Fri, Apr 20, 2007
April 20-22, 2007
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, FRI NOON | LIVE WEBCAST AVAILABLE AT START TIME
'Apprentice' Winner Pinkett to Speak at UNL E-Week
Randal Pinkett, chairman and CEO of BCT Partners and December 2005 winner of NBC's "The Apprentice" with Donald Trump, will give the keynote address at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering's E-Week open house April 20.
Pinkett's presentation will be noon to 1 p.m. at the Nebraska Union Auditorium, 1400 R St. Limited public seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Following his presentation, Pinkett will sign copies of his recently released book, "Campus CEO: The Student Entrepreneur's Guide to Launching a Multimillion-Dollar Business." The book signing will be 1-1:30 p.m. in the Union's Heritage Room. more...
E-WEEK
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
University Theatre Presents "Suburbia"
UNL's University Theatre continues its season at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with Eric Bogosian's subUrbia. The production, directed by guest director Jennifer Hubbard, will have performances April 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets.
Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $10 students with ID. Tickets are available from the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12 Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and one hour prior to the performance in the Studio Theatre Lobby.
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
KAUFMANN CENTER, FRI 2:30PM
JDE Capstone Projects Presented Today
Nine businesses will benefit from custom information technology solutions designed by 61 students in the J.D. Edwards Honors Program in Computer Science and Management's Design Studio class. The businesses will receive new tools and technical solutions, Web applications, software and other intelligent solutions to aid their businesses.
The Design Studio projects will be presented to the public today at an annual event which showcases the studio projects. The six-to-seven member teams, led by seniors and managed by J.D. Edwards graduate students, have worked on the projects all year, met with clients and completed the professional projects for presentation and review at the event, from 2:30-4 p.m. at the Kaufmann Center.
J.D. EDWARDS HONORS PROGRAM
Responding To Crisis
Our students and members of this community are, to varying degrees, in the midst of dealing with a tragedy of immense proportions. While our hearts go out to our colleagues at Virginia Tech, we focus on the role we have in helping one another deal with these unthinkable events, and to facilitate healing and recovery. With the assistance of Dr. Bob Portnoy, Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at University Health Center, we outlined some common responses to crises and how to help one another.
Call UHC's Counseling and Psychological Services (472-7450) or the Employee Assistance Program (472-3107) for help.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM, SAT, APR 20
Morrill Hall and Mueller Planetarium Present Astronomy Day 2007
Mueller Planetarium is joining forces with Astronomy Magazine and Meade Telescopes for Astronomy Day 2007. Activities will be held all day at Morrill Hall and will conclude with a "Star Party" during the regular open hours (sundown to 11 p.m.) at Hyde Memorial Observatory in Holmes Park.
Activities include Family Fun With Astronomers, a fulldome "Black Holes" Experience, astrophotography, Mars Rover imaging and more. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children (4 & under free), or $10 for families. Planetarium shows $2 per seat.
ASTRONOMY DAY 2007
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 1PM
All University Honors Convocation is Sunday at Lied Center
Some 315 students and nearly three dozen faculty will be recognized at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's annual All University Honors Convocation April 22. Barbara Couture, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, will preside over the event that begins at 1 p.m. in the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Students recognized include 10 Chancellor's Scholars who will receive their degrees in May and August who have maintained 4.0 grade-point averages on all collegiate work; Rising Scholars, who are freshmen and sophomores who have achieved 4.0 GPAs; the top 10 percent of the freshman class; and Superior Scholars, who are graduating seniors who have been on the Honors Convocation lists since matriculation, 4.0 juniors and 4.0 non-graduating seniors. more...
FILLEY HALL, FRI 3PM
Dept. of Agricultural Economics Spring Seminar Series - "Measuring Inertia and Variety-Seeking Behavior in U.S. Cheese Consumption"
Dr. Daniel Pick, Economic Research Service, USDA
211 BRACE LABORATORY, FRI 3:30PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Optoelectronic Devices Based on a Semiconducting Polymer Homojunction"
Dr. Janelle Leger, University of Washington Refreshments: Brace Lab 201 at 3:30 p.m. Colloquium abstract
348 AVERY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Mathematics Colloquium - "Lattice Problems"
Bela Bollobas, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the University of Memphis
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, FRI 6:35PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Texas Longhorns
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SAT 3:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Texas Longhorns
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SUN 1:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Texas Longhorns
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Inland Empire, Killer of Sheep Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Inland Empire and Killer of Sheep. Both films will show through April 26.
With Inland Empire, David Lynch - creator of such mind-bending works as Eraserhead and Lost Highway - delivers his most avant-garde, abstract, and impenetrable vision yet. A three-hour fever nightmare of a motion picture, Inland Empire takes the basic structure of Lynch's 2001 masterpiece, Mulholland Drive, and spins it even further out of control. Laura Dern's multi-fractured performance is downright heroic. She gives the film the human grounding that it so desperately needs. Not for the fragile or timid, Inland Empire is a full-blown assault to the senses.
Milestone, Steven Soderbergh and Turner Classic Movies present one of the most famous and acclaimed films by an African-American filmmaker. Killer of Sheep was one of the first 50 films to be selected for the Library of Congress' National Film Registry and was chosen by the National Society of Film Critics as one of the 100 Essential Films. But, due to music licensing problems, the film has rarely been screened, and then only in ragged 16mm prints. On its thirtieth anniversary, Milestone Films has cleared all the rights and will present UCLA Film & Television Archives dazzling 35mm restoration of this landmark film.
More information is available at the Ross website.
