Friday and Weekend, February 10 - 12, 2012
MORRILL HALL, SAT 9:30AM - 4:30PM
'Dinosaurs and Disasters' is Saturday
The University of Nebraska State Museum and UNL's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences will host the eighth-annual "Dinosaurs and Disasters" family fun day 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at Morrill Hall. The event was originally scheduled for Feb. 4, but was rescheduled because of inclement weather.
"Dinosaurs and Disasters" provides a day of discovery and hands-on activities throughout the museum with more than 20 stations staffed by UNL scientists, and graduate and undergraduate students. This year's theme is droughts and floods. Admission to the museum is free for faculty, staff, students and immediate family members. General admission is $5 for adults (19 and older), $3 for children (5 to 18 years), free for children 4 and under, and $10 for families (up to two adults and children). Read more about Dinosaurs and Disasters on Today@UNL.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, SAT 6PM
Sheldon hosts 'Art and Bubbly' Saturday
Sheldon Museum of Art is celebrating Valentine's Day with "Art and Bubbly," 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 11 at the museum. Tickets to the event, a fundraiser for the Sheldon Art Association, are $35 general admission and $30 for SAA members.
"Art and Bubbly" will include a champagne tasting, sweet treats, candlelight, and a silent auction. The event will feature a portfolio of Andy Warhol Polaroids on display in the Sheldon's Focus Gallery. Polaroid snapshots taken during the event will be offered to take home. Tickets can be reserved online or by calling 402-472-1454.
UNL's Charles Wood and two of patients in Zambia, Jailos Zulu (left) and Tina Kaaya. The mother/son duo have been patients at Wood's Zambia clinic since Jailos was born.
NET's 'Hearts of Zambia' features Wood's HIV/AIDS research
In a traditional African village of thatched huts, cattle and cornfields, a woman watches as her grandchildren pound kernels of corn under a brilliant blue sky. Not far from this idyllic scene her son lays buried, one of countless victims of HIV/AIDS, an invisible enemy that has claimed the lives of mothers and fathers and left 1.8 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa.
The NET Television production "Hearts of Zambia" is a documentary journal about the power of hope and compassion in the face of tragedy. It premieres at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 10 on NET1/HD. Read more about this documentary in Today@UNL.
Larry Miller
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, SAT 7:30PMLied hosts 'Cocktails with Larry Miller'
Comedian Larry Miller is coming to the Lied Center for Performing Arts at UNL with his one-man show, "Cocktails with Larry Miller." This new piece about children, relationships, marriage and, of course, drinking, arrives at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11.
The Lied Center invites everyone to see Miller as he has never been seen before — in a one-man show combining theater, comedy and music with just a bite of truth. Tickets are $35 and $30, and may be purchased online, by calling 402-472-4747 or in person at the Lied Center. Read more about this show in Today@UNL.
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, FRI 4PM
Lecture to explore when women were clergy
Gary Macy
An acclaimed scholar and author who has undertaken a groundbreaking exploration of women's role in the Christian church will deliver a free public lecture Feb. 10. Gary Macy, chair of the Religious Studies Department at Santa Clara University, will present "Ordained Women in the Middle Ages: When Women Were Clergy," at 4 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Auditorium.
His lecture is sponsored by UNL's Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, which includes faculty from the colleges of Arts and Sciences, and Fine and Performing Arts. Read more about this lecture in Today@UNL.
Lectures
HAMILTON HALL ROOM 112, FRI 3:30PMChemistry Colloquium - "Exploring How Chemistry Students Think"
Professor Vicente Talanquer, University of Arizona
