Fri, Sep 08, 2006
September 8-10, 2006
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Perlman Delivers Annual State of the University Address
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman will deliver his annual State of the University address today at 11 am Sept. 7 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. In his address, Perlman reviewed the previous year's accomplishments and announced objectives and initiatives for the upcoming academic year. Some of these include:
Enrollment Up
Reported enrollment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln increased 431 total students for the fall semester 2006-07 as of Aug. 31 - an increase of 2 percent. Freshmen numbers were up 289 students, for an 8.1 percent increase in first-time, full-time freshmen over last year. Graduate student enrollment increased 2.6 percent, or 107 students, over last year. more...
UNL Websites
In his address, Chancellor Perlman stated, "Web site design can no longer
be an afterthought, and Web site construction now requires the technological
skills necessary to assure that our sites are accessible to diverse
populations, work with a variety of different browsers, and are compatible
with international standards. We will allow a reasonable time for
all university units to transition their sites to the new templates
and standards and we will try to provide central assistance to assure
this is done appropriately. Our goal is to be in a position to require
by August 2007, any page that is part of the unl.edu domain to be
in compliance with universitywide guidelines." UNL
Web developers are urged to visit the Web
Developer Network site for information on publishing a website within
the approved UNL templates. Information is available for developers
new to the UNL templates, users upgrading their existing template-based
websites, as well as web publishers interested in website conversion
and development services.
Union Expansion / International Study Program
Plans will move forward for the new Nebraska Unions expansion to incorporate a student-approved multicultural center into the University of Nebraska-Lincoln student union on city campus, chancellor Harvey Perlman announced today. In addition, Perlman announced a new Lieding international study program, from the 2004 gift from the late Harold Lieding. The new $4 million program, named for Harold's late son Christian Lieding, will be used to provide scholarships for students to study abroad. more...
FULL STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY TEXT
CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO UNDERGRADUATE LEARNING
SVCAA Announces Year 3 Initiative for Teaching and Learning Excellence
The Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announces Year 3 of the Initiative for Teaching and Learning Excellence. This Initiative continues the deep commitment of the University to teaching excellence and student learning by making significant investments in undergraduate education.
This academic year, the Initiative for Teaching and Learning Excellence will distribute $100,000 for outcomes-based undergraduate program assessment projects that use direct measures of student learning to guide decisions about improving curriculum and pedagogy.
ITLE YEAR 3
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, FRI 3:30PM | LIVE STREAM
E.N. Thompson Forum Opens With U.N. Ambassador Bolton
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton will lead off the 2006-07 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a lecture at 3:30 pm Sept. 8 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. Tickets for the lecture can be picked up at the Lied Ticket Office (call 472-4747 for more information).
Bolton was appointed by President George W. Bush as U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations on Aug. 1, 2005. Prior to his appointment, Bolton served as Under secretary of state for arms control and international security from 2001-2005. He was senior vice president of the American Enterprise Institute and spent many years of his career in public service, serving as assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the Department of State, 1989-1993; assistant attorney general, Department of Justice, 1985-1989; assistant administrator for program and policy coordination (1982-83) and general counsel (1982-83), U.S. Agency for International Development.
In private legal practice, he was an associate at the Washington law firm of Covington & Burling from 1974-81 and 1983-85. From 1993-99, he was a partner in the firm of Lerner, Reed, Bolton & McManus. Bolton was born Nov. 20, 1948, in Baltimore. He graduated with a B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University and received his J.D. from Yale Law School.
E.N. THOMPSON FORUM
LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE, STARTING SEPT. 9
'Alice's House' opens at UNL's Lentz Center This Weekend
"Alice's House: Chinese and Japanese Art from the Collection of Alice V. Abel" will open Sept. 9 and will run through Dec. 22 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lentz Center for Asian Culture. An opening party will celebrate Abel's collection and the Lentz Center's 20th anniversary. The party will take place in the center from 1:30-4 pm Sept. 10. Brief remarks will be made at 2:30. The public is invited.
A well-known Lincoln resident and distinguished graduate of the University of Nebraska (class of 1946), Abel was a philanthropist with many contributions and honors, including being a board member of the University of Nebraska Foundation and chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Nebraska Wesleyan University. Among her gifts to the city are Hazel Abel Park and the Alice Abel Arboretum at Nebraska Wesleyan. She died in March 2005.
"We at the Lentz Center are very fortunate to have been loaned 22 items from her collection," said Barbara Banks, curator/director of the Lentz Center. "The Lentz Center will celebrate its 20th anniversary in September and we have purposely chosen this time to show Alice Abel's collection. Her collection demonstrates her devotion to Asian art. In the tradition of Don and Velma Lentz, she has been willing to share her collection with the public." more...
LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
228 ANDREWS HALL, DUDLEY-BAILEY LIBRARY, FRI 12:30PM
After the Storm: Hurricane Katrina - A One-Year Retrospective Event - Brownbag lunch
Tanya Harris
228 ANDREWS HALL, DUDLEY-BAILEY LIBRARY, FRI 3:30PM
After the Storm: Hurricane Katrina - A One-Year Retrospective Event - "Panel: Southern Exposure"
Featuring UNL student volunteers and community members who have traveled South to help with reconstruction efforts.
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Field-based geoscience and inquiry instruction for pre-service teachers"
Gwen Nugent, UNL
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Genetic and Biochemical Basis for the Biosynthesis of Mycotoxin Fumonisins and Antimycotic HSAF"
Professor Liangcheng Du, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics colloquium - "An Introduction to Time Scales"
Allan Peterson, UNL. The talk will be preceded by refreshments in 348 Avery Hall.
VOLLEYBALL | NU COLISEUM, FRI 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Louisville Cardinals
FOOTBALL | MEMORIAL STADIUM, SAT 12:30PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Nicholls State Colonels
VOLLEYBALL | NU COLISEUM, SAT 6:30PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Cal Poly Mustangs
SOCCER | NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD, SUN 1PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Drake Bulldogs
VOLLEYBALL | NU COLISEUM, SUN 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Minnesota Gophers
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Road To Guantanamo, Brothers Of The Head Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Road To Guantanamo and Brothers Of The Head. Both films will be showing 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.
With Brothers Of The Head, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (the acclaimed directors of Lost in La Mancha) present their much anticipated debut feature. Written by Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Brothers Of The Head is the feverish, mind-bending odyssey of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe who were plucked from obscurity by a 1970s music promoter and groomed into a boy band. Grappling with impossible love, artistic rivalry, and a dark inner life, the twins embrace their freakishness and spit it back in the form of searing Punk Rock. Brothers of the Head is a raucous ride through the seamy underground of 70's rock, and an unsettling glimpse into a relationship that is as beautiful as it is destructive.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO | BROTHERS OF THE HEAD
