UNOPA and UAAD will hold a joint meeting for office and managerial professionals at 11:45 a.m. Jan. 13 in the East Union (room posted). The event will feature the presentation “What’s Happening – Campus Planning” by Jennifer Dam, assistant director for campus planning in Institutional Research and Planning. Reservations are due by Jan. 8 to […]
UNL’s Bureau of Sociological Research and Survey, as well as Survey, Statistics and Psychometrics will hold free drop-in sessions, 10:30 a.m. to noon, Jan. 8 and 20 in 104 Benton Hall. The sessions – which include free donuts – are designed to foster brainstorming ideas for designing, collecting, analyzing and funding research at UNL. For […]
The Employee Assistance Program is sponsoring a four-week smoking cessation program. The program will be noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays, from Jan. 13 to Feb. 3. Register by calling 472-3107.
East Campus Speakers meeting noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays in the East Union (room posted). The group is designed to help individuals improve their confidence in speaking, listening and leading. For more information, call 472-9707.
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery reopened Jan. 6 after New Year’s Eve vandalism forced a temporary closure. According to University Police, an alarm was activated at the museum at 1:23 a.m. on Jan. 1. Four bricks, broken windowpanes and door glass were discovered on the east entrance to the museum. Later in the morning of […]
Art from UNL’s graduate student organization Visual Artists in Practice will be featured in the exhibition “Introspection,” Jan. 8-31 at the Haydon Art Center. An opening reception is 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 9 at the Haydon, 335 N. Eighth St. in Lincoln. Artist introductions will be at 7 p.m. The exhibition is curated by […]
By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006 One of the most effective means for conveying strong emotion is to invest some real object with one’s feelings, and then to let the object carry those feelings to the reader. Notice how the gloves in this short poem by Jose Angel Araguz of Oregon carry the heavy […]
