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07/13/2015
Prairie Schooner names 2015 book prize winners
Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has selected the winners for its annual book awards for poetry and short fiction. Safiya Sinclair has won the book prize in poetry for her manuscript "Cannibal," chosen by guest judges David Bak…
04/17/2008
Prairie Schooner literary quarterly awards annual prizes
Prairie Schooner, the quarterly literary magazine published at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, awarded 18 writing prizes for work published in its 2007 volume. The total prize money was $8,500, with the highest individual prize of $1,500. The Law…
07/13/2009
Prairie Schooner announces annual fiction, poetry award winners
Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced the winners and runners-up for its annual awards for books of short fiction and poetry. The winners were chosen from 1,100 submissions from around the world. Winners receive $3,000 …
07/19/2012
Prairie Schooner announces 2012 Book Prize winners
Prairie Schooner, the national quarterly literary magazine at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has announced the 2012 winners for its annual awards for books of short fiction and poetry. The competition, in its 10th year, select…
07/26/2010
Prairie Schooner announces 2010 book prize winners
Prairie Schooner, the literary quarterly of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has announced the winners and runners-up for its annual awards for books of short fiction and poetry. The winners were chosen from more than 1,100 submissions from around…
04/22/2014
Prairie Schooner announces $8,500 in writing prizes for 2013
Thanks to generous supporters of the literary arts, the Prairie Schooner, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln literary journal, was able to award 18 writing prizes totaling $8,500 for work published by both established and emerging writers in 2013. T…
02/11/2011
Prairie Pride Film Festival announces inaugural program lineup
The Allies and Advocates for GLBT Equality student organization at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law, with support from UNL's LGBTQA Resource Center, has announced the lineup for the first Prairie Pride Film Festival. The festival wil…
02/23/2011
03/8/2007
Prairie grass, switchgrass as energy crops March 21 Olson Seminar topic
In his 2006 State of the Union address, President Bush advocated the use of renewable energy crops such as switchgrass and other biomass crops to solve national energy problems. University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty and staff and U.S. Department of …
03/21/2007
03/30/2009
Prague student wins Stock Market Game T-shirt design competition
As part of the Nebraska Stock Market Game, the Nebraska Council on Economic Education offers an annual T-shirt design competition. This year's winner is Adam Vyhlidal, a seventh-grader at Prague Public School. "Adam's contest entry was imaginative a…
09/26/2013
Powerhouse presenters bring global perspective to teaching English
An internationally diverse panel of speakers highlights the workshop “Viewing English Education through a Globalized Lens,” from 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013, at Teachers College Hall at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The worksho…
09/28/2013
07/22/2015
Pound Hall to remain open during 2015-16 academic year
Pound Residence Hall will again be open to University of Nebraska-Lincoln students this fall, university housing officials said. This is the second consecutive year that Pound, which had originally been taken offline in early 2014, has remained open…
04/18/2007
Potter family to receive Alumni Family Tree Award
The Nebraska Alumni Association will present its Alumni Family Tree Award to the family of Herb "Cub" Potter Sr., who played quarterback on the dominating "Stiehm Rollers" Nebraska football teams of 1911, 1912 and 1914. The award will be presented du…
11/9/2007
Postponed: Nov. 12 E.N. Thompson Forum lecture at UNL
Because of illness, the Nov. 12 E.N. Thompson Forum lecture by Sunita Narain at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been postponed indefinitely. Narain, director of the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi, India, director of the Societ…
07/18/2012
Popular Lied Center events approaching sold-out crowds from season sales
The Lied Center for Performing Arts season tickets sales for the 2012-13 Season are already resulting in near sell-outs for several of this season's most popular events. Patrons waiting for the mid-August opportunity to buy single …
06/22/2011
Pop vocal group Celtic Thunder to play Lied Center Oct. 21
One of public television's top superstars, the wildly entertaining male pop vocal group Celtic Thunder visits the Lied Center for Performing Arts for an Oct. 21 concert that pays homage to the musical culture of Ireland with selections from their new…
10/21/2011

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