Fri, Sep 01, 2006
September 1-3, 2006
MEMORIAL STADIUM, FRI 6-9PM
Stadium Tours Offered Friday
Athletics will offer public tours of the North Stadium expansion project at Memorial Stadium from 6 to 9 pm on Friday, Sept. 1. Tours will begin at the northwest corner of the Hawks Championship Center and run until the last tours begin at 9 pm.
Fans are encouraged to park in the Stadium Drive Parking Garage, at Haymarket Park, in downtown parking garages and in other public parking lots near campus. Beginning Sept. 6, the Osborne Athletic Complex lobby will be open to the public, 8 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday.
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201 BRACE LAB, FRI 1:30PM
Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Seminar - "Pentacene Thin Film Growth and Transistor Applications"
George Malliaras, Cornell University
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Geotechnical stratigraphy and paleoceanography: Interpreting sedimentary records of environmental change"
Frank Rack, ANDRILL/UNL
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Molecular Capsules"
Professor Jerry Atwood, University of Missouri
SOCCER | NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD, FRI 5PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Wisconsin Badgers
VOLLEYBALL | NU COLISEUM, FRI 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs St. Mary's Belles
FOOTBALL | MEMORIAL STADIUM, SAT 2:30PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Louisiana Tech Bulldogs
VOLLEYBALL | NU COLISEUM, SAT 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Middle Tennessee State Lightning
SOCCER | NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD, SUN 1PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Iowa Hawkeyes
VOLLEYBALL | NU COLISEUM, SUN 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Long Beach State Prospectors
PROPOSAL SUBMITTED TO DEPT. OF HOMELAND DEFENSE FOR FURTHER STUDY
UNL Chemists Research Bomb Detection Options
In the fight against terrorism, one of the main goals of law-enforcement and security agencies is to stop terrorist attacks before they strike. Early detection is essential, and work being done by UNL chemists could give those agencies the tools they need to detect the easy-to-make and highly explosive bombs that can be made from peroxide compounds sold at virtually any hardware store.
Gerry Harbison and Jody Redepenning are among a group of six UNL scientists involved in the research. Harbison is researching the ability of nuclear magnetic resonance machines to target the substances. Redepenning is exploring chemical "sniffers" that would sense their presence.
The work started last fall after Harbison returned to Lincoln from London, where he had attended an international conference - and missed going through London's Kings Cross Station the day terrorists bombed it because of a last-minute change of plans. He was visiting his sister in London following the conference and when it came time for him to fly home, he told her he planned to take the train to the airport. But he said she talked him out of it by telling him, "Don't be a cheapskate. Take a cab." more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Road To Guantanamo, Russian Dolls Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Road To Guantanamo and Russian Dolls. Russian Dolls will be showing through September 7, while The Road To Guantanamo will play through September 14.
Winner of the Silver Beat at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Road To Guantanamo is the terrifying first-hand account of three British citizens who were held for two years without charges in the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Known as the "Tipton Three," in reference to their home town in Britain, the three were eventually returned to Britain and released, still having had no formal charges ever made against them at any time during their ordeal. The film has already engendered significant controversy due to its critical stance towards the American and British governments. Part documentary, part dramatization, the film chronicles the sequence of events that led from the trio setting out from Tipton in the British Midlands for a wedding in Pakistan, to their crossing the Afghanistan border just as the U.S. began their invasion, to their eventual capture by the Northern Alliance and their imprisonment in Camp X-Ray and later at Camp Delta in Guantanamo.
Precisely observed, charming, and light as air, Cedric Klapisch's update of his 2000 romantic comedy, L'Auberge Espanole, offers at minimum the pleasure of checking back in with a bunch of comely but hopelessly neurotic young things after five years of life experience have washed over them. The fly in the ointment is that Klapisch's alter ego, Xavier (played by Romain Duris, who gave a brilliant performance as an artistically inclined gangster in last year's The Beat That My Heart Skipped), has hardly changed unless you count the fact that he's stitched together a modicum of career success as a multitasking writer in the new world economy. Rushing between London and Paris via the Chunnel, Xavier further demonstrates his ongoing failure to commit to any one of a bevy of biddable women, among them Audrey Tautou, as his equally screwed-up but terrifyingly candid ex, and the excellent Kelly Reilly, as an old friend with romantic troubles of her own. Russian Dolls is rarely less than engaging, but I was never able to make up my mind as to whether I was watching a movie trying, Truffaut style, to uncover its deeper meanings as it went along, or a serious attack of psychological vanity. - Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO | RUSSIAN DOLLS
