Wed, Feb 18, 2009
February 18, 2009
Expert: Satellite Collision Shows Need for More Regulation of 'Space Debris'
Last week's collision between U.S. and Russian space satellites has prompted questions over who is at fault while highlighting the need for stronger international regulation of space debris, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor and internationally renowned space law expert said.
Frans von der Dunk said international agreements dictate that if a space object causes damage to the earth or to another spacecraft, the country that launched the object is liable. But the collision that took place Feb. 10 is the first known instance that two full-fledged space objects from different countries have crashed into one another in space. more...
Theatrix Hosts New Artists Festival
Theatrix, the student producing theatre organization is excited to bring back the New Artists Festival, a showcase of some of Lincoln's most exciting young playwrights, directors, and actors. A fully produced celebration of seven 10-Minute plays, the festival combines drama, comedy, absurdist, and physical presentations and includes over thirty student actors and both undergraduate and graduate student designers.
The New Artists Festival will open February 18, 2009 in the Lab Theatre and run through February 21, on the 3rd floor of the Temple Building. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m., with an additional performance at 10:30 p.m. on Friday, February 20. Individual show tickets are available for $6 via credit card (some user fees may be applied) at the UNL Tickets website or at the theatre the evening of the performance (subject to availability).
Career Services Hosts Spring Career Fair
The Spring Career Fair will be held from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. today in the Nebraska Union. Over 250 employers will be on-hand to discuss full-time and internship opportunities in all career fields.
Today, employers will recruit for engineering, technology, science and agriculture opportunities.
SPRING CAREER FAIR
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies - "The Fossil Record and the Fact of Evolution"
George F. Engelmann, Professor of Geology adn Biology, Department of Geography and Geology, UNO. Reception begins at 3:00 p.m.
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Spring 2009 Seminar - "HPV16 E5 Mediated Cell:Cell Fusion - A New Model for Inducing Carcinogenesis"
Dr. Brian Ceresa, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Three Films Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Slumdog Millionaire, Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father, and Ballast. All three films will screen through February 19.
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...
Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne's excruciatingly powerful documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father, begins as a memorial to a lost friend, Andrew Bagby, who was brutally murdered in 2001 by a crazed ex-girlfriend. Yet as Kuenne traveled the globe to interview friends and family of the beloved young doctor, Bagby's killer, Shirley Turner, fled to Newfoundland to escape arrest. Under the backwards protection of the Canadian law, she was allowed to remain free; during that time, she revealed that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. A deeply personal home video memoir, a true crime thriller, an impassioned plea for judicial reform, and an ode to two of the most heroic, loving parents the screen has ever seen, Dear Zachary is painful viewing, but it is also nonfiction filmmaking at its most vital and important.
Winner of numerous prizes at prestigious film festivals all around the world, including Sundance, San Francisco, and Buenos Aires, Ballast is a stunning, emotionally powerful feature-film debut from Lance Hammer, who wrote, directed, and edited the film and served as one of the producers. Although there was a script, the dialogue was mostly improvised, and Hammer uses only natural sound and light, heightening the reality of the hard lives these people lead. Ballast is a bold, brutal work, filled with pain and honesty, violence and warmth, offering no easy answers.
More information is available at the Ross website.
