It’s a mission most folks would probably shy away from: the search for as many of Nebraska’s snakes as can be found. But that has been the calling for at least 20 years of UNL herpetologist Dennis Ferraro, who will present a public discussion of his never-ending hunt April 14 in the next Paul A. […]
The mass immigration to the Great Plains that occurred between the U.S. Civil War and World War I might be best understood in the international context that emerged in the 1860s out of four large wars. That context will be the subject of the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies March 10 […]
UNL climatologist Ken Dewey will discuss “Searching for a Climate Change Signal Amidst the Noise of Climate Variability” in the Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 17 in the Great Plains Art Museum, Hewit Place. The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception in the museum are free and open […]
Homestead will discuss Aldrich novel Sept. 23 Bess Streeter Aldrich’s novel, “A Lantern in Her Hand,” the 2009 selection for One Book, One Nebraska, will be the focus of the first Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies of the 2009-10 academic year. Melissa Homestead, associate professor of English, will discuss the novel and […]
The spring’s final Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies will deal with baseball. In his April 8 seminar, “Youth Select Baseball in the Midwest: The Shape of Things to Come,” David Ogden, associate professor in the School of Communications at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, will discuss how adolescent and teenage boys […]
Great Plains river banks were once forested with wide bands of trees, but since the mid-1800s, human pressures have changed that riparian vegetation largely to herbaceous plants or agricultural crops. In a March 11 Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies, Greg Ruark will describe how the cumulative impact of American Indians, gold seekers, […]
Infrastructure is a subject that is a vital issue for Nebraska and the rest of the union. Sandra Scofield, director of the University of Nebraska Rural Initiative, will take on the important topic Jan. 21 when she delivers a Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies. Scofield will present “A Crash Course in Infrastructure: […]
The landscape of eastern Nebraska has undergone immense changes over the last billion-plus years, yet most of the region’s inhabitants are utterly unaware of this geological history. UNL geologist R.M. “Matt” Joeckel will attempt to fill in those knowledge gaps Nov. 19 when he delivers the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies […]
Michael Farrell, photographer and television production manager for NET Television, will discuss documentary presentations of the Great Plains Oct. 15 in the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at UNL. His presentation, “Plain Speaking and Straight Shooting: Documentary Art in Flyover Country,” will be 3:30-5 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Museum, […]
