Friday and Weekend April 2 - 4, 2010
UNL Research Fair is Next Week
The eighth annual UNL Research Fair runs next week, April 5 - 8. The annual campuswide celebration of research and creativity features presentations and events for faculty, staff, students and the public. View the full schedule and speaker bios online. This year's topics include university-industry relations; National Science Foundation programs; international collaborations; and opportunities for postdocs, graduate students and undergraduates.
The fair brings national experts, program officers from federal funding agencies and others to campus where faculty, students and staff can interact with and learn from them.
RESEARCH FAIR 2010
Sheldon Celebrates Women Artists' Works in Permanent Collection Galleries
In a yearlong effort to recognize and celebrate women artists, the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present an all-women's exhibition titled "Better Half, Better Twelfth: Women Artists in the Collection." The exhibition opens with a First Friday reception 5-7 p.m. April 2.
The phrase "Better Half" evokes an often unnamed title of a wife or lover while "Better Twelfth" refers to the current ratio of female to male artists represented in the Sheldon collection. The small number of works by female artists in the collection reflects the historical imbalance of authority between men and women in society. more...
Lectures
LAW COLLEGE ROOM 111, FRI 12:10PMEthics and Global Issues: Human Rights - "Revising Just War Theory for the 21st Century"
Joseph Runzo, professor of philosophy and religious studies at Chapman University and director of the Global Ethics and Religion Forum
Pierson Lecture - Trauma Mechanics - "Bulging factor in geometrically nonlinear cracked laminated composite shell structures under dynamic internal pressures" and "Design and Analysis of data collection in a blast wave condition using a realistic dummy head"
Nitin Ingale, Eyitejumade Sogbesan
Chemistry Colloquium - "Acetylene: Just Large Enough"
Robert W. Field, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sponsored by the UNL Research Council
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Dirty little secrets of the greatest snow on Earth"
Jim Steenburgh, University of Utah. Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m.
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Seminar Series - "Elucidating the immune response elicited against Vibrio parahaemolyticus"
Dr. Michelle Parent, Department of Medical Technology, University of Delaware
Mathematics Dept. Colloquium - "Solitons and what is odd about odd multiples of pi/2"
Amy Cohen, Rutgers University. The talk will be preceded by refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in Avery 348.
Graduate student Christine Humphrey (right) examining a quilt with undergraduate student Lindsey Carroll (left) and Professor Michael James (center)
Student Detectives Aid in Exhibition Creation at Quilt Museum
Students in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate-level care and conservation of textiles course provided curatorial assistance to IQSC curators Marin Hanson and Patricia Crews to create a new exhibition, "Quilts under the Microscope," opening April 2. This "whodunit" exposes the many agents, both natural and human-made, that can slowly (or quickly) destroy quilts and other heirloom textiles.
The exhibition presents a group of carefully studied quilts that divulge some of the secrets of their past and help determine the best way to safeguard them for the future. Institutions like the International Quilt Study Center use science and technical analysis to discover the history of objects and to inform activities of preservation, interpretation and display. more....
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM
'Tagged and Collected' Reception at Nebraska Hall
The Systematic Research Collections of the University of Nebraska State Museum and the University of Nebraska Department of Art and Art History present an art exhibit inspired by the collections in the museum's Division of Zoology in the student-produced exhibit, "Tagged and Collected." The public is invited First Friday reception for the exhibit April 2 in Nebraska Hall from 5 to 7 p.m.
"Tagged and Collected" evolved through a collaboration in the fall semester between Patricia W. Freeman, professor and curator of the University of Nebraska State Museum Division of Zoology, and Aaron Holz, assistant professor of art and art history. The exhibit was organized by art and art history graduate assistant Victoria Hoyt. more....
Huskers
MEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, FRI 3PMNebraska Cornhuskers vs. Texas A&M Aggies
SOFTBALL | BOWLING STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, FRI 5PMNebraska Cornhuskers vs. Texas A&M Aggies
SOFTBALL | BOWLING STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, SAT 2PMNebraska Cornhuskers vs. Texas A&M Aggies
MEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SAT 3PMNebraska Cornhuskers vs. Oklahoma State Cowboys
The Horse Boy, 35 Shots of Rum Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Horse Boy and 35 Shots of Rum. Both films will show through April 8.
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/.
