International Education Week expands to month-long celebration for November
Every November, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln joins institutions around the world to celebrate International Education Week. This year, Nebraska’s event has expanded to a month-long observance from Nov. 1-24 to celebrate the breadth of global opportunities available to students and the international diversity of the Husker community.
Nebraska’s first Slovakian women’s golfer driving for improvement
50 golfers competed at Elkhorn, Nebraska in Stampede At The Creek. In the end, Michaela Vavrovagolfer, Nebraska’s first Slovakian women’s golfer, stood as champion with a wood plaque that was shaped in the state of Nebraska. She shot a career-best 217 through three rounds to win the individual title when just one week prior, she was benched from a tournament.
Immigration law scholar Wadhia to deliver E.N. Thompson lecture
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, a Penn State law professor and immigration law scholar, will present “Facing Immigrant Exclusion: Then and Now” at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Book launch for new Clayton Yeutter biography is Nov. 4
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln will celebrate a new biography of former U.S. Trade Representative and Secretary of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter with a Nov. 4 book launch. The event will take place at Sheldon Museum of Art, 12th and R streets in Lincoln, and be livestreamed.
Internationally renowned design activist to deliver Hyde Lecture
The College of Architecture will host internationally renowned design activist Jeffrey Hou in the next Hyde Lecture. The free public talk, “Design for Resilience,” is 4 p.m. Oct. 22 via Zoom.
Partners sought for international education celebration
As outlined in the Forward Together global strategy, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is committed to bringing the best from around the world and expanding opportunities for students through innovative, global experiential learning. In this spirit, the Office of Global Partnerships & Initiatives invites all departments, colleges and student organizations to host an event for International Education Week in November, which has been extended to a month-long celebration.
Nebraska Ambassadors Forum is Oct. 26
The university and Lincoln community are invited to attend the 2021 Nebraska Ambassadors Forum from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Oct. 26 in the Nebraska Union's Platte River Room. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is partnering with the University of Nebraska Omaha, Burlington Capital and the American Academy of Diplomacy in Washington, D.C., to host the event this year.
This year’s theme is “Africa in the Contemporary World.” The forum will examine key policy issues facing African governments and the international community between now and 2050. The event is also an opportunity for Americans to learn more about the continent and its rich, nuanced history.
Huskers maintain audiology service in Nicaragua despite travel limitations
It has been more than two and a half years since either Stacie Ray or Hannah Ditmars have been to Nicaragua, but that has not stopped them from continuing the project they started in 2015 to provide sustainable hearing healthcare to a country of people desperately in need of such services.
Thanks to a partnership with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, León (UNAN-León), members of the Husker audiology program have made sure their work has progressed despite their physical absence.
After trip to France, UNL student expands skills to oil painting
About half a year ago, Jay Thaisetthawatkul, a junior physics and Russian double major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, first took up the brush and began painting. He was originally inspired after a trip to France during his junior year of high school, and he finally started in college.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a French impressionist painter, is one of the artists that caught Thaisetthawatkul’s eye. “The Coronation of Napoleon” by Jacques-Louis David and all the other impressionist art at the Louvre were one of the reasons he wanted to start painting, Thaisetthawatkul said.
Husker agronomist co-developing global agriculture platform
How do you feed a growing population while protecting the environment? Using global data, Nebraska agronomist Patricio Grassini is helping agricultural stakeholders find common ground.
The data is known as the Global Yield Gap and Water Productivity Atlas, an online platform that estimates water productivity, crop nutrient requirements and yield gaps — the difference between current and potential yields — for major crops in 70 countries.