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tuesday, september 18, 2012
Class explores Chinese culture kALEE hOLLAND dn
unl law professor will serve on trafficking task force
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Rachel Zeng explains different options for dumpling ingredients to her students at a cooking class in Leverton Hall on UNL’s East Campus on Monday evening. About 30 people came together in the classroom to steam, pan-fry and boil the meat and vegetable-filled treat.
common ingredients in dumplings • Vegetables like red pepper, carrots, cabbage and scallions • Lean pork or beef • Ginger • Soy sauce • Five spices powder • Red chili oil • Small dried shrimp • Chopped cilantro were divided up and cooked. When the dumplings were fully cooked, the students were allowed a taste of their own handiwork. Brian Sabatka and Susan Kruse, two of Selleck Quadrangle’s own Food Service workers, also attended the dumplings class. “We wanted to learn how to make (the dumplings) from scratch to maybe do them in the future for the Chinese New Year,” Sabatka said. Former Confucius Institute employee Joyce Young was also in attendance and said her desire to create the dumplings at home and
A professor of law at the University of NebraskaLincoln will serve as co-chair of Nebraska’s human trafficking task force research subcommittee. Gov. Dave Heineman appointed Anna Shavers to serve on the task force, which will investigate and research human trafficking in Nebraska, according to a university press release. Shavers began working at the College of Law in 1989 and is a “frequent national and international presenter on immigration and administrative law issues,” according to her UNL faculty profile.
unl holds its spot in college ranking
The 2013 U.S. News and World Report ranked the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 101st amongst the nation’s top universities. UNL is tied with four other schools in its ranking, which it also held last year, according to a university press release. The ranking placed UNL 47th among public universities, up two spots from last year’s ranking. The university’s academic reputation score and graduation rate both increased from last year, according to the release.
lecture series to highlight reproductive issues jon augustine | dn
Eve Huang, a Lincoln resident and teacher at Adams Elementary, prepares a pan of raw dumplings to be boiled. Dumplings are a popular food in China, where entire families will gather together to help in making a batch. share them with others brought her out. The initial offer for the cooking class was 20 pre-paid and registered participants. However, another 12 people called after the
class had been filled. Now, they’re on a waiting list, and a second class may be in their futures, according to Zeng. NEWS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
Balloon launches a learning opportunity Maren Westra DN Herbie Husker is expanding his horizons. Dressed in an astronaut suit, the figure hitched a ride on one of three high-altitude weather balloons that were launched from Memorial Stadium during halftime at the Husker football game Saturday. The weather balloons ascended 18 miles into the sky and left the atmosphere, capturing images of the world beneath them before falling back to earth. According to Ethan Van Winkle, a senior physics major, weather balloons are commonly used, but the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is using them in a new way. In a brainstorming session, elementary and high school students – under the supervision of Van Winkle and junior physics and mathematics major Caleb Mayfield – decided to send seeds, insects and other materials with the balloons to see how they were affected by radiation once they left the atmosphere, Mayfield said. Mayfield was also a supervisor on the project. “They had some pretty good ideas,” Van Winkle said. Professor of physics and astronomy Greg Snow, a lead organizer on the project, said the students represented both Omaha Public Schools and Lincoln Public Schools. Four UNL undergraduate students and about 15 public school students were involved. According to Mayfield, two of the high-altitude weather balloons held the experiments, while the other was attached to a banner advertising the launch. The banner fell off the balloon sometime after the launch, Mayfield said, and whoever finds it and calls the contact phone number on it will have the opportunity to meet, take a photo with and get the autograph of NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson. Snow said some of the objects
sheldon seeks student Tour Guides
The Sheldon Museum of Art is searching for students who would like to become volunteer tour guides, or docents. Volunteers are not required to be artists or art historians and will be trained by the Sheldon staff to take students and student groups on tours, according to a press release. The next training session is Friday and will cover special exhibitions at the museum and information on the museum’s landmark building. Volunteers will also speak with museum staff and practice giving tours. The training will consist of six weekly meetings held on Fridays between 3 and 4:30 p.m. After docents complete training, volunteers will be expected to attend meetings and artist talks monthly to stay up to date with the museum’s programs and exhibits.
Community members gain insight into Chinese culture through cooking
In a busy, loud kitchen, almost 30 Lincolnites rolled, cut, mushed, formed and filled Chinese dumpling wrappers Monday evening at a University of Nebraska-Lincoln cooking and culture class aimed at introducing Chinese tradition to the community. Inside Leverton Hall, instructors detailed the origins, symbolism and meaning of the dumpling in Chinese culture, and then they set the cooks loose. “The mission is to teach language and culture, and promote cultural exchange between the U.S. and China,” said Rachel Zeng, executive associate director at UNL’s Confucius Institute, which hosted the dumpling-making event. Many of the participants came to the class seeking fun, while others sought Chinese culinary skills that could help them take part in Chinese tradition. “Our daughter ’s Chinese, and we wanted to give her a proper Chinese New Year,” Tish Fobben said. “It’s really interesting.” Instructor Ping’an Huang, associate director at the institute, gave a brief overview of the dumpling-making process, which included four main steps: dough preparation, fillings preparation, wrapper-making and cooking. From there, Huang explained there are three main ways of cooking dumplings: boiling in water, pan frying to make pot stickers and steam-cooking. Common fillings included various meats, eggplant, cabbage, carrot, celery, green onions and ginger, with various sauces for preferred tastes. After the presentation, Zeng and an assistant made the meat and veggie fillings for the students, using pork for one half and beef for the other. Then, the 20 dumpling students were instructed to wash their hands and begin forming the dough into the wrappers, made from a simple combination of bleached flour, water and salt. To create the wrappers, the dough was rolled into a coil and cut into small one-inch cubes, then flattened and rounded by hand and a rolling pin. With the wrappers formed, the filling was added and neatly folded in half. Then, the dumplings
campus briefs
A series of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Women’s and Gender Studies Program lectures will focus on reproductive issues. The first lecture, titled “Whose Business Is It Anyway? Or, How the American Birth Control League Waged Battle Against Commercial Birth Control Clinics in the 1930s,” will take place at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 27 in the Nebraska Union. Associate professor of practice and associate director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program Rose Holz will discuss the birth control clinic movement in the 1930s, according to a university press release. There will be two more lectures on Oct. 25 and Nov. 12: “Surgical Sterilization, Regret and Race: Contemporary Patterns” and “‘This Giving Birth’: The Politics of Pregnancy and Childbirth in African American Women’s History and Literature,” respectively. All lectures will take place at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
animal science professor nets two awards
Animal science professor Terry Klopfenstein won two awards this summer for his research in cattle nutrition, according to a university press release. Klopfenstein received the first award, the American Feed Industry Association’s New Frontiers in Animal Nutrition Award from the Federation of Animal Science Societies, in July for his “pioneering and innovative research … that benefits mankind,” according to the release. The second honor, the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame Industry Leadership Award, recognized the professor for demonstrating “outstanding leadership … exemplary service and … significant contributions to the advancement of the cattle-feeding business,” according to the release. Klopfenstein has worked at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since 1965 and mentored more than 150 graduate students in animal nutrition. courtesy photo by trategic Air & Space Museum | University of Nebraska–LIncoln
Post Burst Chaos soars at 94,997 feet above the Earth. The balloon reached its maximum size before bursting and having a moment of weightlessness before starting its decent back to Earth. sent up included a box with seeds, a radiation-measuring device and half of an orange. The seeds were sent up to see if radiation affected their ability to grow. A control box containing the same variety of seeds was left on the ground with students. The radiation-measuring device, a Geiger counter, will determine how radiation changes with altitude. However, Snow said the results of that particular experiment are easily predicted: radiation and altitude are directly related, meaning as one increases, so does the other. The Geiger counter was sent up more as a celebration of the 100-year anniversary of Victor Hess’ discovery of that relationship, Snow said. And the half of an orange was launched as an experiment in acidity.
The team responsible for that investigation will test the pH levels of the orange half that went to near-space and the other half that stayed on the ground. “Why not see what the effects (on different objects) are?” Snow said. “That’s what science is about.” Mayfield said the balloons were equipped with GPS so they could be tracked as they navigated near-space. Teams followed the balloons, driving vehicles and guided by the GPS. After about an hour and a half in the sky, they landed about 20 miles southeast of Lincoln in Palmyra, Snow said. A practice launch was held last week. The team released two balloons, one of which was fully equipped with scientific material, Van Winkle said.
Mayfield said he appreciated being involved on the project because “you get to hands on work with what you’re studying. You get to find out actually what happens.” According to a UNL press release, the Strategic Air and Space Museum, the University of Nebraska-Omaha, the UNL Department of Physics, the NASA Nebraska Space Grant Consortium, UNL 4-H, Lincoln Public Schools and Omaha Public Schools worked together on the project. “The coolest part (about this project) I enjoy the most is just getting kids involved in science,” Van Winkle said. “I care about the longevity of the investment we put in the kids.” news@ dailynebraskan.com
gloriana to play homecoming concert
American Music Award Breakthrough Artist winner Gloriana will play at University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Homecoming concert Sept. 27. Emmett Bower Band will also play at the free 8 p.m. concert on the East Campus Mall. University Program Council, KX 96.9, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, the UNL College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Student Involvement, Campus Recreation and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs are presenting the show.
correction A caption under the headline “Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge” in the Monday, Sept. 17 edition of the Daily Nebraskan incorrectly identified Jacob Ledbetter in
a photo on page 3.
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