| 8:30 am-9:00 am | Departmental Coffee, School of Natural Resources HARDIN HALLHosted by: Vice Chancellor Owens, IANR Deans; Cunningham, Dickey and Waller |
| 9:00 am-10:00 am | Chemical Safety – What you don’t know CAN hurt you! BEADLE CENTERSponsored by Environmental Health & Safety and the Office of Research, this colloquium features Mike Russell, Director of Environmental Health & Safety, University of Kansas. Thermofisher will provide a display of various products to assist researchers who use chemicals. *5 sessions offered for your convenience.* Light refreshments provided. |
| 9:00 am-12:00 pm | NURAMP Workshop NEBRASKA UNIONAn interactive series of case studies in successfully navigating the process intricacies and pitfalls of intellectual property, licensing, royalty distributions and faculty-based startup creation. Please register in advance through our website. |
| 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Chemical Safety – What you don’t know CAN hurt you! NEBRASKA EAST UNIONSponsored by Environmental Health & Safety and the Office of Research, this colloquium features Mike Russell, Director of Environmental Health & Safety, University of Kansas. Thermofisher will provide a display of various products to assist researchers who use chemicals. *5 sessions offered for your convenience.* Light refreshments provided. |
| 11:45 am-1:00 pm | UAAD Meeting City Campus UnionDo you go to work everyday with a positive attitude and a plan, only to find that one hour into your workday, that is no longer the case? The “To Do” list has left, you are now putting out fires for your department, your “plan” for the day hasn’t even been started and it’s time to go home. I will show you tools you can use to take back control of your workday. Let me, help you, keep that positive attitude and execute that plan for your day.
Presented by Diane Sullivan, owner of The Organization Station, a Home and Office Organizing company and a long time University employee. |
| 2:00 pm-3:30 pm | Sakai Workshop ARCHITECTURE HALLSakai is an open source online Collaboration and Learning Environment which supports teaching and learning, group collaboration, portfolios and research collaboration. In this workshop, faculty and TAs will learn how to set up a course or project site on Sakai v2.3.1 by using various tools. |
| 3:00 pm-4:00 pm | Fall 2007 SNR Seminar Series HARDIN HALL"Conservation Genetics of North American Bison"
James Derr, Texas A & M University |
| 3:30 pm-4:30 pm | Chemical Safety – What you don’t know CAN hurt you! HAMILTON HALLSponsored by Environmental Health & Safety and the Office of Research, this colloquium features Mike Russell, Director of Environmental Health & Safety, University of Kansas. Thermofisher will provide a display of various products to assist researchers who use chemicals. *5 sessions offered for your convenience.* Light refreshments provided. |
| 3:30 pm-5:00 pm | Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies Great Plains Art Museum"From Cooperation to Conflict: Indian and Emigrant Relations Along the Overland Trails, 1840-1865". Speaker: Michael L. Tate, Professor of History and Native American Studies and the Charles and Mary Martin Chair of Western History, University of Nebraska at Omaha. Winner of the 2006 Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. Reception following the lecture. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Center for Great Plain Studies. |
| 3:30 pm-4:30 pm | Komensky Club Lecture NEBRASKA UNION"The Politics of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic After the Velvet Revolution," Dr. Zdenek Lycka, director of Contact with Czechs Abroad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic |
| 4:00 pm-5:00 pm | Biotechnology/Life Sciences Fall 2007 Seminar BEADLE CENTER“Illuminating the molecular mechanisms of prostate cancer progression,” will be presented by Dr. Melanie Simpson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. The event is open to the public. |
| 7:00 pm | Mid-Semester Check NEBRASKA UNIONThe fourth annual Mid-Semester Check will be held September 17, 18, 19 and 20 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. First year and entering transfer students are welcome to attend any one of the four evenings. The evening’s program will highlight and remind students of academic expectations and provide general information on advising resources. |