Thu, Oct 02, 2008
October 2, 2008
$9.3 Million Will Support UNL-Schools Partnership to Boost Math Skills
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received a $9.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation for "NEBRASKA MATH," a statewide program aimed at improving mathematics achievement for all students and narrowing the achievement gap for at-risk students in kindergarten through third grade.
"NEBRASKA MATH" is a partnership of UNL, the Lincoln Public Schools, Grand Island Public Schools, Papillion-La Vista Public Schools and 14 rural Educational Service Units. It builds on the success of UNL's Math in the Middle Institute, funded in 2004 by a $5 million NSF grant, which is improving student achievement in middle school mathematics and reducing the achievement gap for students across Nebraska. more...
Full Week of Homecoming Events Planned
Homecoming activities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are Sept. 28-Oct. 4. This year's theme is "Journey through the decades," with a focus on the 1950s to 1990s. A number of events are free and open to the public.
FULL HOMECOMING 2008 SCHEDULE
King Exhibit Continues at Sheldon Museum of Art
A mid-career survey of work by artist Elizabeth King titled, "The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye," continues at the Sheldon Museum of Art on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. It presents approximately 65 sculptures, film animations, installations, drawings and photographs by the artist.
King combines her meticulously wrought figurative sculptures with stop-frame film animation in installations that blur the boundary between actual and virtual space. Intimate in scale and distinguished by a level of craft that solicits close viewing, this work reflects her interests in early clockwork automata, the history of the mannequin and the puppet, and literature's host of legends in which the inanimate or artificial figure comes to life. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
228 ANDREWS HALL, 3:30PM
Hough Lecture Series - "Educating 21st Century Citizens: Democracy 2.0"
Richard Miller, chair of the Department of English and director of the Plangere Writing Center on new media, education, and democracy at Rutgers
115 AVERY HALL, 4PM
CSE Distinguished Speaker - "Continually Reinventing the Internet"
Dr. Larry Peterson, Professor and chair of Computer Science at Princeton University, director of the Princeton-hosted PlanetLab Consortium and Chair of the planning group for NSF's GENI Initiative. Reception in 348 Avery at 3:30 p.m.
BRACE LAB 211, 4PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Imaging Magnetic Surfaces with Atomic Resolution"
Dr. Matthias Bode, Argonne National Laboratory. Reception in Brace Lab 201 at 3:30 p.m. Colloquium abstract
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Tell No One and Man On Wire Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Tell No One and Man On Wire. Tell No One will show through October 9, while and Man On Wire will play for one week only, through October 2.
In the shortcut language of a movie pitch, Guillaume Canet's delicious contemporary thriller Tell No One is Vertigo meets The Fugitive by way of The Big Sleep. That is meant as high praise. This French adaptation of Harlan Coben's 2001 best seller is the kind of conspiracy-minded mystery almost no one seems capable of creating anymore, except David Lynch in his surreal way. Watching it is like gorging on a hot fudge sundae in the good old days when few worried about sugar and fat. There are no bogus geopolitics weighing it down with a spurious relevance. Beautifully written and acted, Tell No One is a labyrinth in which to get deliriously lost. - Stephen Holden, The New York Times
James Marsh's dazzling, invigorating documentary Man On Wire tells the story of a truly inspiring figure. In the early 1970s, a fiery young Frenchman named Philippe Petit wanted to shake up the world. When he saw the World Trade Center being built in New York City, he found his mission. After seven years of planning and many close scares, the time came for Petit to realize his dream--and the rest, as they say, is history. Marsh crafts Man On Wire like a heist film, presenting rare and fascinating footage of the actual event alongside flawless reenactments and modern-day interviews with the participants. The result is an immersive, emotionally gratifying motion picture, made all the more stimulating by Michael Nyman's electrifying score.
More information is available at the Ross website.
