Thu, Feb 28, 2008
February 28, 2008
NEBRASKA UNION, 7PM
Peace Corps Hosts Informational Presentation
Learn more about the Peace Corps and meet a recruiter and returned Peace Corps Volunteer this evening in a presentation at the Nebraska Union at 7 p.m. The presentation will discuss the application process, qualifying for assignments, benefits and challenges of service, and life as a Peace Corps Volunteer (including a 15-minute video).
UNL PEACE CORPS
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.
Today's event will be a screening of the film Thin in the Nebraska Union at 7 p.m.
EATING DISORDER AWARENESS WEEK
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
E228 BEADLE CENTER, 10:30AM
Special Seminar (Plant Epigenetics Faculty Candidate) - "Small RNA Biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana"
Dr. Bin Yu, University of California, Riverside
BRACE LAB 211, 4PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Laser-Plasma Accelerators with Applications to Coherent Radiation Sources"
Dr. Carl B. Schroeder of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Refreshments in Brace Lab 201 at 3:30 p.m. Colloquium abstract.
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 del Toro, 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.
