Tue, Apr 24, 2007
April 24, 2007
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
Big Red Singers Perform
Directed by Keith Curington and choreographed by nationally acclaimed choreographer April James, Big Red Singers is comprised of thirty singer/dancers, ten instrumentalists and a crew of three. They will be performing at Kimball Recital Hall this evening at 7:30 p.m.
One of the ensemble's main objectives is to build advanced stage presence and professionalism while continuing to foster healthy singing. The ensemble's repertoire is chosen from a wide variety of popular music as well as music from Broadway.
HARDIN HALL - SCHOOL of NATURAL RESOURCES, 2PM
Department of Biochemistry Annual Alumni Seminar - "Structural Highlights in the Evolution of Oxygen Transport Globins"
Dr. Mark Hargrove, Associate Professor with the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology at Iowa State University
Microbiologist
James Alfano
AS FEATURED IN NATURE MAGAZINE
UNL Plant Scientists Uncover Immune System Clues
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln plant scientist's discovery of a previously unknown component in plants' immune systems provides new clues to how plants and humans fend off diseases and how invaders stifle immunity.
Microbiologist James Alfano and co-authors reported their findings in Nature, the international weekly journal of science. Their paper was published online April 22 ahead of print publication. The work stems from Alfano's discovery of a protein toxin in a plant pathogen that's also found in several animal pathogens, including those that cause diphtheria and cholera. more...
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.
