September 13, 2005
Paul A. Olson
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GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
Tolstoy, John Wayne, 'Peace in the Plains' to be 200th Olson Seminar
The namesake of the Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies is returning for a milestone presentation.
In the 200th lecture of the series, Paul A. Olson - a founder and first director of the UNL Center for Great Plains Studies - will tap the work of Leo Tolstoy and John Wayne to show how the duo had a significant influence on political and social history of the Great Plains and its corresponding legend or myth of violence and peace.
Olson, Kate Foster regents professor of English at UNL, will lecture on that topic Sept. 13 when he presents the 200th Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies, a series that began in 1979. The lecture begins at 3:30 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. It is free and open to the public, as is a reception following the talk.
The idea for the seminar series was reported in the minutes from a Great Plains Studies meeting on Nov. 13, 1975. UNL faculty and interested individuals from the community were invited to hear Dennis Shaw from the University of California at Los Angeles present the first seminar on Sept. 13, 1979, in the faculty club dining room and enjoy "coffee and cookies." By the time Olson gave the April 1980 seminar on how Black Elk tried to change history, the series had moved from the faculty club to St. Mark's on the Campus. In 1992, the seminars moved to the Great Plains Art Collection in Love Library, and finally to its present location in the Great Plains Art Museum.
CENTER FOR GREAT PLAINS STUDIES
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TRANSCRIPT | PODCAST
PRIDE, PASSION AND POWER
Chancellor Delivers State of the University Address
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman
delivered his annual State of the University address on Sept.
9 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Perlman reviewed the previous year's accomplishments and announced objectives
and initiatives for the upcoming academic year.
The program for the year's State of the University address included a performance
by the Chiara String Quartet, artists in residence at the UNL School of Music.
The quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Julie Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; and
Gregory Beaver, cello) began its three-year residency at UNL this month after
previously occupying the Lisa Arnhold residency in the Juilliard School of Music
in New York City. The quartet was the Meadowlark Chamber Music Festival's artists-in-residence
in Lincoln in 2004 in collaboration with the UNL School of Music's Chamber Music
Institute. Note: due to technical difficulties, the audio of
the Chiara String Quartet does not appear on the podcast or video downloads.
OFFICE
OF THE CHANCELLOR | SCARLET SPECIAL SECTION
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$9.98 MILLION FOR STUDIES
NIH Grant to UNL Promises Treatment for Hemophilia B
Seventeen years of research have brought scientists to the brink of developing an effective, low-cost treatment for Hemophilia B, a debilitating genetic bleeding disorder. A $9.98 million grant to a team led by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln biomedical engineer offers a glimmer of hope for clinical trials within five years.
UNL's William Velander heads the team that includes scientists from three universities and two private entities. The grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute within National Institutes of Health, allows the team to "transition the science to the level of technology" needed for remaining clinical studies in animals and humans, Velander said. Velander is a professor of chemical engineering at UNL and holds the Donald R. Voelte Jr. and Nancy A. Keegan Endowed Chair in Engineering at UNL. Funds from the Nebraska Tobacco Settlement Biomedical Research Fund were used to support the recruitment of Velander and to support his research program, making this grant possible.
Hemophilia B affects approximately 15,000 people in the United States. Some 500,000 and 1 million people worldwide have some type of hemophilia. "While a lot of people with complex diseases are frustrated by the apparent slowness of the development of new therapies, it takes a lot of scientists working a long time to understand the required processes," Velander said. "Even though the wait is long, there's hope. There's a glimmer of hope because we really can foresee clinical trials on this."
UNL scientists working with Velander on the project include Kevin Van Cott, a professor of Chemical Engineering as well Professors Michael Meagher and Todd Swanson of the Biological Process Development Facility. Paul Monahan and Timothy Nichols of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will lead the hemophilic animal studies. Others sharing in the grant are Stephan Abramson, LifeSci Partners of California; Julian Cooper, ProGenetics LLC, of Virginia; William Dernell and Mark Manning of Colorado State University. more...
DEPT. OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM, MORRILL HALL
Explore Evolution Exhibit Continues at NU State Museum
Using cutting edge research, a new exhibit at the University of Nebraska State Museum gives a modern shine to Charles Darwin's 146-year-old theory on evolution. The permanent exhibit, Explore Evolution, which opens to the public Sept. 10, was developed by a consortium of six partner museums led by the NU State Museum and prominently features the work of two UNL scientists.
The project is made possible by a $2.8 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation's Informal Science Education program and consists of nearly identical permanent exhibit galleries at six partner museums in the Midwest and South -- regions where evolution education is controversial. Other components of the project include a Web site, inquiry-based activities for middle-school children in the form of a book titled "Virus and the Whale, Exploring Evolution in Creatures Small and Large," and collaborations with five statewide 4-H programs.
UNL's contributions to the project are significant. While the exhibit galleries were built by the Science Museum of Minnesota, a team from UNL played major roles in the creation of the artwork and content. Judy Diamond, professor at the NU State Museum, wrote the original grant request for the project and is the team leader on the project. Research from two UNL scientists -- virologist Charles Wood and geologist Sherilyn Fritz -- is featured in two of the seven sections of the exhibit.
Museums partnering with the UNL State Museum include the Exhibit Museum of Natural History of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; the Kansas Museum and Biodiversity Center at the University of Kansas in Lawrence; the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma in Norman; the Texas Memorial Museum at the University of Texas at Austin; and the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul.
"Explore Evolution features the latest science museum technology including multimedia and interactive exhibits that show how research is being done on evolution by scientists working today," Grew said. "It offers visitors engaging opportunities to learn about some of the most exciting recent discoveries and scientific questions in biological evolution. It brings Morrill Hall right up to date with the latest in natural history."
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM | EXPLORE EVOLUTION
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week at the Ross: Rize, Me And You And Everyone We Know.
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Rize, the debut film from famed photographer David LaChapelle
and performance artist Miranda July's debut film, Me And You And Everyone We Know
Photographer David LaChapelle gets behind a different kind of lens for Rize,
his feature film debut. LaChapelle heads to Los Angeles to make his mark in
the cinematic world, shooting a documentary about a style of hip-hop dance called "krumping." Dividing
his time between the personal lives of the dancers and some spectacular on-screen
demonstrations courtesy of the cream of the krumpers, LaChapelle's bright, vivacious
photographic style makes an impressive translation to the big screen. As the dancers perform a jaw-dropping array of moves, a deliriously infectious mixture of fun, intensity, and jubilant release pours from the screen. Playing out like a west-coast relative to fellow 2005 film, the New York-based Mad Hot Ballroom, LaChapelle's movie gloriously demonstrates the healing powers of dance.
Miranda July's debut feature film, Me And You And Everyone We Know, is a charming, quirky romantic comedy that is entertaining from start to finish. Writer-director July stars as Christine, an offbeat performance artist who becomes instantly smitten with Richard (John Hawkes), a brooding department-store shoe salesman who is having trouble dealing with his divorce and his separation from his two kids--the shy, private Peter (Miles Thompson) and the very funny Robby (Brandon Ratcliff). Christine is trying to get her latest work accepted at a major museum, but first she has to get through mean-spirited Nancy (Tracy Wright), who is not necessarily very interested in her submission.
Meanwhile, Natasha Slayton and Najarra Townsend are a riot as a pair of teenagers who think they're ready for sex as they tease neighborhood pervert Andrew (Brad Henke) and consider experimenting with Peter. Amid all the tender, comedic, well-acted, and well-written scenes, Ratcliff nearly steals the film as Robby gets involved in a dirty, hysterical online chat with a mystery person. July's marvelous, surprising movie won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in addition to well-deserved prizes at the Philadelphia and San Francisco International Film Festivals.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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W183 NEBRASKA HALL, 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar - "An Inorganic Chemist's View of Organic Electronics: From Pi to Stacking to Charge Generation and Transport"
M. David Curtis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center of Biological Chemistry/Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Organization of Prokaryotic Metabolic Processes Within Microcompartments"
Dr. Tom Bobik, Iowa State University
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ALL DAY
Fairway Club International
LINCOLN, NE
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