Join UNITE in Celebration of Native American Heritage Month. $5

Robert Lewis, Eppley Institute for Cancer research, UNMC, will present at the Nebraska Gateway to Nutrigenomics Seminar Series at noon. All interested faculty, students, and staff are welcome to attend this free seminar.

1:30–2:00: Windows 8 has been reimagined. The new look may be frustrating and hard to understand, but once you find out the meaning behind the change, it will make everything easier to work with. Learn about the new features of Windows 8 and the ways to make it work for you on your desktop computer. Although Windows 8 is not currently being installed on UNL computers, you may be using at on a personal computer and need to know how.

2:00-3:00: To be released the first quarter of next year, Office 2013 comes with many changes to familiar programs. Get a sneak peek and learn what some of the new and improved features are of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.

Speaker: Hill Harper. For more information see www.go.unl.edu/dls.

“Innate and adaptive immunity to influenza infection in the mouse model and humans,” will be presented by Dr. Paul Thomas, St. Jude Children's Hospital. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. The event is open to the public.

Joan of Arc festival to celebrate the 600th anniversary of her birth, with a scholarly presentation, poetry, music, and scenes from plays about Joan of Arc.

Refreshments will be served

The death penalty continues to generate intense debate, including in Nebraska — one of 33 states that authorize capital punishment. In this debate, Nebraska Solicitor General J. Kirk Brown and University of Colorado Boulder professor Michael Radelet will explore such questions as whether the death penalty is humane, fairly applied, reduces violent crime, or is cost effective. They’ll also examine impacts on the condemned person, the legal and judicial systems, victims’ loved ones, and the taxpaying society at large.

J. Kirk Brown has served as Nebraska’s Solicitor General since 2003. He previously served as the Nebraska Department of Justice’s Chief of the Criminal Bureau, Chief of the Criminal Appellate Section, and Chief of the Civil Litigation Section. For more than 28 years, Brown has been Nebraska’s primary counsel in capital cases and was counsel of record in Nebraska’s three, most recent executions: State v. Otey (1994); State v. Joubert (1996); and State v. Williams (1997).

Brown also spent six years as the general counsel to the Texas Department of Corrections. There he witnessed more than 20 executions. While in Texas, he also was seated as a juror in a capital murder trial, State of Texas v. Jesse Dewayne Jacobs.

A graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Law (1973), Brown has lectured nationally on the death penalty, appellate practice, federal habeas corpus, and corrections law.

As professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, Michael L. Radelet has focused his research on capital punishment, problems of erroneous convictions, racial bias, and ethical issues faced by health care personnel involved in capital cases and executions. His work on erroneous convictions (with Hugo Adam Bedau, emeritus professor of philosophy at Tufts University) is widely credited with introducing the “innocence argument” into contemporary death penalty debates.

Radelet has testified in dozens of death penalty cases, before congressional committees, and in legislatures in seven states. He has worked with scores of death row inmates and gone through “last visits” with 50. He also works closely with families of homicide victims in Colorado. At the request of then-Illinois Governor George Ryan, he completed a study of racial biases in the death penalty in Illinois that Governor Ryan used in his 2003 decision to commute 167 death sentences.

Wilson Dialogue on Domestic Issues

UPC will host a screening of the film "Lawless". Students will need to show their NCards. Free