Thursday, April 29, 2010
Mueller Planetarium Shows "Dark Side Of The Moon"
Mueller Planetarium, located inside Morrill Hall, will feature Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon: The Fulldome Experience" at 7 p.m. The show is a full-color computer animation fulldome video experience, complete with 5.1 surround sound.
For UNL staff, faculty and students with NU ID: Museum admission is free and Planetarium tickets are $3. Planetarium tickets are $2.50 for children ages 18 and under. Tickets for fulldome shows are sold at the museum front desk the night of the show.
Lectures
ANDREWS HALL ROOM 228, 7:30PMMedieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Celebration of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program and of student work submitted for the Undergraduate Essay and Creative Projects Contest
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 in the exhibition, "Quilts Under the Microscope." 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
Prodigal Sons, Neil Young Trunk Show Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Prodigal Sons and Neil Young Trunk Show. Prodigal Sons will show through April 29, while Neil Young Trunk Show will screen through May 6.
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/.
