October 26, 2005
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CENTENNIAL ROOM, NEBRASKA UNION, 9AM - 3PM
Career Services Sponsors Fall Interview Day for Educators
UNL Career Services is sponsoring a fall interview day for currently-enrolled students and alumni interested in the field of education. School districts from Lincoln, Omaha, Omaha Metro, and Kansas City Metro will be on hand to talk with teacher candidates about employment opportunities. There is no pre-registration or no fees involved.
For questions about Education Employment, contact Dr. Becky Faber.
CAREER SERVICES
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NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM
Nebraska Lecture - Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series - "Genes, Greens and Disease"
Ruma Banerjee, George Holmes University Professor of Biochemistry
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Plains Humanities Alliance's Research and Region Seminar - "Current Trends in Nebraska History"
History graduate students Kurt Kinbacher, Leslie Working and Bridget Barry
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biotechnology / Life Sciences Seminar - "The Tree of Life: Is it Rotten to the Core?"
Dr. Ford Doolittle, Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, Nova Scotia
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VOLLEYBALL | 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Kansas Jayhawks
NU COLISEUM
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NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM
Nebraska Lecture Explores Nutrition, Genes and Health
Ruma Banerjee, George Holmes university professor of biochemistry, will lecture at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 26 in the auditorium of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. The lecture, part of the Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series at UNL, is free and open to the public. A reception follows in an adjacent room. In the Nebraska Lecture, titled "Genes, Greens and Disease," Banerjee will discuss "how simple nutrients like vitamins regulate genes and modulate health and disease and the sybaritic pleasures of being a scientist."
Nebraska Lectures feature leading scholars from UNL who translate their work into understandable, non-technical language, allowing lay audiences to learn about research conducted at the university. The lectures are sponsored by the UNL Research Council, the Office of Research and Graduate Studies and the Office of the Chancellor.
Banerjee's research focuses on homocysteine, a substance derived from the amino acid methionine. Homocysteine is essential for health but is toxic at elevated levels, constituting a significant heart disease risk factor. Up to one-third of the people at risk for heart disease have elevated homocysteine levels. It is also correlated with Alzheimer's disease and fetal neural tube defects.
"Cardiovascular disease and homocysteine levels are both influenced by the interactions between many genetic and environmental factors," said Banerjee, who leads a team of scientists who comprise the Redox Biology Center at UNL. The center was established in 2002 with a $10.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Banerjee joined Nebraska's faculty as an assistant professor in 1991 and was promoted to associate professor in 1997 and professor in 2000. A native of India, she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at Delhi University and her doctorate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. She was a lecturer at the University of Michigan before joining the UNL faculty. Before being named George Holmes university professor, Banerjee was a Willa Cather professor at UNL.
NEBRASKA LECTURES | UNL DEPT. OF BIOCHEMISTRY
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week At The Ross: Junebug
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Junebug, the first feature film from director Phil
Morrison.
Giving an art-film aesthetic to a touching family drama, director
Phil Morrison and screenwriter Angus MacLachlan present their first
feature, which was shot in their hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The film is set in nearby Pfafftown and Pilot Mountain, and location
is itself a character in the film as long sequences of soundless photography
show rows of houses, or rooms in a house, or stretches of farmland--capturing
the essence of this area of the South. Successful, cosmopolitan,
and adorable Chicago couple Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz) and George (Alessandro
Nivola) meet at a fancy art auction where she is working as a dealer,
and they are married six months later. Madeleine is recruiting
an outsider artist, and she travels to rural North Carolina to meet him.
George accompanies her, as he is originally from Pfafftown, and though
it has been three years since he visited home, Madeleine insists on meeting
his family. When she does, she finds herself in a world totally different
from her own, and sees a new side of her husband. His mother Peg (Celia
Weston) and father Eugene (Scott Wilson) are quiet homebodies who aren't
sure what to make of Madeleine's sophisticated career and lilting British
accent. George's deadbeat brother Johnny (Ben McKenzie) never finished
high school, and lives at home with his young wife Ashley (Amy
Adams), who is naive and bubbly--and very pregnant. While the family's
simplicity, traditional values, and religion make them suspicious of
Madeleine, Ashley is the one bright-eyed spirit who is happy to have
Madeleine as a sister-in-law and celebrates her marriage to George. Junebug is
an affecting film that sheds light both on the always-surprising nature
of in-laws, and the unique culture of the South.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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