DVD promoting
arts college wins award
The
Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts' new promotional
recruitment DVD has won a Silver Award in the Video and DVD category
of the 14th Annual Galaxy International Media Awards, which honor
excellence in product and service marketing.
"I'm very
excited that the work of our faculty and students
has been reviewed
and acknowledged internationally as being of
top professional
caliber," said Rick Endacott, assistant
professor of Film and
New Media, who served as writer, director
and producer of the
project with Sharon Teo, assistant professor
of Film and New Media.
"If last year's competition is any
indication, we were judged
against a very high standard indeed."
The Galaxy
Awards are sponsored by MerComm, Inc., an independent
organization
founded to evaluate, measure and recognize the standards
of
excellence. The Galaxy Awards Competition is unique because
each
entry is judged against itself to see if the entry achieved
its
intended purpose. Judging is based on the values of creativity,
effectiveness, performance and success, not on budget.
The
college's DVD was created by faculty and students in the
three
departments of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing
Arts
and was released this fall as a tool for recruiting prospective
students.
"We are an arts college. We have musicians,
designers
and filmmakers here. Why not use all the talent of
Hixson-Lied
to present ourselves to the world?" Endacott
asked. "That
is exactly what this DVD does. It is the story of
the College
of Fine and Performing Arts created by
artists."
The DVD includes a 12-minute movie that
provides an introduction
to what it is like to be a student in the
college. The DVD also
includes special "bonus material"
for each department
and the college. For example, the Department of
Art and Art History
section features a slide show of student
artwork and a slide
show of images from Eisentrager-Howard Gallery
exhibitions. The
Department of Theatre Arts section offers clips
from University
Theatre productions and a student film. The School
of Music section
features a music video featuring a cello solo by a
student and
a video montage of scenes from the School of Music. All
three
areas have additional interview footage of students and
faculty.
The college section presents information about the
Hixson-Lied
Endowment and each of the college's affiliated units,
such as
the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, Lied Center for
Performing
Arts, Lentz Center for Asian Culture, Sheldon Memorial
Art Gallery
and Sculpture Garden, and Nebraska Repertory
Theatre.
Endacott, Teo and their students shot more than 20
hours of
footage to produce the DVD, including nine hours of
interviews
with 18 faculty, students and alumni. The DVD will be
updated
and new content added in future years.
"DVD is the latest media technology," Teo said.
"Nowadays, most people either have a DVD player in their
computer or at home, so it just makes sense to introduce the
College using the same technology we are teaching our students."
College wins national award for
Children's Dental Day
The University of Nebraska Medical
Center College of Dentistry,
located on East Campus, recently
received the 2003 Community
Preventive Dentistry Meritorious Award
from the American Dental
Association Foundation for Children's
Dental Day, an event that
provides free oral health care and
education to underserved Nebraska
children.
The ADA
presented the college with a $500 stipend and plaque.
Children's Dental Day, which has been held four times to date,
began in 2001. During each one-day event, dental and dental-hygiene
students and faculty provide care for about 130 children and
donate
about $50,000 in dental services. To date, about 500 children
in
Lincoln, Norfolk, Fremont, Columbus, Beatrice, Harvard and
Grand
Island have received an estimated $180,000 in donated dental
services.
The event provides an opportunity to help
underserved Nebraska
children. Children from low income, uninsured
and homeless families
receive cleaning, fluoride treatments,
sealants, cavity fillings,
education and emergency care as
needed.
"I think the most important message our
students get
from Dental Day is that there are many needy children
in Nebraska
who have serious dental problems and can't find a
dentist to
take care of them," said John Reinhardt, D.D.S.,
dean of
the UNMC College of Dentistry. "This problem exists
throughout
our country, but sometimes we aren't aware of it because
most
of the children who come to our clinic regularly have a much
higher level of oral health."
Gwen Hlava, chairperson
and associate professor of the college's
dental hygiene program and
one of the coordinators of the event,
said the most of the children
served by Dental Day would not
get the oral health care they need
otherwise.
"People from the communities are just
thrilled that somebody
cares enough and wants to do something for
these children,"
she said.
The event also
provides interactive, fun educational activities
designed to teach
the importance of good dental habits. Dental
characters and clowns
entertain children with games, including
those that teach good
snacks vs. bad, how soda affects their
teeth and what decay looks
like. Children also receive lunch,
healthy snacks, toothbrushes,
toothpaste, floss, activity books
and stickers.
Dental services are donated by almost 350 UNMC dental and
dental
hygiene students, faculty, residents and staff. Other
volunteers
include Hope Medical Outreach Coalition and volunteers
from the
Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, dental hygiene
faculty
and students from Central Community College in Hastings
and dental
assisting students from Southeast Community College.
Professor's work honored
Barbara Trout, associate professor in the Department of Textiles,
Clothing and Design, received two awards at the International
Textile and Apparel Association annual meeting in Savannah, Ga.,
Nov. 8-11.
Trout's "Gathering Apron" was selected
as the Outstanding
Wearable Art exhibit in the professional/faculty
category of
the juried competition. The award was sponsored by Wild
Ginger
Software, Inc., an apparel pattern-making software and
hardware
business.
In addition, "Gathering
Apron" was recognized in
the professional/faculty category for
"Best Use of Historical
Inspiration" in original creative
work.
Trout has been a faculty member at UNL since 1981.
She teaches
many aspects of apparel design, visual merchandising
and history
of costume. Trout is curator of the historic costume
collection
in the Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design.
New media professor's film selected for
IFP Market
Assistant Professor of Film and New Media
Sharon Teo's feature
film, Breeders, was one of 18 films out of
about 140 submitted
projects selected to participate in the
Emerging Narrative section
of the 25th Annual IFP Market Sept.
21-26, 2003, in New York
City.
"Breeders"
is in postproduction and is seeking finished
funds for release to
35mm film and theatrical distribution.
The film tells the
story of a man who feels like he doesn't
fit in due to his sexual
preference. After an accident, he is
thrust back in time to his
high school days but with a twist:
The world is now gay. The film
was shot last year in Lincoln
and in the Sandhills.
Teo serves as producer and editor of Breeders. The film was
written and directed by Marc Moody, assistant professor of video/film
production at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
IFP/New
York is a 25-year-old, not-for-profit membership organization
serving the independent film community. The mission of IFP is
to
build bridges between creative talent and the film industry,
providing information, resources and avenues of communication.
The IFP Market is the only selective film market in the United
States focused on presenting works in development exclusively
to
industry professionals.
The largest forum of its kind, as
well as the largest event
produced by IFP/New York, the IFP Market
connects invited filmmakers
from across the country with U.S. and
international agents, managers,
financiers, distributors,
programmers, broadcasters, suppliers
and others. Attended by
thousands, the Market consists of meetings,
networking sessions,
screenings, seminars and panels. Emerging
Narrative is one of the
four principal sections of the IFP Market.
Breeders
had two screenings at the market. Each screening
consisted of a
trailer and excerpts from three scenes from the
film.
Companies, programming executives and industry professionals
who
attended the two screenings included representatives from
Fine Line
Features, Miramax Films, Focus Features (the specialty
films unit
of Universal Pictures), Cinemavault Releasing Inc.
(Canada),
Seventh Art Releasing, Wolfe Film & Video, and
Berlin
International Film Festival.
Several companies have
discussed distribution possibilities,
and others have requested
screenings of the finished film for
distribution and programming
consideration.
Wright
receives award
Delivee Wright, part-time lecturer in the
Educational Leadership
in Higher Education Program in the
Department of Educational
Administration and former director of the
Teaching and Learning
Center at UNL, recently received the Robert
J. Pierlioni Spirit
of POD Award at the national conference of
faculty developers.
POD is the Professional and
Organizational Development Network
in Higher Education, an
organization of 1,200 faculty, instructional
and organizational
developers from universities and colleges
in the United States,
Canada and several other countries. This
is the highest award given
by the organization for dedication
and commitment to the goals of
the organization. Wright is the
second UNL faculty developer to be
honored; Daniel Wheeler received
this award in 1996.
The award was given Oct. 9 at the organization's national
conference in Denver. Wright has been president of the organization,
a member of its board of directors, and has been co-editor of
the
its journal, "To Improve the Academy."
Trademark library marks 25th anniversary
The Patent and Trademark Depository Library, one of the collections
of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, marked its 25th
anniversary on Dec. 2 with a day of training and a reception
hosted
by the UNL Libraries and the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Depository
Library Program in Washington, D.C.
The library has been a
resource to Nebraska inventors and
businesses. Amanda Putnam,
manager and one of the trainers sent
from the national patent
program, said, "During the last
25 years, residents of
Nebraska have been granted over 4,624
patents, with 2,251 of those
to independent inventors. The University
of Nebraska is ranked 66
among the Top 100 R & D universities
and has received 218
utility patents from 1969-2000."
The Patent and
Trademark Depository Library is one of 86 libraries
in 49 states
and the only one in Nebraska. It makes patent and
trademark
information available to the public, serving as an
important
resource to UNL's research and outreach missions. The
staff of the
Patent and Trademark Depository Library answer questions
from local
inventors and entrepreneurs throughout Nebraska.
"Businesses, researchers, inventors and the general public
gain access to the best patent and trademark search tools, publications,
training and expertise to capitalize on a new idea or grow their
business," Putnam said.
The UNL Libraries Patent and
Trademark Depository Library
is in the Engineering Library, W204
Nebraska Hall. For more information
about its hours, collections
and services, visit <http://iris.unl.edu/>.
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