Thu, Jan 29, 2009
January 29, 2009
UNL to Offer Accelerated Master's Degree Program in Elementary Teaching
For those who always had a desire to teach but ended up going into another field, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Education and Human Sciences has a new program that can reopen the door to a teaching career.
In May, the Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education will inaugurate a full-time, 14-month master of arts degree program that will lead to certification in K-6 elementary education in Nebraska. The program is designed for qualified graduate students who have earned a bachelor's degree outside the field of education with at least a 3.0 grade-point average within the last 10 years (including spring 2009) and who can commit to an intensive and accelerated pathway to a career in the teaching profession. more...
OFFICE OF RESEARCH
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 10AM
Center for Biological Chemistry Special Seminar - "The Algal BioEnergy Alliance: A Novel Partnership for Algal Biofuels Research"
George A. Oyler, President, Synapic Research llc. Refreshments will be served.
115 AVERY HALL, 3:30PM
Department of Mathematics Special Colloquium - "Scaling Up from Trees to Forests: Tractable Macroscopic Equations for Forest Dynamics"
Dr. Nikolay Strigul, Stevens Institute of Technology. Reception will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Avery 348.
The Chiara Quartet Plays "Forbidden" Program
The Chiara Quartet, along with guest soprano Lucy Shelton, will be appearing at the Lied Center for Performing Arts for a limited evening engagement tonight at 7:30 p.m. The Chiara String Quartet presents the forbidden program of the Borodin Quartet in 1975. The concert repertoire, once deemed unacceptable by Russian authorities, is now brought to life through the musical talent of the quartet.
Tickets for this performance are $36. Students with a valid I.D., as well as youth age 18 and younger, may purchase tickets for half price. Call the Lied Ticket Office at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 for availability. Tickets may also be purchased online at the Lied Center website.
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.
