Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Raise Awareness, Theatre and Cinema
Description : The Inter-tribal Student Council, Tribal Management and Emergency Services, Office of Multicultural Affairs, American Multicultural Student Agency, Vision Maker Media are proud to host the 6th Annual Native American Film Festival
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
16
Topics:
Description : "My Life with the Castros: One Scholar’s Unlikely Journey." Jonathan Benjamin Alvarado, Ph.D., is the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs at the University of Nebraska Omaha. As the chief student affairs officer, he oversees diversity, inclusion, and equity issues on campus. This includes the divisions of Veterans and Military Affairs, Multicultural Affairs, Academic and Career Development, and Gender and Sexuality Resources. He has been instrumental in the creation of scholarship and pathway programs at UNO serving first-generation college students and other under-represented groups. He is also a Professor of Political Science, with an emphasis on U.S. Foreign Policy, International Development and National Security. For the past 30 years, Benjamin-Alvarado has conducted research related to Cuba’s attempts to address energy development issues, including it nuclear energy program. This has taken him to the island over 30 times, where he has engaged and worked with the entirety of Cuba’s leadership including former President Fidel Castro and other members of the ruling family.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : n 1988, the National Coalition of Juvenile Justice State Advisory Groups authored a report which shed light on the extent of the disproportional makeup of minority youth confined in secure facilities across the country. The groundbreaking report lead to Congressional action mandating states participating in Formula Grants programs to address efforts to reduce the disproportion. This Summit provides an opportunity to engage community members, stakeholders, families, and youth in discussions lead by subject matter experts to identify strategies to reduce disproportionate minority contact (DMC).
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
36
Topics:
Music/Dance
Description : Cory Metcalf is an expert in interactive media and sound. Find out about his role as a support manager for DSP software company, Cycling ’74, and his experiences with the Pilchuck Glass School as part of performance duo NoiseFold. Attendees get the opportunity to hear and see unique demonstrations of recent sound work.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
50
Topics:
Refugees, Raise Awareness
Description : A panel discussion about issues surrounding immigration and education.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
4
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education, Literacy, Neighborhood Revitalization
Description : Join educators, librarians, coders, designers, scientists, artists, technologists, and others at Mozilla’s Global Sprint, June 1-2, 2017! Global Sprint is designed to be a fast-paced, two-day event to hack and build projects for a healthy Internet. Held at the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, Global Sprint in Omaha will focus on the creation of a new project, Omaha Parks. The city has no user-friendly portal for aiding the discovery of parks, or for searching or filtering parks based on their amenities. Omaha Parks will seek to bridge that gap by building an interactive map to aid citizens in discovering parks that fit their needs and wants. Omaha Parks is an open source project and values open collaboration. Anyone wishing to take part in Global Sprint is free to come by anytime and stay for as short or as long as they’d like. And the collaboration continues afterward on Github; if you’re unable to attend, discover the community online. Tickets and more information about the event can be found online here. Click to visit the Github community
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
60
Topics:
Holistic Wellness, Art
Description : Dr. Mark Gilbert’s “Portraits of Care, Art and Medicine” Exhibition is now open in the Criss Library Osborne Family Gallery and Weber Fine Arts Gallery. Dr. Gilbert, PhD, is an artist, teacher and researcher currently serving as a Research Associate with the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His work explores the relationship between the humanities and medicine and its application in medical education. He earned a BA in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art, and his Ph.D. in the Medical Sciences Interdepartmental Area (MSIA) program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He was an artist in residence at The Royal London Hospital, England, collaborating with a maxilla facial surgeon and patients as an integral part of their care programming along with.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
30
Topics:
Description : Stacey Springs, PhD, a research faculty member in the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health at Brown University, will provide an interactive session titled “Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Community Engaged Research— Lessons Learned Working Within and Across Disciplinary Boundaries.” Dr. Springs encourages UNO faculty members and students who attend to share their research efforts and goals, particularly as they related to medical and health humanities. This presentation will focus on the approaches and lessons learned from our experience collaborating across departments, universities, and sectors in shared efforts to promote arts-based health interventions within population health planning. For all attendees at this interactive presentation, particularly colleagues who work in the humanities, arts, social sciences, public health, and elsewhere; the main question and concern is, How does the work (and the research) I am doing or considering doing relate to and fit into medical and health humanities? The presentation is on Tuesday, Oct. 23, from 4 P.M. - 5 P.M. at the CEC, room 230. The presentation is sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences. Co-sponsors are the College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media and UNO Medical Humanities. Snacks and beverages will be provided. 27 parking stalls have been assigned in Lot E for guests that do not have UNO permits.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
45
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education
Description : Cybercrimes are becoming more commonplace, more dangerous and more sophisticated. NBDC is partnering with the FBI to educate the business community on the latest onslaught of cyber threats, how you can protect your operation and who to call at the FBI for help. The seminar is part of FBI CREST (Community Relations Executive Seminar Training) – a program designed to build trust and strengthen relationships between the FBI and the communities it serves. Classes are taught by FBI executives, senior special agents, and program managers.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
90
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture, Grief
Description : The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies is pleased to announce that we are hosting the "Moshe Gershovich Memorial Symposium and Publication Workshop on Global North Africa and the Middle East" on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the UNO Community Engagement Center. This symposium will honor the memory of the late Dr. Moshe Gershovich (1959 -2017) by hosting scholars from around the world who, like Moshe, are experts on Global North Africa and the Middle East. Dr. Moshe Gershovich, who was a Professor of History and Director of the Schwalb Center, was passionate about this region and was one of the top experts on Moroccan history. Paying homage to his area of study, the public is invited to two keynote events at 12:30 P.M. and 7 P.M. Dr. Wilfrid Rollman will present the afternoon keynote at 12:30 P.M. on “North African Soldiers in French Service, 1914-1945: Recognizing and Reappraising the Work of Moshe Gershovich.” The evening keynote at 7 P.M. is entitled “” with Dr. William Lawrence. Dr. Rollman is a Senior Lecturer at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and is currently completing the translation and critical study of an Arabic memoir on nineteenth and early 20th century Morocco. Dr. Lawrence is currently a Visiting Professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He was a former State Department Senior Advisor for Global Engagement, International Crisis Group North Africa Director, and Control Risks Associate Director for Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Drs. Lawrence and Rollman were colleagues with Moshe Gershovich and will speak to his legacy.