Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Yeon-ho is Journalism 'Innovator in Residence'
Oh Yeon-ho, CEO and founder of the citizen journalism website OhmyNews.
Oh Yeon-ho, CEO and founder of the citizen journalism website OhmyNews, will be the second Innovator in Residence at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. He will visit Oct. 12 to 14.
Operating under the motto "Every citizen is a reporter," OhmyNews receives between 200 and 250 stories each day from 100 countries worldwide. Launched in 2000 in Seoul, South Korea, OhmyNews began by working with 727 citizen journalists. Today, it is an international media outlet with nearly 62,000 citizen reporters and 70 full-time editors and reporters. more...
National Broadway Tour of 'Fiddler on the Roof' at Lied
"Fiddler on the Roof," the Tony Award-winning musical that has captured the hearts of people all over the world with its universal appeal, embarks on its North American Tour and lands in Lincoln Oct. 12-13 for two performances at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Tickets and information are available at the Lied Center website or (402) 472-4747. Tickets for "Fiddler on the Roof" are $39-$49 for adults and $19.50-$24.50 for students. more...
Plains Song Review Issues Call for Submissions
The Center for Great Plains Studies has issued its annual call for submissions for its literary and arts journal, "Plains Song Review."
This is the 13th year that the center has sought submissions from college students and members of Great Plains communities. The journal includes poetry, essays, short fiction, and black and white art or photography. Past issues have included interviews with well-known Nebraska writers and photographers such as Jonis Agee, Ted Kooser and Joel Sartore. more...
Scope Out Student Organizations at RSO Fair
UNL Student Involvement will host its annual Recognized Student Organization Fair, 4-6 p.m., Oct. 12 in the Nebraska Union Centennial Room. This event is an opportunity for RSOs to recruit new members and to highlight each organization's activities and benefits.
Herpetologist to Teach Conservation While Wrangling Reptiles
Dennis Ferraro captures snake in tubing.
Outreach herpetologist Dennis Ferraro and 25 of his closest reptilian associates will meet and greet the public in a "reptiles in the round" format, 3-8 p.m., Oct. 12 in Hardin Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
The selection of snakes, lizards and turtles - all native to Nebraska - will include rare and elusive creatures that are seldom seen by humans, as well as all four species of venomous snakes that call the state home, and some of the other 25 non-venomous snakes. more...
Helicopter Used to Film Campus This Week
The aerial shoot for UNL's 2011 national television commercial has been rescheduled for this week.
Depending on weather conditions, the shoot will be one evening, 5 to 7 p.m., on Oct. 12 or 13. The commercial shots will be taken from a helicopter flying at low altitude. The focus of the shots will be City Campus, downtown Lincoln and Memorial Stadium. The footage will be used for a few years by University Communications and Husker Vision. more...
Lectures
BEADLE CENTER ROOM N172, 4PMDepartment of Biochemistry/Redox Biology Center Fall Seminar - "Integrating Research into Teaching: The Malate Dehydrogenase Story"
Ellis Bell, Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond
Entomology Seminar - "Co-evolution of insect-plant herbivory"
Fatima Mustafa, Entomology Graduate Student
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
UNL's University Theatre Opens Season With Dylan
University Theatre, the academic main stage producing wing of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, opens its 2010-2011 season with Dylan by Sidney Michaels. Directed by Aaron Sawyer, an MFA candidate in Directing for Stage and Screen as partial fulfillment of his degree, Dylan is on the Studio Theatre stage Oct. 12-15 at 7:30 p.m.
Set in 1950's Wales and America, Dylan follows acclaimed Welsh poet and public speaker Dylan Thomas to the colleges, bars and bedrooms of his last American tour and finally to the ship that carried him home. Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizen, $10 students with ID. Tickets are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12th Street Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., the UNL Theatre Tickets website or at the theatre the evening of performance (subject to availability).more...
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
Restrepo; Stonewall Uprising Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Restrepo and Stonewall Uprising. Stonewall Uprising will screen through Oct. 14, while Restrepo will show through Oct. 21.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
