This Week, May 17 - 21, 2010
Forsberg's 'Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild' Wins Book Prize
"Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild" by Michael Forsberg with Dan O'Brien, David Wishart and Ted Kooser, is this year's winner of the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize from the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Three broad geographic regions in "Great Plains" are covered in detail, evoked in the unforgettable images taken by Forsberg. Between the fall of 2005 and the winter of 2008, Forsberg traveled nearly 100,000 miles across 12 states and three provinces, from southern Canada to northern Mexico, to complete the photographic fieldwork for this project, underwritten by The Nature Conservancy. Complementing Forsberg's images and firsthand accounts are essays by Great Plains scholar David Wishart, acclaimed writer Dan O'Brien, and a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, the 13th poet laureate of the United States. more...
Students and faculty in Kazakhstan project (l-r); Andrew Dickinson, Sarah Tenorio, Megan Plouzek, Elizabeth Gamez, Travis Beck, Professor Joe Weber, Patrick Breen, Megan Nichols, Kyle Bruggeman and Professor Bruce Thorson.
UNL Photojournalism Students Travel to Kazakhstan
Photojournalism students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications are in a semester-long project that will take them to Kazakhstan this month. Thanks to an endowed gift from three of the nation's leading photographers, the students will be able to document an emerging country in which there is great human need.
The photographers, Howard Buffett, Thomas Mangelsen and Joel Sartore, created a photojournalism fund to enable students to travel abroad to witness the world firsthand and report on what they see. Buffett is a photographer of scenes in the developing world, Mangelsen is a nature photographer and Sartore is a contract photographer for National Geographic and other publications. more...
Lectures
BEADLE CENTER ROOM E103, WED 2PMSpecial PSI Seminar - "Mimotopes as Biomarkers for Infectious Diseases and their Applications in Biosensors"
Dr. Luiz Goulart, University of California, Davis
The Girl On The Train, The Secret of Kells Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Girl On The Train and The Secret of Kells. Both films will screen through May 27.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
