August 23, 2005
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BUILDING ABBREVIATIONS INDEX
The Long And Short of UNL Buildings
The start of the new school year also can bring confusion with locations for those not familiar with building abbreviations. For a list of City and East Campus building abbreviations and their locations on the UNL campus map, please follow
this link.
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ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
Hillestad Gallery Shows Quilts of Political and Patriotic Persuasion
"Partisan Pieces: Quilts of Patriotic and Political Persuasion," an exhibition of quilts with political and patriotic themes, will be on view at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery from June 3-Aug. 31.
The exhibition includes approximately 17 quilts from the International Quilt Study Center's Ardis and Robert James Collection, and explores the impact of war, politics and political candidates on 19th- and early 20th-century American women's quilting designs. There will be a variety of examples of the "Whig Rose" pattern, also known as the "Democrat Rose." These red and green applique quilts are outstanding examples of technical skill and early innovative design put to a partisan purpose. Patriotic quilts using stars, flags, federal eagles, campaign ribbons and kerchiefs will round out the display.
All the quilts in this exhibition are visual reminders of a time when women had no public forum. Against all odds, these quilts survive to give us evocative insights into the ways American women expressed political and patriotic sentiments during an era when they could not vote.
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THIRD UNL STUDENT TO WIN
Klein Wins Prestigious Interior Design Scholarship
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Detail of Klein design project
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The Angelo Donghia Foundation of New York City has announced that Lynette Klein, a senior interior design major at UNL, is one of only 10 students nationwide to receive the $30,000 Donghia Foundation Interior Design Scholarship.
Klein, who is from Lincoln, was nominated for the award by UNL College of Architecture faculty members and was required to submit a portfolio of her work. To be eligible for the competitive award, students must be nominated by faculty members from a professionally accredited school, meet GPA and portfolio requirements, and be a junior.
Klein is the third UNL student to win the scholarship, which covers tuition, board, books and required student materials.
The Angelo Donghia Foundation Inc. focuses on the advancement of education in the field of interior design.
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
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RESEARCH COMPUTING FACILITY
NSF Awards $2 Million to UNL for International Physics Experiment
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David Swanson (front), Ken Bloom (left) and Aaron Dominguez (right)
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists and facilities are playing a key role in one of the world's largest physics experiments and have received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support those efforts.
The experiment is the international particle-physics project known as the Compact Muon Solenoid, or CMS. The experiment will be conducted at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland. Scheduled to begin in 2007, the experiment will explore the frontiers of energy, matter, space and time.
Although the experiment will be conducted in Switzerland, it will create so much data that dozens of supercomputers crunching 24/7 will take years to analyze all the information. To solve that problem, a "tiered" hierarchy of computing facilities is being created. UNL is a member of that hierarchy.
The data collected at CERN will be parceled out to computing facilities around the world in a hierarchical grid. Tier-0 is at CERN; several international labs serve as Tier-1 sites. Fermilab, a Department of Energy facility in Illinois, is the United States' Tier-1 site, which will distribute subsets of the data to seven associated Tier-2 sites in the United States, including UNL. Other universities collaborating on CMS will do much of their computing work at Tier-2 sites.
David Swanson, coordinator of the UNL Research Computing Facility and a research assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, is lead investigator for the grant, in collaboration with Ken Bloom and Aaron Dominguez, both assistant professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and other department faculty. more...
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Weekend at the Ross: Mad
Hot Ballroom, Mysterious Skin.
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the fan favorite documentary
Mad Hot Ballroom, and the newest film from director Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin
Tango, foxtrot, swing, rumba, and meringue may seem to represent the last vestiges of a dying art to some, but director Marilyn Agrelo proves this is far from true in Mad Hot Ballroom. Agrelo reveals that the New York City public school system runs a ballroom dance program for fifth graders, in which these former preserves of the adult world are given a new lease on life by some enthusiastic little characters. The film follows students at three schools in the neighborhoods of Tribeca, Bensonhurst, and Washington Heights, with Agrelo training her cameras on the kids' lives both inside and outside of the classroom. The students are united by a zeal for the ballroom dancing lessons, which build over a 10-week period and culminate in a competition to find the school that has produced the best dancers in the city. One of 2005's most uplifting slices of cinema, Mad Hot Ballroom is a joyous, life-affirming experience.
"The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours, lost, gone without a trace..." These are the words of Brian Lackey (Brady Corbet), a troubled 18 year-old, growing up in the stiflingly small town of Hutchinson, Kansas. Plagued by nightmares, Brian believes that he may have been the victim of an alien abduction. Local Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon Levitt) however, is the ultimate beautiful outsider. With a loving but promiscuous mother (Elisabeth Shue), Neil is wise beyond his years and curious about his developing sexuality, having found what he perceived to be love from his Little League baseball coach (played by Hal Hartley veteran Bill Sage) at a very early age. Now, ten years later, Neil is a teenage hustler, nonchalant about the dangerous path his life is taking. Neil's pursuit of love leads him to New York City, while Brian's voyage of self discovery leads him to Neil ? who helps him to unlock the dark secrets of their past. Based on the acclaimed novel by Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin explores the hearts and minds of two very different boys who come to find the key to their future happiness lies in the exorcism of their collective demons.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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