MONA art:
The Museum of Nebraska Art highlights a specific artist regularly in the library.  This semester’s artist is John Falter, a native of Plattsmouth, NE, and best known for his cover paintings in The Saturday Evening Post.   The artwork is displayed on the main floor, at the entrance to the library and within the  Cafe.

Departmental posters:
For the last three years the Library has been show casing the work of UNK’s faculty, departments, and service units through a series of displays.  The displays are up for about a month during the school year.  You can view many past displays on the Library’s flickr page.   Current posters featured are from the departments of Geography & Earth Science and Computer Science & Information Systems.

Student research:
During the same period, over thirty students have had their research displayed in Library in the form of posters.  The posters are provided by the Office of Undergraduate Research and represent the broad range of research interests UNK students have; all have been previously exhibited at either the Fall or Spring Student Research Day.   Posters, two at a time, are up for about a month.  Currently, see posters by Jordan Heiliger/Dr. Longo and Jess T. Lammers/W. Wyatt Hoback.  You can view many of these posters  on the Library’s flickr page.

Gifts from China:
Chancellor Kristensen joined a delegation from the University of Nebraska at Kearney on a Recruitment and Development trip to China in the summer of 2011.  Some of the beautiful and unusual gifts he received from our Chinese counterparts and colleagues are on display on the first floor by the Cafe for all of the UNK community to enjoy.  Cities visited include:  Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Beijing, Weihai, Shenyang, and Shijiazhuang.

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“A Sample of CSIS Activities“

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“A Sample of CSIS Student Research”

Follow the “UNK Student Research Posters” category of In Brief Online for updates on student research displays at the library.

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Follow the “UNK Student Research Posters” category of In Brief Online for updates on student research displays at the library.

During May 2011, the following student research poster is on display on the library’s main level:

Effects On Longevity Of Drosophila melanogaster After Using Mutational Insertions To Knock-out Genes, by Rachel R. Hall and Dr. Kimberly A. Carlson, Department of Biology at University of Nebraska Kearney. [View a PDF of this poster]

Follow the “UNK Student Research Posters” category of In Brief Online for updates on student research displays at the library.

During January 2011, the following student research posters will be on display on the library’s main level:

House Committees and Leadership: Autonomy versus Collective Action, by Jared Krejci.  Mentor: Dr. Joan M. Blauwkamp.
Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska Kearney. [View a PDF of this poster]

Layers, Color Theory Project, by Victoria Goro Rapaport, Mark Hartman, and Jeremy Eggleston. Department of Art & Art History, University of Nebraska Kearney. [View a PDF of this poster]

Follow the “UNK Student Research Posters” category of In Brief Online for updates on student and faculty research displays at the library.

During December 2010, the following student research posters will be on display on the library’s main level:

Analysis of the Positional Distribution of Gamma Ray Bursts. Joshua Moravec and Dr. Aaron Clark. Department of Physics, University of Nebraska Kearney. [View a PDF of this poster]

Correlations between Disgust Sensitivity, Personality Characteristics, and Birth Order. Markeya S. Dubbs. Faculty mentor: Dr. William Wozniak. Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska Kearney.  [View a PDF of this poster]

Follow the “UNK Student Research Posters” category of In Brief Online for updates on student and faculty research displays at the library.

During November, the following student research posters will be on display on the library’s main level:

Discovering Character with Sandburg: New Territory in an Annotated Transcription. Sada Hotovy and Dr. Kathryn Benzel. Department of English, University of Nebraska Kearney.  [View a PDF of this poster]

Active Love Against Ivan’s Madness.  Eliot Wondercheck and Dr. Tom Martin. Department of Philosophy, University of Nebraska Kearney.  [View a PDF of this poster]

Follow the “UNK Student Research Posters” category of In Brief Online for updates on student and faculty research displays at the library.

During September, this student research poster will be on display on the library’s main level (also available here in PDF format):

Parental Influence on Child Weight Loss: Results from a 12-week Family-Based Intervention. Charles E. Sepers Jr., AA; R. Todd Bartee, PhD (Mentor); Kate A. Heelan, PhD; Nancy Foster, PhD.  Department of HPERLS, University of Nebraska Kearney.

Watch In Brief Online for updates on student and faculty research displays at the library.

In May, stop by the library to see the following student research poster:

Epizoochory in cattle: Different dispersal rates between cows and calves and implications for range management. Roxanna F. Fees, student researcher. Dr. Keith Geluso, faculty mentor, Department of Biology.

April’s student research poster is  Comparative study of the mechanical and physical characteristic differences of E85, 10%ethanol, and gasoline in small non-road engines (SNRE’s). Kyle Smydra, student researcher. Dr. Mike Larsen, faculty mentor, Department of Physics and Physical Sciences.

This poster will be on display in the entrance area until the end of March.

Don’t forget Student Research Day is April 8th.  For more information contact John Falconer, Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity, 865-8894 or www.unk.edu/ugr.

Interested in student research? The library continues to display examples of student research posters.  Currently on display are:

A Comparative Study of the Maternal and Child Health System & Status in the U.S. & Nepal. Sapana Upadhyay, student researcher. Dr. Jody L. Van Laningham, faculty mentor, Department of Social Work.

Secession in an Anarchic World: State Support and Opposition in the 21st Century. Sarah Kurz, student researcher. Dr. Christopher Stevens, faculty mentor, Department of Political Science.

These posters will be on display near the library’s circulation desk through February. Please drop by to read about the research endeavors of UNK students.

Welcome back students, faculty, and staff!

To start off the new semester and the new year, the library has two new student research posters on display:

• The Role of Mortality Salience in Mate Selection, by Bryan C. Todd and Jason K Wood, Department of Psychology.

• Corporate Crime: A Comparison of Culture at Enron and Satyam, by Deepti Khedekar and Dr. Larry Carstenson, Department of Management.

These posters will be on display near the library’s Circulation Desk through January.

Please drop by to read about the research endeavors of our students.

The library and the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities have inaugurated a display of UNK student’s research.

Visit the library to view:

• Affordable Ways to Detect and Measure Rain One Drop at a Time. Kyle Smydra and Ben Fullerton, student investigators. Mike Larsen, faculty mentor, Physics

• Novel Fluorescent Probe for Mercury Detection. John Blecha, student investigator. Haishi Cao, faculty mentor, Chemistry .

This display will be up through the end of the semester.

The second set of posters in the series to be placed on view in the library. The first display included two posters:

• Development of a Chromatographic Method to Determine the Concentration of Virginamycin in Water Samples. Taylor L. Carlson, student investigator. Annette C. Moser, faculty mentor, Chemistry.

• The Massacre Canyon: The Last Buffalo Hunt. Shane D. Riley, student investigator. Mark Ellis, faculty mentor, History.

Please drop in and read about the research endeavors of our students.

To showcase the work of as many students as possible, we hope to be able to rotate the display about every two weeks.