
Maria Arbelaez
History
402.554.2593
Cultural History of Latin America (19th and 20th century art and literature in Latin America.)
Ken Bales
Music
402.554.3359
Composing Music for a New Century (A composer's viewpoint of today's musical scene with some projections about the music of the 21st century.)
Arthur Homer
Writer's Workshop
402.554.2771
Poetry Reading (Reading of Oriental poems. Homer can recite a short presentation of poems while he accompanies himself on guitar.)
Reading from His Book of Essays: An Ozark Tale (Book of personal essays
on childhood in the Missouri Ozarks and a canoe trip on a flooded river.)
Teresa Trumbly Lamsam
Communication
402.554.4853
Writing/Journalism Across Culture
Community Journalism
Douglas Paterson
Dramatic Arts
402.554.2422
Theatre and Social Change (Ways theatre has historically addressed social issues and community-based work; the work of Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed.)
Theatre in a Rural Culture (Ways rural environments are estranged from mainstream theatre (Uses story of the Dakota Theatre Caravan.)
James Saker
Music
402.554.3446
UNO's International Music Presence
The Winds of Change: Concert Bands in the 21st Century
Pat Behrns
Athletics
402.554.3394
Football (As head football coach, Behrns has led the UNO Mavericks to three NCC titles and four NCAA Division II playoff berths. He has also received NCC Coach of the Year honors.)
Mike Denney
Athletics
402.554.3384
Wrestling (Denney has produced 124 All-American wrestlers during his 23 years as head wrestling coach. He was inducted into the Dakota Wesleyan Hall of Fame and is also in the NCAA Division II, Nebraska Wrestling and the Metro Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fame.)
Tim Hendricks
Athletics
402.554.3265
Women's Cross Country/Track: Developing determination, focus and consistency (Hendricks ran in the 1972 Olympic Marathon trials. He was also honored as the NCC Coach of the Year in 2001 and has been inducted into the Peru State College Hall of Fame.)
Bob Herold
Athletics
402.554.3388
Baseball (Herold played seven minor league seasons and managed eight seasons in the Royals Farm system.)
Mike Kemp
Athletics
402.554.2305
Division I Hockey (Overview of UNO Athletics and Division I hockey. The UNO Mavericks have made it to the CCHA Frozen Four twice and were one win away from the NCAA Division I tournament in 2001.)
Don Klosterman
Athletics
402.554.4962
Soccer (As head women's soccer coach, Klosterman has led the UNO Mavericks to two consecutive NCC titles. Before coming to UNO, he coached the Millard South High School boys soccer team for 10 years, leading them to seven state tournament appearances.)
Bill Nichols
Athletics
402.554.2305
Tennis (Nichols was a former tennis standout at Wichita State and has coached four of his former student-athletes to rankings among the top 100 players in the world.)
Josh Nichter
Athletics
402.554.3224
Sports Medicine
Dave Ogden
Communication
402.554.3132
Baseball and Culture
African-Americans and Baseball
Baseball History
Todd Samland
Athletics
402.554.2539
Training Swimmers or Triathletes (Samland has been honored as the NCC Coach of the Year and guided the Mavericks to a sixth-place finish at the 2002 NCAA Division II National Championship.)
Rose Shires
Athletics
402.554.3407
Volleyball (Shires has received the National Coach of the Year Award while leading UNO to its first ever Volleyball National Championship. She has also been a volunteer for the USA Special Olympics Volleyball team.)
Jeanne Tostenson
Athletics
402.554.3266
Softball (Tostensen guided the 2001 Mavericks to a NCAA Division II National Championship and two NCC titles.)
Fuad Abdullah
Finance & Banking
402.554.2811
Finance (International finance, multinational financial management, global finance and business, banking and financial markets.)
Robert Bernier
Nebraska Business Development Center
402.554.2521
Small Business Finance (Emphasis on working capital management; difference between small business and big business finance.)
Small Business Policy (Small business and economic development. Do tax incentives really work?)
Small Business Strategy in Economics (Suggests alternative internal community strategies on which service organizations, such as Chambers of Commerce, can build their economic base.)
William Corcoran
Economics
402.554.2915
Markets and the Creation of Wealth (Appreciation of markets and market design)
Arthur Diamond
Economics
402.554.3657
Economics of eBusiness
Economics of Science (A survey of economists' contribution to the understanding and advancement of science.)
Economics of Technology
Richard File
Accounting
402.554.2913
Financial Accounting
Corporate Governance
Ziaul Huq
Business Administration
402.554.2529
Management (Total quality management in manufacturing and/or service.)
Management (Embedding JIT in MRP for better productivity.)
John Kretzschmar
William Brennan Institute for Labor Studies
402.595-2343
The Role of Unions in a Market Economy
History of Labor Unions in the United States
Economics for Working People
Collective Bargaining
How Unions Function
Tom Martin
Management
402.554.3655
Quality Management
Turnover in Absenteeism
Rebecca Morris
Business Administration
402.554.3542
Strategic planning for businesses
UNO Strategic Plan (http://www.unomaha.edu/plan/).
Sufi Nazem
Business Administration
402.554.2816
Technology and Economic Development (Rural telecommunications, universal access, information resource management, telecommunications and economic development.)
Wei Rowe
Finance, Banking and Law
402.554.2812
Banking and Financial Markets
Corporate and Board Governance
Mutual Fund Investing
Entry to Chinese Market
Doing Business in China
Karen Falconer Al-Hindi
Women's Studies
402.554.3834
Women's Studies at UNO: Past, Present and Future
Rebecca Morris
Business Administration
402.554.3542
Strategic planning for businesses
UNO Strategic Plan (http://www.unomaha.edu/plan/).
James Saker
Music
402.554.3446
The UNO Bands Program (Overview of the many activities and programs offered.)
The Symphonic Wind Ensemble's Goodwill Concert Tour: Adventures in the Baltic States
UNO's International Music Presence
The Winds of Change: Concert Bands in the 21st Century
Rosalie Saltzman
Honors Program
402.554.2696
Selective College Admissions/Applications
Chris Allen
Communication
402.554.2600
Journalism (Broadcast journalism or general public relations.)
Teresa Trumbly Lamsam
Communication
402.554.4853
Writing/Journalism Across Culture
Community Journalism
Native American Tribal Press
Development Communication
Jeremy Lipschultz
Communication
402.554.2563
Children and Television in America (Violence, indecency, effects and government regulations.)
Public Opinion Polls and Other Falsehoods (Problems of media interpretation of statistical data.)
Internet Studies and Computer Mediated Communication (Free expression and technology issues; invasion of privacy and cultural concerns.)
Federal Communications Commission Regulation and New Technology
Computer-Mediated Communication
David Martin
English
402.391-2937
Writing
Composition
Publication
Hugh Reilly
Communication
402.554.3543
Advertising (variety of topics)
Public Relations (variety of topics)
Frontier Newspapers and Coverage of the Indian Wars
Deborah Smith-Howell
Communication
402.554.4849
Effective Public Speaking
Mass Media and Political Campaigns
Presidential Rhetoric (Looks at presidential speechmaking.)
Melissa Cast
Criss Library
402.554.3130
Evaluating Web Information
Deepak Khazanchi
Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis
402.554.2029
E-Commerce
Project Management
Information Technology Strategy
Information Technology Service Quality
Impact of Information Technology on Small and Medium Enterprises
Jeremy Lipschultz
Communication
402.554.2563
Internet Studies and Computer Mediated Communication (Free expression and technology issues; invasion of privacy and cultural concerns.)
Wai-Ning Mei
Physics
402.554.3729
Computation Can Be Easier (New computer software to perform complicated computation. This presentation is geared toward research and development groups of high-tech companies/groups.)
Linda Parker
Criss Library
402.554.3207
Information Services (UNO Criss Library services that are available to community users, and finding print and electronic information resources.)
James Shaw
Criss Library
402.554.2225
Why Do We Need Libraries if Everything Is on the Internet?
Gresham's Law and the Internet: Was Bill Gates Right when He Said that "Content Is King?"
Where is the Proper Balance?: Public Access to Government Information in an Era of Concern over National Security
Neal Topp
Teacher Education
402.554.2435
Internet in K-12 Classroom (Report on how the Internet is being used to help students learn and produce.)
Peter Wolcott
Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis
402.554.3158
High Performance Computing and U.S. Export Control Policy (Examines the basis for restricting the export of advanced computing technology and the impact of recent changes in export control policy.)
James Wood
Chemistry
402.554.3644
Computers in Chemistry; Modeling Molecular Structure (Discussion of computers used to model structures; examples of reaction design, drug analysis and prediction are given.)
W. Meredith Bacon
Political Science
402.554.4858
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans-gendered Politics
Richard Breaux
Black Studies
402.554.4864
Multiculturalism on College Campuses
Teaching About Racism, Sexism and Homophobia in Education
Rory Conces
Philosophy & Religion
402.554.2947
Ethnic Nationalism and Civil Society Building
Karen Falconer Al-Hindi
Women's Studies
402.554.3834
Surviving and Thriving in a Male-Dominated Career Field (For women's groups.)
Women's Studies at UNO: Past, Present and Future
Imafedia Okhamafe
Philosophy/English
402.554.3467
The Relevance of Nietzsche to 21st-Century Cultural-Diversity Issues
Louis Pol
Marketing
402.554.2596
The Changing Demographics of the United States: Implications for the Next Century
Sharon Ulmar
Diversity/Professional Development Programs
402.554. 2872
What You Need to Know about Discrimination (Includes topics of sexual harassment, ADA, race discrimination, ageism and other types of discrimination.)
Let's Talk About Diversity—Whether You Need it or Not (Facilitates and provides guidance in moving forward in changing environments.)
William Austin
Teacher Education
402.554.3452
Multicultural Education
Cross-Cultural Communication
Effective Teaching Methods for Diverse Learners
Issues of Cultural Diversity
Medicine, Business, Education and Finance
Melissa Cast
Criss Library
402.554.3130
Information Literacy
Plagiarism
Evaluating Web Information
Rory Conces
Philosophy & Religion
402.554.2947
Teaching at Foreign Universities
George Engelmann
Geography/Geology
402.554.4804
Should Evolution Be Taught in Schools? (A look at modern creationist campaigns against the teaching of evolutionary theories in public schools and why this is bad for science education.)
Carol Lloyd
Teacher Education
402.554.3471
Reading and Writing Education in Schools (What we know about teaching children to write. What we know about teaching children to read: phonics, basals and whole language.)
Janice Rech
Mathematics
402.554.2827
Active Learning (How to involve students in instruction to enhance learning.)
Rosalie Saltzman
Honors Program
402.554.2696
PSAT Test Preparation
Richard Stacy
Health, Physical Education and Recreation
402.554.2670
The Grant Writing Process in Health Education (How to identify and locate funding agencies, develop a proposal and avoid common pitfalls.)
Daniel Sullivan
Chemistry
402.554.3646
Science Demonstrations: Unusual Techniques of Attracting and Holding Student Interest (A 40-50 minute program with lots of bangs and flashes. Suitable for children ages 10 to 100.)
Franklin Thompson
Teacher Education
402.554.3603
At-Risk Students and Urban Education (A detailed look at what research shows will enhance or impede the academic achievement of disadvantaged urban students.)
Neal Topp
Teacher Education
402.554.2435
Internet in K-12 Classroom (Report on how the Internet is being used to help students learn and produce.)
James Wood
Chemistry
402.554.3644
Teaching via Research (The importance of under-graduate research in the learning process.)
George Engelmann
Geography/Geology
402.554.4804
Dinosaurs
Harmon Maher
Geography/Geology
402.554.4807
Earthquakes in Nebraska: Predicting Chaos (An illustrated lecture on how to evaluate the risk from a damaging earthquake in Nebraska.)
Earthquakes and Faults
Twenty Years of Research in the High Arctic (Slideshow/lecture describing the landscape, wildlife and field conditions on Svalbard and Spitsbergen—700 miles from the North Pole.)
Nebraska's Geology (Slideshow/lecture of some of Nebraska's geologic highlights.)
Evolution-Creationism debate
Philosophy and Pedagogy of Geoscience
John Shroder
Geography/Geology
402.554.2663
General Geology and Physical Geography
Himalayan Mountains
Natural Hazards—Earthquakes, Landslides and Ground Failure
Anne Coyne
Social Work
402.554.2798
Child Health and Welfare in Nicaragua (Specific diseases and social conditions encountered by Nicaraguan children, projects aimed at eliminating them and the Omaha-Nicaragua connection.)
Kenneth Deffenbacher
Psychology
402.554.2419
Eye (Ear) Witness Testimony
Shelton Hendricks
Arts & Sciences
402.554.2338
Pharmacological Treatment of Anxiety and Depression
Boyd Littrell
Sociology
402.554.3373
Medical Policy and the Future of Democratic Society (The economics and politics of medical services.)
Gwen Weber
Social Work
402.554.2924
Clinical Psychopathology: The Rise of DSM IV (Use and application of DSM IV in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.)
Rami Arav
Bethsaida Excavations Project
402.554.4986)
Bethsaida Excavations (Bethsaida, Israel)
Middle/Near East
History of the Middle East from the Biblical Period until Today
Maria Arbelaez
History
402.554.2593
Mexican-American History (The history of the Mexican-American community.)
Women in Latin American History (Traces the historical development of Latin American women; particularly in labor and culture.)
Richard Breaux
Black Studies
402.554.4864
African-American History
History of Education (K-12)
Higher Education
John Kretzschmar
William Brennan Institute for Labor Studies
402.595-2343
Labor History
Susan Maher
English
402.554.2772
Willa Cather
Jane Austen (and Manners and Hollywood)
Contemporary Great Plains Writers
-Environmental Literature
-Children's Writers of the American West
Oliver Pollak
History
402.554.4821
Jewish History in Nebraska
The Holocaust
Jerold Simmons
History
402.554.4823
Film Censorship: The Good Old-Bad Old Days (Film censorship in the 1950s via the Hollywood Days office and its impact on American culture.)
Michael Skau
English
402.554.3314
The Beat Generation of America (Especially Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghett and William Burroughs.)
America's Hippie Movement
Rami Arav
Bethsaida Excavations Project
402.554.4986
Bethsaida Excavations (Bethsaida, Israel)
Middle/Near East
History of the Middle East from the Biblical Period until Today
Robert Bernier
Nebraska Business Development Center
402.554.2521
Romania: New Frontier for Capitalism
W. Meredith Bacon
Political Science
402.554.4858
Southeastern Europe
Joong-Gun Chung
Political Science
402.554.2624
North Korea
Rory Conces
Philosophy & Religion
402.554.2947
Current Situation in the Balkans
Ethics of Intervention
Ethnic Nationalism and Civil Society Building
Teaching at Foreign Universities
Anne Coyne
Social Work
402.554.2798
Child Health and Welfare in Nicaragua (Specific diseases and social conditions encountered by Nicaraguan children, projects aimed at eliminating them and the Omaha-Nicaragua connection.)
Thomas Gouttierre
International Studies and Programs
402.554.2376
Afghanistan
Global Education
International Human Rights
International Topics (General)
Micro nationalism
New World Order
Persian Gulf/Middle East
Regional Conflicts
Russia
Terrorism
Third World Development
U.S. Foreign Policy
U.S.-Pakistan Relations
Lourdes Gouveia
Sociology
Chicano-a/Latino-a Studies
402.554.3358
Latin American Societies
Sufi Nazem
Business Administration
402.554.2816
Economic Transition in Former Socialist Countries (Discuss the changing economic structure and its effect on people in these countries.)
Imafedia Okhamafe
Philosophy/English
402.554.3467
The Problem with the Relativity of Originary Values
The Relevance of Nietzsche to 21st-Century Cultural-Diversity Issues
Oliver Pollak
History
402.554.4821
The Holocaust
Mark Rousseau
Sociology
402.554.3356
The Separatist Movement in Quebec, Canada (Analysis of the causes and consequences of attempts to make Quebec an independent nation.)
Canada, the U.S. and the Global Economy (The often conflicting interests of corporations, governments and citizens in the era of the World Trade Organization.)
James Shaw
Criss Library
402.554.2225
Where is the Proper Balance?: Public access to government information in an era of concern over national security
Andris Skreija
Sociology
402.554.2904
What's Happening in the Baltics, Latvia and Poland Regarding Privatization and/or Democratization? (Democratization and ethnic relations are intertwined.)
Shaista Wahab
Criss Library
402.554.2404
International Affairs/Afghanistan
David Corbin
Health, Physical Education and Recreation
402.554.2670
Stress Management (Basic reasons for stress management and simple practical techniques for managing stress.)
Kenneth Deffenbacher
Psychology
402.554.2419
Mnemonics (Memory aids)
Lynn Harland
Management
402.554.2808
Implementing Peer Performance Appraisals in an Organization (Issues to consider when deciding whether to implement peer appraisals.)
Roni Reiter-Palmon
Psychology
402.554.4810
Leadership and Creativity (What do leaders and creative individuals have in common? Do leaders need to be creative? How can we facilitate creative leadership?)
Rose Shires
Women's Athletics
402.554.3407
Goal Setting/Being a Champion (How to make an individual, business or group into champions.)
Team Development (Not just for the athlete; motivational and structural development of a team in the workplace.)
Franklin Thompson
Teacher Education
402.554.3603
Human Relations (Efforts at making a more inclusive, thus more fair, place to live requires more than high sounding phrases and politically correct cosmetics. We must answer the call to change.)
Rebecca Morris
Business Administration
402.554.3542
Strategic Planning for Businesses
UNO Strategic Plan (http://www.unomaha.edu/plan/).
Roni Reiter-Palmon
Psychology
402.554.4810
Leadership and Creativity (What do leaders and creative individuals have in common? Do leaders need to be creative? How can we facilitate creative leadership?)
Sharon Ulmar
Diversity/Professional Development Programs
402.554. 2872
What You Need to Know about Discrimination (Includes topics of sexual harassment, ADA, race discrimination, ageism and other types of discrimination.)
Let's Talk About Diversity—Whether you Need it or Not (Facilitates and provides guidance in moving forward in changing environments.)
Randall Adkins
Political Science
402.554.3617
American Politics (Presidency, Congress, Campaigns and Election Analysis)
Maria Arbelaez
History
402.554.2593
Mexican-American History (The History of the Mexican-American community)
W. Meredith Bacon
Political Science
402.554.4858
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans-gendered Politics
Loree Bykerk
Political Science
402.554.3613
Consumer Groups & Public Policy (Consumer groups are numerous, active and have brought many issues to the policy agenda.)
David Corbin
Health, Physical Education and Recreation
402.554.2670
Drugs in American Society (An overview of drug use in America and suggestions for solutions to current problems.)
William Corcoran
Economics
402.554.2915
The Omaha Economy (How Omaha's industrial structure is different, which industries add to Omaha's wealth and which are growing or declining.)
Anne Coyne
Social Work
402.554.2798
Adoption of Developmentally Disabled Children (The types of families that adopt these children; their motivation and problems encountered.)
Jerry Deichert
Center for Public Affairs Research
402.554.2311
Nebraska's Changing Age Structure
Population Changes in Nebraska Counties and Regions
What Does the 2000 Census Tell Us About the Omaha Area?
Lourdes Gouveia
Sociology
Chicano-a/Latino-a Studies
402.554.3358
Latino Immigrants in the Meat Packing Industry
Meat Packing Industry and Rural Changes in Nebraska
James Johnson
Political Science
402.554.3615
Public Opinion, Elections and Nebraska Politics
Kent Kirwan
Political Science
402.554.4862
The Presidential/Congressional Struggle: The Founders' View of Leadership in a Liberal Democracy (The Constitutional design of the Congressional/Presidential relationship.)
The Statesmanship of George Washington (Life and times of George Washington, his role in the Revolutionary War, as President of the Constitutional Convention and establishing the Presidency.)
John Kretzschmar
William Brennan Institute for Labor Studies
402.595.2343
Unions and Politics
What Unions Do
Labor History
Unions in Health Care
Why Unions are Necessary
Collective Bargaining
Boyd Littrell
Sociology
402.554.3373
Crime, Drugs and Law in Democratic Society
Tom Martin
Philosophy and Religion
402.554.2628
Science and Religion
Christian Ethics
Bible: New Testament
Robbin Ogle
Criminal Justice
402.554.2610
Corrections and Its Roles in Society (Academic and pragmatic views of correctional organizations and actual work.)
Louis Pol
Marketing
402.554.2596
The Changing Demographics of the United States: Implications for the Next Century
Oliver Pollak
History
402.554.4821
Jewish History in Nebraska
B.J. Reed
Public Administration/Community Service
402.554.2676
Improving Government Management (Ways government can improve operations; new tools available and what appears to work.)
Local Government Management (How to increase community effectiveness and efficiency at local level.)
Strategic Planning in Government (How to improve government by applying strategic planning and management to public organization. Good for civic, business and governmental groups.)
James Shaw
Criss Library
402.554.2225
Where is the Proper Balance?: Public access to government information in an era of concern over national security
Gresham's Law and the Internet: Was Bill Gates right when he said that "Content is King?"
Why Do We Need Libraries if Everything Is on the Internet?
Deborah Smith-Howell
Communication
402.554.4849
Mass Media and Political Campaigns
Presidential Rhetoric (Looks at Presidential Speechmaking.)
Richard Stacy
Health, Physical Education and Recreation
402.554.2670
Empowerment: Activating Individual and Organizational Potential to Attack Contemporary Health Problems (Potential for 'grassroots' approach in addressing problems such as violence, adolescent pregnancy and drug use.)
Sharon Ulmar
Chancellor's Office
Diversity/Professional Development Programs
402.554. 2311
What you Need to Know about Discrimination (Includes topics of sexual harassment, ADA, age discrimination and other types of discrimination.)
Let's Talk About Diversity—Whether you Need it or Not (Facilitates and provides guidance in moving forward in changing environments.)
Samuel Walker
Criminal Justice
402.554.3590
Police and Crime
Police/Community Relations
James Carroll
Chemistry
402.554.3639
The Scientific Method is a Myth? (Science does not progress as smoothly as 'scientific method' implies. What are the implications for science?)
Bruce Chase
Biology
402.554.2586
Gene Cloning and Applications
Human Genome Project
Jack Heidel
Mathematics
402.554.2417
Chaos (Chaos-study of deterministic randomness. Typically describes complicated behavior that has clearly predictable patterns such as the three-body problem, turbulent fluid flow or cardiac arrhythmia.)
Fractals (Fractals: Geometry-Complicated self similar patterns such as leaf spirals, river basins and cardiac arrhythmias.)
Shelton Hendricks
Arts and Sciences
402.554.2338
Biological Basis of Sexual Orientation
Tom Martin
Philosophy and Religion
402.554.2628
Science and Religion
Wai-Ning Mei
Physics
402.554.3729
Surface Structure Studies: Using Low Energy and Photo-Electron Spectroscopy (Introduces the area of surface science and tools used to study them.)
Richard Stasiak
Biology
402.554.2295
Fishes of Nebraska (Description of all fishes found in this state, using color slides.)
Daniel Sullivan
Chemistry
402.554.3646
The Chemistry of Love: How Pheromones Dictate Animal Behavior (A 30-40 minute slide show and discussion of animal behavior driven by the chemical messengers known as pheromones.)
Maria Arbelaez
History
402.554.2593
Women in Latin American History (Traces the historical development of Latin American women; particularly in labor and culture.)
Loree Bykerk
Political Science
402.554.3613
Women and Politics (Historical baseline and assessment of women's issues today.)
Karen Falconer Al-Hindi
Women's Studies
402.554.3834
Meeting the Challenge of Home and Career: Geography, Gender and Work
Surviving and Thriving in a Male-Dominated Career Field (For women's groups.)
Women's Studies at UNO: Past, Present and Future
Robbin Ogle
Criminal Justice
402.554.2610
New Theory on Homicide Committed by Women (Social, cultural, psychological and biological variables are used to explain killing by women in all settings.)
Sharon Sobel
Dramatic Arts
402.554.3630
Tracing the Changing Shape of Women's Fashions (Slide lecture illustrating the history of the corset and other devices used to alter the silhouettes of women.)
Gwen Weber
Rural Mental Health Services to Women (Findings of recent research in rural mental health services and implications for services to women.)