November 8, 2005
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LIED CENTER, 7:30PM
Lied Center Presents Violinist Hilary Hahn
The Dorothy and Maurice Hevelone Memorial Concert will feature violinist Hilary Hahn at the Lied Center for Performing Arts this evening at 7:30 pm. At only 25 years old, Hahn has already been praised as an intellectual, emotional, and mature performer who has released numerous recordings and has appeared regularly with some of the world's finest orchestras. Once named "America's Best Young Classical Musician" by Time magazine, Hahn is for many, one of the greatest hopes for reviving classical music in the 21st century.
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UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE, NOON
One Book, One Lincoln Book Discussion - The Kite Runner
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry and Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Cysteine, Glutathione & Phytochelatins: Towards Engineering Heavy Metal Tolerance in Plants"
Dr. Joseph Jez, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
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PROGRAM AIMED AT NEXT GENERATION OF RESEARCHERS
UNL Program Introduces High-End Science to High School Students
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Sarah Zulkoski-Benson, science outreach coordinator for the Center for Biotechnology, explains to Andrea Beyersdorf, Lincoln Southeast senior, how to deliver a DNA sample into gel used to create a DNA stain.
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A second-year UNL program is introducing high-end science to high school students across Lincoln and preparing to expand into other Nebraska school districts. Through a series of three experiments - including the crime lab-like replication of DNA and the eerie green glow of plasma DNA injected into e. coli - the Center for Biotechnology Outreach Program is designed to pique interest and draw students to the field of science at an earlier age.
The project is funded through a $100,000 EPSCoR grant from the National Science Foundation. Those funds are a portion of a four-year, $6 million NSF Infrastructure grant awarded in 2004. "I had a separate grant that allowed undergraduates to have some research exposure," said Mike Fromm, primary investigator on the grant and director of UNL's Center for Biotechnology. "The results of that made it clear to me that we need to get students started sooner. Get them interested in science in high school rather than as juniors or seniors in college, allowing them to take the proper coursework."
The outreach program is organized by Sarah Zulkoski-Benson, a UNL graduate who worked in the science industry before returning to education. "This has been an amazing project to work on," Zulkoski-Benson said. "For me, I really missed the personal contact that I wasn't getting in the science industry. And, now I get to go out, work with teachers and see these students get excited about science."
Five Lincoln Public Schools teachers participated in the program during the 2004-05 academic year. Those teachers selected three experiments - pGlo Bacterial Transformation, Restriction Enzyme Digestion and Analysis of Lambda DNA, and a PV92/PCR Bioinformatics kit - all of which conform to district curriculum and have the potential to provide students with exciting results. more...
UNL CENTER OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress, 2046 Continue at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress and 2046. Both films run through
Nov. 10.
Based on the international best-seller, Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress is set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's "Cultural Revolution," as two city-bred teenage best friends, Luo (Kun Chen) and Ma (Ye Liu), are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education. Sons of "reactionary intellectuals," the boys are required to perform arduous manual labor along with locals while under the supervision of the zealous village headman.
Because of their literacy, the headman sends them to a larger town to watch imported Albanian and North Korean communist melodramas, and then report back to the culture-starved locals. During one of these trips, the two see and fall in love with the local beauty (Xun Zhou), the daughter of the most renowned tailor in the region. They never know her name, referring to her only as "the Little Seamstress," but she captivates them with her innocence and sensuality.
When they discover a hidden suitcase filled with banned books by Western writers, mostly French - Flaubert, Dumas and Balzac among them - they read these works to the Little Seamstress for hours on end in a secret meeting place. Thirsting for knowledge of the world beyond, she comes to love, in particular, Balzac and his characters.
Director Wong Kar-Wai's style reaches its fullest expression in his
stunning film 2046. Picture period sets and intricate costuming,
finely wrought atmospheres, languid shots, glamorous cigarette smoke,
lamplight, and allusions to film noir make 2046 one of the
most compelling and beautiful films to be released this year.
2046 is a meditation on memory, eroticism, love, loss, and
longing which surpasses the director's beautiful, widely acclaimed In
the Mood for Love (2000) in terms of formal ambition and visual
sumptuousness. With its intriguing, layered structure, the film follows
the adventures of Chow Wo Man (Tony Leung), a womanizer who is writing
a science fiction novel about a future year in which all memories
are suspended. The film shuttles between the Blade Runner-like
world of Chow's futuristic novel (complete with androids and other
metaphors of emotional disconnection) and late-'60s Hong Kong – where
Chow writes from a hotel room, and engages in relationships with
a series of beautiful, complex women. The film also journeys to Singapore
and through the increasingly mysterious corridors of the protagonist's
memory.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS | 2046 |
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