Tue, Apr 10, 2007
April 10, 2007
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
Chiara String Quartet Performs With Roger Tapping
The Chiara String Quartet will perform with violist Roger Tapping this evening at the Lied Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. As artists-in-residence at the School of Music of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the quartet is dedicated to connecting people through music.
This performance is the concluding concert in the yearlong festival "Love, Life, Spirit: Celebrating the Music of Brahms." The quartet will perform Brahms's String Quartet in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1 and String Quintet in G Major, Op. 111, No. 2 along with famed violist Roger Tapping. Tickets are $36 for general admission, $18 for students and youth and will be available at the door approx. one hour before the performance.
CHIARA STRING QUARTET
ANDREWS HALL, 3:30PM
Lecture for Place Conscious Studies Group - "Object, Subject, Ethic, Affect: Dimensions of Understanding Place"
Dr. Thomas Dean, University of Iowa
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Keap1: A Molecular Thermostat for Redox Homeostasis"
Dr. Mark Hannink, University of Missouri, Biochemistry Department
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM | WEBCAST AVAILABLE AT START TIME LIVE WEBCAST
Nebraska Lecture Examines Challenges of Feeding World's Growing Population
The world's population is expected to reach 9 billion people in less than 40 years. Brian Larkins, a leading plant scientist, will discuss the challenge of feeding this growing population (6.5 billion today) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's spring Nebraska Lecture April 10. The free public lecture, "Feeding 9 Billion People and Other Challenges to Agriculture," will be at 3:30 p.m. at the Nebraska Union auditorium, 1400 R St., with a reception afterward. His presentation is part of the Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series and the fifth annual UNL Research Fair April 10-12 on campus. The lecture will be available on a live Web cast at http://www.unl.edu/
Larkins joined UNL in March as associate vice chancellor for research and the John F. Davidson, Ph.D, and Marian J. Fuller, Ph.D., chair in life sciences. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he is internationally known for pioneering research on the nutritional quality of corn and other cereal grains. His research has significant implications for improving human nutrition, especially in developing countries where corn is a dietary staple. He has been a leader in the development of plant molecular biology and plant agricultural biotechnology. more...
UNL RESEARCH FAIR
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Namesake, China Blue Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Namesake and China Blue. Both films will show through April 12.
The Namesake is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima (Irfan Khan, Tabu) long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol (Kal Penn) is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage. Even Gogol's name represents the family's journey into the unknown.
China Blue takes us on a poignant journey inside a blue-jeans factory, where the working conditions Jasmine and her teenage friends must endure are harsh beyond imagination. They are also unlawful by international standards, and tensions in the factory are running high. So when the factory owner strikes a deal with a Western client and demands around-the-clock production to meet the deadline, a confrontation becomes inevitable. Shot clandestinely in China, under difficult conditions, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retail companies don't want us to see - how the clothes we buy are actually made.
More information is available at the Ross website.
