Ground-breaking radar
system to be tested Wednesday
From Staff Reports
On Wednesday morning,
res -archers from the University of
Nehraska-Lincoln College of
engineering and Technology will use
state-of-the-art ground-penetrating
radar to test two bridges on state
Route 43 south of Bennet.
Although this will not be the first
time radar has been used to examine
bridges, it will be the first time that
multiple frequencies have been used,
said Ram Narayanan, associate pro
fessor of electrical engineering.
“We’re trying to improve the tech
niques for bridges,” Narayanan said.
He said the goal of the research
was to collect accurate, defect-reveal
ing data while traveling 30 to 40 miles
per hour. The radar equipment will
include two antennas pulled on a trol
ley behind a truck.
The bridges, at mile markers
14.41 and 14.60, are among nine
Nebraska data-collecting stes in the
two-year research program.
The data will be compared with
data obtained through slower, tradi
tional methods. Narayanan said he
expected the two data sets to match
well. If they do, the researchers will
proceed with a cost analysis to help
the Nebraska Department of Roads
decide whether to incorporate radar
detection into its bridge maintenance
program.
Narayanan said he saw several
potential uses for ground-penetrating
radar.
“This is a rapid, non-invasive
technique,” he said. “We’re also nego
tiating with San Diego Gas and
Electric Co. We want to use GPR for
detecting buried gas and utility lines.
We really are pushing GPR in a big
way for all infrastructure applica
tions.”
The research team includes
Narayanan, graduate student Scott
Hudson and undergraduate student
Chris Kumke, all of UNL’s electrical
engineering department, in collabo
ration with engineers from the
Nebraska Department of Roads and
the Lincoln Public Works
Department.
The project is funded by the Mid
America Transportation Center and
the Center for Electro-Optics.
Deadline for career fair approaching
From Staff Reports
Nebraska employers interested in
representing their companies at the
state’s largest college career fair
should contact the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Career Services
Center by Aug. 21.
Career Connection ’97 is sched
uled for 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 21 at
the Devaney Sports Center. The
career fair is sponsored by the
College Placement Association of
Nebraska and attempts to link stu
dents with potential employers and
graduate school representatives.
The association is a consortium of
26 two- and four-year colleges and
universities in Nebraska.
Last year more than 1,200 stu
dents attended the fair, which fea
tured information from more than
100 employers and 62 graduate
schools around the nation.
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UNL quilt collection will
make trip to Washington
From Staff Reports
The first public exhibition of por
tions of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln’s $6-million James Quilt
Collection has been scheduled for the
spring of 1998 at the Textile Museum
in Washington, D.C. “Contemporary
Quilts From the James Collection”
will be shown from April 3 to Sept. 6,
1998.
The following exhibitions and
dates also have been set by UNL’s
department of textiles, clothing and
design:
♦ “Quilts from the Heartland,”
Great Plains Art Collection, Love
Library, UNL City Campus, may 11
to Aug. 28, 1998.
♦ “Mennonite Quilts,”
Textiles, Clothing and Design
Gallery, UNL East Campus, May 18
to July 30, 1998.
♦ “World Quilt ’98,” Tokyo
International Forum, Tokyo, Japan,
June 17 to 20, 1998.
♦ “Fanciful Flowers: Botany
and the American Quilt,” University
of Nebraska State Museum, Morrill
Hall, from February 1999 until
January 2001.
The exhibitions are the first
scheduled since approximately 950
antique and contemporary quilts were
donated to the university last spring
by former Nebraskans Ardis and
Robert James of Chappaqua, N.Y.
The couple also donated $1 million
toward establishing an International
Quilt Study Center for which the
University is seeking additional
financial support.
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Japanese prints on display j
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From Staff Reports
Twenty-one 19th-century
Japanese woodblock prints depicting
Samurai warrior stories are on dis
play at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln’s Lentz Center for Asian
Culture through Sept. 9.
The exhibit, “Samurai Stories:
Woodblock Prints of Ichiyusai
Kuniyoshi,” includes many prints in
horizontal triptych form, a format
suited to action panoramas.
Kuniyoshi (1798-1861) lived and
worked during the later Edo Period of
the Tokugawa shogunate (1603
1867). Kuniyoshi’s early work
focused on beautiful women, land
scapes, book illustrations and Kabuki
actors, but after the government
banned portrayal of life in the plea
sure districts in 1842, he turned his
talents to making dramatic an color
ful prints, mixing historical and
mythological events.
The exhibit is from a private col
lection and was organized by the
University of Iowa Museum of Art as
a touring retrospective exhibition.
Several Samurai swords and other
objects from the Lentz Center collec
tions also will be on display.
The Lentz Center is in Room 329
of Morrill Hall, 14th and U streets.
Admission is free, but a donation of
$2 is suggested for Morrill Hall visi
tors over the age of 2. Lentz Center
hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30
to 4 p.m. Sunday.
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