Friday and Weekend, March 9 - 11, 2012
Project: The Aurora Project, by Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, FRI 4:30PMHyde Lecture Series features Gattegno
The College of Architecture's Hyde Lecture Series will feature Nataly Gattegno of Future Cities Lab on Friday, March 9 at 4:30 p.m. at the Ross.
Gattegno is a founding design partner of Future Cities Lab, an interdisciplinary design and research collaborative that has developed a range of award-winning projects exploring the intersections of design with advanced fabrication technologies, responsive building systems and urban space. Read more about this lecture in Today@UNL.
Jean Ray Laury quilt, "Memorial for the Child-Victims of the Oklahoma City Bombing," 1996.
Quilt exhibit features work of Jean Ray Laury
A new exhibit at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum celebrates the life of the late Jean Ray Laury, an artist who worked in quilts, wood, paper and other materials for more than 50 years.
The exhibit, "Jean Ray Laury: Getting it All Together," is open through Sept. 2 and features more than 40 quilts, along with numerous other artworks, sketchbooks, and personal archival material. The items on display were donated by Laury before her death in 2011. Read more about this exhibit in Today@UNL.
Lincoln Police Officer Mary Lingelbach uses CrimeView NEARme software to locate police points of interest
UNL location-based crime technology going to police departments nationwide
Starting in April, 10,000 police departments will have access to a new mobile software tool for tracking crime in their communities, thanks to technology developed at UNL. Red Brain Law Enforcement Services LLC, a new university spinoff, will release CrimeView NEARme to allow police officers to access location-based crime data.
Over the last six months, 75 Lincoln police officers piloted the app and found it to be what Lincoln Public Safety Director Tom Casady called a "groundbreaking new technology for police officers. There's nothing else like it available." Realizing NEARme's commercial potential, the development team created Red Brain Law Enforcement Services to further develop and market the software. They worked with NUtech Ventures, the nonprofit responsible for building partnerships between the university and the private sector, to start the company and license the software. Read more about this technology in Today@UNL.
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS JOHNNY CARSON THEATER, FRI 7:30PM
Werner to perform March 9 at the Lied Center
Susan Werner
One of Chicago's most innovative singer-songwriters, Susan Werner, will make her Nebraska debut at 7:30 p.m. March 9 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Werner's exceptional blend of folk, blues, gospel and jazz has earned her the title "empress of the unexpected" from National Public Radio. Known as one of the nation's best acoustic musicians, Werner will appear in the intimate setting of the Lied's Johnny Carson Theater.
Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at the Lied Center website, 402-472-4747 or the Lied Center box office. Read more about this performance in Today@UNL.
State Farm gives $40,000 to UNL programs
State Farm Insurance has given $40,000 to the University of Nebraska Foundation to support the business ethics program and a college access program at UNL. A gift of $25,000 supports the Nebraska College Preparatory Academy, UNL's college access program for Nebraska students from low-income families and students who are the first in their family to attend college.
Amber Hunter, executive director of the NCPA, said the support will enable it to accomplish several proposed projects during the year centered on academics, student leadership development, community service, family support and more. Read more about this gift in Today@UNL.
Peon-Cassanova's photo exhibition concludes with reception Friday
Luis Peon-Casanova
"Bolivia Reborn" is the title and focus of a photo exhibit by Luis Peon-Casanova at the Nebraska Union's Rotunda Gallery ending Friday. The College of Journalism and Mass Communications will host a reception in Peon-Casanova's honor at the Rotunda Gallery today from noon to 1 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
The exhibit will go on display at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center through May 5. Peon-Casanova's photographs are part of a 132-page magazine titled "Bolivia Reborn," published by the college in 2011. Read more about this photo exhibit in Today@UNL.
Lectures
HARDIN HALL ROOM 228, FRI 2PMGeography General Seminar - "Bringing International Women's Rights Home: Issue-Specific Mobilization in Muslim and Non-Muslim Africa"
Alice Kang, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies (African and African American Studies)
Department of Agricultural Economics Seminar Series - "There is Exactly Enough Time Starting Now: Inequality, Poverty and Malnutrition and the Middle Income Trap in China"
Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and the co-director of the Rural Education Action Program in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University
Chemistry Colloquium - "Progress in Proteomic Studies of the Plasma Membrane"
Catherine C. Fenselau, University of Maryland
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense (Materials Engineering) - "Nanoindentation-based methods for studying the mechanics of living plant cells"
Elham Forouzesh. Adviser: Joseph A. Turner.
