Friday and Weekend, September 21 - 23, 2012
Pianist Emanuel Ax plays the Lied Sunday
Grammy Award-winning pianist Emanuel Ax will perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 23 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Ax's performance will feature compositions by Beethoven and Schubert. This is the second show in the Lied's season.
Ax has received Grammy Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn's piano sonatas. He has also made a series of Grammy Award-winning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano. His solo career has resulted in global tours performing concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the London Philharmonic, the New York's Carnegie Hall and dozens of other venues. Tickets are available on the Lied Center website.
UNL Marketplace open to RSOs
Recognized Student Organizations can access UNL Marketplace to sell products and tickets or collect dues, donations and registration fees online. UNL Marketplace is an online storefront designed to help campus merchants meet needs for electronic commerce. Marketplace includes safeguards that reduce security risks involved in e-commerce. The site allows for transactions via major credit cards.
RSOs have been granted access through an agreement with the Student Organization Financial Services Office. Approved organizations can link websites directly to UNL Marketplace. A percent of sales fee is applied to all transactions For more information, call 402-472-5667.
Be a part of #UNL24 on Sept. 24
One day at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln involves tens of thousands of students, faculty and staff, each one with a unique story. On Monday, Sept. 24, University Communications will lead a project to help the entire campus tell the collective story of 24 hours of life at UNL.
The UNL community – including alumni and friends - can share their story through social media like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by including the hashtag #UNL24 in their post and via email at unl24@unl.edu. More information is available on the #UNL24 website.
UNL's Morrill Act celebration begins Sunday
UNL is joining other land-grant universities across the nation to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act. UNL's "Celebrating 150 Years — Growing a Healthy Future" events open with a Sept. 23 open house at the Agricultural Research and Development Center and continue through Sept. 29.
The Morrill Act created land-grant universities, making education more affordable to all people, educating them in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts and other professions practical at the time of its passage in 1862. The Morrill Act successfully opened higher education for Americans who previously could not afford to go to college, said Ronnie Green, Harlan vice chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Read more about this celebration in Today@UNL.
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Wardlow, NDMC add value to NASA project
Work performed by Brian Wardlow and the National Drought Mitigation Center could lead to the development and application of new satellite-based Earth observations products using gravity data from current and future NASA missions, according to a recent article published by a NASA website.
In collaboration with NASA scientists, Wardlow — a professor at the School of Natural Resources — used data provided by two satellites to create applications for measuring changes in soil moisture and groundwater levels across the United States. Read more about Wardlow and the Drought Mitigation Center in Today@UNL.
Lectures
OTHMER HALL ROOM 110, FRI 1PMMechanical & Materials Engineering Department Ph.D. Dissertation Defense, "Collective Instability Of Micro- And Nanometer Scale Structures"
Ziguang Chen. Advisor: Li Tan
Geography General Seminar
Jeremy Dillon, Department of Geography, University of Nebraska-Kearney
Applied Ecology Seminar, "The impacts of guppy introduction and resource manipulation on invertebrates in Trinidadian streams"
Tom Heatherly, SNR PhD student
Chemistry Colloquium, "TEMPO Mediated Selective Oxidations of Primary Alcohols"
Professor Robert L. Augustine, Seton Hall University
Mechanical & Materials Engineering Department Pierson Graduate Seminar Series, "The MIT Hobby Shop: a model for university hands on learning and innovation"
Kenneth Stone, PhD, Director, Hobby Shop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematics Colloquium, "Leavitt path algebras and the legacy of Bill Leavitt"
Mark Tomforde, University of Houston. Refreshments will be served in 348 Avery at 3:30 p.m./span>
UNL launches Nebraska App
UNL has launched the Nebraska App, a suite of mobile applications that makes essential university resources available on mobile devices. Students can check grades, access course content and browse the course catalog. They can access the public directory and get in touch instantly, keep tabs on Husker sports, find places on the campus map, stay informed with the latest campus news, watch videos, and even listen to podcasts of popular lectures in iTunesU.
"UNL is moving services to the where the students are in terms of devices and network access"," said Mark Askren, Chief Information Officer. "Students now have a much more powerful connection to UNL via their mobile device." Read more about Nebraska App in Today@UNL.
