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The UHC will be holding flu shot clinics for UNL students, faculty, and staff. Flu vaccinations cost $20 and payment by cash or check is required at the time of the vaccination. For those with Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance, a claim will be filied for them by UHC staff for possible reimbursement (please bring your insurance information with you to the clinic), however you will still need to pay at time of shot. Flu vaccinations are also available by appointment at UHC for those unable to attend a clinic.

Sheri Fritz, Willa Cather Professor in the Department of Geosciences and School of Biological Sciences, will discuss how she and her colleagues use lake mud to reconstruct the history of climate change and how humans have impacted the environment. A reception follows the lecture.

"Attosecond Science" by Paul Corkum of the National Research Council of Canada.

Refreshments: Brace Lab 201 @ 3:30 p.m.
Lecture: Brace Lab 211 @ 4:00 p.m.

Colloquium abstract can be found at: http://physics.unl.edu/news/colloquium.shtml

For further information please call the Department of Physics and Astronomy at (402) 472-2770 or email paoffice@unl.edu

Ellsberg will discuss The Pentagon Papers. Ellsberg is a whistleblower, writer and activist. He is a former Defense Department analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the media in 1971 and continues to lecture and write on the dangers of the nuclear era, government wrongdoing and the need for patriotic whistleblowing.

Lawrence Buell is the preeminent scholar of literature and the environment in the United States. His publications include The Future of Environmental Criticism; Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the United States and Beyond; and the foundational The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. Two books, Shades of the Planet and Environmental Autobiography as a Necessity of Life— and Ecological Survival are forthcoming. The Robert Knoll Lecture is sponsored by the Department of English, the Center for Great Plains Studies, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Honors Program.