Tuesday, April 14 @ 4pm: UNMC Nursing Application Session
If you intend to apply to the UNMC Nursing program, we invite you to attend one of the Nursing application sessions this semester. There will be 3 opportunities to attend (select the one that works best for you). In this session, Leslie Gonzalez, a student success coordinator from UNMC Nursing Lincoln campus, will be presenting on the application components to help you prepare for the upcoming application season. This session is especially helpful if you intend to apply for the Spring 2027 term (available in Kearney, Lincoln, and Omaha), which opens on April 1st and due by July 15th, 2026 (priority deadline). (221 Love Library South)
Wednesday, April 15 @ 4pm: Researching, Budgeting, & Financing Health School
How do you decide which schools to consider applying to? How do you prepare to pay for the extra years of school required to attain your career in healthcare? Attend this session and start thinking about how you can strategize your application and prepare financially for your advanced education. Learn about programs available to help you pay back your health school educational costs. We will provide you with tools to manage all of these exciting next steps! (221 Love Library South)
Thursday, April 16 @ 5:30pm: Poetry by Angel Garcia: Indifferent Cities
Ángel García (UNL creative writing alum) will read from his new collection of poetry, INDIFFERENT CITIES, which is the inaugual winner of the Helena Whitehill Book Award from Tupelo Press. From the judge’s citation (by Jane Wong): “To read INDIFFERENT CITIES is to linger in ‘mud strewn’ memory, ears pressed to the earth, listening to what courses underneath. As I read, I didn’t realize I was holding my breath. What I was holding on to: my own lost languages, my own lost fathers. This book, put simply, bewildered me and broke me apart.” Ángel García, the proud son of Mexican immigrants, is also the author of TEETH NEVER SLEEP (University of Arkansas Press), recipient of a CantoMundo Poetry Prize, an American Book Award, and finalist for a PEN America Open Book Award and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His work has been published in American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, Crab Orchard Review, Huizache, The Acentos Review, and most recently in The Missouri Review and fugue journal. He has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell. He currently teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (229 Andrews Hall, Bailey Library)
Thursday, April 16 @ 5:30pm: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist: Arts Educator & Fashion Archivist Annette Becker
Becker is an educator and scholar whose research focuses on fashion history. She serves as the curator and director of the Texas Fashion Collection, an archive of nearly 20,000 historic and designer garments and accessories housed within the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design. There she leads educational programming, curates exhibitions and stewards collection holdings with a focus on creating accessible engagement with fashion’s past and present. Her work is informed by professional experience in cultural institutions around the country, as well as graduate education in Art History, Art Education and History. (Sheldon Museum of Art)
Friday, April 17 @ 6pm: Hillel Spring Lecture: “A Sort of Richie Boy: A World War II Mystery" by Dr. Kenneth D. Wald
Kenneth D. Wald is Distinguished Professor of Political Science Emeritus and the Samuel R. “Bud” Shorstein Professor Emeritus of American Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Florida. He has written about the relationship of religion and politics in the United States, Great Britain, and Israel. According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org), “The ‘Ritchie Boys’ is a term used for American soldiers who trained at Camp Ritchie during World War II. At Camp Ritchie, military instructors taught intelligence-gathering collections and analysis to approximately 20,000 soldiers. Several thousand of these soldiers were Jewish refugees who had immigrated to the United States from Europe to escape Nazi persecution.” (Unity Room, Gaughan Multicultural Center)
Friday, April 17 @ 7pm: Screening and Discussion of Ghost in the Machine
The new NU AI Institute, In collaboration with the Huskers AI Days 2026 event, will feature the streaming of Ghost in the Machine, an investigative documentary about AI directed by Valerie Veatch and a short open house discussion among faculty, students, and staff. The film interviews a variety of thinkers from different disciplines on the subject of AI and how to maintain human agency. (05 Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall)
Tuesday, April 21 @ 4pm: Essays for Law Schools
This workshop will cover what law schools are looking for in personal statements and provide you with writing exercises to begin the process of developing your individual story in a strong and compelling manner. Co-presented with the UNL Writing Center. (221 Love Library South)
Wednesday, April 22 @ 4pm: UNMC Nursing Application Session
In this session, Leslie Gonzalez, a student success coordinator from UNMC Nursing Lincoln campus, will be presenting on the application components to help you prepare for the upcoming application season. This session is especially helpful if you intend to apply for the Spring 2027 term (available in Kearney, Lincoln, and Omaha), which opens on April 1st and due by July 15th, 2026 (priority deadline). (221 Love Library South)
Thursday, April 23 @ 5:30pm: Screening and Discussion of Prairie Prophecy
As part of the Center for Great Plains Studies’ 50th anniversary year, join us for a free screening of Prairie Prophecy followed by a discussion with Aubrey Streit Krug, Perennial Cultures Lab Director at The Land Institute in Kansas. Prairie Prophecy is a feature-length documentary taking viewers into the mind of ecological visionary Wes Jackson, founder of the regenerative agriculture movement. A MacArthur “Genius” Grant and Right Livelihood Award recipient, Jackson has been lauded by the Smithsonian, The Atlantic and The New York Times, among many others, and named “One of the 18 most important Americans of the 20th Century.” Jackson co-founded The Land Institute, also in its 50th year, as a nonprofit educational organization exploring sustainable alternatives in agriculture, energy, shelter, and waste disposal. In addition to being a scientist and geneticist who has focused on agriculture, Jackson is also a philosopher, educator, author, and organizer. He has spent his life seeking solutions through innovative thought and multi-disciplinary approaches, inspiring others to mimic the wisdom inherent in ecosystems.
Aubrey Streit Krug grew up in rural Kansas, where her parents farm wheat and raise cattle, and her curiosity about prairie stories and plants led her to earn a PhD in English and Great Plains Studies. Aubrey is drawn to the possibility of more just human communities grounded in place and nourished by diverse, perennial food systems. At The Land Institute, Aubrey creates and investigates ways for people to step toward that long-term vision, together. Her most recent project, co-edited with Liz Carlisle, is the collection Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods. (Ross Media Arts Center)
Tuesday, April 28 @ 4pm: AMCAS Workshop
If you will be applying to medical school this summer or fall, this workshop will cover all of the aspects of your AMCAS application. We will have plenty of time for your questions so that you can hit the ground running when you start your application. (221 Love Library South)