This Week, May 23 - 27, 2011
Water for Food Institute Finalist Visits Set
Finalists have been selected for the position of founding executive director of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska. Each candidate will participate in interviews and a public presentation. The presentations will be in person at the location listed or via live web stream (with login available at the Water For Food website). Presentations will also be archived on the same website.
Nicolaas van de Giesen will visit UNL from May 25-26, with a presentation on May 25 at 3 p.m. at the Van Brunt Visitors Center, 313 N. 13th St., Lincoln. van de Giesen is chair in water resources management in the Faculty of Civil Engineering, chair of the Department of Water Management and chair of the Research Initiative in the Environment, all at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, where he is a professor in civil engineering and geosciences. He is a member of a Dutch national government commission examining innovations in water. He earned a doctorate in soil and water engineering from Cornell University, and master's and bachelor's degrees in land and water management from the Agricultural University of Wageningen, Netherlands. Earlier, he was senior scientist with the Center for Development Research at Bonn University, Germany, where he also was project leader for the Global Change in the Hydrological Cycle, a multidisciplinary project in West Africa.
Farewell Reception for Dean Oliva is May 31
Giacomo Oliva
The campus and community are welcome to join the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts in honoring dean Giacomo Oliva's service to the college and university and wish him well as he prepares to move to New York City to become provost at the Fashion Institute of Technology at the State University of New York.
A farewell reception is Tuesday, May 31 from 3-5 p.m. in the Van Brunt Visitors Center, 313 N. 13th St. A short program will begin at 3:30 p.m. All are welcome, but please RSVP to Curtis Moeller at (402) 472-9339 or cmoeller2@unl.edu by Wednesday, May 25 if you are able to attend, to help with planning.
Lectures
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM, TUE NOONTuesday Talk: Patterns of Patterns: What We Saw at the Quilt History Days
Dr. Kari Ronning, a member of the Nebraska Quilt Project team
Nebraska Jazz Orchestra to Kick Off Jazz in June
Celebrating its 20th season, the Jazz in June concert series presents four Tuesday evenings of great jazz on City Campus June 7-28.
Organized by the Sheldon Museum of Art and many other sponsors, this year's free jazz series kicks off June 7 with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra with guest Greg Abate. The concerts begin at 7 p.m. and will draw thousands of revelers to sit under the trees on the plaza west of the Sheldon. Read more on Today@UNL.
'Carlos,' 'Greatest Movie Ever Sold' Continue at the Ross
The five-and-a-half-hour film "Carlos," which offers the definitive portrait of the international terrorist Carlos the Jackal, is showing at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Also continuing for a second week at the Ross is Morgan Spurlock's "Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold."
Directed by arthouse favorite Olivier Assayas, "Carlos" is a biopic of the ultra-left wing Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, popularly known as "Carlos the Jackal." The role of Sanchez is played by Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramirez. The film is shown in three parts. Read more on Today@UNL.
