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05/13/2008
Blakelock paintings on view in Sheldon collection galleries
Paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock will be on view this summer with artworks from the Sheldon Museum of Art's permanent collection in two galleries at the museum, 12th and R streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus. In September the…
05/13/2008
Jefferson's vision of the West outlined in UNL digital history project
When Thomas Jefferson daydreamed about the American West, what did he imagine? He might have read travelogues about violent winds that churned the Missouri River, creating perilous travel conditions for Canadian traders. He may have seen paintings of…
05/15/2008
Biodiversity, blow flies, drought featured in Great Plains Research
Was the first biodiversity inventory completed by the Stephen Long Expedition of 1819-1820 at winter quarters on the Missouri River? Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members say that is the case and present their theory in the spring issue …
05/16/2008
UNL student named NIH/Fogarty international clinical research scholar
University of Nebraska-Lincoln doctoral student Nancy Heng-Hsian Liu has been selected as a scholar by the National Institutes of Health/Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program. Originally from Dallas, Liu came to UNL in 2005 to join…
05/16/2008
Architectural engineering grad student wins NSF postdoctoral fellowship
Jonathan Rathsam, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate student in architectural engineering, has been named one of approximately 35 postdoctoral fellows for 2008-09 with the National Science Foundation's International Research Fellowship Program…
05/16/2008
Wunder to be president of Western History Association
University of Nebraska-Lincoln historian John Wunder will become president-elect of the Western History Association at the association's annual meeting in October. He will serve in that capacity during 2009, and will be president of the WHA during 20…
05/16/2008
Former Construction Management chair earns lifetime education honor
Richard "Dick" Kafonek, former chair of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering's Construction Management Department in Lincoln, was recently honored with the Associated Schools of Construction Lifetime Achievement Award for signifi…
05/16/2008
2 Campus Rec officials serve national intramural-recreation sport group
Two officials with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Office of Campus Recreation have been elected to offices with the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association. Vicki Highstreet, senior assistant director of the Campus Recreation Center, …
05/16/2008
UNL Construction Management program earns reaccreditation
The American Council for Construction Education announced its renewal of accreditation of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's construction management program. The program has maintained the stringent standards of ACCE and has proven to the board, th…
05/16/2008
Perlman announces Chang-Barnes as interim director at Lied Center
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman today announced the appointment of Ann Chang-Barnes as interim director of the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Chang-Barnes, artist-in-residence as a pianist in the UNL School of Music, was a …
05/19/2008
Joel Sartore interview and photos in 10th volume of Plains Song Review
An interview with photographer Joel Sartore by University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior Katie Sisneros is the lead article in the 10th volume of Plains Song Review, published by the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL. Sisneros, a senior from Gothenb…
05/21/2008
RFK Journalism Award won by UNL broadcast students
Four broadcast students in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be among the recipients of this year's Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awards May 27 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The award wil…
05/22/2008
Jim Rey wins Purchase Award from Great Plains Studies Friends
Nebraska artist Jim Rey has been awarded the 2008 Purchase Award by the Friends of the Center for Great Plains Studies. The award was made at the fourth annual Invitational Art Show and Sale May 1 at the Great Plains Art Museum. Rey's oil painting, "…
05/22/2008
'Fountain Frolics' to again feature live music, picnic lunches
Lincoln, Neb., May 22, 2008 -- "Fountain Frolics" will again be a Thursday lunchtime feature this summer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Free, live music will be presented on the Nebraska Union Plaza Arcade, 15th and S streets, from noon to 1 …
05/23/2008
Student government leaders, senators announced for 2008-09
University of Nebraska-Lincoln students were elected to one-year terms in the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska student government in student-body elections in March. ASUN includes three executives (president, and first and second…

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