Thu, Aug 31, 2006
August 31, 2006
WOMEN'S CENTER, 3RD FLOOR CITY UNION, 3:30PM
Women's Center Holds Open House
The UNL Women's Center, located the third floor of the UNL City Union, will be holding an Open House today from 3:30 to 5:30 pm. The Open House is a great opportunity for UNL students, faculty and staff to enjoy some good free food, meet the staff and explore the resources that the Women's Center has to offer.
The Women's Center is open Monday through Thursdays 10 am to 6 pm and Fridays from 10 am to 5 pm. Its mission is to ensure that women are positively experiencing college and to help everyone in the Lincoln community understand the changing roles of both men and women. The Women's Center offers over 1,700 books, videos, and posters for resources, as well as numerous other assets.
Women's Center
110 HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series - "Deer mice across altitudes: genetic and non-genetic physiological adaptation"
Mark Chappell, University of California-Riverside
BRACE LAB 211, 4PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Organic Electronics"
George Malliaras, Cornell University. Refreshments precede talk at 3:30 pm in Brace Lab 201.
WINNER OF THE MOST RECENT NEBRASKA EDGE BEST BUSINESS PLAN CONTEST
UNL Entities Help State Business Succeed
It started over dinner with friends. Two years later business partners Krista Dittman and Charuth Loth are at the beginning stages of having a successful farmstead dairy business. Farmstead First's success, though, couldn't have happened without the help of UNL's Food Processing Center, the NebraskaEDGE (Enhancing, Developing and Growing Entrepreneurs) program and the Nebraska Cooperative Development Center.
"The university is a great resource to have right here and a good place for entrepreneurs to start out," said Dittman. "There are a lot of frustrating things about starting a business. One foot has to be tenacious and the other foot has to keep going and iron out all the bugs."
Dittman and her husband, Doug, operate Branched Oak Farm, and Loth and her husband, Kevin, operate ShadowBrook Farms, both near Lincoln. Together, the two women began the venture of artisan cheese-making through Farmstead First, LLC. The idea to start a farmstead dairy came about two years ago, mainly because of the women's love of good food and wine, and they wanted to be a part of that. more...
NebraskaEDGE | UNL FOOD PROCESSING
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Strangers With Candy, Lower City Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Strangers With Candy, and Lower City. Both films will be showing through August 31.
Strangers With Candy is a daring leap backwards. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series of the same name, it is the tale of Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a forty-seven year old ex-con, junky whore who decides to return home after thirty-two years as a runaway. When Jerri arrives at her childhood home, she discovers her earlier disappearance has caused her father to slip into a self-induced coma. Moved by guilt, and with hopes of jarring her father from his eternal slumber, Jerri decides to turn her life around by picking it up exactly where she left off - as a high school freshman. She's going to start her life over, only this time she's going to do the wrong things the right way. Once reenrolled in high school, and seeking to find that special thing that will erase thirty-two years of debauchery, Jerri stumbles upon the school sponsored State Science Fair. Convinced that winning the fair will resurrect her father, she signs up, expecting an easy stroll down the road to victory. Not surprisingly, she finds that the path is fraught with the many adolescent problems and temptations that plague all teenagers, but especially this forty-seven year old former boozer, user and loser.
In Lower City, steamy sex, glistening sweat, dark photography, grungy ghetto colors, and sudden violence pervade this Brazilian feature from director Sergio Machado. Alice Braga (City of God) stars as Karinna, a traveling prostitute who trades her favors to lifelong friends Deco (Lazaro Ramos) and Naldinho (Wagner Moura) for a ride back to Salvador on their run down boat. After Deco is almost killed at a cockfight, the three form a temporary menage-a-trois friendship, but the intense love each man feels for Karinna coupled with their homophobic macho wariness threatens to destroy their once unbreakable friendship.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | STRANGERS WITH CANDY | LOWER CITY
