Mon, Feb 18, 2008
February 18, 2008
Campus Safety Update
Our hearts go out to the campus community of Northern Illinois University. Faculty and staff who feel like they need someone to talk to about the tragic incident are reminded that EAP is available for them: 472-3107. Students: Call Counseling and Psychological Services at 472-7450 or visit University Health Center.
Information and ideas on ways to help keep campus safe, and how to respond in specific emergencies, is located at http://emergency.unl.edu.
UNL Engineer Outlines 'nano-Velcro's' Potential
Creating a so-called "super nanocomposite" that can revolutionize a range of products is the dream of materials scientists. So far, that's proved elusive. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineer shares that big dream but said he thinks using nanomaterials to strengthen small structures is more promising and cost-effective for the near-term.
Yuris Dzenis, professor of engineering mechanics, discusses the potential for structural nanocomposites and his UNL-patented continuous nanofiber material in the Jan. 25 issue of the journal Science. more...
THROUGH MARCH 23
'Winter Wonderland' Prints From Zlotsky Collection at Sheldon
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln presents an exhibition of 30 prints, dating from 1860 to 1960, that documents the evolution of the printmaking craft in American art. "Winter Wonderland: Prints from the Collection of Norman and Judy Zlotsky" includes paintings, engravings, woodcuts and lithographs, and will be on view through March 23.
"Winter Wonderland" shows how printmakers have responded to the subject of winter. Early works on view include wood engravings by Winslow Homer, who was an illustrator prior to his success as a painter. "The Old Farm House," an 1872 Currier and Ives color lithograph, was also printed in a large edition for mass audiences. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
ROOM 145 VETERINARY BASIC SCIENCES BUILDING, 4PM
Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences Seminar - "Why Oxidative Stress is Essential for Cellular Function"
Dr. Marjorie Lou, Professor, Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences, UNL. Host: Dr. David Hardin
EAST CAMPUS UNION, 4PM
Entomology Lecture - "A Characterization of the Arthropod Community of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)"
Sandra Schaeffer, Graduate Student, Entomology Department
ROOM 42 FILLEY HALL, 4PM
Food Science Seminar - "Development of ELISA for the detection of cashew nut residues in processed foods"
Ferdelie Gaskin is a graduate student specializing in Food Allergy Research in the Department of Food Science and Technology at UNL.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Orphanage and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Orphanage and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly. Both films will show through February 28.
A woman discovers dark secrets hidden within her cherished childhood home in the supernatural drama The Orphanage, the feature film debut of acclaimed young Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona. A superbly atmospheric and emotionally powerful tale of love, loss and guilt, The Orphanage is the first film ever to be presented by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Guillermo delToro, who also produced.
Celebrated painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's third feature finds him reaching new artistic heights with the audacious and personal The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, based on the best-selling memoir of the same name. The film tells the remarkable tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the world-renowned editor of French Elle magazine, who suffered a stroke and was paralyzed by the inexplicable "locked in" syndrome at the age of 43. Bauby's only way of communicating with the outside world was by blinking with one eye, and after several dedicated helpers helped him to speak through this seemingly irrelevant gesture, he began to produce the words that would form his memoir. Schnabel somehow manages to convey Bauby's internal life with remarkable clarity, employing first-person perspective, striking cinematography (by the always great Janusz Kaminski), and Amalric's pained, life-affirming monologues. The result is a wholly original experience, a painful and tender portrait of a life that is made all the more exhilarating because of its close proximity to death.
More information is available at the Ross website.
