Thu, Apr 23, 2009
April 23, 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.
UNL Print Sale Starts
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Art and Art History and Lincoln Print Group will hold a print sale April 23-25, 2009, in Richards Hall Room 121 (conference room) on the UNL city campus. Hours for the sale are noon to 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 23; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday, April 24; and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, April 25.
Original etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, monoprints, digital, mezzotints and screenprints from faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the UNL Department of Art and Art History will be on sale. Prints of all sizes, media and price will be available. There will also be a benefit raffle to support the Lincoln Print Group.
E-Week Continues at UNL
E-Week continues at the UNL College of Engineering through April 24. A tradition since 1913, E-Week is dedicated to recognizing and rewarding engineers' accomplishments.
Current students will celebrate the end of the academic year by participating in events such as as the Professional Society Put Put Hole Building Competition, Mr. Engineer, Quiz Bowl, Scavenger Hunt, and Root Beer Float Night. The week culminates tomorrow with the annual E-Week Open House from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow at Othmer Hall. During this event, senior engineering students will display their research projects, corporate representatives host booths to promote their companies, and high school students partake in information sessions and hands-on activities that highlight the benefits of becoming an engineer.
E-WEEK
Focus The Nation Events Continue
Earth Week continues with a variety of Focus The Nation events today on the UNL Campus. From 9 a.m. to noon, the Climate Change Speaker Series will take place in 172 Beadle Center. At 10:30 a.m., a "Project Runway" style competition Recycled Fashion Show will take place in the Nebraska Union, and At 7 p.m., Al Gore's famous PowerPoint An Inconvenient Truth will be given by a professional at the East Campus Union.
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.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, 7PM
Ross Hosts Documentary and Panel Discussion
Starting at 7 p.m., the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center will host a screening of the documentary Adele's Wish followed by a panel discussion. Terrence Turner's documentary presents the story of five paintings by world renowned Austrian artist, Gustav Klimt, that were stolen in 1938 from Maria Altmann's family in Vienna during the Nazi regime. For nearly a decade, Maria Altmann and her lawyer battled Austria for the return of these incredibly valuable paintings.
A panel discussion of this particular legal case and art restitution in general will follow. Panelists include: Donald S. Burris, a partner in the law firm of Burris, Schoenberg & Walden, LLP in Los Angeles; Jean Axelrad Cahan, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Norman & Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln; Jonathan Petropoulos, the John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California; Terrence Turner, director and co-producer of Adele's Wish.
