Monday March 29, 2010
Sheldon Museum of Art, Columbia U. Partner in Jazz Film Series in Lincoln
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Film has returned to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Museum of Art with a Jazz Film Series. The series, which was started last fall in collaboration with Columbia University scholar Robert O'Meally and the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia, continues this semester with two events, beginning today.
At 6 p.m. in the Ethel Abbott Auditorium, author Farah Jasmine Griffin will present film shorts of jazz pianist, composer and arranger Mary Lou Williams and dancer/choreographer Pearl Primus. Griffin will lead a discussion after the screening. Gordon is senior interviewer and jazz researcher for the Bronx African American History Project at Fordham University and project director of "Women Who Listen: An Oral History with Women Jazz Fans." She has written numerous conference papers and essays on jazz. more....
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
Xiao Cheng Zeng (left) and Jaeil Bai; Square-octagon ice clathrate with argon atoms (green) inside octagonal openings
Encounter Leads to New Ice Discoveries by UNL Team
Sometimes in science, new research pathways are generated by unexpected suggestions. That's what led Xiao Cheng Zeng and his research group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to their latest series of discoveries about the behavior of materials -- especially water -- at extremes of temperature, pressure and confinement.
Zeng gave a talk in 2008 to the Materials Research Society in San Francisco about some of his lab's earlier discoveries, including the two-dimensional, high-density "Nebraska ice" that he named for its flatness. After the talk, C. Austen Angell, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Arizona State University, approached Zeng and suggested that it would be possible to have a two-dimensional ice clathrate with the "Nebraska ice." A clathrate is essentially a molecular cage, usually three-dimensional in nature, in which molecules of one substance are completely enclosed in the crystal structure of another. more...
A Town Called Panic, The Oscar Nominated Short Films of 2010, Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents A Town Called Panic and the Oscar nominated short films of 2010. All films will screen through April 1.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
H1N1 Page at UNL Monitors Flu
The university continues to closely monitor the worldwide and local impact of H1N1 flu. At this time there is no immediate impact on UNL, its community or operations, except heightened alert and awareness, and efforts to communicate the necessity of proper hygiene and stemming the spread of the virus.
For more information, including Student and Employee attendence policies, visit the H1N1 Information page at http://emergency.unl.edu/.
