Speakers Bureau features eight CAS presenters

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Speakers Bureau enters its 21st year with numerous speakers and topics. This free service connects faculty and other university experts with Nebraska citizens through service organizations, schools and other groups. Some speakers are available year-round, others only during the academic year.

To get more topic information and book a speaker, visit http://www.speakersbureau.unl.edu.

Our members and their topics:

Christian Binek, associate professor, physics and astronomy

• "Magnetic Refrigeration" 
• "Magnetic Thin Films: From Basic Research to Spintronics"
• "Physics Between High School and High-Tech"

Charles Braithwaite, editor, Great Plains Quarterly, senior lecturer, Department of Communication Studies

• "African Americans on the Great Plains" 
• "The Global Classroom: Using New Communication Technology to Improve Education"
• "Tribal Colleges: Culture and Higher Education on the Plains"

Daniel Claes, professor, physics and astronomy

• "Comic Book Physics 101" 
• "What the Heck is a Higgs Boson?!"
• "Are We Alone in the Universe?"

Don Costello, associate professor emeritus, computer science and engineering

• "When I was a Lad in the Bronx in the '40s" 
• "Information Technology -- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" 
• "Robotics: Status Today, Impact Tomorrow" 
• "Investment Versus Gambling in a Digital Economy" 
• "How You Can Learn to Like Your Computer, But Not Love It"
• "The Computer in Medical Care: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"

Ken Dewey, professor of applied climate sciences, School of Natural Resources

• "Chasing Icebergs"
• "Tornadoes!"

Dick Dienstbier, emeritus professor, psychology

• "Building Resistance to Stress and Aging"
• "Gay or Straight: The Science of Sexual Orientation"

Stephen Ducharme, professor, physics and astronomy, Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience

• "Can a Photon Wave?"
• "Nanoscale Science and Technology"

Greg Snow, professor, physics and astronomy

• "Cosmic Rays from Outer Space -- What Do We Know About Them?" 
• "Did a Giant Asteroid Kill the Dinosaurs?"
• "High Energy Physics and the Discovery of the 'God Particle.'"