May 16-22, 2005
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HAYMARKET PARK, BOWLIN STADIUM, THIS WEEKEND
NU to Host NCAA Regional at Bowlin Stadium
The Nebraska softball team has not only received an at-large berth to the 2005 NCAA Tournament, but will also play host to its third straight NCAA Regional. The four-team regional will take place this weekend at Bowlin Stadium, with play beginning at 4 pm on Friday.
Joining NU in Lincoln for the three-day tournament will be Washington, Iowa and Creighton. Washington is the top seed in the regional and the No. 16 national seed. The tournament's first game pits the third-seeded Huskers against the No. 2 seed Iowa Hawkeyes. Fourth-seeded Creighton and Washington will meet at 7 pm in the second game of the day. The winner of the Lincoln regional advances to the Super Regional, May 27-28 at a site to be determined.
The path to the Super Regional will not be an easy one, as each team has appeared in the NFCA/USA Today Coaches Poll this season. In the final regular-season rankings, the Huskies were ranked 21st, while Iowa came in at No. 22 and the Huskers rounded out the poll as the 25th-ranked team. Although Creighton is not ranked in the current poll, the Bluejays rose to as high as No. 22 earlier this season.
All-session ticket prices are $25 for reserved seating and $20 for adult general admission while single-session ticket prices are $6 for reserved and $4 for adult general admission. For more information and bracket information, go to the Huskers.com website.
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LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
Chinese Jades from Smithsonian's
Sackler Gallery at UNL's Lentz Center
Presented by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, "Magic, Myths, and Minerals: Chinese Jades from the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery" will premiere on May 21 at the Lentz Center for Asian Culture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The exhibition includes 37 small jade sculptures dating from ancient times through the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).
An opening reception will be held May 20 from 5-8 pm. A gallery talk by Barbara Banks, director/curator of the Lentz Center, will begin at 5:30. These events are free and open to the public.
"Magic, Myths, and Minerals" explores the art of jade carving, touching on the significance and use of jade in Chinese society, and introduces the extraordinary skills required to work jade. Most of the pieces on view are small, precious items.
The Lentz Center recognizes the rich and varied cultures of the many diverse peoples of Asia. As an entity within UNL, the center's unique collection provides a singular opportunity for enhancing instructional programs on the campus as well as enriching the cultural environment of the citizens of the state of Nebraska. It is dedicated to the enrichment of knowledge and understanding of Asia, and is the only institution in Nebraska devoted solely to Asian art.
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CORNHUSKER MARRIOT & VARIOUS SITES, UNL CAMPUS
International Physicists In Lincoln For Annual Conference
Approximately 600 atomic physicists will gather in Lincoln May 17 - 21 for the annual international meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society, hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Special guest during the conference, which
will be mainly at the Cornhusker Marriott, 333 S. 13th St., along with
various sites at UNL, is John H. Marburger III, science adviser to
the president and director of the U.S. Office of Science and Technology
Policy. Marburger will speak after the main banquet and reception at
7 pm on May 20. During his long career as a scientist-administrator,
Marburger co-founded the Center for Laser Studies at the University
of Southern California, served as the third president of the State
University of New York at Stony Brook from 1980-1994, and as director
of Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1998 until he took up his present
appointment in October 2001.
May 18 at 8 pm, Susan Marie Frontczak will give a special performance of "Manya, a Living History of Marie Curie," at Kimball Recital Hall, 11th and R streets (extended). Audience members can experience the riveting life story of one of the most famous women in science. Admission to the performance is $5, with tickets available at the door.
The free public event at the conference is a May 21 symposium on Albert Einstein,
organized as part of the World Year of Physics 2005. The 9 am program in the
Marriott Cornhusker grand ballroom will feature four internationally-renowned
historians who will discuss key milestones in Einstein's career and his profound
influence on modern atomic physics: John Rigden of Washington University in St.
Louis will speak on "Einstein and 1905," Roger Stuewer of the University of Minnesota
will speak on "Einstein's Revolutionary Light-Quantum Hypothesis," Michael Janssen
of Minnesota will speak on "Emergence and Interpretation of Lorentz Invariance," and
Kameshwar C. Wali of Syracuse University will speak on "Einstein, Bose, and Bose-Einstein
Statistics." These talks will be non-technical in nature and are aimed at a broad
audience to include the general public.
The conference will also feature workshops, poster sessions, panels and 65 invited presentations on various developments within the atomic physics discipline. For more information about the conference, including a complete list of events, see the DAMOP website.
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NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM, SAT 2PM
Author Paul Johnsgard to Open Rare
Bird Exhibit at NU State Museum
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"Eskimo Curlew" by Paul A. Johnsgard
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Noted ornithologist and author Paul A. Johnsgard will give a talk May 21 at the University of Nebraska State Museum, opening the exhibit "The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and the Eskimo Curlew." The exhibit will feature historic specimens of the birds from the museum's zoology research collections and will open with a program from 2-4 pm May 21 at the museum in Morrill Hall, 14th and U streets. Johnsgard, foundation professor emeritus of the School of Biological Sciences and adjunct professor in the State Museum at UNL, will discuss the significance of these species in a talk beginning at 2:15 pm, and will be available to answer questions from the audience.
On April 28, researchers reported in the journal Science's online Science Express edition (http://www.sciencemag.org) the discovery of a living ivory-billed woodpecker in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas. The bird had been considered extinct since there had been no sightings of it for 60 years. The NU State Museum has two specimens of ivory-billed woodpeckers, a male and a female, that were originally taxidermy mounts that belonged to the Department of Zoology at UNL. When Johnsgard first saw them in 1961, they were misidentified, and he provided the correct identification for the museum. Museum director Priscilla Grew said there is no information available on their place of origin or date of acquisition. She said it is probable that they have been at the university for at least a century.
Another extremely rare or possibly now-extinct species, the Eskimo curlew, will also be on display. It regularly appeared in large numbers in the eastern third of Nebraska in the 19th century, but was last seen in the state with certainty in April 1926 near Norfolk. The last museum specimen known from North America was collected April 17, 1915, also near Norfolk. The NU State Museum has one of the last of these birds that was collected in Nebraska on April 20, 1911.
Admission to the NU State Museum is $8 for families, $4 for individual adults and $2 for children, or free with a valid UNL ID or Friends of the State Museum membership. For more information, telephone (402) 472-2642 or visit the NU State Museum web site.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week at the Ross: Gunner Palace, Travellers & Magicians
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Gunner Palace, a unique documentary about the
Iraq war from director Michael Tucker and
Travellers & Magicians, the first feature-length film to
be made completely within the Kingdom of Bhutan.
Gunner Palace is a unique portrait of the fragmented, chaotic and stress-filled existence of American soldiers at war in Iraq. Filmmaker Michael Tucker captured the lives of the members of the 2/3 Field Artillery AKA the "Gunners," whose living headquarters are housed in Uday Hussein's Azimiya Palace, situated in the middle of Adhamiya, the most volatile area in Baghdad. It is not the violence of war that defines this thought-provoking documentary feature, but rather the soldiers' individual and personal responses to war: Sgt. Nick Moncrief, a young squad leader with two kids and a wife, breaks into a freestyle rap in front of the palace after an attack; SPC Stuart Wilf, who joined the army at 17, spends his nights with his guitar by the palace gate; their commander, LTC Bill Rabena, thinks the palace is an "adult's paradise;" and one of the only female soldiers, SPC Billie Grimes, calmly tells of her experience as a combat medic.
With total access to all unit operations and activities, captured in his own distinct verite style, filmmaker Tucker provides a rare series of intimate "snapshots" that reveal the complex realities of a war that has to be seen to be understood.
Writer-director Khyentse Norbu, who scored an international hit with the 1999 drama The Cup (Phorpa), about Tibetan refugees obsessed with watching the World Cup soccer finals, returns to his homeland to make the remarkably charming and engaging Travellers & Magicians, the first feature-length film to be made completely within the Kingdom of Bhutan. Norbu, who worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on 1997's Little Buddha, is believed to be His Eminence Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, an incarnate lama, and he infuses Travellers & Magicians with a thoughtful and contemplative Buddhist mind-set. In the film, Norbu magnificently intertwines the tales of various travellers, creating an enchanting, unforgettable film that is filled with heart, hope, and humor.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | GUNNER PALACE | TRAVELLERS & MAGICIANS |
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BASEBALL |
FRI 6:35PM, SAT 2:05PM, SUN 1:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Kansas State Wildcats
HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK
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