Dr. Jolene Smyth, Department of Sociology and Survey Research and Methodology, UNL. "The Role of Gender Products in the Production of Gender"

Jennifer Hogue; Advisor, Dr. Mark Pegg "Oxygen Consumption Rates for Bighead and Silver Carp in Relation to Life-Stage, Temperature and Activity Level" Bighead carp Hypophthalmythys nobilis and silver carp H. molitrix, collectively known as Asian carp, are fast-growing generalists, highly fecund, and are effective invaders of new ecosystems. Recently, their populations have exploded in the central rivers of the United States and are now spreading toward the Great Lakes. This range expansion has raised concern for groups that rely on the Great Lakes for their many natural resources. As part of a larger project in conjunction with the Illinois Natural History Survey, oxygen consumption rates (OCR) were measured using established respirometry methods for water temperatures (5, 10, 15, 20, and 25°C), life stages (juvenile fish < 50-cm, and adult fish >50-cm), and activity levels (0.3-m/s, and 0.6-m/s). Trials were conducted over a one hour period using a static respirometer to measure resting respiration rates and a swim chamber to conduct active trials. The relation between OCR and body mass for both species was allometric, with body mass being strongly correlated to OCR (r=0.92 (bighead carp), r=0.63 (silver carp)). The calculated b value, a coefficient used to correct mass related bias, for bighead carp was 0.7, while the calculated b value for silver carp was 0.76. Temperature significantly affected OCR in both species; while life-stage and activity level did not. Oxygen consumption rates did not differ between species (P<0.01). These results suggest that Asian carp have relatively high metabolic rates and the larger project serves to build a knowledge base allowing more accurate risk assessment for ecosystems that are now being threatened, or soon could be, around the world.

Brian McGlynn, Montana State University

Enjoy a night of fun rec activities with pizza and a juice box. All activities held at the UNL Campus Rec Center. $16 per child for members. $24 per child for general public and guests.

Nothing is quite what it seems in THE DAY ROOM, set in a hospital where the psychiatric wing spectacularly fails to contain its inmates. The collection of sordid patients is regularly rounded up from their incursions into the ordinary ward where Wyatt (sophomore, Logan Pietz) is awaiting tests and his roommate Budge (sophomore, Christian Stokes) yearns for good conversation. Things start to become disturbing when the doctor, Bazelon (freshman, Gary Henderson), and nurses Walker (sophomore, Sarah Carlson) and Baker (senior, Courtney Pearson) turn out to be pretend-professionals. Gradually the "real" world seems to be turning into a huge psychiatric ward itself. By the second act THE DAY ROOM takes us to a motel that might not actually be a motel where we meet actors who might not actually be actors who are going to perform a play that might not actually be a play for madmen who might not actually be mad.

Nothing is quite what it seems in THE DAY ROOM, set in a hospital where the psychiatric wing spectacularly fails to contain its inmates. The collection of sordid patients is regularly rounded up from their incursions into the ordinary ward where Wyatt (sophomore, Logan Pietz) is awaiting tests and his roommate Budge (sophomore, Christian Stokes) yearns for good conversation. Things start to become disturbing when the doctor, Bazelon (freshman, Gary Henderson), and nurses Walker (sophomore, Sarah Carlson) and Baker (senior, Courtney Pearson) turn out to be pretend-professionals. Gradually the "real" world seems to be turning into a huge psychiatric ward itself. By the second act THE DAY ROOM takes us to a motel that might not actually be a motel where we meet actors who might not actually be actors who are going to perform a play that might not actually be a play for madmen who might not actually be mad.