August 31, 2005
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SEATON HALL, 11:30AM-2PM
Newly Renovated Hall Holds Open House
The offices in Seaton Hall are celebrating the redesign and renovation of
their building by holding an open house on August 31, from 11:30-2:00 for
interested faculty, students, and staff. Refreshments will be served and
information about each of the offices now occupying the building will be
available.
The offices in the newly renovated building include those for the Institute for Ethnic Studies (African American and African
Studies, Latino and Latin American Studies, Native American Studies),
Graduate Studies, International Studies, Judaic Studies, Plains Humanities
Alliance, Undergraduate Studies, Womenˇ¦s Studies, and the Cather Project
(whose main office is located in Andrews Hall).
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DUDLEY BAILEY LIBRARY, ANDREWS HALL, 7PM
English Department and Creative Writing Program Sponsors Poetry Reading
Cortney Davis, 2003 winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry for her collection Leopold's Maneuvers, will be reading, 7 p.m., Aug. 31 in the Dudley Bailey Library in Andrews Hall.
Davis, a nurse practitioner from Redding, Conn., has published a previous collection of poems, Details of Flesh, and a memoir, I Knew a Woman: Four Women Patients and their Female Caregivers.
The reading - sponsored by the UNL English Department and Creative Writing Program, University of Nebraska Press, and Prairie Schooner - is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 472-0911.
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NEBRASKA UNION, CENTENNIAL ROOM, 4-6PM
Over 25 Agencies Take Part in Volunteer Fair 2005
The 2005 Volunteer Fair will take place today from 4 pm to 6 pm in the Nebraska Union, Centennial Room. The event will feature a number of local agencies seeking volunteers. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, go to the Student Involvement website.
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RESEARCH EXTENDS GLOBALLY
Recent UNL Research on Soybean Oil Helps Shape Food Allergen Labeling
An international study by UNL food scientists confirmed that highly refined soybean oil does not cause reactions in people who are allergic to soybeans, said food toxicologist Sue Hefle, who headed this research with food scientist Steve Taylor. Soy-allergic people don't react because refined oil contains only minuscule amounts of protein, the culprit in allergic reactions, Hefle said. Findings do not apply to cold- or expeller-pressed soy oil, which contains more protein and may cause reactions.
"This tells allergic consumers that they can eat many more foods without worrying about reactions," Hefle explained. "They still need to carefully read labels, but if highly refined soy oil is the only soy ingredient, they know it's OK to eat that product." The study, completed in 2003, has drawn interest internationally from allergic consumers, food manufacturers and farmers as well as regulators because soybeans are a common allergen and soy oil is used extensively in foods worldwide, Taylor said.
"People have been extremely eager for our results. We've shared them with policy-makers, congressional staffers, industry and the chief consumer group for allergic consumers," Taylor said. The university's Food Allergy Research and Resource Program, which he and Hefle co-direct, regularly fields inquiries on a host of food allergy issues from across the nation and abroad.
The Nebraska findings played a role in recent European Union food allergen labeling decisions as well as the U.S. Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004, which Congress passed to protect allergic consumers. In March, highly refined soybean oil was among the soy components that the European Union temporarily exempted from food allergen labeling regulations slated to take effect later this year, he said. more...
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SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH OCT 23
April Gornik: Paintings and Drawings at Sheldon
The exhibition "April Gornik: Paintings and Drawings" will be on display at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Aug. 27 through Oct. 23. The exhibition includes nearly 40 monumental and small-scale paintings and drawings that act as a mid-career survey of April Gornik's work from 1980 to the present. Gornik is well known for her ability to bring forth the Western Romantic tradition in light-bathed landscapes inspired by memories of places visited, as well as by her imagination.
Dede Young, curator of modern and contemporary art for the Neuberger Museum of Art at State University of New York-Purchase, organized the exhibition, which was at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia before coming to the Sheldon. According to Young, the relevance of Gornik's work lies in the fact that she revels in her landscapes at a time when painting and drawing are considered outdated. "Since the mid-20th century art has expanded in uncountable ways, and painting and drawing have been rejected for nearly two decades as lacking in potential to fully express our contemporary world. April Gornik has chosen to maintain a steady process of exploring the vocabulary of painting and drawing as consistently viable and compelling. Rather than bow to the recent trend of artists to seek and make images from urban experiences in a world of mass production, Gornik stays a passionate course, utilizing landscape images and light to reference shared human experience."
With light as a primary subject, along with past, present, and future worlds imagined and portrayed with imposing clarity, Gornik puts forth images that are fresh, timeless and lasting. Her compelling relevance lies in the palpable, hand-made-ness of her work. She has said of painting, "It holds within itself the history, time, and tale of its formation, the person looking at it is informed, enriched, and subliminally able to experience all of the above. The object speaks to us in its physicality, a connection and an interface of time and space, intent and emotion."
Gornik will discuss her work in a public talk on "Landscape As Metaphor" at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 30 at the Sheldon's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium, with a reception to follow. The talk is free and open to the public.
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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.
MRRMAC | MAD HOT BALLROOM | MYSTERIOUS SKIN |
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