Mon, Feb 25, 2008
February 25, 2008
UNL Hosts Eating Disorders Awareness Week
A week to Be Comfortable in Your Genes is planned in observance of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW), Feb. 25-29, 2008. This marks the 12th year the University of Nebraska–Lincoln has observed the week. The Eating Disorder Education and Prevention Student Association (EDEP) planned all activities sponsored on campus to foster healthy ideas and encourage students to develop self-esteem and self-respect based on wellness principles.
The week begins with the Ryan Sallans presentation Out of the Corset, Into the Gym on Monday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
EATING DISORDER AWARENESS WEEK
E228 BEADLE CENTER, 10:30AM
Special Seminar, Plant Epigenetics Faculty Candidate - "Role of microRNA in Plant Development and Abiotic Stress"
Dr. Guiliang Tang, University of Kentucky
ROOM 107 HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 2PM
School of Natural Resources Special Seminar - "Creativity: Discover What You Never Lost"
Dr. Albert Weiss
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Nebraska Colloquium talk - "The Relevance of Family-School Connections for Positive Student Outcomes: Lessons Learned from Research and What it Means for Practice"
Sandra L. Christenson, Birkmaier professor of educational leadership in the University of Minnesota school psychology program. more...
ROOM 145 VETERINARY BASIC SCIENCES BUILDING, 4PM
Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences Seminar - "Virulence factors in the hypervariable chlamydial plasticity zone dicate strain and tissue tropism in vivo"
Dr. Dave Nelson, Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IL, Host: Avery Paulson
EAST CAMPUS UNION, 4PM
Entomology Lecture - "Termite Predators and Termite Defenses"
Stephen Young, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7PM | LIVE STREAM
Richard Cizik, 'The Green Evangelist,' is Thompson Forum Speaker
Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president for governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, will deliver the lecture, "For God's Sake," at the next E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Cizik will speak Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Known as the "Green Evangelist," Cizik calls climate change a crisis of biblical proportions. His professional responsibilities include setting NAE's policy direction on issues before Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court, as well as serving as a national spokesman on issues of concern to evangelicals. more...
E.N. THOMPSON FORUM
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.
