Friday and Weekend, July 2 - 4, 2010
UNL Admissions Waiving Deadlines for Displaced Dana Students
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Office of Admissions announced today it would waive its transfer admission deadline to admit, enroll and provide campus housing for eligible Dana College transfer or new students for the fall semester. UNL's transfer admission application deadline for the fall semester was May 1.
Dana College on June 30 announced it would not open for the fall semester after its accrediting body denied its request to transfer its accreditation to new owners, according to news reports. The closing leaves as many as 550 students without a college this fall. more...
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Spray paint marks the rows in a wheat test plot which will be cut and sampled. Grad students and summer workers harvest and thresh wheat by hand Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Two rows from each plot are cut, carried to the thresher and individually bagged as part of the research.Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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UNL Agronomy graduate student Kayse Onweller waits her turn at the thresher holding a shock of wheat. The paper bag is numbered with the plot it was cut from and will hold the wheat kernels so the harvest can be checked and recorded later. Two rows from each plot are cut, carried to the thresher and individually bagged as part of the research.Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Natasia Otto-Berglund, right, folds the top of the sample bag as the group fills container after container with the samples. Graduate students, summer student workers and UNL Agronomy and Horticulture employees harvest and thresh wheat by hand. The seed will be studied following the summer harvest.Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Ali Bakhsh, Graduate Student in Agronomy, carries a shock of wheat through the field toward the threshing machine. Graduate students, summer student workers and UNL Agronomy and Horticulture employees harvest and thresh wheat by hand Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Jaclyn Lange keeps a wheat sample from falling out of the cutter run by Agriculture Research Technician Greg Dorn. Grad students and summer workers harvest and thresh wheat by hand Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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UNL Agriculture Research Technician Mitch Montgomery runs a narrow cutter through the test plots as Jing Lii Soong uses a piece of wood to keep the sample in the cutter. The cutter is then stopped and the shocks of wheat are carried to the thresher. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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The days harvest is hundreds of bagged wheat samples awaiting the end of the day and a trip to the agronomy labs. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Trevis Carmichael, a senior in Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources takes a break after running the thresher. Though hot, long sleeves help keep the scratchy grain at bay. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Chaff flies out the end of the thresher as Somrudee Onto collects grain samples at the base of the machine and other workers wait in line with their samples. The thresher is not high tech but a reliable piece of machinery built in the 1950s. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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UNL agronomy graduate student Kayse Onweller, left, records plot numbers onto sacks as Ibrahim Salah reads them off. After the sacks are placed by the test plots, cutting can begin. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
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Big Red and golden wheat adorn the cap on Agriculture Research Technologist Mitch Montgomery. After the sacks are placed by the test plots, cutting can begin. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications
Summer Harvest For Agronomy & Horticulture
Cutting edge research partners with low-tech threshers from the 1950s to produce a bumper crop of samples from the Agronomy fields west of 84th and Havelock. There are more than 6,000 test plots and 50,000 rows of wheat, barley and triticale in fields around Lincoln and many more in other test areas across the state. Graduate students, summer student workers and UNL Agronomy and Horticulture employees harvest and thresh wheat by hand, and the seed will be studied following the summer harvest.
Japanese school children bring their dolls to bid farewell to Miss Mie before she departs for America in 1927." (University of Nebraska State Museum Archives)
Miss Mie, Japanese Friendship Doll, Returns to NU State Museum July 3
On July 3, the University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall will open an exhibit that honors the return to Nebraska of the historic Japanese friendship ambassador doll, Miss Mie, from her year-long journey overseas.
In July 2009, the 83-year-old friendship doll was escorted to her original home in Mie Prefecture, Japan, by museum collections assistant Susan Curtis to undergo expert conservation, followed by various homecoming celebrations and exhibitions in 10 cities across the region. More than 30,000 people attended the exhibitions before Miss Mie's return to Nebraska in late May. She will remain a part of the museum's permanent anthropology collections. more...
Mother And Child; The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Mother And Child and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Mother And Child will screen through July 8, while The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo will show through July 15.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
