Mon, Nov 10, 2008
November 10, 2008
iTunes and UNL Offer Free Fall Music Mix
Enjoy this special collection of songs hand-picked by the iTunes team for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. With 80 free songs from some of the biggest names in music and today's hottest up-and-coming artists, this mix is sure to put your fall semester in tune. Get your Fall Music Mix and check out the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on iTunes U.
ITUNES U
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 9AM
Special Seminar - "Novel Approaches for Inhibitor Screening and Target Identification using Arabidopsis Full-Length cDNA Overexpressing (FOX) Lines, and Comprehensive Plant Hormone Analysis by LC-MS/MS"
Dr. Yuji Kamiya, RIKEN Plant Science Center
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 10:30AM
Agronomy & Horticulture Seminar - "The Dynamics of Soil Water Capture and Use: Experimental & Modelling Studies in Grain Crop Water Us"
G. L. Hammer, Professor in Crop Science, University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia
222 CBA, NOON
Economics Department Seminar - "The Effect of Intellectual Property Rights on High Technology Exports to Developing Countries"
Dr. Kristie Briggs, Assistant Professor of Economics, Creighton University
105 OTHMER HALL, 2PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar Series - "Enhanced Mixing, and Penetration Studies in Granular Materials"
MS Thesis Defense by Konlayut Promratana. Advisor: Dr. Florin Bobaru.
NEBRASKA UNION, 6PM
Ethnic Studies Week Event, Film Showing and Discussion - "Reconciling History in Black and White"
Miguel Carranza, Sociology & Ethnic Studies
HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
Love Library Hosts 'Lewis and Clark and Indian Country' Exhibit
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Love Library is one of 23 libraries and four tribal locations across the United States to host the national traveling exhibit "Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country." The exhibit will be on display in Love Library, 13th and R streets, through Dec. 4, and a number of free programs will be offered.
"Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country" is an exhibition that examines the Lewis and Clark story from the perspective of the Native Americans the explorers encountered on the trail. The exhibit offers a compelling look at what happened when two nations and two ways of life came together in the early 19th century, and how that encounter resounded throughout Indian country and across the United States for the next 200 years. more...
LEWIS AND CLARK AND THE INDIAN COUNTRY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Elegy and Rachel Getting Married Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Elegy and Rachel Getting Married. Elegy will screen through November 13, while Rachel Getting Married will play through November 26.
Like director Isabel Coixet's previous film My Life Without Me, Elegy is consumed by the ideas of love and mortality. But while that film focused on a young protagonist, the hero of this drama is an aging writer and professor played by Ben Kingsley. David Kepesh (Kingsley) is a minor literary celebrity in New York City who shies away from commitment, happy with his casual relationship with a businesswoman (Patricia Clarkson) who is rarely in town. But a date with a stunning grad student named Consuela (Penelope Cruz) surprisingly turns into a long-term romance, changing David from a confident Lothario into a jealous boyfriend. His age and her beauty haunt their romance until David begins to push her away. The largely classical soundtrack further adds to the film's contemplative mood.
Rachel Getting Married is a contemporary drama with an aggressive sense of humor about the return of an estranged daughter to the family home for her sister's wedding. Kym's (Anne Hathaway) reemergence throws a wrench into the family dynamics, forcing long-simmering tensions to surface in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking. Rachel Getting Married paints a colorful, nuanced family portrait and is filled with the rich characters that have always been a hallmark of Jonathan Demme's films. - Moviefone
More information is available at the Ross website.
