Monday, October 4, 2010
'You Are Loved' Project is Today
UNL will observe the "You are Loved Chalk Message Project," 2:30 to 5 p.m., Oct. 4 on the Nebraska Union Plaza. The project features the creation of uplifting chalk messages to assist with suicide prevention. The messages are designed to counteract the negative messages directed at the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.
For more information about suicide awareness and prevention, contact the LGBTQA Resource Center at 472-1652 or 345 Nebraska Union. more...
National Science Foundation Program Director to Discuss Funding Opportunities
The UNL Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, in conjunction with the 2010 Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference on Renewable Energy, will host a seminar presented by Geoffrey Prentice at 4 p.m., Oct. 4 in Othmer Hall, room 205.
Prentice currently serves as the program director of the National Science Foundation's Energy for Sustainability Program. He will present a lecture, "Sustainable Energy Funding Opportunities at National Science Foundation." more...
Detail of Laurie Addis' piece "Extrack"
Eisentrager-Howard Hosts Symposium Exhibition
The Eisentrager-Howard Gallery will host the exhibition "Binary Fiction: Digital Weaving 2010" as part of the Textile Society of America's 12th Biennial Symposium. The exhibition will be displayed in the Eisentrager-Howard Art Gallery in Richards Hall through Oct. 29.
The symposium, taking place in Lincoln from October 6-9, is themed "Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyber Space." more...
Lectures
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 3PMCenter for Grassland Studies Fall 2010 Seminar Series - "Native Grass Seeding and Other Observations at the Prairie Plains Resource Institute"
Bill Whitney, Executive Director, Prairie Plains Resource Institute
Winter's Bone; Metropolis Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Winter's Bone and Metropolis. Both films will screen through Oct. 7.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
