This Week, July 11 - 15, 2011
Starita honored for work with Native Americans
Joe Starita
Joe Starita, a professor in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, was honored by the National Education Association during its annual Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner in Chicago on July 1. Starita received the NEA's Leo Reano Memorial Award, acknowledging his work toward the education and achievement of equal opportunity for Native Americans.
"As a teacher and writer, Joe Starita shares the unsung achievements of Native Americans," said Dennis Van Roekel, NEA president. "His books are a must-read to better understand Native Americans, their heritage, and their contributions to American life and history." Read more about Starita's honor on Today@UNL.
Extension shares flood information on website
A new UNL Extension website gathers news and information to help Nebraskans deal with the 2011 flood. The UNL Extension Flood Resources site includes materials from UNL experts, other land-grant universities and government entities to help Nebraskans deal with flooding.
At the site, visitors will find materials in a number of topic areas, including: home, family, business, food safety, small business recovery, acreage and rural living, wells and drinking water, garden and horticulture, crops, cropland, livestock and pets. Read more about the UNL Extension Flood Resource site.
Lauren Mabry
Grad student in ceramics wins top prize in national exhibition
Lauren Mabry of Madison, Wis., a master of fine arts in ceramics candidate in the Department of Art and Art History, won first prize for her piece, "Cylinder," in the eighth-annual Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia.
The Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition highlights the best work of students or recent graduates from the best graduate programs in ceramics from across the United States. The exhibition identifies emerging artists whose work is deserving of attention and provides a forum for the exhibition of their work and introduces the ceramics community to this next generation of talented makers. Read more about Mabry and her prize-winning ceramics on Today@UNL.
'Midnight in Paris,' 'Tree of Life' play the Ross
The critically acclaimed films "Midnight in Paris" and "The Tree of Life" are showing through July 14 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.
Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" is a romantic comedy about a family on a business trip in the City of Light. As a young couple engaged to be married experiences a profound transformation during their visit to Paris, an idealistic man with a romanticized view of the city finds that there's plenty of truth to that old adage about the grass being greener on the other side. The film stars Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, and Carla Bruni.
"The Tree of Life," winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, stars Brad Pitt and Sean Penn in a story of a Midwestern family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack (played as an adult by Penn), through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Pitt). Jack is a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. "The Tree of Life" is directed by Terrence Malick. Read more and get show times on the Ross website.
