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from the issue of January 31, 2008
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UNL participates in 'Focus on the Nation'
UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
UNL is one of 1,300 colleges and universities participating in Focus on the Nation's national "teach-in", Jan. 26 to Feb. 1.
Promoted by the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska student government, the Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Thompson Scholars, this is UNL's first involvement with the organization working to educate and act on global warming solutions for America.
UNL activities began Jan. 28 with a "Low Carbon Footprint" meal at Cather-Pound-Neihardt dining hall and East Campus dining. Residence hall diners learned about and ate foods that contribute less carbon emissions by being locally grown or transported in environmentally friendly ways. Growers attended the meals and discussed their products.
"I believe that global warming is the top political issue of the moment and the university is doing a great job to engage all students and the community in a dialogue on the issue," said David Solheim, president of ASUN. "Folks from all over campus are being brought in to explore climate change from every angle. From the nightly cafeteria grub to your dorm room; history to engineering; from city hall to the state legislature; the idea is to talk about what we can do to control the world in which we live."
Two event headliners are nationally known experts - Chelsea Sexton, marketing expert and advocate of alternative fuel vehicles; and Ken Mankoff, a computer scientist who develops climate models at the Columbia University/NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Mankoff will present a free, open to the public lecture and "An Inconvenient Truth" at 7 p.m. Jan. 31 in the Nebraska Union Auditorium.
Mankoff is converting a global climate model into something that anyone can use on their home computer. He has worked on various projects for NASA and the European Space Agency studying the Sun, Mars and Earth. He has been personally trained by Al Gore to re-present slides from the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" to help spread the word about global warming. He spent October, November and December in Antarctica as part of the UNL-based ANDRILL project.
Sexton presented a talk following a Jan. 29 viewing of the film, "Who Killed the Electric Car."
Focus the Nation culminates across the United States Jan. 31 in simultaneous educational symposia held across the country. For information go to www.focusthenation.org.
Faculty Lectures
As part of "Focus on the Nation," UNL faculty are presenting lectures in the Nebraska Union. The speaker series is part of the national "teach in" promotion, becoming part of a dialogue at more than 1,000 colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, places of worship, civic organizations and businesses.
Remaining faculty lectures in the series include:
Thursday, Jan. 31
10:30 a.m., Andy Graybill, History
1:30 p.m., Dennis Schulte, Biological Systems Engineering
2:30 p.m., John Janovy Jr., Biological Sciences
3:30 p.m., David Harwood, Geosciences
7-9 p.m., Ken Mankoff
Friday, Feb. 1
1 p.m., political roundtable with politicians and lecturers (Centennial Room)
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