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UNL News Releases

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08/19/2005
UNL student wins prestigious interior design scholarship
The Angelo Donghia Foundation of New York City has announced that Lynette Klein, a senior interior design major at UNL, is one of only 10 students nationwide to receive the $30,000 Donghia Foundation Interior Design Scholarship. Klein, who is from Li…
08/19/2005
UNL in U.S. News' Top 50 Public National Universities for 2nd year
For the second straight year, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has made U.S. News and World Report's annual America's Best Colleges rankings' Top 50 list for public national universities. The magazine will release its 2006 rankings at 11:01 p.m. CD…
08/23/2005
REAL Nebraska site presents student feedback for 2005-06
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's "REAL Nebraska" site features a new theme this fall with student interaction on current events like the NBC reality-comedy "Tommy Lee Goes to College." Each Wednesday morning after a new "Tommy Lee" episode airs o…
08/24/2005
UNL Beta Theta Pi fraternity earns national award
The North-American Interfraternity Conference has honored Beta Theta Pi's Alpha Tau Chapter at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with the 2005 Undergraduate Chapter Award of Distinction. The award recognizes the overall leadership, scholarship and e…
08/25/2005
Memorial Stadium policies unchanged from 2004 season
Cornhusker football fans arriving at Memorial Stadium for Nebraska's Sept. 3 season opener vs. Maine will find no major changes to the stadium from last season. They should continue to be aware of the ongoing construction of the Tom and Nancy Osborne…
08/26/2005
Cornhusker Marching Band lists 256 members in 2005
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's 256-member Cornhusker Marching Band will make it's 2005 debut Sept. 3 at Memorial Stadium with pregame and halftime performances at Nebraska's football season opener against Maine. Each band member passed two audi…
08/31/2005
Athletic Department had $114.3 million impact on Lincoln-area economy
Like clockwork every fall for more than 40 years, Cornhusker football fans have poured through the gates of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Memorial Stadium to cheer on their favorite team. The Huskers' NCAA record of 268 consecutive sellouts si…
09/1/2005
UNL entomologist names largest fossil scarab beetle
A fossil of a scarab beetle has been identified by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln entomologist as the world's largest known scarab fossil and represents a new genus and species. Oryctoantiquus borealis was officially named in June by Brett C. Ratcl…
09/2/2005
$1.2 million follow-up grant to support drought-monitoring work
A $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency awarded to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will help maintain and improve on a system tracking drought and other climate conditions in the United States. The gra…
09/2/2005
Turtle species named after museum collection manager Corner
A species of turtle discovered in 1971 has been named after George Corner, collection manager of the division of paleontology at the University of Nebraska State Museum. Corner discovered the species, Terrapane corneri, as a graduate student in 197…
09/6/2005
Tomkins to serve as Clinton School distinguished fellow
Alan Tomkins, director of the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center, will serve as one of two William Jefferson Clinton distinguished fellows at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service during the 2005-06 school year. "The Cl…
09/6/2005
Deegan, Hill again win top American Sociology Association honors
University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill, also of Lincoln, again walked away with top honors in their research specialty at the centennial meeting of the American Sociological Association in Philadelphia last mon…
09/6/2005
Plains Humanities Alliance director receives Fulbright award
Timothy Mahoney, director of the Plains Humanities Alliance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been awarded a Fulbright Program Senior Lectureship in American Studies at Adam Mickiewics University in Poland for the academic year 2005-2006. Si…
09/6/2005
UNL Czech group honored for promoting culture
The Czech Republic has awarded the Gratias Agit Prize to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Czech Komensky Club. The prize is in recognition of the club's continuous active and creative involvement in Czech culture. The Komensky Club was founded in 1…
09/8/2005
Perlman: 2005 Fall enrollment improved, strides made in numerous areas
Reported enrollment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is 21,675 total students for the fall semester as of Aug. 31 - a drop of 117 students compared to fall 2004 - but an improvement over fall 2004 figures based on first-time freshman students wh…

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