March 22, 2005
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GREAT PLAINS ROOM, EAST UNION, 7:30PM
Alloy Orchestra To Accompany Silent Films
The Alloy Orchestra is a three man musical ensemble, writing and performing live accompaniment to classic silent films. Working with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects, they thrash and grind soulful music from unlikely sources. They will be performing in Lincoln on Tuesday, March 22 and Wednesday, March 23.
On Tuesday, they will provide musical accompaniment for Buster Keaton's classic comedy The General in the Great Plains Room in the Nebraska East Union (for tickets and more information go to the Lied Center website), while on Wednesday, they will accompany Nebraska's own great comedy film star Harold Lloyd's Speedy at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center at 7:30 pm.
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105 OTHMER HALL, 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar - 'Laser Nanomachining and Nanoprocessing - Frontiers Beyond the Optical Diffraction Limit'
Dr. Yongfeng Lu, UNL
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry and Redox Biology Center Seminar - 'Crystallographic Snapshots of Metalloproteins'
Dr. Catherine Drennan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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BASEBALL |
FRI, 4:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Western Illinois Leathernecks
HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK
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VAN BRUNT VISITORS CENTER, 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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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7:30PM
The Kinsey Sicks To Perform At Lied Center
he University Program Council at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present a performance by The Kinsey Sicks this evening at 7:30 pm at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. For more than a decade, The Kinsey Sicks, America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet, have served up a feast of music and comedy to audiences across the United States. The Kinsey Sicks have produced and performed full-length theatrical productions around the country. In 2001, the girls produced and starred in their critically acclaimed Off-Broadway hit, "Dragapella! Starring the Kinsey Sicks" at New York's legendary Studio 54.
The Kinsey Sicks have been profiled on national television, including "20/20" and "CBS Early Show." They have won numerous a cappella awards and have recorded four CDs.
Tickets are free for UNL students with a UNL ID and $10 for the general public. Tickets are available at the Lied Center box office Monday through Friday, 11 am to 5:30 pm.
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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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