Lecture
Time:
Talking Out of School: Academic Freedom and Extramural Speech
Date:
2:00 pm –
3:30 pm
Location:
Nebraska Union
Room: Auditorium
Michael Bérubé, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Penn State and a former president of the Modern Language Association, will be giving a talk on extramural speech and academic freedom, followed by a Q&A.
This event originated in English.
Lecture
Time:
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Stout Lecture
Date:
3:30 pm
Location:
Bessey Hall
Room: 117
John Anderson, Loughborough University, will present, “Carbon, lakes, and landscapes.”
Colloquium
Time:
Michelle Chang, Chem Colloquium
Date:
3:30 pm –
4:30 pm
Location:
Hamilton Hall
Room: 112
Professor Michelle C. Chang, University of California-Berkeley, will present the Organic Reactions Award Lecture entitled “Synthetic Biology Approaches to New Chemistry”.
This event originated in Chemistry.
Steven Dunbar, UNL, and Kristin Pfabe, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Gerrymandering and Mathematics
4:00 pm –
4:50 pm
Location:
Avery Hall
Gerrymandering is the practice of manipulating the boundaries of an electoral constituency to favor one party or class. We’ll sketch the history of gerrymandering and the court cases around it. We’ll describe “packing” and “cracking,” the …
This event originated in Math Colloquia.
Special Event
Time:
Spring Open House – Behlen Observatory
Date:
8:00 pm –
11:00 pm
Location:
Behlen Observatory
Open to the general public.
This event originated in Physics.
Ongoing Events
Exhibit - Artifacts
The Heart of Campus: A N150 Exhibit
Date:
–
Time:
All Day
Location:
Love Library South
Room: 218
“The Heart of Campus” is a new exhibit to celebrate N150. A special tribute to University Hall and other artifacts curated by the University Archives & Special Collections staff are featured. A selection of archival photographs run on the virtual …
This event originated in Libraries.