UNL Offers TIME MANAGEMENT Workshops
Did you know that UNL offers academic success workshops to ALL undergraduate students for free? The workshops cover a variety of topics including TIME MANAGEMENT – which our advisors believe to be the most consistently covered topic we discuss in our individual advising sessions. If you need an extra push to help you become a better time manager – please consider attending one of these workshops:
http://success.unl.edu/current/workshops
Other topics covered include: “Note Taking”, “Procrastination & Motivation”, and “Stress Management”.
Additionally, there are specific workshops for international students that cover: “Connecting Reading & Lectures”, “Listening in Lectures”, and “Group Work”.
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The Media Center laser cutters are now available 24 hours a day with student PaperCut accounts. Additionally we are working on an effective signup system for the laser cutters - Matt
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Know someone interested in design or planning? Encourage them to register for our upcoming
Open House!
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COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING
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Planning students in CRPL 900 Professional Planning Practice, as well as other members of the CRP Program’s Student Planning Association of Nebraska (SPAN) and planners who are participants in the Nebraska Chapter of the American Planning Association’s Emerging Planners Group, were hosted by JEO Consulting Group at the company’s Lincoln office on Thursday evening, September 6.
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Second and third-year landscape architecture students visited the firm OHH Ochsner Hare and Hare, a design studio of Olsson Associates located in Lincoln, Nebraska. The firm visit introduced students to the career of landscape architecture and the range of skill and project types covered in professional practice. The experience helped the students discover the link between what they do now in school and what they can become in the future. Ochsner Hare & Hare is a landscape architecture and planning design studio originally located in Kansas City, Missouri.
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The second-year design-studio, ARCH 210 Represent, is hard at work on design-build installations on P Street in downtown Lincoln. The instructors are Peter Olshavsky, Marc Maxey and new faculty members, Bud Shenefelt and Zac Porter.
As coordinator of second-year studio, Dr. Olshavsky explains PARK(ING) DAY | LINCOLN 2018:
“After nearly five weeks of hard work, approximately 68 second-year architecture students are working to construct installations for PARK(ing) Day in downtown Lincoln.
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This week, on Friday, September 21
st, the fourth- year interior design students will present their internship experiences at 12 pm in the Gallery. The Interior Design Program requires a three-credit (225 minimum working hours) paid internship experience to be completed in the summer between their third and fourth year. The program has a very intentional sequence of courses and learning outcomes related to professional development that threads through a series of courses to help prepare and align student learning with job placement and learning experiences that allow students to apply their knowledge and skills as an interior designer in-training with low risk failure and the mentorship of professionals.
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Day’s Work Featured at the Museum of Design Atlanta
Professor
Jeffrey L Day’s
Soft Stones, furniture creations, will be on display at the Museum of Design Atlanta as part of the exhibition Design for Good, curated by John Cary.
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The New FACT Website Has Launched:
www.factlab.org
The site features current and past FACT projects with information about external partners and student participants. The home page highlights selected projects, news and an Instagram feed affording students an opportunity to promote work in progress as well as completed FACT projects. FACT will add more work to the projects archive over the next several weeks.
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STUDENT & FACULTY COMPETITIONS
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AIGA is very proud to offer the annual
Designing Opportunity Scholarship. Students who exhibit excellence in their field can receive financial support to explore their potential as designers.
Submission Deadline:
Sept 24
They are looking for research projects that address Bottom-Up Social Change: Materials, Buildings, Community.
Submission Deadline:
Sept. 26
For 2019, HDR is awarding scholarships ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 to students that are, or will be, enrolled in graduate programs (applicant must have graduated by the end of Spring Semester 2019). In addition to these scholarships, the awardees are also offered a guaranteed paid internship.
Submission Deadline: Nov. 16
Calling All Grad Students! Announcing the 2019 HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition
Submission Deadline: Feb. 04
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Now taking applications for 2019!
First Submission Deadline: Oct. 15
Also check out the College of Architecture website for additional internship and job
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Plus, University of Nebraska Career Services encourages you to view a few of their new Full-Time job postings at
Handshake.
Check them out!
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Date:
Sep. 17, 2018
Time:
1 pm–4:40 pm
Date:
Sept. 20
Time:
5 pm
Date:
Sept. 21
Time:
9-5 pm
Location:
P Street - Downtown Lincoln
Date:
Sept. 26
Time:
12 pm
Location:
Lunch & Learn
Date: Sept. 26
UNL interior design Alumnae Jennifer Shoemaker with Maynard Interiors will show products from Soelberg Industries and various other lines she represents.
Lunch & Learn
Date: Oct. 10-12
Time: 12-1 pm
Sensitile Systems will provide a webinar "Light-Manipulating Materials: Create, Build, Inspire" This is offered for one AIA or IDCEC CEU.
Professional Advisory Council Meeting
Date:
Sept. 28
CoA Open House
Date:
Oct. 5
Date:
Oct. 5
Time:
4 pm
Fall Break
Date: Oct. 15-16
UNL Research Fair
Date:
Nov. 6-8
Student Holiday
Date:
Nov. 21
UNL Holiday
Date:
Nov. 22-23
UNL Commencement
Date:
Dec. 14 & 15
UNL Holiday Break
Date:
Dec. 24-Jan. 1
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Place
:Nebraska Innovation Campus
Date:
Oct. 2-3
Date:
Sep. 18, 2018
Time:
11 am–5 pm
Date:
Oct. 11-13 in
Place:
Milwaukee
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