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Saturday, November 14th

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All dayStudent Research Conference TEACHERS COLLEGE HALL
CEHS undergraduate and graduate students will share their work with fellow students, faculty, and other educators and community members. The aim of the conference is to give students an opportunity to showcase their work and dialogue with colleagues about important issues in education. Please plan to attend and encourage your students to attend. Keynote address will be offered by Katherine Richardson Bruna. Dr. Bruna is Associate Professor of Multicultural and International Curriculum Studies at Iowa State University. Her ethnographic research on the school experiences of science of newcomer Mexican youth in a demographically-transitioning midwest community has been published in a number of scholarly journals, including Cultural Studies of Science Education, Linguistics and Education, the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and Multicultural Perspectives. She is editor (with Kimberly Gomez) of The Work of Language in Multicultural Classrooms: Talking Science, Writing Science (Routledge, 2009). For more information: See http//cehs.unl.edu.tlte/inquiry/conference.shtml
All dayWhy We Quilt International Quilt Study Center & Museum
The proceeds from the lecture will benefit the museum. Fons shares her experiences as a quilter and quilting teacher as well as her research into why millions of people, now and in the past, love to quilt. Her lecture is illustrated with a wide range of quilt images from the past and present, including some of her own prize-winning quilts. Fons will sign books after the lecture. Tickets for the event are on sale now. Lecture admission is $22 for museum members, $25 for non-members.

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