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Fri, Mar 26, 2004

MARCH 26-28, 2004

HONORS CONVOCATIONS MARCH 28
24 UNL Seniors to be Honored for Perfect Records

Twenty-four UNL seniors will be honored as Chancellor's Scholars March 28 during the University Scholars Convocation beginning at 4pm in the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.

Chancellor's Scholars are graduating seniors who have perfect 4.0 grade-point averages on all graded work at UNL or elsewhere. A list of Chancellor's Scholars, including students' academic majors and parents' names (if available) can be found at this link.

The University Scholars Convocation will be preceded at 1pm March 28 by a Rising Scholars Convocation. Together, the events will honor more than 3,300 UNL students for academic achievement.

SHELDON, SUN 1-4PM
Sheldon to Host Family Day

Bring your kids, grandchildren and friends to the Sheldon for a fun afternoon of creative activity. Family Day activities inside the museum encourage children to think about seeing the architecture of the building, the paintings and sculpture of the permanent collection and exhibitions in new ways.

Learning will be fun-filled through games and art-making activities. Children will have the opportunity to participate in favorite Family Day activities such as portrait drawings, collage, printmaking, chalk drawing and bubbles.

SHELDON

LENTZ CENTER, FRI 5-7
Lion Dance Troupe to Perform

In conjunction with the Lentz Center for Asian Culture's spring show, Ivories from the Lentz Center Collections, the Lion Dance Troupe from the Asian Cultural and Community Center will perform at an opening reception being held from 5-7pm Friday (March 26).

Although the Lentz Center usually has some of its ivory on exhibition, this is the first time the whole collection will be on view. The collection consists of more than 50 pieces of ivory. It is now illegal to import ivory because poachers have killed many elephants for the purpose of selling their tusks. All of the ivories in the Lentz Center predate this law. The exhibition continues through June 27.

LENTZ CENTER

WEB CHANGES
UNL Web Increases Accessibility

In order to increase accessibility for low-vision clients, this web site now incorporates rebuilt drop-down menus that incorporate 'go' buttons. This is required because conventional browsers, when users choose to browse by keyboard instead of by mouse, will not navigate a drop-down menu with an embedded JavaScript onChange function correctly - most browsers, when navigated by keyboard, will take the user to the first selection in the drop-down menu.

Also, as a part of this revision, the full search function has been relocated. You can access it by clicking on the binocular icon on the right-hand side of the navigation toolbar.

327 KEIM, FRI 2PM
Agronomy/Horticulture Seminar - 'Enabling Farmer Groups to Do Their Own Research'
Keith Glewen, UNL

117 BESSEY, FRI 3:30PM
Geosciences - T. Mylan Stout Lecture Series - 'Late Paleozoic Glaciation in Antarctica'
John Isbell, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

112 HAMILTON, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - 'Characterization and Structural Elucidation of Pharmaceuticals Using Mass Spectrometry'
Marshall Siegel, Wyeth Research

EAST UNION, FRI 3:30PM
Entomology Seminar - 'Symbioses with Other Arthropods'
Tierney Berger, graduate student, UNL

CNN is reporting on UNL textile scientist Yiqi Yang's newly developed process for converting cornhusks into textile fibers. The fibers can be made into yarn and woven into fabric. She has already used the cornhusk fibers to produce a sweater prototype. Not surprisingly, it's red! Get the story...

THROUGH APRIL 14, RECEPTION FRI 5PM
Ingraham's Skins to be Shown at Hillestad


	Elizabeth Ingraham, Guilt

UNL faculty member Elizabeth Ingraham is the featured artist through April 14 at UNL's Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.

In her exhibition titled Information, Memory and Desire: Skins by Liz Ingraham, the artist creates life-size figures from a wide range of materials, including velvet, black neoprene, wool crepe and gold mesh fabric, which are then embellished with vintage silver buttons, hooks and eyes, small gold bells and elaborate embroidery.

"Through a series of life-size, dimensional female skins, I am exploring how expectation, desire and convention - our own and others - form casings which shape our deepest selves and which become so familiar they seem like our own skin," Ingraham said.

She likened the skins to costumes and camouflage, saying that they describe emotional states, conceal and reveal identity. The works are tactile as well as visual and are designed to be touched and handled by the viewer - unzipped, unbuttoned, entered, read and rattled.

Ingraham is an assistant professor of art and art history. In 2001, she received the Nebraska Arts Council's Distinguished Achievement Fellowship, its highest honor, and in 2003 won the Creativity in Motion Thatcher Hoffman Smith Prize in Creativity from the University of Oklahoma.

Ingraham earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, master of fine arts degree from the University of California-Santa Barbara and juris doctor from the University of Denver. As a master's student, she was the first visual artist to be awarded a fellowship from the Institute of Interdisciplinary Humanities and was a studio assistant to the installation artist, Ann Hamilton. Before returning to school to train as a sculptor, she was an activist lawyer for Native American groups in Alaska and a participant in the sweeping social change resulting from the federal settlement of aboriginal land claims in that state.

The artist will discuss her works at 5:30pm Friday (March 26) during an opening reception scheduled for 5-6:30pm. The reception and the exhibit are free and open to the public. The Hillestad Textiles Gallery is in the Home Economic Building north of East Campus Loop on 35th Street. Gallery Hours are 10am to 4pm Monday through Friday. Admission is free. For more information call (402) 472-2911 or visit the gallery Web site.

HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY

KIMBALL HALL, FRI 7:30PM
Kees Benefit to be Too Cool

Music, poetry, art and the artistic genius of Weldon Kees will be the focus of Too Cool to Care: Weldon Kees with a San Francisco Beat, a benefit this Friday (March 26) featuring an eclectic mix of performances.

The event begins 7:30pm in Kimball Recital Hall. Its purpose is to raise funds to purchase original sheet music manuscripts of Weldon Kees and his collaborator, Bob Helm, and will feature faculty and students from the UNL School of Music performing songs from that collection. Tickets at the door will cost $15 for the general public, $10 for seniors and $5 for students.

Also scheduled is Giacomo Oliva, Dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine & Performing Arts, who will perform a piano solo. Additionally, the event will feature Professor of English Emeritus Robert Knoll, who will talk about his study of Kees, and a talk on Kees' art by Daniel Siedell, curator of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Siedell has recently edited a book, Weldon Kees and the Arts at Midcentury, published by the University of Nebraska Press.

Katherine Walter, chair of Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at the University Libraries, recently discovered 233 pages of Kees' unpublished sheet music and notes regarding lyrics and poetry for sale in Berkeley, Calif. "The UNL Libraries are working with an antiquarian book dealer to purchase the collection," Walter said.

Kees (1914-55), a Nebraska graduate and native of Beatrice, published poetry and prose, directed art films, and exhibited his art works in New York. Kees' poetry has drawn the attention of poets such as Donald Justice and Dana Gioia, and the University of Iowa Art Museum held a show of his art works in the 1990s.

While living in San Francisco in the 1950s, Weldon Kees was on the fringes of the 'Beat Generation.' Kees and Helm composed and wrote lyrics to many ragtime jazz pieces. This sheet music would enhance the collections of Kees' materials at the Sheldon and the Lincoln City Libraries, said Joan Giesecke, dean of libraries.

Artwork by Kees is now on display at the Sheldon Art Gallery in an exhibition, Weldon Kees from the Permanent Collection, that will run through April 25.

FINE & PERFORMING ARTS | SHELDON | LIBRARIES

MARCH 25-31
CASNR Week to 'Harvest Excellence'

Students in UNL's College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources have planned a week of events in March to celebrate excellence and the benefits of agriculture and natural resources in Nebraska. 'Harvesting Excellence' is the theme for the fifth annual CASNR Week March 25-31 on UNL's East Campus.

"The week features events for students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents and community members," said Amber Holl of Gibbon, Neb., a junior agribusiness major. "It's a time of celebration." The week's events also provide those in the college an opportunity to show support and appreciation for the community - both on, and off campus.

CASNR Week kicked off with a barbecue at Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity house Thursday (March 25) and will end with a chili feed at Love Memorial Hall March 31.

A community night for students and parents from Lincoln's Clinton, Hartley and Huntington elementary schools is planned from 6-8pm Monday (March 29). These neighborhoods are near East Campus. Organizations in the college host games and other activities such as face painting and miniature golf, Holl said.

"This is wonderful way to support the children in our local neighborhood and for our own students to give back to the community," Holl said. "The evening is filled with food and games, and the parents and the children really enjoy it."

New to this year's events is a two-mile fun run/walk Saturday (March 27). Registration begins at 10:30am at Burr Hall and the event starts at 11am. A pancake feed follows at the Nebraska East Union. Cost is $3.

Outstanding CASNR students, faculty, alumni and student organizations will be recognized at the 'Harvesting Excellence' reception and banquet Sunday (March 28) at the Nebraska East Union. Featured speaker will be state Sen. Dave Landis. The reception, hosted by Student Involvement, begins at 5pm with the banquet 6pm. Student tickets are free for the first 200 students who reserve them and are then $3.75. Faculty, staff and guests can reserve tickets for $10.50 each. Tickets can be reserved at the East Union or at 103 Agricultural Hall.

For a full listing of the week's events follow this link. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. For more information on CASNR Week, contact Susan Voss, student development and events coordinator, at (402) 472-0609.

CASNR