes rare wetlands, as well as identifying and explaining different types of wetlands and the challenges we face in preserving them," said Bob G. Volk, director of UNL's Water Center/Environmental Programs.
The tabloid contains information on the dynamics and importance of wetlands; a pull-out map of Nebraska's major wetland complexes; information on wetland plants, animals and habitats; wetland policy issues, a special youth page and a listing of agencies dealing with wetlands. More than a dozen wetland-related Internet sites also can be used to start an electronic search on the subject.
"The rate of decline in wetland acres is beginning to subside, but there is still much to be done if these ecosystems are to be preserved for future generations," Volk said. "For example, Nebraska's Rainwater Basin wetlands along the Platte River once covered more than 100,000 acres. Today only about one-third of those acres remain."
Many state and federal agencies joined NU in sponsoring the publication, which is being distributed free through Natural Resource District offices, Natural Resource Conservation Service offices, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension offices, Educational Service Units and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission state and district offices.
Copies are also available from the Water Center/Environmental Programs, University of Nebraska, P.O. Box 830844, Lincoln, Neb., 68583-0844, by phone (402)472-3305 or e-mail sress@unlinfo.unl.edu.
- Steve Ress, Water Center communications specialist
As part of its voluntary self-evaluation of environmental regulatory compliance, Environmental Health and Safety is initiating Work Place Surveys. The surveys will be brief and provide both faculty and staff with an overview of their level of compliance with significant environmental and safety regulations. The plan, standards and survey form are available from the EHS web page at http://www.unl.edu/e nviron/environ/workpl.htm or by calling EHS at 472-4928.
Information Services congratulates Women's Studies for being the first department to complete the steps to being Year 2000 compliant. Deb Davis is the Y2K representative and Barbara DiBernard is the Y2K compliance officer for Women's Studies.
To check to see where your department is with the Year 2000 project, access the following URL: http://www.unl.edu/yea r2k/taskf/deptrep.htm.
Many computers and devices with embedded chips and software applications will not properly function in the 21st century. Dates on or after Jan. 1, 2000 will be incorrect, which could result in incorrect calculations and improper business decisions.
The university is not exempt from this problem. All computing devices and software that perform critical business functions must be tested, corrected and made Year 2000 compliant.
There are six steps to success. They are appointing a representative to the campuswide taskforce, inventorying departmental hardware and software, assessing the impact of the problem on the department, determining if current software and hardware are compliant, developing a plan to address the problem and acting on the plan.
For more information, visit the Year2K taskforce homepage at http://www.unl.edu/year2k/index.ht ml or contact gaerts@unl.edu.
Something different will be offered this month at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Observatory's public viewing night.
From 9 to 11 p.m. July 31, the observatory will present "CCD Deep Sky Request Night." Rather than having the usual viewing through the eyepiece of the telescope, the astronomers will equip the telescope with a special CCD television camera and take requests for where to point the telescope. Children - and their requests - are welcome.
The CCD camera permits much fainter things to be seen on the computer screen than can be seen with the naked eye. This time of year, the bright planets are not visible in the evening sky, but almost every other class of astronomical object is within reach of the telescope. The CCD image display system is fully handicapped accessible.
Smaller telescopes will be set up outside the dome for direct viewing of the first quarter moon and other objects.
Note that Stadium Drive is closed because of construction, but the Stadium Drive Parking Garage can still be entered from either end.
The American Association of Physics Teachers will conduct its summer meeting at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center Aug. 3-8.
While most of the meeting's sessions and exhibits are geared toward physicists registered for the conference, two free sessions at Kimball Recital Hall are design provide enlightenment and entertainment for the whole family.
Aug. 6, Dave Wall of the City College of San Francisco will present "The Physics of Magic and Vice Versa" from 8:30-9:30 p.m. Wall will do a number of illusions and talk about the physics behind the illusions.
The AAPT's annual "Demonstration Show" will be Aug. 7, when physicists from NU and other Nebraska institutions will present their favorite physics demonstrations from 8-9:30 p.m.
"Kids would really enjoy them," said Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and chair of the AAPT meeting.
Leslie-Pelecky said roughly 1,000 registrants are expected to attend the meeting, mostly from the United States, but some from overseas.
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