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04/8/2013
History Harvest starts weeklong social media event
Organizers of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's History Harvest have launched a weeklong social media event to generate ideas on how to propel the program nationwide. The History Harvest Blitz Week is Apr…
04/8/2013
04/23/2014
History graduate student awarded Fulbright Research Grant to Germany
Paul Strauss, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been awarded a Fulbright Research Grant to conduct dissertation research in Germany during the 2014-15 academic year. …
03/2/2009
Historic presence of trees on Great Plains rivers is March 11 Olson Seminar
Great Plains river banks were once forested with wide bands of trees, but since the mid-1800s, human pressures have changed that riparian vegetation largely to herbaceous plants or agricultural crops. In a March 11 Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Pla…
03/11/2009
02/29/2012
Historic iconic images the subject of lecture March 8 at UNL
Images of war that have appeared in the media have had an impact on U.S. policy, according to two visual culture experts who will speak at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on March 8. John Lucaites of Indi…
03/8/2012
03/27/2006
Historic costume, student designs at Robert Hillestad Gallery
"Manipulations: Play it Forward," an exhibition of contemporary and historic dress, will open April 11 in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery. For the exhibit, Barbara Trout and Janice Stauffer, professors in the UN…
04/11/2006
06/2/2004
Historian Vanessa Gorman Wins Award for Book
Vanessa Gorman, associate professor of history and associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has won the Award for Outstanding Publication from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South for…
02/6/2006
Historian to discuss Western art Feb. 20 at Great Plains Art Museum
Brian Dippie, a visiting historian from the University of Victoria in British Columbia and an expert on Western American art, will give a talk on the "uneasy status" of Western art Feb. 20 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dippie's lecture, "C…
02/20/2006
04/16/2012
Historian Krenn to speak on Cold War at Sheldon Museum talk
Historian Michael Krenn will address the U.S. government's practice of commissioning art and using it as a covert weapon during the Cold War in his April 17 lecture "When Fine Art Attacks!: Propaganda, Censorship and Visions of Ame…
04/17/2012
12/15/2004
Historian John Wunder named docent at Finland's Renvall Institute
John Wunder, professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been honored with a permanent appointment as a docent of the Renvall Institute at the University of Helsinki in Finland. As the first American invited to be a docent in the …
09/25/2015
Historian Darlene Clark Hine to deliver Pauley Lecture on Oct. 8
Darlene Clark Hine, a pioneering scholar in the field of African-American women’s history, will focus on race and health care when she delivers the Carroll R. Pauley Memorial Lecture in History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Oct. 8. Hine…
10/8/2015
04/15/2015
Himes, Payne named outstanding student leaders
Annie Himes of Omaha and Jeremy Payne of Lincoln have received UNL's 2015 Outstanding Student Leadership Awards. Juan Franco, vice chancellor for student affairs, presented the awards during an April 10 ceremony at the Van Brunt Visitors Center. Mu…
09/26/2011
Hillestad Gallery's Celebration of Youth exhibit features state fair winners
Thirty-four Nebraska youths will have their work showcased in the 18th annual Celebration of Youth exhibition, "Risk and Reward," running through Oct. 15 at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It…
11/6/2009
Hillestad Gallery's 'Little Black Dress' exhibit extended through Nov. 11
The "Power and Pragmatism: Beyond the Little Black Dress" exhibit at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, originally scheduled to close Nov. 6, has been extended through Nov. 11, according to exhibit curator Barbara…
11/6/2009
10/25/2006
Hillestad Gallery offers design and idea generation workshop
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will offer a design and idea generation workshop Nov. 9-10 at the Unitarian Church, 6300 A St. in Lincoln. Visiting artist Mary Anne Wise will conduct the workshop from 9:30 …
11/9/2006
03/1/2010
Hillestad Gallery hosts works by fiber artist Susan Taber Avila in March
California fiber artist Susan Taber Avila will present a lecture and lead workshops in conjunction with a month-long exhibition of her work at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Avila's exhibition, "Oh Natur…
03/1/2010

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