DECEMBER 21, 2004
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REAL NEBRASKA WEB SITE
Voting on Third Round of Real Nebraska
Videos Continues
Voting on the third round of the Fall
2004 Real Nebraska video contest continues on the
Real Nebraska website. Using the theme "There is No Place Like Nebraska," entries
were taken from full time UNL students and/or teams of full time
UNL students.
In addition to three monetary prizes, winners of the contest will
be screened at a film festival that will take place in March at the
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. All entries will be shown and
the "Viewer's Choice" winners, as well as the Grand Prize winner,
will be announced at this event. The festival will be open to the
public and the campus.
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DEVANEY CENTER
UNL Graduates 1,450 During Winter
2004 Commencement
At UNL commencement exercises held on December 18, 1,450 students received their degrees.
Ted Kooser, poet laureate of
the United States and professor of English in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
College of Arts and Sciences, gave the address and received an
honorary doctor of letters degree at the ceremony.
Kooser was named poet laureate (officially the Poet Laureate Consultant
in Poetry to the Library of Congress) Aug. 12 by James H. Billington,
Librarian of Congress, and began his duties on Oct. 7. Previous poets
laureate include Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks and Rita Dove.
The author of 10 collections of poetry and prose including "Local
Wonders, Seasons in the Bohemian Alps," (2002) published by University
of Nebraska Press, Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa, in 1939 and attended
public school there before earning his bachelor's degree at Iowa
State University (1962). He taught school for one year before moving
to Nebraska to pursue graduate school. He received his master's degree
at the University of Nebraska in 1968. He has lived all of his life
in Nebraska and Iowa and worked for 35 years in the life insurance
business, retiring in 1999 as a vice president.
Kooser's most recent work is an upcoming University of Nebraska Press
book, "The Poetry Home Repair Manual," due out soon, following "Delights & Shadows" (2004).
His other collections of poetry include "Sure Signs" (1980), which
received the Society of Midland Authors Prize for the best book of
poetry by a Midwestern writer published in that year; "One World
at a Time" (1985); "Weather Central" (1994); and "Winter Morning
Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison" (2000), winner of the
2001 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. "Local Wonders" also won the
Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction in 2003. The book was also chosen
as the Best Book Written by a Midwestern Writer for 2002 by Friends
of American Writers, and it won the Gold Award for Autobiography
in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards.
Kooser is also the author, with his longtime friend Jim Harrison,
of "Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry" (2003), for which the
two poets received the 2003 Award for Poetry from the Society of
Midland Authors. Among Kooser's other awards and honors are two National
Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Pushcart Prize, the Stanley
Kunitz Prize, the James Boatwright Prize and a Merit Award from the
Nebraska Arts Council.
FULL TEXT OF 2004 WINTER COMMENCEMENT
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110 OTHMER HALL, 3PM
Center for Materials Research and Analysis / Northcentral States Nanosystems Consortium Seminar - 'Spider Silk: An Ancient Guide to New Biomaterials'
Dr. Randy Lewis, University of Wyoming
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