Fri, Nov 14, 2008
November 14-16, 2008
CEHS Founder's Day Weekend Caps 100 Year Anniversary Celebrations
On November 14 and November 15, 2008 the College of Education and Human Sciences is sponsoring a Founder's Day weekend for faculty, staff, students, alumni, emeriti, and friends of the College. Activities for this special weekend culminate a yearlong celebration of the founding of Teachers College on the UNL campus and include lectures, exhibits, tours, and group discussions.
CEHS FOUNDERS DAY WEEKEND SCHEDULE
International Collegiate Programming Contest at UNL
Forty-five teams of student computer programmers from 15 colleges and universities in six states will be on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus Nov. 15 for the North Central North America Regional competition of the IBM-sponsored Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest.
UNL's Department of Computer Science and Engineering has four teams entered in the contest. Each team consists of three students. The coach of these teams and director of the UNL site, Professor Charles Riedesel, has had teams advance from the regional level to the World Finals in six of the past 10 years. more...
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 11:30AM
Ethnic Studies Week Brown Bag Discussion
Carleen Sanchez, Anthropology & Ethnic Studies
N129 SCOTT ENGINEERING CENTER LINK, FRI 2:30PM
Pierson Lectures, Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Seminar - "Folding-based electrochemical biosensors"
Dr. Rebecca Lai, Department of Mechanical Engineering
210 FILLEY HALL, FRI 3PM
Agricultural Economics Seminar Series
Dr. Titus Awokuse, University of Delaware
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, FRI 3PM
Agronomy & Horticulture - "Evaluation, Selection and Breeding for Landscape Plants"
Dale Lindgren, Professor - Agronomy & Horticulture. Refreshments will be served at 2:30 p.m.
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Climate and Earth System Models: What's Under the Hood, and What's Going There Next?"
Jay Larson, Argonne National Laboratory. Refreshments served at 3:15 p.m.
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Department Colloquium - ""
Carleen Sanchez, Anthropology & Ethnic Studies. The talk will be preceded by refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. in Avery 348.
HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, FRI, SAT 7:30PM
University Theatre Presents As You Like It
UNL's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film's University Theatre presents William Shakespeare's romantic comedy As You Like It.
The production, directed by Carson School Director Paul Steger, will have performances November 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Howell Theatre, first floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets. Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $10 students with ID. Tickets are available from the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12 Monday through Friday 11 AM to 5:30 PM and one hour prior to the performance in the Temple Theatres Lobby, or by telephone at 472-4747 or 800-432-3231.
CARSON SCHOOL OF THEATRE AND FILM
RICHARDS, WOODS HALLS, FRI 5-7PM
UNL Visual Artists in Practice hold Open Studio Night
Get a glimpse into the lives and work of art students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as Visual Artists in Practice, a group of UNL's graduate fine arts students, invite you to view their current work on Friday November 14th from 5-8 p.m. Visit with artists working in a variety of media. Graduate students and select undergraduates will represent the department.
Start your night by getting your studio maps and refreshments at either Woods Hall or the second floor of Richards Hall, directly south of Memorial Stadium. Eat, drink, and chat with the artists while milling about the studios.
Chinese Artist to Present Demonstration at Lentz Center
Xu Yinsen, professor emeritus at the Chinese National Academy of Fine Arts, will demonstrate his skills in painting, calligraphy and seal carving this week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lentz Center for Asian Culture.
The demonstration by Xu (pronounced shoo) will be 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 11-15 and 1:30-4 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Lentz Center, 1155 Q St. Distinguished artist-in-residence at the Lentz Center this week, Xu will also present a lecture, "An Introduction to Chinese Painting and Calligraphy," at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12 in Room 15 of Richards Hall, T Street and Stadium Drive. All activities are free and open to the public and are presented by UNL's Confucius Institute and the Lentz Center. more...
LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Secrecy and Rachel Getting Married Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Secrecy and Rachel Getting Married. Secrecy will screen for one week only through November 20, while Rachel Getting Married will play through November 26.
The process by which our government classifies documents is something that most Americans have little knowledge about. In a single recent year, the United States government classified about five times the number of pages added to the Library of Congress at a cost of about eight billion dollars. Secrecy, a powerful and provocative new film by Robb Moss and Peter Galison, examines the complexities and layers of our government's obsession with secrecy and the effects it has had on individuals and on our government. Using original animation, a powerful score, and expertly edited interviews with both proponents and detractors of our government's policies, Secrecy takes us deep into the dark shadows of this process, shedding light on the implications of reasons behind the need to classify a document as secret-and also asking who polices the state's ability to do so.
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.
