This Week, December 20 - 24, 2010
Time to Shutdown Electronics, Turn Down Thermostats
With just a few preventative measures, faculty and staff can help the university save energy and reduce costs during the holiday shutdown, Dec. 24 to Jan. 3. "Everything that can be manually shut off should be," said Kirk Conger, energy projects manager with UNL Building Systems Maintenance.
All lights, fans, appliances, computers, printers, monitors and copiers should be turned off during the shutdown. In recent years, these procedures have helped cut energy use in UNL's academic buildings to save at least $25,000 per year. more...
Reminder to Secure Windows, Workplaces Over Break
Facilities Management and Planning and University Police remind everyone to shut all windows and doors before you leave for the holidays. Heat will be reduced over the break to conserve energy in accordance with the campus energy policy. Only buildings or spaces where research requires normal temperatures will be unaffected.
eaving doors or windows open could result in the loss of university property and/or frozen pipes and subsequent damage. Please protect your office and building by ensuring you leave with your workplace secure. Buildings will remain locked over the holidays, so be sure you have any items out of your spaces that you will need over the break.
Research assistant professor Sudhir Malik (left) and postdoctoral researcher Suvadeep Bose; Wilson Hall at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Research Sends Physics Faculty to Chicago, Switzerland
Of UNL’s more than 7,000 employees, nearly all work somewhere in Nebraska in the university’s "500-mile campus," with by far the biggest portion working on one of the Lincoln campuses.
There is a small group of eight, however — all particle physicists — who are permanently stationed at sites remote from Nebraska. Five work nearly 500 miles from campus at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory at Batavia, Ill., in the Chicago suburbs. The other three work almost 5,000 miles from Lincoln at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research on the Swiss-French border near Geneva, Switzerland. more...
"Frame By Frame" Discusses Aspect Ratios
In this episode of "Frame By Frame," Film Studies professor Wheeler Winston Dixon sizes up the different aspect ratios of film and television, and recommends the best format to watch movies on TV.
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Next; 127 Hours Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Next and 127 Hours. Both films will screen through Dec. 23.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
