Wed, Jan 28, 2009
January 28, 2009
Study: Ethanol's Edge Over Gasoline Grows
Corn ethanol directly emits an average of 51 percent less greenhouse gas than gasoline, as much as three times the reduction reported in earlier research, thanks to recent improvements in efficiency throughout the production process, University of Nebraska-Lincoln research shows. more...
OFFICE OF RESEARCH
HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM
Spring 2009 Water Seminar Series - "Hydrologic Impacts of Conservation Practices for Dryland Agriculture"
Dean Eisenhauer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Spring 2009 Seminar - "Improving T cell Therapy for Malignancy"
Dr. Cliona Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, THROUGH MAR. 1
Sheldon Hosts Portraits and Personalities
Alison Stewart, a professor of art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has chosen prints from the Sheldon Museum of Art's permanent collection to augment her 2009 course on the History of Prints.
Portraits and Personalities: Prints from the F. M. Hall Collection will include approximately 20 works with a focus on the human figure. Students in the course will be introduced to the earliest European prints and printmaking techniques dating from the 15th century to the present.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Stranded and Slumdog Millionaire Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Stranded: I've Come From A Plane That Crashed On The Mountains and Slumdog Millionaire. Both films will screen through January 29.
In October 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players from Montevideo, Uruguay, went down in a snow-covered valley in the Andes. The dramatic tale of the survivors' struggle to stay alive and be rescued, already told in a bestselling book and feature film, finds new depth and resonance in Stranded: I've Come From A Plane That Crashed On The Mountains. Director Gonzalo Arijón, a childhood friend of some of the survivors, takes them back to the crash site, where they go into agonizing detail as they tell their remarkable, heartbreaking story, aided by re-creations of pivotal events. Florencia De Concillo-Perrin's score adds to the tension, and the film plays out like a gripping procedural, including interviews with people who were leading the rescue effort. Both frightening and exhilarating, Stranded, which has won awards at film festivals all around the world, is an unforgettable documentary about an unforgettable story.
Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Intrigued by Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out…
More information is available at the Ross website.
