Friday and Weekend, April 1 - 3, 2011
MORRILL HALL, SAT 1PM
Morrill Hall Celebrates 'Colorful Creature Day' Saturday
The University of Nebraska State Museum will celebrate Colorful Creature Day, 1 to 4:30 p.m. April 2 at Morrill Hall. This event is part of a year-long celebration of the museum's 140th anniversary. Admission to the museum is free (with a valid NCard) for faculty, staff, students and their immediate family members.
Colorful Creature Day is an afternoon of live animals and hands-on art activities in the museum. Several naturalists and volunteer groups will be on hand to give children the opportunity to learn about and interact with different creatures, including a hedgehog, alpaca, llama, owl, pigs, birds, rabbits, turtles, reptiles, amphibians and more. Artists from the UNL Department of Art and Art History and the Guild of Natural Scientific Illustrators will provide art activities and demonstrate their creative talents. Children may also take pictures with "Pebbles," the giant piping plover, and enter to win an artistic rain barrel following the event. more...
WESTFIELD GATEWAY SHOPPING CENTER, SAT 1PM
April 2 Event to Feature UNL Nanoscientists, Students
Nebraska EPSCoR, UNL's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience presents NanoDays from 1 to 4 p.m., April 2 at Westfield Gateway Shopping Center. UNL faculty, staff, and students and Lincoln Public Schools educators will offer games and activities that demonstrate the special and unexpected properties found at the nanoscale and the promise that nanoscience holds for transforming our daily lives.
NanoDays bring university researchers together with science educators to create unique new learning experiences for both children and adults to explore the miniscule world of atoms, molecules, and nanoscale forces. Visitors will investigate liquid crystals, forces stronger than gravity, and sand that doesn't get wet - even under water. Other activities include using your nose as a nanodetector and measuring yourself in nanometers. more...
Lectures
SCOTT ENGINEERING CENTER ROOM 237, FRI 1:30PMNebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Seminar Series - "Optical Sensors for Energy Systems"
TBA
Geography General Seminar - "Experiential Learning in Agroecology in Norway: Action Education Leading to Responsible Action"
Dr. Charles Francis, Professor, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, UNL
Chemistry Colloquium - "Bipolar Electrodes: A Simple Modality for Concentration, Separation and Detection of Analytes in Microfluidic Channels"
Richard M. Crooks, University of Texas at Austin.
2011 Howard Rowlee Lecture Series - "Plato's Cave: Some things we know and some things we don't know about shadows on the wall"
David Eisenbud, University of California, Berkeley. The lecture will be preceded by a reception in 348 Avery Hall from 3:15-3:50 p.m.
Public lecture and Book Signing - "Mischief Stitched in White Thread"
This lecture is sponsored by the Dillow Excellence Fund.
Gallery Talk, "Revisiting THE ART QUILT"
Guest curator Penny McMorris
Huskers
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, FRI 6:35PMNebraska Huskers vs. Oklahoma State Cowboys
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, FRI 2:05PMNebraska Huskers vs. Oklahoma State Cowboys
MEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SAT 3PMNebraska Huskers vs. Baylor Bears
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SUN NOONNebraska Huskers vs. Kansas Jayhawks
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SUN 1:05PMNebraska Huskers vs. Oklahoma State Cowboys
Sheldon Presents First Friday Event 'Poetical Fire: Three Centuries of Still Lifes'
Sheldon Museum of Art hosts a reception for "Poetical Fire: Three Centuries of Still Lifes" from 5-7 p.m., April 1. A lecture by the Mead Art Museum's Randy Griffey begins in the Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. The reception and lecture are both free and open to the public.
Poetical Fire: Three Centuries of Still Lifes features approximately 60 examples of the genre from the mid-19th century to the present, including ceramics, paintings, photography, prints and sculpture. The Sheldon Museum of Art exhibition contains examples by major 19th-century practitioners of the genre John F. Francis and Severin Roesen, early modernist versions by Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley and contemporary interpretations by Vera Mercer and Tom Wesselmann. more...
NEBRASKA UNION BALLROOM, FRI 7:30PM
OASIS Hosts 'Voices of Victory'
The Office of Academic Success and Intercultural Services presents Omaha's Salem Baptist Church Gospel Choir, "Voices of Victory" at 7:30 p.m., April 1 in the Nebraska Union Ballroom. This event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7 p.m.
"Voices of Victory" is the signature choir of the Salem Baptist Church in Omaha. The choir produces a rich musical sound that should not be missed. This event is the rescheduling of the Feb. 24 Black History Month event.
NEBRASKA UNION CRIB, SUN 7PM
Invisible Children Fundraiser Is Sunday
The UNL student group Kingdom Impact is holding 'The Art of You,' a talent showcase, 7 p.m., April 3 in the Nebraska Union Crib. The event is a fundraiser for Invisible Children, a movement seeking to end conflict in Uganda and stop the abduction of children for use as soldiers.
Tickets are $6 in advance and $7 at the door. For more information, contact Brittany Mason at masonb89@yahoo.com
NEBRASKA UNION, SAT 7PM
'Voyage to the Heart of Africa' Celebration is Saturday
The African Student Association's annual banquet celebrating African culture is 7 to 10 p.m., April 2 in the Nebraska Union. The theme is "Voyage to the Heart of Africa."
Tickets are $15 per person and $100 per table. For more information, send e-mail to alishatesfalem@yahoo.com
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER, FRI 10:15AM
Lecture to Open Quilt Study Symposium
Beverly Lemire
The 2011 International Quilt Study Center and Museum Symposium opens with a 10:15 a.m., April 1 lecture by Beverly Lemire, professor of history at the University of Alberta. The lecture is free and open to faculty, staff and students. The conference theme is "Quilted and Corded Needlework: International Perspectives."
In the lecture, Lemire will explore the development of quilt culture in the west. She will trace this culture through the twists and turns of high politics and popular fashions. Lemire is a widely published author. Her next book, "Cotton," is part of the "Textiles that Changed the World" series and will be published in April. The book includes a chapter addressing the history of quilts and cotton. She is investigating the practice of fashion in various European social communities. Lemire has a interest in the impact of global trade on new fashion forms between 1600 and 1820. more...
Kaboom; Poetry at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Kaboom and Poetry Both films will screen through Apr. 7.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
