September 23-25, 2005
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UNL CAMPUS, THIS WEEKEND
UNL Parents Weekend
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Parents Association, in conjunction with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and UNL Housing, will host the annual UNL Parents Weekend Sept. 23-25.
The event is an opportunity for parents and students to spend time together and to learn more about the UNL campus. Among the activities scheduled are tours of various campus facilities where well-known faculty will give presentations, including: Andersen Hall (hosted by Joe Starita and Jerry Renaud, College of Journalism and Mass Communications), Center for Great Plains Studies (hosted by Stacey Walsh), Morrill Hall (hosted by Priscilla Grew, director of the University of Nebraska State Museum) and Othmer Hall (hosted by Michael Meagher, professor of chemical engineering).
Participants will also tour Memorial Stadium, and have their pictures taken with Lil' Red and UNL cheerleaders. Entertainment during the weekend will include a performance by UNL's Scarlet & Cream Singers, and a Ragtime performance at the Sheldon Art Gallery auditorium by Jack Oliva, dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. Parents and students will also have a choice of movies at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, an opportunity to use the Campus Recreation facilities, and a chance to enjoy root beer floats provided by the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.
UNL HOUSING
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DO YOUR PART
Campus Looks To Save Money On Energy Costs
With cold weather rapidly approaching, the University of Nebraska – Lincoln is asking faculty and staff to contribute to cost-cutting measures aimed at energy savings. With the campus facing a deficit in the energy budget and continued cost increases, there's never been a more important time to think of the small ways that individuals can reduce their energy footprint. To learn more about how you can help, open the energy strips page.
ENERGY STRIPS
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UNL CAMPUS, SAT 9AM - 2:30PM
UNL Chemistry Day Set for Students, Teachers, Parents
The fifth annual Chemistry
Day at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be held 9 am to
2:30 pm Sept. 24 in Hamilton Hall on the UNL city campus. The event
is free but pre-registration is required. Attendees will have the
opportunity to win scholarships and chemistry-related door prizes.
The event will introduce high school students, parents and science teachers to opportunities and careers in the field of chemistry. UNL students interested in becoming chemistry majors are also welcome to participate.
The morning session will include visits to three labs to learn about faculty research and experimental demonstrations will be performed. An introduction to career possibilities for students with a chemistry degree will be explored.
At noon participants will be introduced to Nebraska's only glassblowing shop, and do a T-shirt chromatography, a technique for separating complex mixtures of chemicals or proteins into their various constituents. Also at noon, visiting teachers will participate in a short roundtable to learn how to perform low-cost but spectacular demonstrations in their classrooms.
At 1 p.m., Mark Griep, associate professor of chemistry, will present his talk "Drug Discovery in the Movies," in which the real process of drug discovery will be contrasted with its portrayal in the movies.
To see a more detailed schedule and to register, visit the UNL chemistry web page at Chemistry Day. Registrations will be taken until all the slots are filled.
DEPT OF CHEMISTRY
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CARSON THEATER, LIED CENTER, FRI, SAT 7:30PM
'Einstein: A Stage Portrait' at UNL's Carson Theater
In celebration of the World Year of Physics 2005, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Physics and Astronomy will present actor Tom Schuch in the award-winning, one-man show, "Einstein: A Stage Portrait," by Willard Simms. Performances will be at 7:30 pm Sept. 23 and 24 at the Carson Theater in the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Both shows are free and open to the public.
Thirty minutes before the show there will be a free "Physics Fun Fair" featuring funky physics topics, fascinating books, one-of-a-kind mementos such as an Einstein action doll and refreshments such as "quark tortes." n the play, the year is 1946, the atomic bomb has been dropped, the world has forever changed and Albert Einstein has invited the audience into to his home to set the record straight about his life. Schuch will use humor, introspection, science and a little violin to give his audience a new understanding of the man who solved many of the world's most difficult puzzles with astounding creativity and a delicious sense of humor. Schuch and a UNL physicist will conduct a question-and-answer session with the audience after each performance.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein's "miraculous year," in which he published three important papers with ideas that influenced all of modern physics. The Carson Theater performances of "Einstein: A Stage Portrait" are made possible with financial contributions at UNL by the College of Arts and Sciences, Center for Science Math and Computer Education, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cosmic Ray Observatory Project, Dominguez and fellow UNL physicist Kenneth Bloom.
Advanced tickets to the play are available online (http://unlhep.unl.edu/einstein) or by calling (402) 617-6483. For more information about The World Year of Physics 2005, visit http://www.physics2005.org.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Red Carpet Premiere Night Screening Planned for Almost Normal
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents a special, red carpet premiere night screening for Almost Normal, a unique comedy shot entirely in Nebraska. The gala premiere will take place on Friday, September 23 at 7 pm and the film will continue showing through Sept 29.
Almost Normal takes a very unconventional story and delivers it in a very conventional manner. Brad Jenkins (J. Andrew Keitch) is gay, just turned 40 and is still single...He's depressed. Reminiscing, Brad confides to his best friend since high school, Julie (Joan Lauckner) that he wishes he could just be normal. Maybe then he could have scored with the hottest jock at his school, Roland Davis (Tim Hammer). Suddenly taken back in time, Brad wakes up and finds himself back in high school in a world that is now gay. To be straight is considered deviant behavior.
Shot entirely in Nebraska, actors and crew were pooled from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and talent from the local community. Director Marc Moody, producer/editor Sharon Teo, and director of photography Richard Sherman, are not only filmmakers, but also Professors at The University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Penn State, respectively. Moody, Teo, and Sherman all met while they were in graduate film school at the Ohio University School of Film.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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210 FILLEY HALL, FRI 3PM
Agricultural Economics Seminar - "The Effects of Infra-Marginal Subsidies on Exits and Cross-subsidies: Implications of the WTO Panels on EU Sugar and CDN Dairy Policies"
Harry de Gorter, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Quantum Enzyme Kinetics"
Professor Donald G. Truhlar, University of Minnesota
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Mechanisms of Hurricane Destruction"
Nicholas Coch, Queens College, City University of New York
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - "The Ranks of the Homotopy Groups of a Finite Complex" (preceded by coffee and cookies at 3:30 in Avery Hall 348
Professor Steve Halperin, University of Maryland
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VOLLEYBALL |
SAT 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Iowa State Cyclones
NU COLISEUM
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