Wed, Feb 25, 2009
February 25, 2009
Family Sojourns Lead Frank to Geosciences
Tracy Frank loves reading rocks. Inspired by a childhood traversing the stomping grounds of dinosaurs and the earliest hominids, Frank is a sedimentary geologist who has studied rocks from around - and deep within - the Earth.
Frank’s fascination with rocks started in Africa. When Frank was around 10-years-old, her family moved to Nairobi where her father was a visiting professor at a veterinarian school. She remembers exploring the Great Rift Valley, volcanoes and Olduvai Gorge, the home to the earliest hominids. more...
Baseball Team Home Opener Is Today
The Husker baseball team plays its home opener today against the North Dakota Fighting Sioux at 1:35 p.m. at Hawks Field, Haymarket Park.
The team is coming off a 2-1-1 series win against Louisiana-Lafayette and will head to Huntsville, Texas this weekend for the Sam Houston Baseball Classic before returning to Haymarket Park for a weekday game against South Dakota State and a weekend series against Cal State Northridge.
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Eating Disorders Awareness Week is Feb. 23-27
A week to "Be Real...Be True...Be You...Head 2 Toe!" is planned at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Feb. 23-27 in observance of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
The week continues with the presentation, "Can You Be Fit and Fat?" by Jeffrey Rudy, assistant professor of practice in nutrition and health sciences at UNL at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. The University Health Center student group SHINE (Students Helping Individuals Nurture Esteem) will also have a brown bag lunch presentations in the Nebraska Union at noon titled, "Eating Mindfully." more...
EDAW SCHEDULE
UNL Student Selected for Middle East Journalism 'Boot Camp'
University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior news-editorial student Chris Rosacker has been selected to participate in the second annual Middle East Journalism Boot Camp in Egypt and Qatar. The American University in Cairo and Qatar University sponsor the three-week program in June.
Rosacker, a Grand Island native, will be one of 12 American journalism students to be paired with 12 Arab journalism students. The joint U.S.-Arab reporting teams will produce stories for print articles, broadcast pieces or photojournalism packages. The reporting will be drawn from the site visits and briefings. more...
HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM
Spring 2009 Water Seminar Series - "Interdependence of Groundwater Dynamics and Land-Energy Feedbacks Under Climate Change"
Reed Maxwell, Colorado School of Mines
BAILEY LIBRARY ANDREWS HALL, 3:30PM
Medieval & Renaissance Studies Program Spring Lecture Series - "Paleography Workshop/ Working in the Archives"
Mark Reuter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Spring 2009 Seminar - "Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy: Instrumentation, Principles and Application to Translational Studies"
Dr. George Casale, University of Nebraska Medical 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, Obscene, and The Pool. All three films will screen through February 26.
Oscar-award winning 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...
Obscene is the definitive film biography of Barney Rosset, the influential publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. He acquired the then fledgling Grove Press in 1951 and soon embarked on a tumultuous career of publishing and political engagement that continues to inspire today's defenders of free expression. Not only was he the first American publisher of acclaimed authors Samuel Beckett, Kenzaburo Oe, Tom Stoppard, Che Guevara, and Malcolm X, but he also battled the government in the highest courts to overrule the obscenity ban on groundbreaking works of fiction such as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch. Ultimately he won and altered the course of history, but not without first enduring lawsuits, death-threats, grenade attacks, government surveillance, and the occupation of his premises by enraged feminists.
The Pool is the story of Venkatesh, a "room boy" working at a hotel in Panjim, Goa, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts he can to better himself, Venkatesh offers his services to the wealthy owner of the home. Not content to simply dream about a different life, Venkatesh is inquisitive about the home's inhabitants-indeed about the world around him-and his curiosity changes the shape of his future. Remarkably cogent and affecting, this is inspired storytelling distinctive for its ability to transmit a complete viewpoint in just a phrase or brief conversation. Working in Hindi with young actors and in a country obviously not his own, Smith has nevertheless created a superbly incisive portrait that will take a place on a global stage.
More information is available at the Ross website.
