A research project led by Anita Sarma and a team of students is helping decorate a "naked" wall within the Sheldon Museum of Art. The project uses the Microsoft Kinect and a student-developed application to allow users to paint like Jackson Pollock. Continue reading…
A team of U.S. paleontologists led by UNL's Jason Head have uncovered what is one of the biggest known lizards every to have lived on land. The lizard, measuring in at almost six feet long and weighing about 60 pounds, lived 40 million years ago in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. Continue reading…
Under the direction of Stephen Behrendt, professor of English, UNL will host 16 faculty from across the nation at a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on British Romanticism. The seminar, one of seven offered by the NEH this year, is June 10 to July 12. Continue reading…
A new exhibition opening today 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 exhibit will be featured during a First Friday event, 4:30 to 7 p.m. today. Continue reading…
UNL’s Food Processing Center is celebrating its 30th anniversary in June with tours and free ice cream. An open house is planned from 1-5 p.m. June 9 at the center, in the Food Industry Complex on East Campus. The event includes tours, displays and free Dairy Store ice cream. Continue reading…
The Sheldon Museum of Art will celebrate its 50th anniversary with "Summer Family Day", 1 to 4 p.m. June 9. The free, open-to-the-public event will feature a variety of family-friendly activities and a special ice cream from UNL's Dairy Store. Continue reading…
Jacht Ad Lab, UNL's student advertising agency, will host a First Friday showing of work by Bill Shaffer, 6 to 8 p.m. June 7 in the new Jacht office, 201 N. 8th St. Shaffer is a professor of graphic design in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Continue reading…
Click on the link below for a list of lectures, workshops and seminars during the week of June 8-14. For a complete list of events at UNL, go to http://events.unl.edu. Continue reading…