This Week, August 2 - 6, 2010
Mehmet Can Vuran
UNL Researcher Working on Sensors To Aid Irrigation Decisions Earns Award
As the sky clears from a July downpour, you can bet on farmers doing two things. First, checking the rain gauge. Then, mentally calculating how long they can hold off irrigating again.
Mehmet Can Vuran, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln computer engineer, wants to give agricultural producers more information to make that decision. He's developing wireless underground sensor networks that should give agricultural producers precise, real-time data about soil moisture and other changing conditions. Read more and watch a video interview on this story...
Lutenist Bé to Give Recital and Lecture at Sheldon
Kenneth Bé
The sounds of the renaissance will fill the Sheldon on Tuesday, Aug, 3 when lutenist and speaker Kenneth Bé will give a recital and talk in conjunction with the exhibit Voyage to Italia: Americans in Italy in the 19th Century. The lecture and performance will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the Sheldon's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Bé has been performing lute music since 1974, has studied under notable lute players including Paul O'Dette and Nigel North, participated as a musician in the Boston Early Music Festival and has performed frequently in duet recitals with lutenist Ronn McFarlane. He has a deep interest in the role of music and the visual arts in past culture.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist To Teach New Digital Information Class
Matt Waite
Matt Waite, a 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winner for Politifact.com, will teach this fall in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Waite will teach a new course, "Developing New Media," designed to teach students to develop new digital information products.
"We're going to talk about audience, journalism, business models, technology, marketing -- the whole spectrum you have to go through to go from idea to launch," Waite said. "We're going to argue, we're going to build, and we're going to have fun."
A journalist and programmer and UNL alumnus, Waite is the principal developer of PolitiFact.com, a website on which St. Petersburg Times reporters fact-check statements by politicians and publish the evaluations. It was the first website to receive a Pulitzer for national reporting. more...
MicMacs; Cyrus Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Micmacs and Cyrus. Micmacs will screen through Aug. 5, while Cyrus will show through Aug. 12.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
