Thu, May 28, 2009
May 25-29, 2009
HERITAGE ROOM, NEBRASKA UNION, THU 1:30PM
CIO Campus Forum Held
As part of the search for a Chief Information Officer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the campus is invited to participate in open forum today with Mark S. Askren from 1:30 - 2:45 p.m. in the Hertitage Room of the Nebraska Union, City Campus.
Askren is assistant vice chancellor, Administrative Computing Services at University of California, Irvine, 2003-present; he previously was director of the computing services group (2001-2003). At UC-Irvine Askren leads the central organization that provides enterprise systems for the campus and its medical center, and is responsible for campus IT executive leadership, strategic planning and enterprise security, in partnership with peers from the Network and Academic Computing Services organization. His previous positions were as assistant vice president, Application Development and Data Management at University of Illinois (2000-2001), director of Applications Support (1998-2000) and director of Client Support Services, (1992-1997) all at Illinois; assistant dean of School of Medicine Information Technology at University of California, San Diego (1989-1992). He has an MBA in business economics and public policy from Indiana University and a bachelor's in business from Florida State University.
Introducing the Future Design of UNL.edu
A process within the UNL Web Developer Network to create a refreshed and reimagined UNL.edu has culminated in a reference design, presented to WDN last week. The design is currently being coded into a new version of UNL site templates and is set for release on August 17, one week prior to the beginning of fall semester. Read more about the new design here.
'James McNeill Whistler: 40 Years of Printmaking' Opens at Sheldon
Forty etchings and lithographs from the Sheldon Museum of Art's permanent collection will be shown together for the first time in "James McNeill Whistler: 40 Years of Printmaking." The exhibition opens May 26 at the museum, 12th and R streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus, and continues on view through Sept. 20.
The exhibition will open on the heels of publication of a book with the same title published by the University of Nebraska Press. It is the first of a series (funded in part by the Getty Foundation of Los Angeles) of major catalogues of the center's collection, featuring more than 500 quilts and more than 800 full color images. For more information on the book visit The Nebraska Press website. more...
Wilma B Crumley
Wilma B Crumley, emerita professor of journalism and former associate dean of the College of Journalism, died May 21, 2009.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Pope's Toilet, and Know Your Mushrooms Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Pope's Toilet and Know Your Mushrooms Both films will screen through May 28.
Bouncing between moments of humor and gentle drama, The Pope's Toilet is set in the late 1980s in a small town that is anxiously awaiting the arrival of Pope John Paul II. While the swell of visitors promises to be a boon for the local economy, smalltime crook Beto (César Troncoso) thinks he has figured out a unique way to capitalize on the pope's visit: charge a fee for the visitors to use a toilet on his front lawn. Of course, not everything goes according to Beto's creative plan, and The Pope's Toilet resolves in an unexpected way. Co-produced by Fernando Meirelles (City of God), this film was Uruguay's submission to the 2008 Oscars.
From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential, Grass, Go Further and a host of paradigm-shifting films reappraising the backwaters of popular culture, Ron Mann investigates the miraculous, near-secret world of fungi with his newest piece of cinema, Know Your Mushrooms. Inspired by a chance conversation with fellow filmmaker and mushroom buff Jim Jarmusch, Mann set off to the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado. It was there he encountered the unique sub-sub-subculture surrounding fungi that includes an unlikely assortment of nerds, nuts, hipsters, tripsters, artists, chefs, musicians, foodies, foragers, and seekers all paying homage to the mighty mushroom. The film follows uber-myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.
More information is available at the Ross website.
