Mon, Feb 04, 2008
February 4, 2008
NEBRASKA UNION, 7PM
Teach For America Holds Information Session
Thirteen million children in America are growing up in poverty. Only half will graduate from high school. You can change this. Come learn more about educational inequity and how you can make a lasting impact tonight, Feb. 4, at the Teach For America Information Session. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. The room will be posted and free food will be provided.
Teach For America is seeking all academic majors and career backgrounds. Corps members are offered full salary and benefits and loan forbearance, and no previous education experience or coursework is necessary. The final application deadline for the 2008 corps is Feb. 15, 2008.
TEACH FOR AMERICA
VAN BRUNT VISITORS CENTER, 2PM
Celebration Announces National Academy of Sciences Grant for Bridge Research
University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering researchers aim to find ways to make the nation's bridges last longer and to design new ones that last a century or longer with funding from a new $2 million grant. A celebration announcing the grant will be held today at 2 p.m. in the Van Brunt Visitors Center.
With support from this four-year grant from the National Academy of Sciences' Transportation Research Board, UNL bridge engineering experts will identify technologies and designs to renovate existing bridges and develop guidelines for designing longer-lasting new bridges. It's part of a $150 million congressional initiative to improve the safety and performance of U.S. highways and bridges. more...
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILE GALLERY, THROUGH FEB. 6
'Corset: From Underwear to Outerwear' Opens at Hillestad Gallery
Sabrina Jones Stapp of Omaha, a graduate student in textiles, clothing and design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will feature her thesis project work in a gallery exhibition titled, "The Corset: From Underwear to Outerwear" at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery on the UNL East Campus. The exhibit will be on display Jan. 22-Feb. 6.
The garments Stapp created are meant to be worn in today's fashion environment. She said she envisions them worn both as ensembles and separates to add emphasis to more informal attire such as jeans. She designs women's formal apparel under the label Sabrina Jones. more...
HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
ROOM N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar - "NMR Metabolomics and System Biology"
Dr. Robert Powers, Department of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Refreshments available before seminar.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Note By Note: The Making Of The Steinway L1037 and The Savages Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Note By Note: The Making Of The Steinway L1037 and The Savages. Note By Note: The Making Of The Steinway L1037 will show through February 7, while The Savages will play through February 14.
The most thoroughly handcrafted instruments in the world, Steinway pianos are as unique and full of personality as the world-class musicians who play them. However, their makers are a dying breed: skilled cabinetmakers, gifted tuners, thorough hand-crafters. Note By Note is a feature-length independent documentary that follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037 from forest floor to concert hall. It explores the relationship between musician and instrument, chronicles the manufacturing process, and illustrates what makes each Steinway unique in this age of mass production. It reminds us how extraordinary the dialogue can be between an artist and an instrument - crafted out of human hands but borne of the materials of nature.
Director Tamara Jenkins made audiences sit for nearly a decade for her follow-up to the hilarious dark comedy Slums Of Beverly Hills, but it's been worth the wait. Like her previous film, The Savages is a sometimes-funny, sometimes-sad look at family dynamics, but this time around the sense of humor is more wry than riotous. Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman play Wendy and Jon Savage, a pair of siblings on the cusp of middle age. Their estranged father (Philip Bosco) lives across the country, but the Savages reluctantly rush to see him when they learn that he may not be able to take care of himself any longer. Jon and Wendy bicker over problems old and new as they try to figure out what's best for a man they barely know.
More information is available at the Ross website.
