Tag: Arts and Humanities
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Unique core facility fuses science, media arts
Scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs can transform cutting-edge concepts into game-changing reality at Edgeworks, launched in 2024 by the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. Created with $625,000 from the University of Nebraska system’s Nebraska Research Initiative, Edgeworks is the state’s only arts-based core research facility and among the first in the world. “We are…
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Decoding ancient sphinx’s mysterious message
Nebraska interdisciplinary scholar Peter Revesz has a unique skill set, one that helped him solve a mystery that had puzzled experts for nearly two centuries. Drawing on an interest in ancient Greece and a Hungarian childhood, Revesz, a computational linguist, deciphered a short poem at the base of an ancient bronze sphinx. His discovery, covered…
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Beautifying communities through street art
Nebraska artist Sandra Williams’ work seeks to facilitate social change by revealing a community’s unique identity, often in partnership with others. Her art can be experienced as finely detailed paper cuts, imaginative paintings or sweeping murals. Within these forms, her work interweaves interest in her Indigenous Peruvian roots, a love of animals, and the friction…
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Uniting around a shared history
Nearly 150 years ago, the Otoe-Missouria Tribe was forced to relocate from southeast Nebraska to Oklahoma. Today, Nebraskans are welcoming back the tribal nation. Margaret Jacobs, director of Nebraska’s Center for Great Plains Studies, and Christina Faw Faw Goodson, an Otoe-Missouria educator, historian and cultural linguist, co-lead a multifaceted project aiming to reconnect Otoe-Missourians with…