August 24, 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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INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY
Nebraska Spirit Through The Ages
The University of Nebraska
has always been known for school spirit, and with fall athletics
fast approaching, a spirit chant from the past has been unearthed
from the archives. Printed alongside 5 other chants from the era
on a November 6th, 1909 football program (for a game between NU and
Kansas), the piece opens in an almost somber way before giving way
to a more spirited ending.
U-U-U-ni
Ver-Ver-Versity
N-e-bras-ki
Oh-h-h-my!
To download a recording of this chant, click here.
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WEBSITE FEATURES NEW THEME
Real Nebraska Site Presents Student Feedback for 2005-06
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's "REAL Nebraska" site features a new theme this fall with student interaction on current events like the NBC reality-comedy "Tommy Lee Goes to College."
Each Wednesday morning after a new "Tommy Lee" episode airs on NBC, REAL Nebraska host David Burge gathers student feedback featured in videos online at http://realnebraska.unl.edu New videos are posted each Wednesday afternoon. The "Tommy Lee" response format for the Web site is the third variation of the popular REAL Nebraska project, which featured UNL student photos, videos and Web logs in 2003-04 and a student-produced movie contest in 2004-05.
Alan Cerveny, dean of admissions, says the student-response format was a good fit this year. "The REAL Nebraska Web site has always been about giving prospective students an inside look at the Husker student experience," Cerveny said. "We want students watching the Tommy Lee show to visit our site to see 'the real Nebraska'."
In the REAL Nebraska installments, Burge, an associate director in the Office of Admissions, focuses his questions for students on main topics covered in each "Tommy Lee" episode. UNL highlights current university student experiences so prospective students can compare it with what they see on television. In the first video posted online, Burge interviewed students as they move into a residence hall a week before classes began.
REAL NEBRASKA
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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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