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Friday, February 8

Exhibition

Hillestad Gallery features Astrid Bennett’s “Tarp Series”

Exhibition extended through February 15, 2019

Recurring Date Info:
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8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery
The University of Nebraska’s Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery features the exhibition Astrid Hilger Bennett: The Tarp Series, December 17, 2018-February 15, 2019. Over decades, Bennett’s work has focused on painted, printed and dyed textiles in …
This event originated in TMFD.
Meeting

ENREC Faculty Research Summit

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9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Location: University of Nebraska Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center (formerly the ARDC) near Mead,
ENREC FACULTY RESEARCH SUMMIT - Friday, Feb. 8
This event originated in ENREEC - on site only.
Training

Google Tools Training

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9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Auditorium
The workshop will provide free training for students interested in using Google tools to improve their research, news gathering, reporting and storytelling. This workshop is provided by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Google News …
Activity

Employer in Residence: Pacific Life

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10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: College of Business - Howard L. Hawks Hall Room: South and North Lobby
Information Booth | North and South Lobby | 10:00 a.m. - 01:00 p.m.
This event originated in Business Career Center.
Activity

Tea Time Friday: Fresh Brew

Sip and learn with freshly brewed tea on select Fridays!

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11:00 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Room: 302 - Kawasaki Reading Room
Each week, taste a sample of an international tea and learn facts about Japanese tea culture on our informational display. Teas rotate every week, so come in to enjoy a favorite or try something new. Relax and unwind with us at Tea Time Friday.
This event originated in Kawasaki Reading Room .
Conference/Symposium

“Lead From Where You Are” Watch Party and Virtual Conference

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12:30 pm – 4:15 pm
Location: Nebraska East Union
A watch party for “Lead From Where You Are,” the first virtual conference sponsored by the Big Ten Academic Alliance Women in Information Technology peer group.
Activity

(LS) My Antonia

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1:00 pm – 2:45 pm
Location: Johnny Carson Theater
Activity

Military Historian to Lead Archival Research Workshop

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1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Location: Love Library South Room: 221
Dr. Mitch Yockelson, the military historian who consulted with UNL’s journalism professor, Barney McCoy, on the documentary, “Black Jack Pershing: Love and War,” will be the featured speaker at a workshop on archival research.
This event originated in Libraries.
Activity

Research Listening Sessions: Open faculty/staff session

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3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: Nebraska East Union Room: Arbor Suite
Faculty and staff are urged to participate in a strategic planning process to lay the groundwork for achieving the university’s ambitious goals for research success, as outlined by Chancellor Ronnie Green and the Nebraska Commission of 150. …
Colloquium

Anthony Chase, Chem Colloquium

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3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: Hamilton Hall Room: 112
Dr. Anthony Chase, Indiana University IUPUI, will present a lecture entitled “Utilizing Authentic Methods to Engage Students in Undergraduate STEM Courses”. Open to the public
This event originated in Chemistry.
Seminar

Cover Crop Management and Insect Interactions

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3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: Keim Hall Room: 150
This event originated in Center for Grassland Studies.
Lecture

Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Stout Lecture

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3:30 pm
Location: Bessey Hall Room: 117
Richard Bottjer, Coal Creek Resources, will present, “A spectrum of Rocky Mountain sandstone tight oil plays, western USA.”
Reading - Fiction/poetry

First-Gen Event featuring Jennine Capó Crucet

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4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Colonial A & B
This event originated in English.
Activity

Hyde Lecture - Katherine Darnstadt

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4:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Auditorium
Katherine Darnstadt, critically acclaimed for redefining the role of an architect, presents the College of Architecture’s next Hyde lecture. Darnstadt, founder of Latent Design, a progressive architecture and urbanism firm, will be presenting a …
This event originated in Architecture.
Reading - Nonfiction

Make Your Home Among Strangers: Jennine Capó Crucet

Public Book Reading

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4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Colonial A and B
First Generation Nebraska is sponsoring a reading of “Make Your Home Among Strangers” by Jennine Capó Crucet, associate professor of English and ethnic studies, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 8 in Nebraska Union Colonial A and B.
Colloquium

Terrance Pendleton, Drake University

The Camassa-Holm Equation: Analysis, Numerics, Generalizations and Applications

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4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Location: Avery Hall Room: 115
In this talk, we study the dynamics of the interaction among a special class of solutions of the one-dimensional Camassa-Holm equation and its generalizations. The equation yields soliton solutions whose identity is preserved through nonlinear …
This event originated in Math Colloquia.
Social Event

Cocktails with Mixologist Morgan Mason

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5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: The Mill Coffee & Bistro
Mixologist Morgan Mason will be at The Mill Coffee & Bistro at NIC on Fridays from 5:00 p.m. to close. Stop in for an interactive experience as Morgan explains the what and why of each drink!
This event originated in NIC Events Calendar.
Social Event

NU vs Minnesota Pre Match Social

Hosted by the Nebraska Wrestling Training Center

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5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Location: The Mill Coffee & Bistro
Stop by The Mill Coffee & Bistro at NIC before the Huskers wrestle Minnesota on Friday night! Social from 5:00-6:30 p.m., Husker match at 7:00 p.m.
This event originated in NIC Events Calendar.
Activity

Friday at the Unions: The Office Trivia

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7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Crib
Beats. Bears. Battlestar Galactic. Office Trivia. If you know everything there is to know about the hit TV show The Office, then join the Nebraska Unions for The Office Trivia! We’ll provide the food, you bring the knowledge. There will be a prize …
Performing Arts - Theater

My Ántonia

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7:30 pm
Location: Johnny Carson Theater
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Willa Cather’s novel, this new theatrical adaptation of My Ántonia is told through the memories of narrator Jim Burden. Jim returns to Nebraska after 20 years to see Ántonia, the immigrant girl who shaped …
This event originated in Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Activity

Sailesh the Hypnotist (Rescheduled)

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7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Location: Nebraska East Union Room: Great Plains Room
UPC Nebraska presents Sailesh, The Hypnotist. An experienced performer with more than 20 years of experience and 5,000+ shows at colleges, universities, clubs, corporate and festival events. Sailesh has changed the minds of skeptics everywhere with …

Ongoing Events

Exhibition

Museum Builders: A Story of Fossils and Friendship

Temporary Exhibition at Morrill Hall

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9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Morrill Hall
This temporary exhibition explores the history of paleontology and the friendship that led to the construction of the University of Nebraska State Museum, Morrill Hall.
Art Exhibition

Elders: Character Over Time

An Art Exhibition Presented by Chuck Schroeder

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7:00 am – 10:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Innovation Campus Room: Link (2nd floor)
Artist Chuck Schroeder has a kaleidoscope career. From leadership positions in politics, industry, art, Western culture and higher education, he has engaged with people from U.S. presidents and CEO’s to cowboys, scientists, artists, horn players …
This event originated in NIC Events Calendar.
Activity

Graduate Audition Days

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8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Westbrook Music Building
February 8, 2019 – Jazz
This event originated in Music.