
Feb. 24 to March 2, 1996
A Room With a View
The UNL School of Music will present a new opera, A Room With a View,
at 8 p.m. Feb. 24 in Kimball Hall. General admission tickets are $10 for
adults and $5 for students, available from the Lied Box Office, 472-4747.
Based on the E.M. Forster novel of the same title, the play features
masters students Kenneth Floyd, who portrays George Emerson, and Karen
Kness, who plays Lucy Honeychurch.
Displays/Exhibitions
- Grant Reynard and John Falter, Great Plains Art Collection. To
Feb. 25.
- Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Lentz Center. To Feb. 25.
- James Eisentrager: Retrospective, Gallery of the Dept. of Art & Art
History, 102 Richards Hall. To Feb. 28.
- Cultural Survival Project, artwork by recent immigrant and refugee
youth in collaboration with Shelley Fuller and Wendy Weiss and a special
guest exhibition by Linda Anfuso, jewelry, TCD Gallery, Home Economics
Bldg., East Campus. To March 7.
- Design Diaspora: Black Architects and International Architecture
1970-1990, Architecture Hall Gallery. To March 8.
- The Faust Suite by Pieter Cornelius, Sheldon Gallery. To March 17.
- Shaker: The Art of Craftsmanship, Sheldon Gallery. To March 31.
- California Color, Sheldon Gallery. To March 31.
- Kinesthetic Energy: Mark di Suvero, Sheldon Gallery. To April 7.
Films
- Feb. 24, The Postman, 12:45, 3, 7 & 9:15 p.m., Ross Film Theater.
Contact: Ross Film Theater, 2-5353.
- Feb. 25, UPC International Film -- Belle de Jour, 3, 5, 7 & 9 p.m.,
Ross Film Theater.
- Feb. 27-March 2, The Changing Face of Canadian Cinema: New Canadian
Cinema, complete schedules and synopses are available at the Ross Film
Theater box office, Ross Film Theater.
Lectures/Seminars
- Feb. 27, ScienceWorks Journal Club Lecture -- "Materials
Processing with Femtosecond Lasers," David Doerr, Center for
Electro-Optics, 12:30 p.m., 118 Brace Lab. Contact: Lisa Wiese
(lwiese@unlinfo.unl.edu), 2-2786.
- Feb. 28, Center for Biotechnology Seminar -- "A Quantitative Trait
Locus Analysis of Diet-Induced Obesity in the Mouse," David West,
Louisiana State Univ., 4 p.m., Beadle Center Auditorium. Contact: Center
for Biotechnology, 2-2635.
- Feb. 29, College of Architecture Hyde Lecture -- Jack Travis,
Principal, JTA Architects of New York, 3 p.m., Sheldon Gallery
auditorium. Contact: Architecture, 2-9212.
- Feb. 29, Center for Communication and Information Sciences -- "Mobile
Computing in Error-Prone Media," Satish Tripathi, Univ. of Maryland, 3:30
p.m., 114 Ferguson Hall. Contact: CCIS, 2-3185.
- Feb. 29, Center for Biological Chemistry/LICOR Seminar -- "New
Insights Into Leaf Gas Exchange Using Chlorophyll Fluorescence Imaging,"
Bernard Genty, Universite Paris-Sud, 3:30 p.m., N103 Beadle Center
Auditorium. Contact: Biochemistry, 2-2932.
- Feb. 29, Physics and Astronomy/UNL Research Council Colloquium --
"Black Holes in Quasars: New Results From the Hubble Space Telescope,"
Beverly Wills, Univ. of Texas at Austin, 4 p.m., 211 Brace Auditorium.
Contact: Physics and Astronomy, 2-2770.
- March 1, Chemistry Colloquium -- "Fundamental Studies in Tandem Mass
Spectrometry: A Game of Billiards in Three Dimensions," Jean Futrell,
Univ. of Delaware, 3:30 p.m., 110 Hamilton Hall. Contact: Chemistry
Dept., 2-3501.
- March 1, Agricultural Meteorology Seminar -- "CALMIT, Consortium for
the Application of Space Data to Education, Satellite Receiving Station,"
Don Rundquist, CALMIT, 3:30 p.m., 225 L.W. Chase Hall. Contact: Mike
Hayes, 2-4271.
- March 1, Materials Research and Analysis/Engineering Mechanics
Seminar -- "On the Microstructure Design of Laminar Zirconia Composite
Role of Autocatalysis and Dual-Scale Microstructure," Qing-Ping Sun,
Tsinghua University, P.R. China, 3:30 p.m., 306 Bancroft. Contact:
Materials Research and Anaylsis, 2-7886.
Meetings
- Feb. 27, Komensky (Comenius) Club Meeting -- Romantic Couples in
Czech Literature and Music with Poetry Readings (in English Translation)
and Music with Layne Pierce and Mila Saskova-Pierce, 7 p.m., Nebraska
Union. Contact: Mila Saskova-Pierce, 2-1336.
Miscellaneous
- Feb. 24, School of Music Audition Day -- incoming music majors
and minors audition for scholarships and admission in the School for the
1996-97 academic year, Westbrook. Contact: Rosemary, 2-6845.
- Feb. 24, Nebraska Repertory Theatre auditions for the summer season,
9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Howell Theatre. Contact: Julie Hagemeier for
appointment, 2-1619.
- Feb. 24, Science Day at the Mall featuring presentations and hands-on
activities from ScienceWorks, an NSF-sponsored program designed to share
the fun and excitement of science with the community, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Gateway Mall. Contact: Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, 2-9178.
- Feb. 24, Nebraska Repertory Theatre Mid-Winter Party, 6 p.m., $30 per
person, Country Club of Lincoln. Contact: Julie Hagemeier for
reservations, 2-1619.
- Feb. 25, Irish Dance Workshop (third of a five-week session), 7:30
p.m., First-Plymouth Congregational Church, 22nd & D St. Contact: LuAnne
Anderson, 475-8674.
- Feb. 26, Cruising the Internet session -- "Eudora," 11 a.m., East
Union. Contact: Communications and Information Technology, 2-5630.
- Feb. 27, Human Resources brown-bag lunch program -- "Kids and TV:
What Every Parent Should Know," noon, Nebraska Union. Contact: Michele
Strickler, 2-3101.
- Feb. 27, Retirement reception for Larry Emmons, Nebraska Unions, 2:30
to 4 p.m., Regency Suite, Nebraska Union. Contact: Daryl Swanson, 2-2181.
- Feb. 27 & 29, Nebraska Business Development Center-Lincoln First-Step
Workshop for those interested in starting a small business, 6 p.m., cost
is $25, Southeast Community College. Contact: Nebraska Business
Development Center-Lincoln, 2-3358.
- Feb. 28, Water Resources Panel -- "Ecosystem Management," Paul
Tebbel, National Audubon Society's Rowe Sanctuary and Dick Mercer,
agricultural producer, 3 p.m., 116 L. W. Chase Hall. Contact: Mike
Eckert, 2-0891.
- Feb. 29, Human Resources brown-bag lunch program -- "Kids and TV:
What Every Parent Should Know," noon, East Union. Contact: Michele
Strickler, 2-3101.
- Feb. 29, Academic Senate "get-acquainted reception" with Chancellor
James Moeser, 4 to 5:30 p.m., Wick Center. Contact: Academic Senate,
2-2573.
- Feb. 29, Student Involvement Workshop -- "Fundraising Tips for
Student Organizations," 7 p.m., Nebraska Union. Contact: Student
Involvement, 2-2454.
- March 1 & 2, "No Limits: We Are the Stories We Tell," a regional
women's studies conference with the theme, "Celebrating Women in Science
and Theory," 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., East Union. Contact: Women's Studies
Association, 2-9392.
Performances
- Feb. 24, "The Glass Menagerie," 8 p.m., Howell Theatre, Temple
Bldg. Contact: Theatre & Dance Box Office, 2-2073.
- Feb. 24, Opera -- "A Room With a View," 8 p.m., Kimball Hall.
Contact: Lied Box Office, 2-4747.
- Feb. 28, Ravnan II, Nebraska Public Radio Benefit, 8 p.m., Kimball
Hall. Contact: Lied Box Office, 2-4747.
- Feb. 29, Peking Acrobats, 8 p.m., Lied Center. Contact: Lied Box
Office, 2-4747.
- Feb. 29, Concert Band, free, 8 p.m., Kimball Hall. Contact: John
Whiteman, 2-6865.
- Feb. 29, Wild Women (folk music), free, 8 p.m., The Crib, Nebraska
Union. Contact: Rich Caruso, 2-2454.
- Feb. 29, March 1 & 2, theatrix -- "The Night We Moved," 8 p.m., Wagon
Train Project, 512 S. 7th St. Contact: Julie Hagemeier, 2-1619.
- March 2, Nebraska Brass, free, 9 p.m., The Crib, Nebraska Union.
Contact: Rich Caruso, 2-2454.
Planetarium
- Feb. 24 & 25, Planetarium Show -- "Child of the Universe," 2
p.m., Mueller Planetarium. Contact: Mueller Planetarium, 2-2641.
- Feb. 24, Planetarium Show -- "Lifestyles of the Stars," 3:30 p.m.,
Mueller Planetarium.
- Feb. 24, Laser Fantasies Show -- "White Zombie," 8, 9:30 & 11 p.m.,
Mueller Planetarium.
- Feb. 25, Laser Visions Show -- "Laser Jazz," 3:30 p.m., Mueller
Planetarium.
- March 1 & 2, Laser Fantasies Show -- "Gin Blossoms," 8, 9:30 & 11
p.m., Mueller Planetarium.
Sports
- Feb. 24, Track and Field -- Big Eight Indoor Championships, 10
a.m., Devaney Center. Contact: Athletic Ticket Office, 2-3111.
- Feb. 25, Men's Basketball -- Nebraska vs. Oklahoma, noon, Devaney
Center.
- Feb. 25, Women's Gymnastics -- Masters Classic
(Nebraska/Michigan/Ball State/Washington), 7 p.m., Devaney Center.
- March 2, Women's Tennis -- Nebraska vs. Colorado State, 9 a.m., Woods
Tennis Center.
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