March 21, 2005
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106 OTHMER HALL, 3PM
Lawyer to Discuss Intellectual Property
David H. Youssefi, corporate intellectual property counsel at Best Western International Inc. in Phoenix, will discuss intellectual property issues March 21 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering and Technology. His talk, titled "An Introduction to the Protection of Intellectual Property," will cover what intellectual property is, available protection, both domestically and internationally, and ownership, licensing and transfer of intellectual property. The talk will take place at 3 pm in 106 Othmer Hall, 16th and Vine streets. It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception.
Youssefi received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1991, and his juris doctorate in 1998, both from Arizona State University. Before attending law school, Youssefi worked for four years as a software engineer at Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix. After graduating from law school, he worked for four years at a major international law firm in San Francisco, before returning to Phoenix and joining Best Western. He focuses on protecting the company's extensive trademark portfolio, consisting of hundreds of filings in more than 80 countries, and manages the company's intellectual property litigation and licensing worldwide. Youssefi is admitted to practice law in both Arizona and California, and is a member of the American Intellectual Property Association and the International Trademark Association.
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145 VET BASIC SCIENCE, 4PM
Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences Seminar - 'GeneChips - Uses in Studying Stephylococcus aureus Pathogenesis,'
Paul Dunham, UNMC
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VAN BRUNT VISITORS CENTER, TUE, MAR 22,
3:30PM
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Announces Its 2004-2005 Initiative for Teaching and Learning Excellence Grants
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced its 2004-2005 Initiative for Teaching and Learning Excellence grants, for proposals related to teaching excellence and enhanced undergraduate student learning. Grant winners will be recognized at a public reception hosted by Chancellor Harvey Perlman beginning at 3:30 pm, March 22 at the Van Brunt Visitors Center, 313 N. 13th St.
The initiative provides more than $500,000 in grants to faculty and staff to support development of state-of-the-art facilities and innovative programming, some $427,000 of which came from the University of Nebraska Foundation Grants Committee. The remainder came from the foundation's year-end effort to secure expendable funds for the Chancellor's Excellence Fund. The chancellor announced the initiative in his annual State of the University address in September, 2004.
"The Initiative for Teaching and Learning Excellence will help faculty and staff create the best undergraduate experience for our students through engaged teaching that focuses on learning," said Barbara Couture, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs. "I am delighted that the chancellor has provided funding for a wide range of projects, including ones that bring new technologies into the classroom, involve whole departments and programs, assist individual instructors, and enhance student advising."
Under the initiative, the university obtained proposals from full-time faculty and staff for projects related to the Transition to University Task Force report "Everyone a Learner, Everyone a Teacher."
The task force was created in May 2003 to review and assess the effectiveness of first-year undergraduate orientation programs and courses.
FULL INITIATIVE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING PRESS RELEASE
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EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY
First MFA Thesis Exhibition Opens Today
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Esme Guenther, "Back," etching, aquatint, 15" x 25", 2004.
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The first MFA Thesis Exhibition opens
today and continues through March 31 in the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery
in Richards Hall. Special hours for this exhibition will be Monday-Friday,
noon to 4pm. An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 pm March
25 in the Gallery. The exhibition will feature the work of three
third-year graduate students: Meredith Brickell, ceramics, Kristen
Martincic, printmaking, and Esme Guenther, printmaking.
Guenther's show is titled "Hypnosis of the Road." She does prints that are mainly etchings and lithography. "A great deal of my imagery has to do with maps and what they mean and represent to me," Guenther said. "I am originally from the Pacific Northwest, so that landscape plays into my imagery."
Brickell's show is titled "Trace." Her current body of work is an investigation of the ceramic vessel, both as an object for use and as a container of contemplative space. Her hand-built pieces allude to rural landscapes and architecture through three-dimensional form and drawings on the surface of the clay
Martincic's exhibition is titled "Lay Bare." In it, she explores the duality of absence and presence within the context of domestic and private life. She uses constructed undergarments and clothes hangers as symbols to convey issues of vulnerability and privacy.
For more information, call the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery at (402) 472-5025.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this week at the Ross: Home Of The Brave, The Woodsman
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents The Home Of The Brave, an award-winning documentary from Paola di Florio and director Nicole Kassell's second film The Woodsman, starring Kevin Bacon.
Home Of The Brave is about the only white woman murdered in the civil rights movement in America and why we don't know who she is. Told through the eyes of her children, the film follows the on-going struggle of an American family to survive the consequences of their mother's heroism and the mystery behind her killing. The film
links the personal and the political, the past and present and has a resonance to our world today. In its run on the festival circuit this year, Home Of The Brave has garnered a Best Documentary Award (Port Townsend), Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice Award for Documentary Film (Santa Barbara), an Audience Choice Award (Cleveland) and a prize for Outstanding Film with a Social Message (Maine). The International Documentary Association also selected the film to participate in its In Fact Theatrical Showcase which qualified the film for the 2005 Academy Awards and has also nominated it for the its own annual awards in the category of Best Documentary.
With a 12-year prison stretch reaching an end, convicted pedophile Walter (Kevin Bacon) faces an uncertain walk back into the free world in The Woodsman. The sensitivity with which the material in the film is executed derives from a potent mix of intelligently written source material, wonderful performances (with Bacon in particular putting in a career-defining turn), and an authoritative vision from director Nicole Kassell (The Green Hour). At the heart of the movie lies a desolate character, guilty of a crime shrouded in taboo, but hoping against all reason that society will accord him a modicum of absolution. A fascinating portrait of a life caught in a state of perpetual turmoil, this is an audacious second feature from Kassell.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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