APRIL 21, 2004
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NEBRASKA UNION, 6:30PM
Film Festival to Precede Earth Day
UNL's Ecology Now! and Environmental Resource Center, as well as the Population and Environment Committee of the Wachiska Audubon Society, will sponsor an Earth Day Film Festival beginning at 6:30pm today in the Nebraska Union auditorium.
The film schedule: 6:30pm, Who's Counting; 6:45pm, The Meatrix; 7pm, Winged Migration; 9pm, Affluenza; and 10pm, Baraka.
Admission is free and open to the public. For information, call Mindi Schneider, 472-3057.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER | WAS
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OTHMER HALL, 3PM
CSG Systems CEO to Speak at E-Week Event
Neal Hansen, chairman and chief executive officer of Denver-based CSG Systems International Inc., will speak today about applying an engineering education to the real world during E-Week 2004 at UNL's College of Engineering and Technology.
CSG Systems is a global leader in next-generation billing and customer care solutions for the cable television, direct broadcast satellite, advanced IP services, next-generation mobile and fixed wireline markets. Hansen will speak at 3pm in Room 106 of Othmer Hall, 17th and Vine streets. The presentation is free open to the public.
Hansen holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska, and has served on many professional and service organization boards, including the National Cable Television Association.
ENG & TECH | CSG SYSTEMS |
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E103 BEADLE, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar - 'Sugar Sensing and Signaling Networks in Plants'
Dr. Jen Sheen, Harvard Medical School
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LIED, 7:30PM
Australian Orchestra, Soprano to Entertain
The Australian Chamber Orchestra will perform at 7:30pm tonight at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The orchestra will be joined in concert by soprano Dawn Upshaw and will include pieces by Corelli, Lentz, Bach, Bartok, and Szymanoski, as well as some traditional Hungarian folk songs.
Founded in 1975, the Australian Chamber Orchestra has built a reputation for its artistic excellence and adventurous programming. It is known for its versatility, performing on modern or period instruments, as a small chamber group, or as a small symphony orchestra. The orchestra's national concert season includes more than 80 performances each year throughout Australia in addition to regular international tours.
Richard Tognetti became artistic director and lead violin of the orchestra in 1989. He also co-composed the score to the recent Peter Weir film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. He was also the violin tutor for the movie's star, Russell Crowe, and is featured on the soundtrack as a soloist.
Two-time Grammy Award-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1984, and has been a part of more than 30 world premiere performances and has more than 50 recordings to her credit.
Larry Lusk, former dean of UNL's Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, will give a lecture 30 minutes before curtain in the Lied's Steinhart Room.
Tickets for this performance are $42, $36 and $32; tickets are half-price for university students and those 18 and under. Call 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 for tickets.
AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | LIED
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CHRISTLIEB GALLERY, 1155 Q ST., 3PM RECEPTION, 3:30PM LECTURE
Artistic Legacy of Lewis & Clark to be Seminar Topic
The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804-06 is best known as a saga of adventure, discovery and heroism.
But a University of Iowa scholar will argue that there was more to the Corps of Discovery when she delivers the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies today at UNL.
In 'I Wished for the Pencil of Salvator Rosa': The Artistic Legacy of Lewis and Clark, Joni L. Kinsey, associate professor of American art history at Iowa, proposes that although the expedition lacked an artist, its efforts had rich aesthetic implications that deserve to be better known.
Ranging from the visual theory that informed Lewis and Clark's understanding of the landscape they encountered to the plans for a vividly illustrated report after the trip, Kinsey's subject is both visually interesting and a thought-provoking perspective on the expedition.
The seminar will be from 3:30-5pm at the Great Plains Art Collection in the Christlieb Gallery, 1155 Q St. It is free and open to the public, as is a 3pm reception in the gallery.
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NEBRASKA UNION, APRIL 21-23
Research Fair to be Held
The Office of Research and Graduate Studies is hosting the second annual Research Fair April 21-23. All activities occur in the Nebraska Union and are free and open to the public. Today's activities focus on graduate issues and will be of interest to undergraduates, graduate students and faculty.
From 9-11am and 1-3pm, Susan Steiner, associate vice president in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at Claremont Graduate University, will present Preparing Winning Fellowships and Scholarship Proposals. This workshop will examine all the components of a winning proposal, from conceptualizing, designing and organizing the proposal to acquiring letters of support.
Concurrently, Kenneth Pimple, director of Teaching Research Ethics Programs at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University-Bloomington, will present The Fundamentals of Research Ethics. This workshop will use lecture, case studies and open discussion to explore the fundamental ethical obligations of researchers.
A graduate student research poster competition will run from noon to 6pm in the Union Ballroom. A reception will occur from 3-4:30pm. Sigma Xi and the Office of Research and Graduate Studies are co-sponsoring the poster competition.
For a complete schedule of Fair events follow this link (pdf).
OFFICE OF RESEARCH | GRAD STUDIES |
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CULTURE CENTER, 6:30PM
Movie Night to Feature Refugee
OASIS at the Culture Center will be holding a Movie Night tonight at 6:30pm. The film is
titled Refugee. The film features three young Cambodian men, raised on
the streets of San Francisco's tough Tenderloin district, who return to the
land of their roots wielding video cameras to capture their life changing
experience of meeting fathers, sisters and brothers for the first time.
All portions of the event are free and open to the public. Food and beverages will be served.
REFUGEE | OASIS |
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