Thu, Mar 12, 2009
March 12, 2009
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Stimulus Forum for Faculty
The federal stimulus package and its implications for UNL is the topic of an open forum for UNL faculty today at 2:30 p.m. The forum will be in the small theater at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. The Office of Research is hosting the forum to provide an overview of information and strategies for successfully competing for stimulus funds. All faculty are invited.
The Office of Research also has launched an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Web site to provide the campus with information about the stimulus package and stimulus-related research funding opportunities.
UNL Dining Halls to Begin Trayless Dining
In an effort to reduce food waste, improve environmental impact and bring down costs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln dining halls will convert to a trayless system in late March.
The decision to eliminate trays in the five campus dining halls was made official after UNL's student Residence Hall Association voted 30-6 March 8 to support a resolution endorsing the move. more...
DINING SERVICES
Celebration of Graduate Student Work Today
The annual Celebration of Graduate Student Work will be today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Van Brunt Visitors Center at 13th and Q sts. on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln city campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Twenty-eight graduate students from the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts (School of Music, Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, and Department of Art and Art History), the College of Architecture, and the College of Education and Human Sciences (Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design) will display their work at the showcase. Visitors then have the opportunity to view their work, talk with the graduate students about their creative process, and ask questions about their projects.
CULTURE CENTER, 3:30PM
"Forrest Gump & Other Keys to Students' Historical Understanding"
Dr. Wineburg, professor of education at Stanford University
106 AVERY HALL, 3:30PM
Communications Studies Lecture - "Tracing Meaning: A program of research on interpretations made for nonverbal cues"
Valerie Manusov, professor of communication, University of Washington, Seattle
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.
