Tue, Mar 31, 2009
March 31, 2009
'Fill the Fountain' Food Drive is March 30-April 3
The University Health Center Student Advisory Board at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is coordinating a "Fill the Fountain" food drive to be held the week of March 30-April 3. Non-perishable food items and personal care items will be collected from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each day near Broyhill Fountain, 15th and S streets (north side of the Nebraska Union), with all proceeds going to the Food Bank of Lincoln.
According to Feeding America, the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, 36.2 million Americans lived in food insecure households in 2007. During that time, 3.9 million U.S. households used emergency food from a food pantry one or more times. more...
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105 OTHMER HALL 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar Series - "Engineering a Pinewood Derby Car: How Complicated Could It Possibly Be?"
John A. Kosinski, Ph.d., FIEEE, Principal Deputy for Technology, US Army, Fort Monmouth, NJ. There will be an informal reception at 3:00 PM in W317.7 Nebraska Hall, preceding the seminar.
N172 BEADLE CENTER 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry/Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Kinetic Cooperativity in a Monomeric Enzyme: Allosteric Regulation of Human Glucokinase, A New Target for Diabetes Therapeutics"
Brian Miller, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University. Refreshments will be available.
NEBRASKA EAST UNION 4PM
Entomology Seminar - "The AMOVA for Entomologists"
Erica Lindroth, Entomology Graduate Student. Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.
Annual UNL Quality Report Highlights Improvements Toward Goals
In its seventh "quality indicators" report card, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows enrollment growth and increasing diversity among its students, increases in total research funding and research expenditures, and continued improvement in its six-year graduation rate.
The report compares data from 2007-08 against longer-term information, offering a 10- to 11-year trend line for most measures. Compiled from internal and external data, the information allows UNL administrators and faculty to measure how the university is doing and how it compares to its peers. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Class, Che Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Class, Che. Both films will screen through April 9.
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, master French director Laurent Cantet's The Class is an absorbing journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year. Francois Begaudeau--an actual teacher and the author upon whose work the film was based--is utterly convincing as François, an open minded teacher in charge of a classroom of youngsters from a wide variety of backgrounds. Of course, the mere fact that he's older and in a position of authority causes his students to challenge him on many occasions. François is stuck in the middle.
November 26, 1956; led by Fidel Castro (Demian Bichir), a band of 80 rebels sails to Cuba. Among these young rebels is Argentine physician, Marxist, soldier, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro). Nation-less, strapped for resources and fueled only by determination, the group engages in swift, bloody battle to free the Cuban people from the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che and his soldiers wrestle the nation's resources and affection from Batista's grasp. Though considered a hero by some, Che becomes a hugely controversial figure. At the height of his fame and power, he disappears. Entering South America incognito, Che recruits another band of guerilla fighters in the harsh Bolivian jungles. They embark upon a mission to spark revolution throughout Latin America.
More information is available at the Ross website.
