Wed, Jan 30, 2008
January 30, 2008
NEBRASKA UNION, VARIOUS TIMES
Lectures and Webcast Highlight 3rd 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 Carolyn Johnsen from the College of Journalism (10:30 a.m.), Peter Hind from the College of Architecture (12:30 p.m.), Ken Dewey of the School of Natural Resources (2:30 p.m.), and Richard Perrin of Agricultural Economics (3:30 p.m.). There will also be a webcast of Focus the Nation events, with two breakout sessions from 7 - 10 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
FOCUS THE NATION
NEBRASKA UNION BALLROOM, 3 - 5PM
OUS Offers GPS For Your Future
From 3 - 5 p.m. today in the Nebraska Union Ballroom, the Office of Undergraduate Studies will be offering GPS For Your Future, a new program to help students succeed at Nebraska. Undeclared or undecided students will have a chance to visit with faculty and staff representing UNL academic departments/ units and first year and transfer students will be able to earn about academic options at UNL.
The program will also offer sessions on time management, effective study techniques, academic planning, and healthy lifestyles, and attending students can enter for a chance to win a Textbook Scholarship from the University Bookstore.
OFFICE OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH APR. 27
Art Farm at Sheldon Continues
"Art Farm @ Sheldon," a collaborative project between associate professor of architecture Jeff Day and UNL architecture students, continues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. On view through April 27, the exhibition concerns the complex interrelationship of art, landscape and architecture in a rural context. It focuses on design proposals for the development of Art Farm, a nonprofit art residency program situated on a 40-acre working farm near Marquette.
Work in the exhibition includes architectural models, renderings, diagrams and drawings as well as works created by artists associated with Art Farm, including Janet Williams, Amanda Thatch, Sibylle Muff, Ayako Aramaki and others. In addition, in Sheldon's Great Hall the exhibition features installation of an old farm building from Art Farm that has been repurposed as a video lounge with a modern interior. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
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 107 HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM
SNR & Water Center 2008 Spring Seminar - "Adapative Management: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty"
Clinton Moore, U.S. Geological Survey. Hosted by: Craig Allen
ROOM 118H NEIHARDT RESIDENCE HALL, 3:30PM
UHON 395 Lecture - "Carbonomics: Could Bioenergy Save the World?"
Dr L. Fulginiti and Dr. R. Perrin
ROOM E103 BEADLE CENTER, 3:30PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Spring 2008 Seminar - "Hidden Features of Arabidopsis Transcriptome Revealed by Genome-wide High-Resolution Mapping of the Targets of the Exosome Complex"
Dr. Dmitry Belostotsky, University of Missouri - Kansas City. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
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.
