Fri, Jul 04, 2008
July 4-6, 2008
Mueller Planetarium Announces Summer Fulldome Show Schedule
Mueller Planetarium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced its summer schedule of shows presented in Nebraska's only fulldome digital projection theater. The schedule will feature Earth's natural history, the history of space exploration and shows for young audiences on the solar system and an undersea fantasy.
The schedule through Aug. 24 (except July 4):
- Tuesdays through Sundays at 2 p.m. -- "Secret of the Cardboard Rocket"
- Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3 p.m. -- "Origins of Life"
- Saturdays and Sundays at 3 p.m. -- "Dawn of the Space Age"
- Saturdays at 1 p.m. -- "The Enchanted Reef"
MUELLER PLANETARIUM
Great Plains Art Museum Hosts Kirsch Exhibition
Through July 27, the Great Plains Art Museum will be featuring an exhibit titled "The Canopy Overhead: The Later Years of Dwight Kirsch." A Nebraska artist, Kirsch was greatly influenced by the natural landscape of the Great Plains.
his selection of Kirsch's work emphasizes the atmospheric landscape that stretches above a low lying horizon and dwarfs the vast scale of mountain ranges. Dwight Kirsch was faculty member at the University of Nebraska from 1924 through 1950, serving as Director of the University Art Galleries beginning in 1936.
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
Southern Beetle Species Moving Into Nebraska
As curator of insects at the University of Nebraska State Museum, one of Brett Ratcliffe's jobs is to keep an eye on the kinds of six-legged creatures that live in Nebraska, with a particular interest in his specialty, the scarab beetles.
And what he and his team of entomologists are finding is a changing population, with several southern species of scarabs moving into the state in the last several years. Ratcliffe and his colleague, Matt Paulsen, recently published an updated version of the NU State Museum monograph, "The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska," in which he and his team document 256 species of scarabs living in Nebraska. That's an increase of 57 species since 1991 when the previous edition of "Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska" was published. more...
