This Week, June 10 - 14, 2013
Jazz in June continues with Valerie Capers Ensemble
The 22nd season of Jazz in June once again brings great music and great food to the great outdoors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Museum of Art. Organized by the Sheldon Art Association and Sheldon Museum of Art, the concerts take place every Tuesday in June at 7 p.m. with activities beginning at 5.
Jazz in June continues this week with the Valerie Capers Ensemble. Capers, a renowned jazz vocalist and pianist and the first blind graduate of the Juilliard School, headlines the second week of Jazz in June, with bassist John Henry Robinson and saxophonist Jerry Weldon. Read more about this project in Today@UNL.
Fossil shows giant reptiles coexisted with mammals 40 million years ago
Some 40 million years before rock singer Jim Morrison's lyrics earned him the moniker "the Lizard King," an actual king lizard roamed the hot tropical forests of Southeast Asia, competing with mammals for food and other resources.
A team of U.S. paleontologists, led by Jason Head of UNL, describes fossils of the giant lizard from Myanmar this week in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Their analysis shows that it is one of the biggest known lizards ever to have lived on land. Read more about this discovery in Today@UNL.
Sarma, students develop interactive art project
A research project led by Anita Sarma and a team of UNL students is helping decorate one of the "naked" walls within the Sheldon Museum of Art.
As part of Sheldon's 50th anniversary "Naked Museum" celebration, Sarma and the team released the "Kinection Project" for public use in the museum on June 5. Using the gesture-detection software of the Microsoft Kinect system and an application developed by Sarma's students, the project allows users to create Jackson Pollock-like drip paintings on a wall. Read more about this project in Today@UNL.
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Lied Center hosts 'Whose Live Anyway'
"Whose Live Anyway," featuring cast members of the hit TV show "Whose Line Is it Anyway," has rescheduled its Lied Center for Performing Arts appearance to June 14 from the previously announced April 20. "Whose Live Anyway" management and the Lied Center worked together to change this date, enabling a cast member to gain a television appearance.
"We're excited for the cast member who was chosen to take on this television appearance, and are pleased to be able to reschedule this popular performance for June," said Bill Stephan, Lied Center executive director. Read more about this performance in Today@UNL.
UNL to host NEH summer seminar
An ever-expanding understanding of British Romanticism will be the topic of a five-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at UNL. The seminar, which will bring 16 participants from across the United States, is themed "Reassessing British Romanticism" and will include group discussions on the myriad of discoveries in poetry from the Romantic Era, which began in the mid- to late-18th century and included such poets as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Participants may also use UNL resources to further their own research projects.
The seminar, one of seven NEH is offering this year, is June 10-July 12. Participants must apply and be selected to attend. There are 14 faculty members and two graduate students among the participants. The seminar's goal is to improve the teaching and professional skills of faculty members from across the nation. Participants receive a $3,900 stipend to attend and selection for attendance at an NEH seminar is regarded as a high achievement for participants. Read more this seminar in Today@UNL.
Exhibition showcases engineering alumnus' quilts
A new exhibition at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum showcases the work of Ernest Haight, a famed Nebraska quiltmaker, farmer and engineer graduate from the University of Nebraska.
"The Engineer Who Could" examines the contributions Haight made toward innovating modern quilting practices early in the American quilt revival. Haight shared his timesaving quilting practices in demonstrations, exhibitions and letters sent across the United States. His ideas were also featured in his 1974 book, "Practical Machine-Quilting for the Homemaker." Read more this exhibit in Today@UNL.
Seminar, "Biological Networks in Three Dimensions"
Brandon Xia, Boston University
Lecture, "The Social Life of Nature's Robots: An Introduction to Proteins and Protein Networks"
Brandon Xia, Boston University
