Wed, Feb 20, 2008
February 20, 2008
UNL Hosts Student Email Presentations From Google & Microsoft
UNL is considering enhancing student email by outsourcing services. Representatives from Google and Microsoft will be on campus February 19-21 and the campus community is welcome to attend their presentations. Today, a technical staff session will be held in the Nebraska Union Auditorium from 8 - 10 a.m. and a deans, directors, faculty/staff, and alumni session will be held to in the Nebraska Union Auditorium from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. to demonstrate the features of Google mail.
Product review feedback forms will be available to attendees.
STUDENT EMAIL PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
Career Services Holds Spring Career Fair
The Spring Career Fair will be held today in the Nebraska Union from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Over 250 employers will be on-hand to discuss full-time and internship opportunities in all career fields.
Today, employers will recruit for engineering, technology, science and agriculture opportunities.
SPRING CAREER FAIR
E228 BEADLE CENTER, 10:30AM
Special Seminar, Plant Epigenetics Faculty Candidate - "Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Cell Fate Specification in the Arabidopsis root"
Dr. Hongchang Cui, Duke University
107 HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM
SNR & Water Center 2008 Spring Seminars - "Platte River Recovery Implementation Program: Year One"
Jerry Kenny, Platte River Recovery Implementation Program. Hosted by, Chad Smith
118H NEIHARDT RESIDENTIAL CENTER, 3:30PM
UHON 395 Lecture - "Carbonomics: Could Bioenergy Save the World?"
Dr L. Fulginiti and Dr. R. Perrin
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Spring 2008 Seminar - "Development of Switchgrass into a Biomass Energy Crop"
Dr. Ken Vogel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Reception at 3:30 p.m.
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
Reynolds to Discuss Cather in Olson Seminar
Although author Willa Cather's work was widely varied in historical and geographical setting, all her books share an ethnographic commitment to how cultures are created, made permanent and transmitted to other times and places.
In today's Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Guy Reynolds, professor of English and director of the Cather Project at UNL, will explore Cather's fictionalization of that process. Reynolds will present "Permanence and Transmission: Willa Cather's Entropology" from 3:30 - 5 p.m. Feb. 20 at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception in the museum are free and open to the public. more...
NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM
Forsberg's 'On Ancient Wings' Exhibit Celebrates Sandhill Cranes
An exhibit of photographs by Lincoln photographer Michael Forsberg at the University of Nebraska State Museum coincides with the sandhill cranes' arrival in Nebraska. Through 44 stunning color photographs, "On Ancient Wings," on exhibit through Aug. 14 in the museum's third-floor Cooper Gallery, intertwines the lives of cranes, people and their common places.
Forsberg engaged in an extraordinary five-year, 65,000-mile personal odyssey from the Alaskan tundra to the arid high plains of the American West, from Cuban nature preserves to suburban backyards in Florida to document the cranes' native habitat, flyways and annual journeys. Forsberg's work also recorded the extraordinary human efforts undertaken to raise young birds and return them to their natural habitat, and his exploration reveals the challenges cranes face to adapt and survive in a rapidly changing natural world. more...
NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM
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 age 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.
More information is available at the Ross website.
