Wed, Nov 19, 2008
November 19, 2008
Student Involvement Hosts Winter Alternative Service Break Information Session
This year's Winter Alternative Service Break at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be UNL's sixth trip to the Gulf Coast. Students will work in collaboration with University of Houston-Downtown students to remove debris and do restoration to areas affected by Hurricane Ike.
Information sessions for this year's Winter Alternative Service Break will be at 7 p.m. today, 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, and Noon on Friday, Nov. 21 in the Office of Student Involvement Green Room, 200 Nebraska Union.
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER, NOON-2PM
University Health Center Holds Flu Shot Clinic
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln University Health Center will be holding a series of flu shot clinics this year for UNL students, faculty and staff. A clinic is scheduled from noon - 2 p.m. today at the University Health Center.
Flu vaccinations cost $20 and payment by cash, check or NCard is required at the time of the vaccination. For those with Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance, a claim will be filed for them by UHC staff for possible reimbursement (please bring your insurance information with you to the clinic), however you will still need to pay at time of shot. Flu vaccinations are also available by appointment at UHC for those unable to attend a clinic.
UHC FLU SHOT SCHEDULE
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3PM
Billion Years of Nebraska Landscape Evolution at Olson Seminar
The landscape of eastern Nebraska has undergone immense changes over the last billion-plus years, yet most of the region's inhabitants are utterly unaware of this geological history.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln geologist R.M. "Matt" Joeckel will attempt to fill in those knowledge gaps Nov. 19 when he delivers the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at UNL. Joeckel, an associate professor in the Conservation and Survey Division, the School of Natural Resources and the Department of Geosciences, will present "From Fire to Ice: A Geological Perspective on 1 Billion Years of Landscape Evolution in Eastern Nebraska" from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. His talk and a 3 p.m. reception in the museum are free and open to the public. more...
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Fall 2008 Seminar - "Probiotic microbes, the gut and beyond"
Dr. Gregor Reid, University of Western Ontario. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
J.C. SEACREST LECTURE HALL, ANDERSEN HALL, 6:30PM
Presentation - National Geographic Photographer
Sam Abell, National Geographic magazine since 1970. Refreshments will be served.
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 sheds light on the reasons for classifying documents as secret.
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.
