August 29-31, 2008
MEMORIAL STADIUM, SAT 6PM
290-member Cornhusker Marching Band Makes 2008 Debut
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's 290-member Cornhusker Marching Band will make its 2008 debut Aug. 30 at Memorial Stadium with pregame and halftime performances at Nebraska's football season opener against Western Michigan.
This year's band includes representatives from nearly every region of the country, but 80 percent of the students are from Nebraska. Approximately 25 percent of the students are music or music education majors. The remainder of the students are studying in more than 70 other degree programs across campus. Each band member passed two auditions to gain admittance to the group. more...
Getting Around the UNL Campus
Recent and upcoming construction on and near campus will create commuting changes for students. Opening today is the new Leg of Antelope Valley Parkway is Open Between Vine Street and X.
The city determined that the intersection of X, 17th and the Antelope Valley Roadway will be too congested to allow left turns from 17th onto X Street (northeast of Nebraska Hall). Now, all traffic will be required to turn right (east) at 17th and X.
Beginning Sept. 2, the parking lot at the northeast corner of 17th and R Streets will close for the new residence hall construction. Faculty and staff parking is available just east of this site, surrounding the 1820 R Street building. Student parking is available in the 17th and R Parking Garage, on the surface parking lots located to the east of the parking garage and the parking lot south of the Beadle Center.
MORRISON LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER, EAST CAMPUS, FRI 4:30PM
Dedication Set for UNL's Morrison Life Sciences Research Center
Dedication ceremonies will be Aug. 29 for the Ken Morrison Life Sciences Research Center, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's newest building. The public dedication will be at 4:30 p.m. at the Morrison building, 4240 Fair St., on UNL's East Campus, just east of the Veterinary Basic Sciences building and north of the College of Law. Ceremonies will include remarks from university officials and dignitaries.
The $21 million, 74,000-square-foot research facility houses UNL virologists affiliated with the Nebraska Center for Virology, one of the university's signature research programs. These faculty worked at several locations across campus before moving into the new building in April. more...
SOCCER | NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD, FRI 5:30PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs UC Riverside Bears
FOOTBALL | MEMORIAL STADIUM, SAT 6PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Western Michigan Broncos
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Encounters At The End Of The World and The Animation Show Year Four Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Encounters At The End Of The World and The Animation Show Year Four. Both films will show through September 11.
Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) confirms his standing as poet laureate of men in extreme situations with Encounters At The End Of The World. In this visually stunning exploration, Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, headquarters of the National Science Foundation and home to eleven hundred people during the austral summer (Oct-Feb). Over the course of his journey, Herzog examines human nature and Mother nature, juxtaposing breathtaking locations with the profound, surreal, and sometimes absurd experiences of the marine biologists, physicists, plumbers, and truck drivers who choose to form a society as far away from society as one can get.
"The Animation Show," which has put together three previous feature-length collections, started in 2003 with Mike Judge of "Beavis and Butt-head" fame and Oscar-nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt curating, but this year finds Judge solely in control. After last year's somber program, or, as May called it, "a dozen shorts on death," Judge and the producers wanted the show to play lighter and faster. "This year we tried to focus more on comedy," Judge said. "This tour is like the midnight shows I loved to watch [at the International Tourneés of Animation] with a good mix of comedy and shorts that are visually amazing to look at on the big screen."
More information is available at the Ross website.
