Friday and Weekend, August 2-4, 2013
Meakin earns Fulbright to teach, research in India
Early in his career as a mathematician, John Meakin submitted a paper on the structure of a class of algebraic objects known as inverse semigroups, hoping to have his research published. The journal editor was impressed, but ultimately, Meakin had been "blown out of the water," as he put it, by a brilliant young man in India.
Instead of starting over, Meakin reached out to this mathematician who shared his research interests half a world away and they embarked on a decades-long, albeit sporadic, collaborative working relationship. Read more about Meakin and this Fulbright in Today@UNL.
Scholarly article leads to international partnership
An author always hopes his words have impact. Ted Hamann is seeing first-hand how a 2009 journal article he co-authored led to an educational partnership between the University of Pretoria in South Africa and UNL.
Hamann, an associate professor in the UNL College of Education and Human Sciences, was in Pretoria last week for the signing of a memorandum of understanding between UNL and the University of Pretoria. Read more about this partnership in Today@UNL.
Sheldon reopens permanent collection galleries with exhibit of iconic works
The Sheldon Museum of Art at UNL will reopen its permanent collection galleries at 5 p.m. Aug. 2 with an exhibition titled "Painting -- From the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art," featuring some of its most beloved and iconic paintings.
The exhibition will include 19th-century masterpieces by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent and Benjamin West; iconic work 20th-century artists such as Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner, Barnett Newman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Joseph Stella and Andy Warhol. Read more about this exhibit in Today@UNL.
Latest from the UNL Newsroom
See all UNL news releases
Ray joins Nebraska Water Center as director
Chittaranjan Ray joined the leadership team of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI) as permanent director of the Nebraska Water Center on Aug. 1.
Ray was a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH), where he also was interim director of the Water Resources Research Center at UH, which like the Nebraska Water Center (NWC) is part of a network of more than 54 water resources research institutes that were established by Congressional mandate in 1964. Most of these centers are located at state Land Grant Universities. Read more about Ray in Today@UNL.
UNL research on cover of Royal Society of Chemistry journal
A study by a team of researchers from UNL will be featured on the cover of the Aug. 14 issue of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Xiao Cheng Zeng, Ameritas University professor of chemistry, and his group report a computer-aided nanomaterials design, coined as a carbon buckyball-vanadium nanopeapod. Read more about this research in Today@UNL.
Lied Center named in Top 100 for ticket sales
The Lied Center for Performing Arts at UNL has been named a Top 100 theater venue by Pollstar.
The leading trade publication in the worldwide concert industry recently released its 2013 "Mid Year Worldwide Ticket Sales Top 100 Theatre Venues" list. The Lied Center has garnered recognition alongside institutions like the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles and Radio City Music Hall in New York. Read more about this ranking in Today@UNL.
UNLedu 4.0 Go-Live Date Under Review
In order to optimize coordination across campus on the launch of UNLedu 4.0, the previously-announced August 12 release date for the UNLedu 4.0 Web Framework (the 'templates' ) upgrade is under review.
No sites other than those specifically authorized in writing by the Director of University Communications may be launched in the UNLedu 4.0 templates at this time. The sole exception is the Web Developer Network site, which -- for testing purposes and by tradition -- is a live site published in the latest codebase during each template transition. Discussions regarding a new deployment schedule are ongoing and will be communicated early in the fall semester.
Read more about UNLedu 4.0, which builds upon last years 'responsive' web technology release (3.1) and includes significant improvements in support for widescreen displays. On top of a strong base of valid markup, and in compliance with federal standards for accessibility, the UNLedu Web Framework includes built-in features such as integrated site and directory search, single sign-on authentication and user profiles, emergency alerts, news and events feeds, and a constituent chat service.
