Wednesday, October 13, 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...
Walk-in Flu Shot Clinics To Be Held Throughout October
The University Health Center will hold flu shot clinics throughout the month beginning Oct. 5. The influenza vaccine is good for both seasonal and H1N1 influenza. Flu shots will cost $25 with payment of cash or check required at the time of the shot.
The University Health Center will hold walk-in clinics every Wednesday and Thursday in October from noon-2 p.m. There will also be two walk-in clinics at the East Union on the third floor on Oct. 5 and Oct. 19 from noon-2 p.m. more...
Make the cut. Win an iPad.
Use the power of physics to create a memorable ribbon-cutting at the Jorgensen Hall dedication and win an iPad or dollar-value equivalent in merchandise from the UNL Computer and Phone Shop.
Proposals are due by noon on October 15.
Submit your proposal now!
"Frame By Frame" Discusses Women Directors
In this episode of "Frame By Frame," UNL Film Studies professor Wheeler Winston Dixon recommends movies by female directors from the early years of cinema.
FRAME BY FRAME
Lectures
NEBRASKA EAST UNION GARDEN ROOM, NOONNebraska Gateway for Nutrigenomics Seminar Series - "High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Elastography"
Dr. Shadi Othman, Biological Systems Engineering, UNL
Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies - "Unmasking Nebraska's 'Desert in Disguise"
David Loope, Schultz Chair in Stratigraphy, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Fall 2010 Seminar - "Therapeutic strategies that accelerate serum clearance or promote intracellular degradation of targeted proteins"
Dr. Charles Shoemaker, Tufts University. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
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.
