Fri, Aug 07, 2009
August 7-9, 2009
NASA Awards Grants to Two UNL Faculty
The NASA Nebraska Space Grant and EPSCoR office at the University of Nebraska at Omaha has announced that two University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors have been awarded NASA EPSCoR grants of $750,000 each. NASA EPSCoR received 50 proposals from across the country and awarded 27 grants.
The three-year grants are part of NASA's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), designed to further research at colleges and universities nationwide in the areas of aeronautics, exploration systems, science and space operations. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Adoration and Rudo Y Cursi Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Adoration and Rudo Y Cursi. Both films will screen through August 13.
More information about each film and schedules are available at the Ross website.
'Altered Land: Photography in the 1970s' Opens Aug. 7 at Sheldon
Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present "Altered Land: Photography in the 1970s," examining the tension between human presence and the environment. The exhibition opens Aug. 7 with a First Friday reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and will be on view through Jan. 3.
In the latter part of the 20th century, many American landscape photographers began to shed their 19th-century Romantic ideals about the natural purity of their subject. They started taking greater stock of the rising tide of human intervention on the land. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
UNL Grad Student Receives NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
University of Nebraska-Lincoln geosciences graduate student David Peterson has received a prestigious $90,000 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, which will fund three years of doctoral research.
Peterson, who will finish his master's degree in meteorology this fall, studies the causes of wildfires in the boreal forests of Canada and Alaska. He will continue his research as a doctoral student, using satellite images provided by NASA to study fires caused by dry lightning strikes, in an effort to improve overall forecasting of fire weather. more...
