Tue, Apr 29, 2008
April 29, 2008
NEBRASKA UNION, 7PM
Expert on Teacher-Child Interactions to Talk at UNL
The Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at University of Virginia, at 7 p.m. April 29 at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.
Pianta's talk, part of the Creating Connections series, is "Opportunity in Early Education: Improving the Quality of Teacher-Child Interactions Through Classroom Observation and Professional Development." The lecture is free and open to the public but seating is limited. Attendees are asked to contact Holly Sexton at hsexton1@unl.edu to register. more...
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture - "Genomic Changes During Primate Evolution and Disease Development"
Shaying Zhao, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia. Refreshments available prior to seminar.
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
'Celebration Threads: New Twists by Robert Hillestad' Continues
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln presents recent works by the gallery's namesake in "Celebration Threads: New Twists by Robert Hillestad," through Sept. 5. This unique collection of festive garments, accessories, wall pieces and sculptural forms will compel gallery viewers to step into a magical world of invented textile forms.
The theme "Celebration Threads" will be articulated through an installation constructed by Hillestad at the gallery site as a vehicle for exploring the expressive potential of textile materials. more...
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, 6:35PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Western Illinois Leathernecks
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Counterfeiters and Gashole Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Counterfeiters and Gashole. Both films will show through May 8.
Adapted from Adolf Burger's memoir The Devil's Workshop, The Counterfeiters is a skillful, absorbing, Oscar-winning Austrian feature that involves a Russian-Jewish counterfeiter (expertly played by Karl Markovics) who gets arrested in Berlin, winds up in a German concentration camp in 1944, and is put in charge of a secret forgery unit. Staffed by prisoners who've been granted special privileges, the unit counterfeits pounds and dollars in a plan to wreck the British and American economies, and one of the prisoners, a member of the communist resistance, attempts to sabotage the effort. Written and directed by the able Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Inheritors), this poses some tricky moral questions, and its troubling ambiguities rank a cut above the dubious uplift of Schindler's List. - Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader
Gashole is a new documentary film about the history of oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. The film, narrated by Peter Gallagher, currently on a national tour replete with special appearances by its directors, features interviews with Doane College professors Les Manns and Brian Pauwels. Directed by Jeremy Wagener & Scott D. Roberts, the film takes a wide, yet detailed examination of our dependence on foreign supplies of oil. The film examines many different potential solutions to our oil dependence. Starting with claims of buried technology that dramatically improves gas mileage, to navigating bureaucratic governmental roadblocks, evaluating different alternative fuels that are technologically available now, and questioning the American consumer's reluctance to embrace alternatives, it examimes how our country has become dependent on imported oil. If you buy gas, you should see this movie.
More information is available at the Ross website.
