Wed, Jan 31, 2007
January 31, 2007
SHELDON ART GALLERY, THROUGH APRIL 1
'Architect's Brother' Exhibit Continues at Sheldon Art Gallery
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison's "The Architect's Brother" continues at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The exhibition features 42 large-scale, mixed-media images creating a mythical world that mirrors ours, where nature is domesticated and controlled. The show will be on view through April 1. more...
SHELDON ART GALLERY
HARDIN HALL, 3:30PM
Water Center, WRRI, School of Natural Resources - "Integrating Water Management Research with Land Valuation Modeling Across Nebraska"
Steven Schultz, University of Nebraska, Omaha. Hosted by James Merchant, CALMIT, School of Natural Resources.
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Institute for Ethnic Studies Colloquium Series
Miguel Ceballos, Asst. Professor of Sociology & Ethnic Studies
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Spring 2007 Seminar - "Metabolomics for biochemical phenotyping and classification"
Dr. Oliver Fiehn, University of California, Davis.
PUBLISHED IN SCIENCE MAGAZINE
Paper Focuses On Role of Cysteines In Proteins
A team of scientists led by UNL biochemist Vadim Gladyshev has developed a new way to rapidly identify amino acids in proteins that have redox function. The work is published in the current issue of Science magazine.
The process developed by Gladyshev and Dmitri Fomenko, a research assistant professor in Gladyshev's laboratory, focuses on cysteines, amino acids found in most proteins. In some proteins, cysteines have no critical function, while in others they play roles such as binding metals, regulating certain protein functions, or targeting proteins to a particular location in cells. In still other proteins, cysteines are key players in redox regulation, which is a basic biological process used by all organisms. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Last King of Scotland, Volver Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Last King of Scotland and Volver. The Last King of Scotland will play through February 1, while Volver, shows through February 15.
In The Last King of Scotland, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.
Volver is not a surreal comedy, though it might seem so at times. The living and the dead live together without problems, but provoking hilarious situations and others full of deep and genuine emotion. It is a movie about the culture of death in my native region, La Mancha. My folks there live it in astonishing simplicity. The way in which the dead are still present in their lifes, the richness and humanity of their rites makes it possible for the dead to never really die. Volver shatters all cliches of a dark Spain and shows a Spain that is as real as it is opposed. A white Spain, spontaneous, fun, fearless, fair and with solidarity.
More information is available at the Ross website.
