Thu, Feb 21, 2008
February 21, 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 Microsoft Live mail. A student session will be held at the Van Brunt Visitors Center from 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Product review feedback forms will be available to attendees.
STUDENT EMAIL PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
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New UNL Alert Multiple Messaging System Implemented
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln now will receive emergency messages wherever they want to get them. The university community is now signing up for the message delivery process.
"The new UNL Alert system has new services that will let the university send personalized emergency messages to computers, land-line telephones and cell phones with text and voice," said Christine Jackson, UNL vice chancellor for business and finance. more...
UNL ALERT
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences' Showcase Seminar - "Ganglia, guts and gonads: Evo-devo meets human evolution"
Dr. Greg Wray, Duke University
BRACE LAB 211, 4PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Lessons on Climate and Curriculum for Physics"
Dr. Kathie Newman, University of Notre Dame. Colloquium Abstract. Refreshments in Brace Lab 201 at 3:30 p.m.
HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY, THROUGH MAR. 12
Hillestad Gallery Exhibit Combines Eastern Heritage, Western Influence
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the exhibition "Across: Adaptation, Transition, Evolution" through March 12. This show, featuring work by new UNL assistant professor Xia Gao, draws on the significance of a transplanted cultural artifact -- a Chinese Qing Dynasty family house known as Yin Yu Tang that was moved to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.
Lengths of fabric sculpt the space, as surface patterns, shadows and layering effects encourage viewers to experience concepts of cultural identity, cultural transformation, and human development in relation to family and home. more...
HILLESTAD TEXTILE GALLERY
New Web Site Offers History of UNL Buildings
More than 100 years of architectural history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is now available at the click of a mouse. Developed by Kay Logan-Peters, professor and chair of access branch services for University Libraries, the Web site, "An Architecture Tour of Historic UNL," went online recently at http://historicbuildings.unl.edu/.
"This whole project was inspired by students," Logan-Peters said. "Back in the mid-1990s we had a number of students coming in and asking for information about buildings on campus. That kind of information is not always easy to find. And, their questions got me thinking." She said she initially planned to compile the information in book form. But, while attending a conference, a colleague suggested the project would be better presented on the Internet -- which was just coming into widespread use in the mid-1990s. more...
UNL HISTORIC BUILDINGS
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.
