Sponsored by Environmental Health & Safety and the Office of Research, this colloquium features Inspector Donald Gross, Bureau of Fire Prevention. *5 sessions offered for your convenience*

The University Health Center and Campus Rec Centers will be distributing spring break survival kits on a while they last basis. The kits consist of a water bottle stuffed with a toothbrush, toothpaste, band-aids, ibuprofen, antacid tablets, a condom, antiseptic towelette, and health tips. If you do not want any of the items in the kit, return them to the University Health Center or any Health Aide booth.

"Taking the Court Public" Speaker: James Hewitt, Attorney and Adjunct Professor of History, Nebraska Wesleyan University. Reception begins at 3:00 p.m. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies.

Suddenly, it’s bioenergy - ethanol and biodiesel. Bioenergy to solve the climate change problem caused by greenhouse gases. Bioenergy to inject vitality into declining rural communities. Bioenergy to free us from international oil villains. But wait… Bioenergy will drive food prices up and starve the poor by appropriating the food supply for energy. Bioenergy will ruin our livestock sector. Bioenergy will deforest the tropics and desertify the plains. Bioenergy will benefit farm landowners, but no one else. And bioenergy will happen only with billions of dollars of subsidies - can we afford it? In this course, students will evaluate the prospects for biofuels in the context of climate change and the world energy market. Participants will first review climate change assessments and the relationship of climate change to world energy markets, and will then examine the potential role of biofuels in reducing carbon emissions. Issues to be addressed include the potential effects of biofuels on food security and on natural resource sustainability, and a comparison of biofuel subsidies versus carbon taxes in mitigating climate change. Participants will be expected to research and report on scientific studies, and to learn and utilize various approaches to cost-benefit evaluation of public policies. Our goal is not to resolve the difficult questions raised above, but help students to sharpen their ability to analyze them and perhaps to more effectively advocate world-saving choices.

“Virus survival: Fitness is just the beginning,” will be presented by Dr. Isabella Novella, Medical University of Ohio. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. The event is open to the public.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels centers on two con men living on the French Riviera. The first is the suave and sophisticated Lawrence Jameson, who makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money. The other, a small-time crook named Freddy Benson, more humbly swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother's failing health. After meeting on a train, they unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this small French town isn't big enough for the two of them. A hilarious battle of cons ensues, that will keep audiences laughing, humming and guessing to the end!