Nebraska Jazz Orchestra kicks of Jazz in June Photos by Tom White, Sheldon Museum of Art. On deck | Upcoming performers in the Jazz in June series are: June 16 – Kendra Shank Quartet June 23 – Bill Wimmer Project Omaha June 30 – The John Riley Trio Watch Jazz in June slide shows following […]
It all started in Idaho, some 12 million years ago. A volcanic blast in the southwest portion of what would become the Potato State spewed forth a blanket of ash that covered a large area – including the flat, savannah-like grasslands of Nebraska, southern South Dakota and northern Kansas. Many of the animals around a […]
For three hours on a morning in May, an urgent scene played out over and over in downtown Ashland: A crowd of locals gathered around a TV news reporter, who grimly spelled out how a young girl from town had gone missing. Twenty feet away, the local sheriff, leaning against a squad car, waited for […]
It’s been said that the best way to see a country is on the footplate of a locomotive. As Shane Farritor knows, the best way to examine the sturdiness of a railroad track and keep trains rolling safely is from roughly the same spot. The UNL associate professor of mechanical engineering and his team of […]
Jack Dunn has focused a small grant into a traveling exhibition celebrating the International Year of Astronomy. Starting this month, an exhibition of 12 celestial images snapped by amateur astro-photographers is touring Nebraska. The exhibition was funded through a $2,000 grant Dunn received from the Nebraska Space Grant Consortium. “I just wanted to do something […]
Construction of the Physical Sciences Building is being documented online. Construction photos are available at http://pserver. The photos are taken and organized by Brian Farleigh, computer specialist for Physics and Astronomy. The new four-story, 124,000-square-foot building, located on 16th Street, between Vine and W streets, will include two lecture halls, four teaching labs and eight […]
Artworks include designs by UNL’s Awakuni-Swetland The beadwork of Plains Indians – including designs of artisan and UNL faculty member Mark Awakuni-Swetland – is on display at the Great Plains Art Museum. The exhibit, “The History and Artistry of Plains Indian Beadwork,” features bead designs from the University of Nebraska State Museum collection and work […]
The quilts featured in the International Quilt Study Center and Museum’s new exhibition, “American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940,” showcase diverse examples of quilters’ creations from a time of disenchantment with modern life. The exhibition is on view through Nov. 15 at the museum. Quilts reflect the times in which they are created, often […]
Forty etchings and lithographs from the Sheldon Museum of Art’s permanent collection are being shown together for the first time in “James McNeill Whistler: 40 Years of Printmaking.” The exhibit opened May 26 and continues through Sept. 20. The works, dating from 1859 to 1899, include prints from two well-known portfolios, the Thames Set and […]
“The Comanche Empire” by Pekka Hamalainen won the 2009 Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize from the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL. Hamalainen, an associate professor of history at the University of Santa Barbara, spent three years at UNL as a Fulbright scholar then a research assistant for “The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains.” […]
