The NOW Foundation's Love Your Body campaign helps raise awareness about women's health, body image and self-esteem. Since 1997, Love Your Body has given girls and women the tools and the encouragement to "just say no" to the air-brushed, cookie cutter images that Hollywood and Madison Avenue are trying to sell. Eating Disorder Education and Prevention (EDEP) student organization and the Health Education Department at the University Health Center encourage everyone to love their body as it is.
"Plain Speaking & Straight Shooting: Documentary Art in Flyover Country" Speaker: Michael Farrell, Photographer and TV Production Manager, NET Television; Adjunct Faculty, College of Journalism and Mass Communication, UNL. Reception begins at 3:00 p.m. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies.
“Detecting adaptive evolution in protein-coding DNA sequences,” will be presented by Professor Ziheng Yang, University College London. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. The event is open to the public.
Are you struggling writing your masters thesis? Dr. Marty Ramirez of Counseling and Psychological Services offers the following workshop to help you develop writing skills; learn to manage time and stress; understand advisor/advisee issues; and overcome procrastination.
The Eating Disorder Education and Prevention (EDEP) student organization encourages student to move toward an accepting attitude of body size and shape; to educate in the areas of eating disorder, body image and wellness; and to provide resources and referrals on campus.
All students are welcome to join the EDEP team. If you want to be more involved, EDEP meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union - room posted.
In September 2004, pledge Gordie Bailey died from alcohol poisoning after passing out on a couch in his fraternity house following a hazing initiation at the University of Colorado. Haze is a feature documentary that addresses the national crisis of alcohol abuse and hazing on college campuses.
Inspired by the 1767 painting "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" by Joseph Wright, the play juxtaposes the lives of two generations in the same northern English home.
