Thursday, January 13, 2011
Looking for Answers? Text A Librarian Now Available
The UNL Libraries has introduced Text A Librarian to their menu of services. In addition to texting your question and receiving your answer as a text, the UNL Libraries offer assistance via Online Chat, Email, Phone, and In-person at public assistance desk each of its libraries.
To Text A Librarian, type unllib, then your question and send to 66746. more...
Innocents Society Applications due by Jan. 21
Application for membership and freshman scholarships from the Innocents Society, the chancellor's senior honorary, is now open. Applications, available at http://go.unl.edu/6n0, are due by Jan. 21.
The Innocents Society was founded at the University of Nebraska on April 24, 1903. The first group of thirteen juniors was chosen based on academic excellence, campus leadership and selfless service.more...
Lectures
BEADLE CENTER ROOM N172, 4PMRedox Biology Center/Biochemistry Department Faculty Candidate Seminar - "Characterizing Protein Targets of Oxidative Stress and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes with Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics"
Paul Grimsrud, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Refreshments will be available prior to the seminar.
Museum Celebrating 140th Anniversary
Erwin H. Barbour, State Museum Director from 1891-1941, stands next to Archie in the old museum building (1927).
The University of Nebraska State Museum is celebrating its 140th year in 2011 as the state's premier museum of natural history. This milestone will be celebrated throughout the year with many new exhibits and hands-on science events, as well as membership incentives and a video campaign featuring the museum's new Archie mascot and students from Lincoln Public Schools.
Established in 1871 by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, the State Museum has grown into one of the nation's leading university research museums. Today, the museum enriches the lives of more than 100,000 visitors and students each year who visit Morrill Hall, Mueller Planetarium, the research collections, and branch locations at Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park and the Trailside Museum of Natural History at Fort Robinson State Park. In 2009, the museum again earned a 10-year reaccreditation by the American Association of Museums, the highest national recognition afforded U.S. museums. more...
"Frame By Frame" Discusses 3D Cinema
In this episode of "Frame By Frame," Film Studies professor Wheeler Winston Dixon explains why nearly all of the films produced in America before 1929 are lost forever.
FRAME BY FRAME
A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop; Boxing Gym Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop and Boxing Gym Both films will screen through Jan. 13.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
