An information session to welcome new employees and share key employment information.

Enjoy a guided tour of current exhibitions with a trained docent. Tour is free with admission.

Aaron Stalker, UNL Beef Specialist, and Scott Cotton, UNL Beef Educator, will demonstrate a new beef nutrition software developed specifically for Nebraska beef producers. This software, which is being adopted by UNL Beef Extension Educators and Specialists, can be purchased and easily used by individual producers. It allows use of Excel spreadsheets that can be customized for individual herds and feeding programs but comes pre-loaded with a feed library. Easily generated nutrition need projections can assist beef producers in feed adjustments and cost analysis.

Presenter: John Davidson, Professor Emeritus, University of South Dakota School of Law
Sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Water Center and School of Natural Resources

The mission of Eating Disorder Education and Prevention is to encourage students to move toward an accepting attitude of body size and shape; to educate in the areas of eating disorders, body image and wellness; and to provide resources and referrals on campus.

EDEP is a student association of UNL student volunteers who have an interest in eating disorder awareness and prevention. The focus of EDEP is in the area of eating disorder prevention. One of the goals is to reach those who may be participating in dangerous behavior. Education may ultimately prevent some from developing a clinical eating disorder. Any UNL student is welcome to join.

University Theatre, the academic production program at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, opens its spring semester with IPHIGENIA 2.0, based on the play “Iphigenia in Aulis” by Euripides, set in today’s society by playwright Charles L. Mee.

Shannon Cameron directs this production in partial fulfillment of her Master of Fine Arts in Directing for Stage and Screen. Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $10 for students with ID. Tickets are available from the Lied Center Ticket Office, or at 402-472-4747 or 800-432-3231 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday or one hour prior to each performance. Tickets are also available on line at unltheatretickets.com.

Iphigenia, a beautiful heiress from the House of Atreus who is about to be married, must deal not only with an overbearing mother, Clytemnestra, but a father, Agamemnon, who plans to kill her. Iphigenia is played by Jenny Holm, with Julie Soroko as Clytemnestra and Nick Wolf as Agamemnon.

The play opens with Agamemnon musing about the risks of empire: “Sometimes they are brought to ruin by no more than the belief that something must be done when in truth doing nothing would have been the better course.” Filled with current political parallels, playwright Mee describes it as, “a great imperial power steps into the world to go to war – taking an action so wrong that it sets the empire on the road to complete self-destruction. Proving, as Agamemnon himself says on the brink of the Trojan War, ‘we see from the histories of empires that none will last forever and all are brought down finally not by others but by themselves.’”

In Mee’s play, the soldiers, however, take the power from the politicians vowing not to fight until Agamemnon sacrifices Iphigenia. When Clytemnestra discovers that her daughter is not being sent to Aulis to marry Achilles, but to be murdered, so is horrified and takes action. Agamemnon himself becomes increasingly anguished as he now has to watch the repercussions of his actions.

Achilles is played by Jordan Deffenbaugh and the soldiers are Logan Gee, Will Bennett, Gary Henderson and Cale Yates. Other cast members are Khalisha Casey, Devon Schovanec, Christina Leonard and Ayana Atiba Sahar.

The production is designed by Corrie Benton (scenic), Julie Douglass (costumes), Harrison Hohnholt (lighting), Logan Caldwell (sound), and Lucas Sevedge (projections).