The UNL Teaching Council and UNL Parents Association honored faculty and staff for contributions to students at an annual recognition ceremony on Feb. 3. Two award winners — Ronald Hanson and Donald Lee — earned the program's first 20-year honor. Continue reading…
Ruby Takanishi, the third of four finalists for the position of founding executive director of the Buffett Early Childhood Institute, will visit the University of Nebraska Feb. 27-28. She will lead an open forum at 4 p.m., Feb. 27 in the Van Brunt Visitors Center. Continue reading…
"Declaration of War," the exuberant, moving story of a couple dealing with the illness of their child, and "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia," winner of the 2011 Grand Prize at Cannes, open today at the Ross. Both films play through March 1. Continue reading…
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center will host a live broadcast of Verdi's "Ernani" at noon, Feb. 25. An encore performance is at 1 p.m., Feb. 26. The performance is part of "The Met: Live in HD" series of live broadcasts from New York City's Metropolitan Opera House. Continue reading…
Research led in part by Ross Secord demonstrates how warming temperatures some 56 million year ago caused the horse species Sifrhippus to shrink. The study, published today in the journal Science, offers clues to what might happen to animals in the near future from global warming. Continue reading…
The Hyde Lecture series continues with a presentation by Craig Scott, co-founder and principal at IwamotoScott Architecture, 4:30 p.m., Feb. 24 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Continue reading…