This Week, June 17 - 21, 2013
Jazz in June continues with Angela Hagenbach
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 Angela Hagenbach. Hagenbach, whose voice moves easily between musical genres and excels in her interpretations of jazz standards and Latin jazz. She has toured Switzerland with Clark Terry and worked and recorded with Jimmy Heath, Russell Malone, Frank Foster's Big Band, Tamir Hendelman and others. She has graced the stages of numerous festivals, concert halls and performance venues around the world and was twice chosen by the State Department to represent the United States as a cultural jazz ambassador during the Clinton administration. Read more about Jazz in June.
Libraries dean search to begin
UNL will conduct an internal search for permanent dean of the University Libraries. The search, open to all tenured members of the UNL libraries faculty, begins immediately and is expected to finish by the end of July.
Ellen Weissinger, senior vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, announced the internal search in a June 13 email to library faculty. Weissinger said she made the decision after getting a letter from a significant component of the library faculty, who indicated that an internal dean would be best suited to guide progress the libraries must make in the next few years. Those faculty members also expressed confidence that one or more viable internal candidates exist. Read more about this search in Today@UNL.
Pound Hall used for high-rise fire training
Dean Delany watched as a lazy puff of smoke drifted slowly from under a stairwell door in Pound Hall. While firefighters hustled hose into position, Delany, a captain with Lincoln Fire and Rescue, felt the door for heat, dropped to a knee and turned the handle for a look. He quickly closed the door and reached for the radio as smoke rushed into the stairwell
The scenario is part of high-rise training attended by nearly 300 Lincoln Fire and Rescue personnel. The training, made possible through an agreement with University Housing and Lincoln Fire and Rescue, has been offered daily since June 3. The final few LFR crews finish the training Friday (June 14). Read more about training in Today@UNL.
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Study: Context crucial in genetic evolution mutations
With mutations, it turns out that context can be everything in determining whether or not they are beneficial to their evolutionary fate.
According to the traditional view among biologists, a central tenet of evolutionary biology has been that the evolutionary fates of new mutations depend on whether their effects are good, bad or inconsequential with respect to reproductive success. Central to this view is that "good" mutations are always good and lead to reproductive success, while "bad" mutations are always bad and will be quickly weeded out of the gene pool. However, new research led by evolutionary biologist Jay Storz of UNL has found that whether a given mutation is good or bad is often determined by other mutations associated with it. In other words, genetic evolution is context-dependent.
In a study to be published in the June 14 issue of Science, Storz and colleagues at UNL and Aarhus University in Denmark report that an individual mutation can be beneficial if it occurs in combination with certain other mutations, but the same mutation can detrimental to the organism if it occurs in other combinations. Read more about this study in Today@UNL.
'Before Midnight' plays at the Ross
The films "Before Midnight" and "Frances Ha" are featured at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Both films are rated R. "Before Midnight" ends June 27; "Frances Ha" plays through June 20. Read more about these films at The Ross website.
Seminar, "Computational Identification of Diverse Mechanisms Underlying Dynamic Biological Systems"
Qiong Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seminar, "Clustering Methods," Qiong Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"
Qiong Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seminar, "Studying Gene Regulation and Evolutionary Innovation in the Grasses Using Comparative Genomics"
James Schnable, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
