April 14, 2005
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RICHARDS HALL ROOM 120A, 4 - 7PM
UNL Team Wins $3M to Study Thin Diamond Film Technology
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineer is leading a team of engineers from UNL and the University of Missouri-Rolla on a project to refine a process that coats surfaces with thin diamond films. The team has received a three-year grant exceeding $3 million from the Department of Defense's Office of Naval Research. There is the possibility of an additional $2 million in out-years four and five.
The grant, awarded in March, was announced April 14 by UNL. The team is led by Yongfeng Lu, associate professor of engineering at UNL. Other members of the team are Hai-Lung Tsai of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Missouri-Rolla and head project leader for UMR; Lan Jiang, mechanical engineer, UMR; Matthew O'Keefe, metallurgical engineer, UMR; Robert Schwartz, materials science engineer, UMR; and Xinwei Wang, mechanical engineer, UNL.
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110 HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar - 'Proteomics: A New Approach for Studying Global Protein Make-up'
Pawel Cibrowski, UNMC
115 AVERY HALL, 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - Rowlee Lecture - 'Cellular Measure Theory: How Cells Make Measurements'
James Keener, University of Utah
ARCHITECTURE HALL GALLERY, 4:30PM
Hyde Lecture Series - 'Every Work of Abalos & Herreros is a Skyscraper'
Inaki Abalos, Abalos & Herreros, Madrid, Spain
LOVE LIBRARY ROOM 110, 7PM
"That beautiful, mysterious, terrifying, and uncontrollable thing we call 'Nature'"
Special presentation by Professor John Janovy, Jr. will take place after he receives the Hartley Burr Alexander Award for distinguished writing in the field of humanities from the Friends of the Libraries, UNL. Sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in conjunction with National Library Week.
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VARIOUS LOCATIONS, APRIL 14-16
UNL School of Music Hosts Liszt Spring Festival
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music in conjunction with the American Liszt Society will host the 2005 American Liszt Society Spring Festival, April 14-16. "Heaven on Earth: Exploring the Sacred in Music" will be the festival's theme.
A gala piano recital at 7:30 pm April 14 in Kimball Recital Hall, 11th and R streets, will feature works inspired by spiritual themes. Music from Messaien and Rachmaninoff to gospel and Bach will be performed by six internationally renowned pianists and members of the American Liszt Society. Tickets are $5 adults, $3 students and are available at the Kimball box office.
At 7:30 pm April 15, UNL pianist Paul Barnes in collaboration with Abendmusik Chorus directed by Larry Monson will perform Liszt's progressive and poignant setting of the "Fourteen Stations of the Cross, Via Crucis" at First-Plymouth Congregational Church, 2000 D St. This is the text upon which Pope John Paul II was meditating at the hour of his death. The performance will be dedicated to the memory of the holy father. Tickets are $10 adult, $5 students and are available through Abendmusik at (402) 476-9933, or at the door.
The festival concludes April 16 when the UNL orchestra and choirs under the direction of Tyler White will perform the world premier of a new edition of Liszt's monumental "Christus: An Oratoria on Texts from Holy Scripture and the Catholic Liturgy." The performance begins at 7:30 pm at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. Featured soloists will be Ariel Bybee and William Shomos. Tickets are $29/$24/$19 for general reserved, student youth are $14.50/$12/$9.50, and are available through the Lied Center box office, (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231.
UNL SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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BURNETT HALL ROOM 125, 3:30PM
National Expert Kenny to Talk on Relationships at UNL
David A. Kenny, a University of Connecticut social psychologist and methodologist, will speak on "What do men (gay and straight) and women (lesbian and straight) want in relationships?" April 14 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The talk begins at 3:30 pm in Room 125 of Burnett Hall on City Campus. It is free and open to the public.
Kenny has made important contributions in the areas of the analysis of correlational data, models for non-independent data and person perception. The author of five books, 78 journal articles, 25 book chapters and five reviews, he has had 10 papers published in Psychological Bulletin, the most-read journal in psychology. He is a charter fellow of the American Psychological Society and the inaugural winner of the Distinguished New Contribution Award from the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships.
His book "Correlation and Causality" describes how to test theoretical models using survey data. This book introduced a whole cohort of researchers in the social sciences to structural equation modeling. He has also written several important papers on the evaluation of mediational models. Such models are critical in both theory testing and the design of prevention programs. His elaborate statistical model called the Social Relations Model is now used by investigators worldwide. He has also developed models for triads, groups and families.
Kenny's more recent work has focused on the perceptions that people have of each other. Prior work had limited perceptions to those of hypothetical, artificial people. He has investigated the factors that lead people to agree and disagree in their perceptions of others, accuracy of perceptions, and the degree to which persons know how others see them. Among some of his important findings are that judgments based on minimal information are surprisingly accurate, agreement about another's personality does not increase with acquaintance, agreement about another's personality is relatively weak, and people believe that others see them the same way when in fact they do not.
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