Mon, Feb 11, 2008
February 11, 2008
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, 3PM
Hendrickson Memorial Service on Monday
Dr. Barbara Couture, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, invites friends and colleagues of Dr. Kent Hendrickson to attend a memorial service in his honor on Monday, Feb. 11, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, followed by a reception in the Van Brunt Visitors Center, 313 N. 13th St.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, colleagues send memorials to the Doctors Without Borders organization or to the University of Nebraska Foundation for UNL Libraries.
SUBMISSIONS DUE MARCH 1
Entries Invited to 'Nebraska Poets on Sheldon Paintings' Poetry Contest
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announces a contest, Nebraska Poets on Sheldon Paintings, in conjunction with the "Poets on Painters" exhibition on view April 26 through June 29.
A cash prize will be awarded in each of four categories for the best poem written about a painting or paintings in the Sheldon collection. Winning poems will be considered for publication in magazines and newsletters. Submissions are welcome from Nebraska poets (published and unpublished), writers and students. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
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
327 KEIM HALL, 10:30AM
Agronomy & Horticulture Guest Seminar - "The dynamics of soil water capture and use: experimental and modeling studies in grain crop water use efficiency"
Dr. Graeme Hammer, University of Queensland, Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit, School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and Greg McLean, Senior Research Scientist with APSRU in Toowoomba
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 3PM
Plant Comparative Genomics Faculty Candidate Special Seminar - "Mobilization of Miniature Inverted Repeat Transposable Elements in Arabidopsis and Yeast"
Dr. Guojun Yang, University of Georgia
ROOM 145 VETERINARY BASIC SCIENCES BUILDING, 4PM
Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences Seminar - "Identification of mycobacterial antigens in the context of Johne's disease using a protein array"
Dr. John Bannantine, Scientist, National Animal Disease Center, Ames, IA, Host: Dr. Raul Barletta
EAST CAMPUS UNION, 4PM
Entomology Lecture - "Differential Responses of the Chinch Bugs, Blissus occiduus Barber and B. leucopterus hirtus Montandon, to Neonicotinyl Insecticides"
Mitchell Stamm, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology
ROOM 42 FOOD INDUSTRY COMPLEX, 4PM
Food Science and Technology Seminar - "Machine Vision and Electronic Sensors in Agriculture Research"
Dr. George Meyer, Professor of Biological Systems Engineering
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
War Dance and The Savages Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents War Dance and The Savages. Both films will show through February 14.
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine's War Dance is a powerful documentary that follows a group of schoolchildren as they overcome nearly insurmountable odds in their quest to participate in the annual Kampala Music Festival. For over 20 years, Northern Uganda has been a war zone, as a vicious rebel force, the Lord's Resistance Army, has run rampant, destroying villages, kidnapping children, and murdering parents. Somehow, the children of the Patongo Primary School have qualified for the Kampala Music Festival competition for the first time, a feat unto itself; yet these children are determined to take home the championship prize.
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.
