Wed, Jun 03, 2009
June 1-5, 2009
HERITAGE ROOM, NEBRASKA UNION, WED 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 Bruce M. Petryshak from 1:30 - 2:45 p.m. in the Heritage Room of the Nebraska Union, City Campus.
Petryshak is chief information officer at Bowling Green State University, a position he has held since 2001, serving as senior administrator, leader and advocate to provide focus to Bowling Green's information technology planning and implementation. He provides leadership for a team-based quality organization of more than 145 professionals and 150 student employees, with an annual budget of $20 million. His previous positions are all at Kent State University: executive director for Information Systems and Telecommunications (1997-2001); director of University Information Systems (1994-1997), associate director Computer Services (1990-1994), assistant director, systems support, (1986-1990), manager, administrative systems support (1984-1986) and computer operator, programmer analyst, software analyst and network administrator (1979-1984). He has an executive MBA and a bachelor's in computer science, both from Kent State.
'Fountain Frolics' Summer Concert Series Begins This Week
The Fountain Frolics summer concert series at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln begins June 4 at the Nebraska Union Plaza, 15th and S streets. This week, Broad Appeal captures the essence of the 1935-1958, Your Hit Parade era through three-part vocal harmonies.
The concerts will be noon to 1 p.m. every Thursday through July 30 (except July 2). UNL's University Program Council sponsors local musical entertainment and sells a picnic lunch of a hot dog, chips and a Pepsi product for $4 under the north overhang of the Nebraska Union.
University of Nebraska Press named Independent Publisher of the Year
During an awards ceremony at BookExpo America on May 29, 2009, ForeWord Magazine named the University of Nebraska Press its 2008 Independent Publisher of the Year. In a year marked by layoffs across the publishing industry and the shuttering of many major publishing imprints, ForeWord's editorial staff cited Nebraska's outstanding works of translation, regional fiction, poetry, and memoir.
The University Press also earned praise for publishing highly accomplished travel, sports, story, and scholarly books. The University of Nebraska Press has published works by former Poet Laureate of the United States Ted Kooser, Pushcart Prize-nominated Zachary Michael Jack, and O. Henry Award-winner Terese Svoboda. The Press was also awarded two 2008 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. more...
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM, FRI 5:30PM
First Friday Talk - "Grace Snyder's Quiltmaking"
Exhibition Curator, Janet Price
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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George Schade
George Schade, an associate professor in mechanical engineering, died May 22, 2009.
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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.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Examined Life, and One Day You'll Understand Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Examimed Life and One Day You'll Understand. Examined Life will screen through June 4, while One Day You'll Understand will show through June 11.
In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it. Featuring Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwarne Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor.
One Day You'll Understand is set in Paris, 1987. As the trial of Lyon's Gestapo head Klaus Barbie plays out on television, French businessman Victor Bastien (Hippolyte Girardot) finds himself distracted from his work and increasingly obsessed with piecing together the truth about his family's history. As he sorts through photographs, letters and memorabilia, the documents he discovers – including an Aryan declaration written by his father – tell of the fate that befell his parents during the war, and he is quick to rush to judgment. But to his frustration, his mother Rivka (Jeanne Moreau) has shuttered away her past and refuses to share any memories with him. With tensions growing between Victor and his sister Tania (Dominique Blanc) – who defends their father's declaration and mother’s silence – his wife (Emmanuelle Devos) and children accompany him on a visit to the tiny village where Rivka’s parents were forced to hide during the war. And as Victor finally begins to reconcile himself with his family’s fate, Rivka makes the decision to confide her past to the members of her family who may have a chance at shaping the future.
More information is available at the Ross website.
