Friday and Weekend, May 6 - 8, 2011
Justice Thomas is Law Commencement Speaker
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, will deliver the commencement address to the graduates of the University of Nebraska College of Law, 3 p.m. May 7 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Tickets for the event are available to graduates for their guests. Anyone interested in attending who does not have family or friend providing a ticket can contact the Law College at 472-8375.
Justice Thomas was born in the Pin Point community of Georgia near Savannah June 23, 1948. He attended Conception Seminary and received an A.B., cum laude, from Holy Cross College, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1974. He was admitted to law practice in Missouri in 1974, and served as an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri from 1974-1977, an attorney with Monsanto Co. from 1977-1979, and legislative assistant to Senator John Danforth from 1979-1981. From 1981-1982, he served as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, and as chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1982-1990. He became a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1990. President George H.W. Bush nominated him as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat Oct. 23, 1991. He married Virginia Lamp in 1987 and has one child, Jamal Adeen, by a previous marriage. Read more on Today@UNL
Museum Celebrates Astronomy Day on Sunday
Astronomy Day will be celebrated from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on May 7 at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall. Prizes and a variety of hands-on activities about space, science and astronomy will be featured. This event is part of a year-long celebration of the museum's 140th anniversary. Regular museum admission will be charged.
Activities and demonstrations will be on planets, space travel, physics, telescopes, meteorites, optics, the moon and more. Other attractions include the fulldome show "Touching the Universe." It will be presented at 11 a.m., noon, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Running time is 30 minutes. Read more on Today@UNL
Lectures
SCOTT ENGINEERING CENTER ROOM 237, 1:30PMNebraska Center for Materials & Nanoscience and Dept. of Electrical Engineering Seminar - "Electro-Optic Effects in Colloidal Dispersion of Metal Nano-Rods"
Andrii Golovin, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
(l-r) Patrick Dussault, Zheng Nanning, Paul Engler, Willard Waldo
DEVANEY SPORTS CENTER, FRI 3PM; SAT 9:30AM | WATCH LIVE STREAMCommencement Exercises Begin Friday
Approximately 2,800 students will receive degrees at UNL commencement exercises May 6 and 7.
Chancellor Harvey Perlman will preside at the ceremonies for recipients of master's and doctoral degrees at the Bob Devaney Sports Center at 3 p.m. May 6 and at the ceremonies for recipients of baccalaureate degrees at 9:30 a.m. May 7. Patrick Dussault, Charles Bessey professor and professor of chemistry, will address the May 6 postgraduate ceremony. Zheng Nanning, president of Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, will address the baccalaureate ceremony and receive an honorary doctor of science.
At the May 7 ceremony, the university will present Builder Awards recognizing service to the state and the university to Paul Engler, a 1951 graduate and CEO of Cactus Feeders, one of the nation's largest cattle operations, and to the late Willard H. Waldo, a 1934 graduate who was an influential leader in the agriculture industry and an engaged participant in his community, state, nation and world. Read more in Today@UNL.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, FRI 5PM
Sheldon's First Friday Features New 'Statewide' Exhibit
The Sheldon Statewide exhibition marks a 25th anniversary with the opening of the 2011-2012 exhibit, "Commemoration: Art from the Sheldon Museum," May 6. A First Friday reception is 5 to 7 p.m., May 6. A gallery talk led by Sarah Feit, exhibition curator, begins at 5:30 p.m. The reception and talk are free and open to the public.
"Commemoration" is organized around three themes – holidays, historical events and public figures. The exhibit was created to narrate and interpret a culture's history. Commemorative objects often highlight cultural values and tradition. The exhibit examines how cultures decide what should be commemorated and how the meanings of those objects change over time. Read more in Today@UNL.
