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11/12/2013
Rural school consolidation examined in Great Plains Research
Between 1932 and 2013, the number of school districts operating in the United States fell from 127,000 to 13,000. The number of individual schools fell from 259,000 in 1932 to 99,000 in 2010-11. This consolidation of districts and …
01/29/2015
Rural Poll: Self-employment becoming more common in rural Nebraska
Many rural Nebraska households utilize self-employment and multiple job-holding to piece together their incomes, according to the Nebraska Rural Poll. The 19th annual University of Nebraska-Lincoln poll was …
10/31/2005
Rural policy seminar statewide Nov. 9
Rural Policy and Leadership is the theme of a statewide public policy forum Nov. 9 when participants will hear from current and former office holders and experts on rural and agricultural policy issues. The forum is by the University of Nebraska Publ…
11/9/2005
07/14/2015
Rural Nebraskans express optimism in annual poll
Rural Nebraskans are as optimistic about their current situation and the future as they've been in the past 20 years, according to the 2015 Nebraska Rural Poll. The 20th annual University of Nebraska-Lincoln poll was sent to 6,228 households in 86 N…
05/10/2012
Rural Futures Institute aims to move beyond 'road kill' of past good ideas
As the University of Nebraska’s new Rural Futures Institute begins to take shape, one of its chief advocates acknowledges that past higher-education efforts to save rural America have become “road kill.”This time it’s different, though, said …
03/19/2012
Royal Winnipeg Ballet to bring Paris to Lied Center stage April 1
Transport yourself to Paris when the Royal Winnipeg Ballet brings its provocative and exciting "Moulin Rouge -- The Ballet" to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lied Center for Performing Arts at 7 p.m. April 1. Along with a rou…
04/1/2012
03/24/2004
Roxy Paine to Install Life-Size Stainless Steel Tree on UNL Campus
A new "species" will join the trees planted north of Love Library on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's City Campus. Beginning April 19, New York artist Roxy Paine will install his latest major work, a 40-foot stainless steel tree in Donaldson Gard…
04/19/2004
01/17/2006
Roundtable on Indigenous Issues' is Jan. 23
The Plains Humanities Alliance's Jan. 23 Research and Region seminar, "A Roundtable on Indigenous Issues," will feature graduate students in an interdisciplinary colloquium. Students and their topics are Wynne Summers, English, "Women Elders' Life St…
01/23/2006
11/19/2004
ROTC cadets with armed forces ties honored
Twenty-three of 42 cadets in the Professional Officer Corps in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Reserve Officers' Training Corps program were honored on Veterans Day for following in the steps of their parents and relatives in armed forces service.…
11/10/2004
ROTC cadets to conduct retreat ceremony on Veterans Day
The cadet wing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ROTC will celebrate Veterans Day with a retreat ceremony at 5 p.m. Nov. 11 at the Military and Naval Sciences building, 14th and Vine streets on the UNL City Campus. Cadet Wing Commander Col. Patri…
11/11/2004
07/21/2009
Ross Media Arts Center will launch Griep's chemistry in movies book
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host a launch party Aug. 1 for "ReAction: Chemistry in the Movies," a book by Mark Griep, associate professor of chemistry at UNL and Marjorie Mikasen, a geometric arti…
08/1/2009
11/26/2013
Ross Media Arts Center receives $7.7 million gift from namesake
Patrons of the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have reason to celebrate this holiday season. Mary Riepma Ross, who was an attorney in Ne…
11/11/2011
Rose Vendryes to speak Nov. 15 at Sheldon on sculptor Richmond Barthe
Margaret Rose Vendryes, artist and author of "Barthe: A Life in Sculpture," will give a gallery talk and a lecture on Nov. 15 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition "Richmond Bar…
11/15/2011
05/26/2010
Ronnie Green selected as new IANR vice chancellor, VP
Sutton resident and beef geneticist Ronnie D. Green has been named University of Nebraska Vice President and Harlan Vice Chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Green, Global Technical…
04/13/2015
Ronnie Green appointed interim senior vice chancellor for academic affairs
Ronnie Green, Harlan Vice Chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and vice president of agriculture and natural resources for the NU system, has been appointed to the position of interim …

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