Monday, April 25, 2011
'Mobile Computing Sprint' Begins Today
Information Services invites you the 'Educause Mobile Computing 5-Day Sprint,' a free, weeklong experience allows you to participate in activities and discussions on the many ways mobile technologies are altering higher education. Interested UNL students, faculty and staff are invited to 107 Architecture Hall over the noon hour this week to participate in this national forum, provided by Educause, the nonprofit association for higher education technology.
SCHEDULE
TODAY: The Future of Mobile Computing
Tuesday: Teaching and Learning
Wednesday: Mobile Enterprise Integration
Thursday: Security, Privacy, and Policy
Friday: Mobile Infrastructure
Read more about the 'Mobile Computing Sprint'…
INFORMATION SERVICES | EDUCAUSE
Lectures
264 KEIM HALL, 4PMPseudomonas HopA1 Effector Suppresses Plant Immunity and Resembles Phosphothreonine Lyases from Animal Pathogens
Tania Toruno, UNL graduate student, Alfano Lab
UVa's Grujic to Lead Math Colloquium
Zoran Grujic
The Department of Mathematics Colloquium features Zoran Grujic, associate professor at the University of Virginia, at 4 p.m. today in Avery Hall room 115. The lecture, "Energy Cascade in Physical Scales of 3-D Incompressible Flows," is free and open to faculty, staff and students. A pre-talk reception is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in 348 Avery.
The lecture will review mathematical results on hallmarks of the turbulence phenomenology; existence of energy cascade; and locality (in scale) of the averaged flux, including a new setting for the study of cascades in actual physical scales of the flow. more…
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS | RESEARCH COUNCIL
The Lied Center Presents Spring Awakening
The Lied Center for Performing Arts presents 'Spring Awakening' ... The winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical — told by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater through “the most gorgeous Broadway score this decade” (Entertainment Weekly) — 'Spring Awakening' explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood with poignancy and passion you will never forget.
Join this group of late 19th century German students on their passage as the navigate teenage self-discovery and coming of age anxiety in a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion in the daring, remarkable 'Spring Awakening.' Tickets are $40-$50; half-price for UNL students.
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
APC Responds to Budget Reduction Proposals
The Academic Planning Committee has announced procedures for Phase Three of the FY 2012 UNL Budget Reduction Process, in response to Chancellor Harvey Perlman's announced $5 million in proposed reductions. Perlman outlined his proposal to campus on April 14.
The APC welcomes information from all who may be affected by the proposed reductions. This can be accomplished either in person at the scheduled budget hearing or in writing to the Committee. Specifics on presenting at a hearing and how to submit written materials are available at http://www.unl.edu/apc/. Read more about this announcement.
Win Win; For the Love of Movies at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Win Win and For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Firm Criticism. Win Win will screen through May 5, while For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Firm Criticism will show through Apr. 26.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
