Wed, Apr 22, 2009
April 22, 2009
Energy Usage Calculator Launches
Furthering our commitment to use resources wisely, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announces the launch of an Energy Usage Calculator.
The Chancellor's Commission on Sustainability and the Office of University Communications have built this tool to help add up your current usage, figure out where you can reduce your energy use, and help you let your office friends know what you are doing to help the Big Red go green.
Focus The Nation Events Continue
Earth Week continues with a variety of Focus The Nation events today. At noon, the Climate Change Speaker Series will take place in Mabel Lee Hall 230. At 7 p.m., the recent Leonardo DiCaprio documentary The 11th Hour will be screened at The State Theater.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information and a full list of events for the week, visit the Focus The Nation website.
Apollo 9 Astronaut to Kick Off Conference on 'Near-Earth Object' Risks
Rusty Schweickart, a member of the Apollo 9 flight that was a key forerunner to the manned moon mission, will hold a public discussion April 22 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln about protecting the Earth from future asteroid impacts.
Schweickart, who supports the development and testing of a spaceflight concept to protect the Earth from asteroid threats, will speak at 3 p.m. at the Van Brunt Visitors Center, 313 N. 13th St. The event is free and open to the public. more...
SPACE AND TELECOM LAW
Plains Song Review Writers to Read at Great Plains Art Museum
"For me, Nebraska keeps finding a way into poems, even when I was living in California. I'd write about my environment, but it was kind of my environment paired against or with Nebraska," poet Matt Mason writes in the latest issue of Plains Song Review, published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Great Plains Studies. An interview with Mason by UNL students Katie Sisneros and Janey Strobel is the lead article in the journal and prepares the reader for the essays, poetry and photographs that follow.
The center will host a reading by writers and an exhibit by photographers whose work appears in Volume 11 of Plains Song Review at 7 p.m. April 22 in the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. more...
PLAINS SONG REVIEW
ROOM 145 VETERINARY BASIC SCIENCES BUILDING, NOON
Fort Dodge Speaker - "The Unwanted Horse"
Dr. Kenton Morgan
HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM
Spring 2009 Water Seminar Series - "Tree Rings and Water: How and Where Can Dendroecological Methods Help Hydrological Research?"
Paolo Cherubini, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 4PM
Dermot P. Coyne Distinguished Lectureship Seminar - "Recognition of Pathogen Effector Proteins by NLR Innate Immune Receptors: Strategies for the Molecular Breeding of Durable Disease Resistance"
Dr. Brian Staskawicz, University of California, Berkeley. A reception will be held at 5 p.m.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Gomorrah Plays at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Gomorrah, screening through April 23.
Based on the book by Roberto Saviano, Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah is a powerful indictment of the corruption that is running rampant in Italy. His decision to present such a wide spectrum of characters enables him to show just how deeply everyone is impacted by this terrifying, unchecked display of criminal power. Cinematically, he employs a dizzying array of styles in order to further establish the frighteningly ungoverned atmosphere that pervades this community. Gomorrah succeeds as both visceral entertainment and thoughtful social commentary
More information is available at the Ross website.
