Language Fair
“Translation: Building Language Bridges”
Date:
Time:
8:00 am –
3:00 pm
Location:
Nebraska Union
Room: Various
Our 44th annual Language Fair will provide an opportunity for high school students from across the state studying Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish to demonstrate their acquisition of language and culture in various competitive …
This event originated in Modern Languages and Literatures.
Artist in Residence Linda Rivera García
Working in the studio
Recurring Date Info:
Time:
Daily:
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Date:
10:00 am
Location:
Great Plains Art Museum Room: Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence Studio & Education Lab
Target Audiences:
The Great Plains Art Museum will host Omaha-based artist Linda Rivera García as the 2023 Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence. Rivera García is a Mexican-American Chicana artist, teacher, and storyteller who has been sharing her culture …
This event originated in Center for Great Plains Studies.
Big Red Pawp Up
THERAPY DOGS ON CAMPUS
Date:
Time:
12:00 pm –
1:30 pm
Location:
Love Library South
Room: Peterson room 221
Get ready to cuddle and shake paws with some furry friends between classes and studying. De-stress and unwind with certified therapy dogs in the library.
Seminar Series - Patricia Janak
Rural Drug Addiction Research Center
Date:
Time:
1:30 pm –
2:30 pm
Location:
Zoom
Join us for our virtual April Seminar Series event featuring a presentation by Patricia Janak on “Subcortical Brain Circuits Gate Motivation: Implications for Addiction.”
This event originated in Rural Drug Addiction Research Center.
Reading - Fiction/poetry
Jasmin Attia, author of ‘The Oud Player of Cairo’
Date:
Time:
3:30 pm
Location:
Francie & Finch Bookshop
Author Jasmin Attia will be in conversation about her new novel, THE OUD PLAYER OF CAIRO, with UNL’s Joy Castro. THE OUD PLAYER OF CAIRO is the compelling story of a young Egyptian woman, Laila, who defies the restrictive traditional roles set for …
This event originated in English.
Jim Downs
Linda and Charles Wilson Humanities in Medicine Lecture
Date:
Time:
3:30 pm
Location:
Sheldon Museum of Art
Room: Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
Jim Downs is currently the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University and the author of “Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine”.
This event originated in Humanities In Medicine.
Lecture
Uncommon DH Critic Lecture: Natalie Houston
Date:
Time:
3:30 pm –
5:00 pm
Location:
Andrews Hall
Room: Bailey Library (Room 229)
Natalie Houston is Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Lowell.
This event originated in English.
Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Hearing the forest for the trees: Understanding LIGO/Virgo’s plurality of singularities
4:00 pm –
5:00 pm
Location:
Jorgensen Hall Room: 136
Target Audiences:
Dr. Ben Farr will present his colloquium topic, “Hearing the forest for the trees: Understanding LIGO/Virgo’s plurality of singularities” in-person.
This event originated in Physics.
Workshop
Defense Intelligence Agency: Analysis Career Info Session
Date:
Time:
5:00 pm –
6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Target Audiences:
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Analysis Career Field (ACF) is now hiring! You’re invited to join us for this virtual info session to hear from Career Development Officers, including one of our top STEM Career Development Officers, to learn …
This event originated in CAS Career Development.
Professor Sangjin ‘Otaku’ Ryu- Lecture: Demon Slayer!
Kawasaki Reading Room
Date:
Time:
5:00 pm –
6:30 pm
Location:
Heritage Room- City Union Room: Heritage Room
Target Audiences:
In the next installment of his hit ‘Professor Otaku’ lecture series, Dr. Sangjin Ryu will again bring real-world science into the anime universe! This time, he will explore some of the physics behind the Demon Slayer: Mugen Train movie - you won’t …
This event originated in Kawasaki Reading Room .
Rivers of Power: How an Ancient Force Rules Us Still
Norman D. Smith Lecture for Public Understanding of Science
Date:
Time:
7:00 pm
Location:
Nebraska Union
Room: Swanson Auditorium
Target Audiences:
There is a vast, arterial power humming all around us, hiding in plain sight. It has shaped human civilizations more than any road, technology, or war. It has opened frontiers, founded cities, settled borders, and fed billions. It promotes life, …
This event originated in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
