Tue, Mar 06, 2007
March 6, 2007
FIRST TO RECEIVE HONOR
CoJMC Awarded Recognition as a UNL "Showcase Site"
The College of Journalism and Communications has been awarded recognition as a UNL "Showcase Site" for its new website.
The college completed the switch to the new template system about a month ago, and the resulting site impressed the Web Developer Network quality assurance review team in many ways, but most of all in its strong voice and positive communication about the college, accomplished while remaining true to the spirit and intent of the UNL web template system. The Quality Assurance Review Team voted to award the college the first UNL "Showcase Site" award. more...
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EAST CAMPUS ACTIVITIES BUILDING, 10AM - 2PM
Free Spring Break Survival Kits Available Today
The University Health Center and Campus Rec Centers will be distributing free (while supplies last) Spring Break Survival Kits today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the East Campus Activities Building.
Each kit includes a water bottle with antacid tablets, antiseptic towelette, band-aids, a toothbrush, and more. You can return any unwanted items to the University Health Center or Health Aide booths in the Nebraska Unions.
SPRING BREAK TIPS
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
Ware Exhibition Continues At Sheldon
"Chris Ware" is an exhibition that includes drawings and materials related to the artist's upcoming graphic novel based in Omaha. The exhibit will continue through April 29 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
Of his novel, the artist writes: "'Rusty Brown' is a graphic novel I began many years ago and am serializing chapter by chapter in my regular comic book, 'The ACME Novelty Library.' It concerns the doings of a group of seven people all either employed by or attending a private high school in Omaha, Neb., which bears a striking, affectionate and hopefully non-litigious resemblance to the 1970s version of my own high school, Brownell-Talbot, though all of the main characters and situations are completely invented." more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
NEBRASKA UNION, 11:30AM
Women's Week Lecture - "From Ellen to the L Word: Images of Lesbians in Popular Culture"
NEBRASKA UNION, 2PM
UNL Libraries' visiting scholar lecture - "The Program of Excellence"
Heather Joseph, Director of SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Women's Week Lecture - "Creating a safer climate for transgender students and colleagues"
Meredith Bacon
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar- "Mechanism and Redox Sensitivity of Dimethylargininase"
Dr. Walter Fast, College of Pharmacy, Division of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 7PM
Women's Week Lecture - "Transgender Images in Popular Culture"
Meredith Bacon
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
God Grew Tired Of Us, The 79th Annual Academy Award-Nominated Short Films Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents God Grew Tired Of Us and The 79th Annual Academy Award-Nominated Short Films. Both films will show through March 15.
God Grew Tired Of Us tells the remarkable story of the Lost Boys of Sudan. In 1987, with explosive violence in the Sudan because of civil war, 25,000 young boys between the ages of three and thirteen fled from their homes, beginning a five-year trek that ultimately led the survivors--many of the boys died along the treacherous journey through the desert--to a United Nations refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. Nicknamed the Lost Boys after the characters in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, they formed a tight community in the camp, though they still had little food and shelter and a bleak future. In 2001, 38,000 of the boys, now grown into men, were selected to be relocated to the United States, where they were to be given a new lease on life. Writer-director Christopher Quinn and co-director Tommy Walker closely follow three of the men as they try to make a go of it in what for them is a whole new world--they never before had flown in an airplane, shopped in a supermarket, or turned on an electric light. Narrated by Nicole Kidman, and with Brad Pitt serving as one of the executive producers, God Grew Tired Of Us is a powerful, compelling, important documentary.
Every year our patrons ask where they can see the Oscar nominees in the short film categories. This year, just like last year, there's an answer: at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. The capsule reviews are provided by the films distributors. Note: Each of these three programs will screen separately and a separate admission will be required.
More information is available at the Ross website.
