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22 Nov 2013    

Mountains & Ghosts: New Ikat Tapestries & Prints exhibit begins Dec. 2

Mountains & Ghosts: New Ikat Tapestries & Prints
Mary Zicafoose
December 2, 2013 – January 17, 2014

Large-scale ikat tapestry diptychs, small format tapestry vignettes, and framed collagraphic monoprints on paper, explore the archetypal symbol of the trinity. This classic symbol – expressed as pyramid, triangle and temple – is the recognizable visual metaphor for this body of new work, invoking landscape, geometry and sacred space.



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22 Nov 2013    

Mountains & Ghosts: New Ikat Tapestries & Prints exhibit begins Dec. 2

Mountains & Ghosts: New Ikat Tapestries & Prints
Mary Zicafoose
December 2, 2013 – January 17, 2014

Large-scale ikat tapestry diptychs, small format tapestry vignettes, and framed collagraphic monoprints on paper, explore the archetypal symbol of the trinity. This classic symbol – expressed as pyramid, triangle and temple – is the recognizable visual metaphor for this body of new work, invoking landscape, geometry and sacred space.



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22 Nov 2013    

CEHS Staff Council's Annual Holiday Luncheon Dec. 10

Celebrate the Holidays with your colleagues at the Annual Staff Council Holiday Luncheon. The event will be held at the International Quilt Study Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. See the e-mail distributed Dec. 2 to select your lunch and to RSVP.

As in the past, we hope you will consider donating to a worthy cause. This year, our donations will support the Open Shelf Campus Pantry program.

Valerie Crook, Staff Council Member

 



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18 Nov 2013    

Balaram to speak Dec. 6, 11:00 a.m.

The public is invited to hear a Padmini Balaram speak about natural dyes Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. She is visiting the University of Nebraska, College of Education and Human Sciences, Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design as a Visiting Fulbright-Nehru  Lecturer.



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18 Nov 2013    

Balaram to speak Dec. 6, 11:00 a.m.

The public is invited to hear a Padmini Balaram speak about natural dyes Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. She is visiting the University of Nebraska, College of Education and Human Sciences, Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design as a Visiting Fulbright-Nehru  Lecturer.



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16 Nov 2013    

Holt to present talk Nov. 22, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders is pleased to host Chris Holt from the University of Rochester Medical Center. Holt earned his PhD in pharmacology and toxicology from Tulane University School of Medicine. He studies synaptic pharmacology of the vestibular apparatus. Many sensory systems are endowed with efferent feedback mechanisms that can modulate their primary input to the brain.



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16 Nov 2013    

Holt to present talk Nov. 22, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders is pleased to host Chris Holt from the University of Rochester Medical Center. Holt earned his PhD in pharmacology and toxicology from Tulane University School of Medicine. He studies synaptic pharmacology of the vestibular apparatus. Many sensory systems are endowed with efferent feedback mechanisms that can modulate their primary input to the brain.



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15 Nov 2013    

Harrison-Findik to present next NGN Series talk Dec. 4, 12:00 p.m.

D. Dee Harrison-Findik, associate professor, Internal Medicine/GI Section, UNMC, will give the next NGN Series talk. Her talk,  “The regulation of Hepcidin and Iron Metabolism in Alcoholic and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease,” will be Dec. 4 at noon in the East Campus Union. This brown bag talk is sponsored by Nebraska Gateway to Nutrigenomics, part of the department of Nutrition, Health, and Science.

Harrison-Findik’s research focus is on molecular mechanisms of cellular signalling pathways.

 



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15 Nov 2013    

Harrison-Findik to present next NGN Series talk Dec. 4, 12:00 p.m.

D. Dee Harrison-Findik, associate professor, Internal Medicine/GI Section, UNMC, will give the next NGN Series talk. Her talk,  “The regulation of Hepcidin and Iron Metabolism in Alcoholic and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease,” will be Dec. 4 at noon in the East Campus Union. This brown bag talk is sponsored by Nebraska Gateway to Nutrigenomics, part of the department of Nutrition, Health, and Science.

Harrison-Findik’s research focus is on molecular mechanisms of cellular signalling pathways.

 



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12 Nov 2013    

Isernhagen, Florendo receive National Rural Education research award

Jody Isernhagen, associate professor in Educational Administration, and Jackie Florendo, a 2012 Ed.D. graduate in Educational Administration, were recently recognized by the National Rural Education Association as recipients of the Howard A. Dawson Best Research Paper Award. The paper, “Administrators Perceptions of Early Childhood Education,” was based on the findings from Florendo’s dissertation. She graduated in December 2012 and is currently the coordinator for Alliance for Kids, an initiative of the Early Childhood Council for El Paso County serving Colorado Springs, CO.



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