Friday and Weekend, June 11 - 13, 2010
Independent Study High School Student Selected for Prestigious Bolshoi Academy
Sarah Wiese
Sarah Wiese, a student in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Independent Study High School, is among 10 American high school ballet dancers selected for the prestigious National Security Language Initiative for Youth Program, announced recently by the Russian American Foundation. The students will spend six weeks this summer studying Russian language, culture and ballet at the renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow.
Funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the program provides merit-based scholarships to qualified U.S. high school students to learn less commonly taught languages and cultures in foreign countries. The partnership with the Russian American Foundation and Bolshoi Academy represents the organization's first dance-related program. more...
'Curators' Choice' Exhibition Opens June 11 at Great Plains Art Museum
The Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln celebrates its 30th year in 2010. To recognize the contributions each of its curators has had on the founding and growth of the museum, each is participating in an exhibition titled "Curators' Choice." The exhibition will run June 11 through Aug. 29 with a First Friday reception 5-7 p.m. Aug. 6.
Former curators Jon Nelson, Martha Kennedy and Reece Summers, and current curator Amber Mohr will select artworks from the permanent collection that have a personal significance, signify an important achievement during their tenure as curator, or simply speak powerfully to eir personal aesthetic. more...
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UNL's Bullard Elected to American Copy Editors Society Executive Board
Sue Burzynski Bullard, an associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been elected to the executive committee of the American Copy Editors Society for a two-year term.
Bullard, who joined the faculty at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications in 2008, teaches editing, reporting and online media classes. Bullard teaches daylong workshops on "All Things Web" as part of a One Day University program at UNL's College of Journalism and Mass Communications aimed at busy professionals. When she's not teaching, she is writing an editing textbook, "Everybody's an Editor, Navigating Journalism's Changing Landscape," slated to be published digitally. more...
The Good, The Bad, The Weird; Mother Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Good, The Bad, The Weird and Mother. Both films will screen through June 17.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
