Fri, May 09, 2008
May 12-16, 2008
UNL CAMPUS THIS WEEK
Final Exams Are Here
Final Examinations for Second Semester 2007-2008 will be given throughout this week (May 5 - 9).
View the university's official policy on Final Examinations and 15th Week, from Registration and Records, or see the full Final Exam Schedule.
ACADEMIC SERVICES HANDBOOK
NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM, 9:30AM - 4:30PM
Astronomy Day at NU State Museum
Astronomy Day at the University of Nebraska State Museum is May 10 and the museum's Mueller Planetarium will join forces with the Prairie Astronomy Club, Hyde Observatory, and the UNL Department of Physics and Astronomy to provide a day of fun and learning.
There will be activities for all ages from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the museum, 14th and U streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus. Exhibits and displays will line the lobby of the planetarium and the main floor of the museum, including displays of telescopes, computer astronomy and astronomical photos by members of the Prairie Astronomy Club. more...
E103 BEADLE CENTER, TUE 4PM
Biochemistry Graduate Student Ackerson Seminar - "Dimerization as a Way of Altering the Activity of a Protein: When Two Heads are Better Than One"
Dr. Gregory Petsko, Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis University. Reception at 3:30 p.m.
901 HARDIN HALL, WED 1PM
M.S. Defense Seminar - "Predation as a Mechanism for Control of White Perch: An Investigation of Food Habits in Two Nebraska Reservoirs"
Nate Gosch, Defense Seminar, Advisor: Dr. Kevin Pope.
Campus Rec Creates Campus Walking Maps
Campus Recreation has created maps of walking routes on City and East campus. Campus Recreation has made them available for download and posted a list of walking information tips. Routes selected minimize crossing streets and highlight the use of common, accessible areas of campus.
Campus Rec created the maps to raise awareness about wellness resources at UNL. The maps are part of the campus-wide wellness initiative. Faculty, staff and students are welcome to submit additional route ideas to Teressa Grosserode at tgrosserode2@unl.edu.
CAMPUS RECREATION
JOHNNY CARSON THEATRE, LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, SAT 7:30PM
Nebraska Dispatches Arrives at the Lied
Commissioned by the Lied Center for Performing Arts to create a play about the historic trial of Chief Standing Bear, Christopher Cartmill has spent a great deal of time in Nebraska not only learning about the historic figure but immersing himself in the lives of the Native peoples in Nebraska. His experiences will be shared in a one-man performance, The Nebraska Dispatches, on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The performance will be held in the Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater.
A former Lincoln resident, Christopher Cartmill has gone on to acclaim as a playwright living in New York City. Commissioned to write a play about the trial of Chief Standing Bear, the writer naively steps into the contemporary Native American world and the place he once called home. A personal, political, and spiritual journey filled with humor, unlikely connections, and almost Dickensian characters. Tickets for this performance are $18. University of Nebraska-Lincoln students with a valid I.D., as well as youth age 18 and younger, may purchase tickets for $8. Call the Lied ticket office at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 for ticket availability.
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Still Life and The Violin Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Still Life and The Violin. Both films will show through May 15.
A modern master of postmodern discontent, Jia Zhang-ke is among the most strikingly gifted filmmakers working today whom you have probably never heard of. During the past decade he has made some half-dozen documentary-inflected fictions and several documentaries that weigh the human cost of China's often brutal, dehumanizing shift from state-controlled communism to state-sanctioned capitalism, a price paid in the blood and sweat of people who have, paradoxically, inspired him to create works of sublime, soulful art. Still Life finds him working around the area of the new Three Gorges Dam (the largest in the world) in central China. Around this massive structure, he paints an interesting picture of human behaviour, touched with great cultural and political strife because of both environmental and humanitarian concerns.
In the Mexican film The Violin, Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: on one hand they are musicians and humble farmers, on the other they support the campesina peasant guerilla movement's armed efforts against the oppressive government. When the military seizes the village, the rebels flee to the sierra hills, forced to leave behind their stock of ammunition. While the guerillas organize a counter-attack, old Plutarco executes his own plan. He plays up his appearance as a harmless violin player, in order to get into the village and recover the ammunition hidden his corn field. His violin playing charms the army captain, who orders Plutarco to come back daily. Arms and music play a tenuous game of cat-and-mouse which ultimately results in painful betrayal.
More information is available at the Ross website.
