Tue, Nov 11, 2008
November 11, 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
W183 NEBRASKA HALL, 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar Series - "Damage Mechanisms in Laminated Composites"
Janis Varna, Dept of Applied Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. Rreception at 3:00 p.m. in W317.7 Nebraska Hall
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry/Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Delicate Controls of Heavy Metal Transport Across the Plasma Membrane"
Jaekwon Lee, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and member of the Redox Biology Center, UNL. Refreshments served prior to lecture.
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 4PM
Entomology Lecture - "Blackboard: not just for distance"
Terry Workman, Instructional Design Tech Specialist, Extended Education and Outreach, UNL
107 HARDIN HALL, 7PM
2008 Fall Semester Seminar Series - "Protecting Nebraska's Native Plants and Animals from Invasive Non-Native Species"
Refreshments will be served. Parking next to Hardin Hall will be free.
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 3:30PM | LIVE STREAM AVAILABLE AT START TIME
'The Ethics Guy' Weinstein to Speak at UNL
Bruce Weinstein, BusinessWeek Online's ethics columnist, better known as "The Ethics Guy," will present this year's Ethics Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 11. The lecture is free and open public at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Weinstein is a professional ethicist. His interactive talks to businesses, schools, the military and a wide range of nonprofit organizations across the country show how living an ethical life makes people happier, healthier, and more prosperous -- but that the reason to do the right thing is simply because it's the right thing to do. more...
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.
