Wed, Mar 11, 2009
March 11, 2009
Health Center Offers Spring Break Kits
The University Health Center, Health Education Department, UHC Student Advisory Board, and Campus Rec Centers will be distributing spring break survival kits on a while-they-last basis. Today is the last day of the promotion, and the kits will be available at the Campus Recreation Center from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The kits are BPA-free water bottles are stuffed with the following items: antacid tablets; antiseptic wipe; band-aids; condom; ibuprofen; sunscreen; toothbrush; and toothpaste. If you do not want any of the items in the kit, return them to the University Health Center or any Health Aide booth.
UHC SPRING BREAK TIPS
Women's Week Activities Set For This Week
Women's Week, under the theme "Empowering Community, Nurturing Opportunity," will be observed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln March 9-13.
Coordinated by the UNL Women's Center, the week includes a series of educational and entertainment events, all of which are free and open to the public except a March 12 banquet. Departments and organizations can become co-sponsors of the banquet by purchasing a table (8 tickets for $180.) Individual tickets are available in Room 222 Nebraska Union for $20 ($10 for students) or by calling (402) 472-2597. For more information or to register for events, visit the Women's Week schedule.
Historic Presence of Trees on Great Plains Rivers is Olson Seminar
Great Plains river banks were once forested with wide bands of trees, but since the mid-1800s, human pressures have changed that riparian vegetation largely to herbaceous plants or agricultural crops.
In a March 11 Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Greg Ruark will describe how the cumulative impact of American Indians, gold seekers, soldiers, railroad crews and settlers all played roles in determining how riparian areas look today. "Historic Presence of Trees Along Rivers in the Great Plains" will take place from from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception in the museum are free and open to the public. more...
107 BURNETT HALL, 3:30PM
Psychology Colloquium - "The evolution of love"
Dan Leger, Department of Psychology. Refreshments will follow the talk.
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Spring 2009 Seminar - "Hydrocarbon Microbiology"
Dr. Roger C. Prince, ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences Inc. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
Engineering, Architecture Programs Work to Build Zero-Net Energy Home
UNL students and faculty are building a house of the future. More than 100 students and faculty studying in UNL’s architectural engineering and construction, and architecture programs are hammering out a 2,000-square-foot house in Omaha that is designed to provide more energy than it uses.
Called the ZNETH project, the zero-net energy test home is a collaborative research effort between Engineering, the Peter Kiewit Institute, the U.S. Green Building Council (Flatwater Chapter), and the Green Omaha Coalition. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Waltz With Bashir, Who Does She Think She Is? Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Waltz With Bashir and Who Does She Think She Is? Both films will screen through March 12.
One of the universally praised films from this year's Cannes, Ari Folman's debut documentary Waltz With Bashir reconstructs the filmmaker's missing memories from his time as a soldier in the 1982 Lebanon War. But instead of using archival footage and talking heads, Folman makes an animated film, giving himself the freedom to expand his thoughts and recollections farther than any conventional doc on the subject could ever go. Having already won six awards from the Israeli Film Academy, Waltz With Bashir has a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film.
From the producing team, that won an Academy Award for Born Into Brothels, comes Who Does She Think She Is? a film that examines some of the most pressing issues of our time: parenting and work, partnering and independence, economics and art. The film follows five women artists as they navigate the economic, psychological, and spiritual challenges of making work outside the elite art world. From Hawaii’s Big Island to the suburbs of Ohio, from New York City to the deserts of New Mexico, we watch as these women—ranging in age from 27 to 65—fight to honor their vision and their families every day. Interviews with experts like Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade), Maura Reilly (Sackler Center for Feminist Art-Brooklyn Museum) and the Guerrilla Girls add a cultural context for these women’s uplifting journeys. It is not accolades they seek; it’s simply the radical opportunity to live whole.
More information is available at the Ross website.
