Tue, Jan 29, 2008
January 29, 2008
CATHER POUND NEIHARDT DINING HALL, 5:30PM
Lectures Highlight 2nd Day of Focus The Nation
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be one of 1,300 colleges and universities participating in Focus the Nation's national "teach-in" Jan. 28 - Feb. 1. Promoted by the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska (ASUN) student government, the Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Thompson Scholars, this is UNL's first involvement with the organization working to educate and act on global warming solutions for America.
Events for today include lectures by Tim Wentz of Engineering (10:30 a.m. in the Nebraska Union), Sandi Zellmer from Environmental Law (2:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union), and James Swinehart of Geosciences (3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union). There will also be a film screening of Who Killed The Electric Car? at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union, followed by a lecture by Chelsea Sexton, a marketing expert and advocate of alternative fuel vehicles.
FOCUS THE NATION
NEBRASKA UNION, 11AM - 2PM
International Affairs Offers Study Abroad Fair
The International Affairs department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host its Study Abroad Fair Jan. 29 at the Nebraska Union from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Study abroad advisers and providers, UNL faculty, and study-abroad returnees will be available to offer students a chance to learn about the various study-abroad programs, including application procedures, cost, credit transfer and more. The programs range from as short as two weeks to as much as a year and can take students to almost anywhere in the world.
Students will also be able to obtain information on financial aid and scholarships available for study abroad and to enter a chance to win a $250 scholarship to study abroad.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Rustad's 'Expressions of Prairie Grasses' at Great Plains Art Museum
Nebraska artist Carol Rustad's paintings of prairie grasses will be featured in an exhibit, "Elegant Tangles: Expressions of Prairie Grasses," that runs Jan. 29 through March 7 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Museum.
Rustad said she only paints plants she has personally encountered, and she hopes her paintings of virgin grasses will inspire more people to research prairie conservation. The Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place, is open to the public 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30-5 p.m. Sundays (closed Mondays, holiday weekends and between exhibitions). There is no admission charge. more...
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
University Police Has New, Easier-To-Remember Phone Number
Students, faculty, staff and campus visitors should call 472-2222 in an emergency or any time they need police help. Dispatchers are available 24 hours a day. To help communicate about the new phone number, a promotional campaign "Dial 2 for Blue: 472-2222," will be implemented. Campus police will deliver stickers, which can be used on desk phones, Centrex directories and other locations.
Any individuals or departments who have automatic dial phones set to call UNL Police should remember to update these to the new number. In the event of an emergency on or off campus, callers may still dial 911 and officers from the proper jurisdiction will be dispatched.
UNL POLICE
ROOM 105 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, 3:30PM
Russian Club Program - "Armenia and Russia - Centuries of Relationship"
Thomas Winter, professor of Classics & Religious Studies
ROOM 105 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, 3:30PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Conformational Dynamics in PEPCK Catalysis: Revisiting the Induced Fit"
Thomas Winter, professor of Classics & Religious Studies
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
I'm Not There and Forever Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents I'm Not There and Forever. Both films will show through January 31.
Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven) delivers this dazzling, experimental take on the life of popular music's most revered and enigmatic artist: Bob Dylan. In keeping with the impossible-to-pin-down nature of Dylan himself, Haynes chose to cast six different actors to portray several incarnations of the groundbreaking troubadour. The result is a challenging, sprawling work that spans several decades and genres. Much in the same way that Dylan appropriated a vast array of musical styles to create his own vernacular, Haynes does the same thing with I'm Not There, using his expansive knowledge of movie history to pay homage to a variety of movements and directors (Godard, Fellini, Lester, etc.).
Award-winning documentarian Heddy Honigmann (Crazy) captures the spirit of Paris's Pere-Lachaise cemetery in the fascinating film Forever. From Amadeo Modigliani to Jim Morrison, some of the world's greatest artists are buried there, and Forever explores this site visited by both fans and family of the departed. Through a leisurely tour of the world-famous Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, the final resting place for legendary writers, composers, painters and other artists from around the world, Forever provides an unusually poignant, emotionally powerful meditation on relations between the living and the dead, and the immortal power of art.
More information is available at the Ross website.
