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Fri, Apr 15, 2005

April 15-17, 2005

FROM OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH
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.

Watch announcement highlights in Quicktime (3MB) or Windows Media (10MB).

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RICHARDS HALL ROOM 120A
Department of Art & Art History Holds Print Sale

The Lincoln Print Group will hold a print sale April 15-16 in Richards Hall Room 120A (conference room). Hours for the sale are 10am - 5pm on Friday, April 15; and 10am - 2pm on Saturday, April 16.

Original prints and books from faculty, graduate and undergraduate students will be on sale. Prints of all sizes, media and price will be available. There will also be a benefit raffle to support the Lincoln Print Group.

DEPT. OF ART & ART HISTORY

302 FILLEY HALL, FRI 11AM
Agricultural Economics Seminar - 'Can It Be Rational for Farmers to Prefer an Ethanol Subsidy to a Subsidy Paid Directly to Them as Crop Producers?'
Bruce Gardner, University of Maryland

222 CBA, FRI 12:30PM
Economics Department Seminar - 'Convergence and Growth in U.S. Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Labor Markets'
Dr. Eric Thompson, UNL

45 FOOD INDUSTRY COMPLEX, FRI 2:30PM
Agricultural Economics Seminar - Filley/Garey Public Lecture Series - 'Rural Economic Development in a Global Context: Issues and Policy Options'
Bruce Gardner, University of Maryland

327 KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy/Horticulture Seminar - 'Centers of Origin of Crop Plants'
P. Stephen Baenziger, UNL

112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - 'The Chemistry of C-H Activating Complexes of Molybdenum and Tungsten'
Peter Legzdins, University of British Columbia

BESSEY AUDITORIUM, FRI 3:30PM
Geosciences - T. Mylan Stout Lecture Series - 'Controls on Sedimentation in the Cretaceous Frontier Formation, Green River Basin, Wyoming'
Mark Kirschbaum, USGS-Denver

106 AVERY, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - 'Vector Bundles and Group Representations'
Dan Edidin, University of Missouri

ABBOTT LECTURE HALL, JOSLYN ART MUSEUM OMAHA, SUN 2PM
Archaeological Institute of America Public Lecture - 'Ancient Vases/New Ideas: Revisiting Joslyn's Ancient Pottery'
Ann Steiner, Franklin and Marshall University

LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, SUN 1PM, 4PM
Honors Convocations to Recognize Students, Faculty

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will honor student scholars and outstanding faculty at two honors convocations April 17. Both will convene in the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St., and Chancellor Harvey Perlman will preside over the ceremonies.

The Rising Scholars Convocation begins at 1pm; lobby doors open at noon. This convocation honors freshman and sophomore scholars who have a 4.0 GPA in their academic studies. Also honored will be freshman scholars who have attained a 3.6 to a 3.99 cumulative GPA. Faculty members receiving the Annis Chaikin Sorensen Award, College Distinguished Teaching awards, Chancellor's Exemplary Service to Students and the Student Foundation/Builders Award for Outstanding Advising will be recognized during this ceremony.

The University Scholars Convocation begins at 4 pm with lobby doors opening one hour earlier. This ceremony recognizes Chancellor's Scholars, graduating seniors who have attained 4.0 averages on all graded collegiate work at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and any other post-secondary educational institution they may have attended. Also recognized are Superior Scholars, graduating seniors who have attained GPAs of 3.6 or higher, are in the upper 3 percent of their college's senior class or have been on the honors convocation list each year since matriculating as freshmen. Also being honored are 4.0 seniors who will not graduate this year and 4.0 juniors.

Full lists of student and faculty awards can be found in the full press releases linked below.

RISING SCHOLARS CONVOCATION | UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS CONVOCATION

NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM & MUELLER PLANETARIUM, SUN 1:30 - 4:30PM
Astronomy Day Celebration Held at NU State Museum

Astronomy Day 2005 will be celebrated the afternoon of April 17 with plenty of cosmic family festivities at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall, 14th and U streets.

Astronomy Day will feature hands-on activities, interactive exhibits, displays, planetarium shows, and giveaways including a $900 Meade computerized telescope to one lucky winner (need not be present to win drawing).

Activities and demonstrations will run from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on topics including robotics, rocketry, space travel, physics, astrophotography, the Hubble telescope, light pollution, constellations and much more. Outdoor activities will be conducted weather permitting.

Presenting organizations joining forces for the event include Mueller Planetarium, Astronomy Magazine, Meade Telescopes, the Prairie Astronomy Club, Hyde Observatory, the UNL Department of Physics and Astronomy, Neb-Star, the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Nebraska Air National Guard, the Air Force Association, UNL Air Force ROTC and others.

Admission to the NU State Museum is $8 for families, $4 for individual adults and $2 for children, or free with either a valid UNL ID or Friends of the Museum membership. Admission for Mueller Planetarium shows is additional. Free visitor parking is available in front of Morrill Hall. For more information, telephone (402) 472-2642 or visit the NU State Museum Web site (http://www.museum.unl.edu), or the Mueller Planetarium Web site (http://www.spacelaser.com).

NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM | MUELLER PLANETARIUM

MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, SUN 7PM
Free Sneak Preview of Willa Cather: The Road is All

She had riveting blue eyes and a deep voice.� She smoked cigarettes and talked tough.� And she wrote some of the most unforgettable fiction of the 20th Century.� Willa Cather: The Road is All tells the story of a writer who invented herself from scratch.� As a child Cather was taken from her comfortable home in Virginia into the wild Nebraska frontier - a place so vast and empty she felt "erased." Cather survived and even thrived on the plains, eventually pioneering her way east to New York City where she wrote her great novels: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop and the Pulitzer Prize-winning One of Ours.� This 90-minute American Masters special interweaves interviews, rare photographs, and scenes from Cather's novels to tell a story of the transforming magic of art.��

Willa Cather: The Road is All is a co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York and Nebraskans for Public Television, Inc., made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.� Additional funding has been provided by the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation and ALLTEL.

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VARIOUS LOCATIONS, APRIL 15-16
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 15-16. "Heaven on Earth: Exploring the Sacred in Music" will be the festival's theme.

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