During November, University Health Center is raising awareness for men's health issues as a part of the national Movember movement. Each Tuesday, a different men's health topic will be discussed at the Wellness Booth in the Nebraska Union from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The schedule is:
• Nov. 1: Depression/Suicide
• Nov. 8: Sports Injuries
• Nov. 15: Heart Health
• Nov. 29: Ask a Doc
New Web content editors and creators are invited to bring sign-on credentials (username and password) and their converted site URL (http://unlcms.unl.edu/~/ and spend a couple of hours with Mark Hiatt, going over the basics of creating, editing and deleting pages and components of your Web site in the new UNLcms. Learn to edit pages, footers, navigation and headings and learn to assign roles and permissions to users. A short break is provided, along with plenty of time for questions and answers.
New Web content editors and creators are invited to bring sign-on credentials (username and password) and their converted site URL (http://unlcms.unl.edu/~/ and spend a couple of hours with Mark Hiatt, going over the basics of creating, editing and deleting pages and components of your Web site in the new UNLcms. Learn to edit pages, footers, navigation and headings and learn to assign roles and permissions to users. A short break is provided, along with plenty of time for questions and answers. http://training.unl.edu
Tuesday Nov. 8 from 5 to 10:00 p.m. Noodles & Company on 14th and P Street is hosting a benefit night for the UNL Women's Rugby Team. 25 percent of sales from dine-in or take-out will go to the club.
The UNL Women’s Rugby Team is a non-profit entity and is not sponsored by Husker Athletics. As a club sport at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, it is a requirement for the team to be self-supporting and to raise funds for all expenses that the team acquires.
The team is currently trying to raise funds for new jerseys, practice equipment, and travel expenses to away games and tournaments.
Please stop by and mention UNL Women's Rugby to the cashier to help these dedicated student athletes succeed!
More details at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129995060438365
Susan M. Reverby will present a lecture on the history of two U.S. Public Health Service studies of sexually transmitted diseases. The first, the "Tuskegee" Syphilis Study (1932-1972) was the longest running non-therapeutic research study in U.S. history. The study, run by the United States Public Health Service, included more than 600 African American men in the counties surrounding Tuskegee, Alabama. The men thought that they were being treated, not studied, for what they thought was "bad blood." They were denied treatment for forty years. The second study, which Prof. Reverby has only recently brought to light, involved the deliberate transmission of syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases to prisoners and others in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948. In this study, none of the participants gave informed consent, and they were deceived about the nature of the experiments.
Reverby has been a key actor in the successful efforts to have the U.S. government apologize for these reprehensible medical studies.
David Pearson, senior service hydrologist at the National Weather Service in Omaha, will present “The Missouri River Flood of 2011: Its Causes and Impacts.”
