January 15, 2009
Welcome Back to Campus
Despite the temperatures, signs of growth are everywhere on campus with the continued construction on the new Physical Sciences building, the construction of a new residence hall at 17th and R, and the Gaughan multicultural center.
Enjoy your first week of the spring 2009 semester. Here are some links to sites you might be looking for:
205 OTHMER HALL 2PM
"The Mechanics of Nanoscale Beams in Liquid Electrolytes - Beam Deflection, Pull-in Instability, and Stiction"
James G. Boyd, Texas A&M University
UNL Team's Discovery Expands Understanding of Genetic Code
A discovery by University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers expands understanding of the genetic code, and may help revise a tenet of this universal language of life.
In cells, the genetic code essentially provides instructions for creating proteins, the basic structural molecules of life. The code includes a series of unique three-letter "code words," called codons. These genetic passwords dictate insertion of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. While codons may change to code for different amino acids in different organisms, a long-held precept of the genetic code is that one codon provides the password only for one amino acid in an organism.
Not always, UNL scientists discovered. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Synecdoche, New York and Slumdog Millionaire Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Synecdoche, New York and Slumdog Millionaire. Synecdoche, New York will show through January 22, while Slumdog Millionaire will screen through January 29.
To say that Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is one of the best films of the year or even one closest to my heart is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now. That at least would be an appropriate response to a film about failure, about the struggle to make your mark in a world filled with people who are more gifted, beautiful, glamorous and desirable than the rest of us — we who are crippled by narcissistic inadequacy, yes, of course, but also by real horror, by zits, flab and the cancer that we know (we know!) is eating away at us and leaving us no choice but to lie down and die. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Intrigued by Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out…
More information is available at the Ross website.
