Friday and Labor Day Weekend September 4-7, 2009
UNL Fall Enrollment Up 2.2 Percent to 24,100 -- Highest In 14 Years
With 24,100 students enrolled in the fall semester 2009, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has recorded its highest enrollment since 1995. The enrollment, which represents a 2.2 percent increase over fall 2008, was reported today to the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.
Of the 527 students who comprise the increase, 429 are undergraduate students, 91 are graduate students and seven are in professional colleges. Transfer headcount increased by 51, a 5.3 percent increase. The total number of first-time freshmen declined by 214, a 5.1 percent decrease. This is the first drop in new students for the fall that UNL has experienced since 2004. more....
Great Plains Art Museum Hosts 'IMPACT Nebraska' Exhibition
The Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present an exhibition Sept. 4 through Nov. 1 from a select group of Nebraska artists depicting their impressions of the state.
"IMPACT Nebraska" called upon the 30 members of the IMPACT group -- professional artists with international recognition who are juried into the community every four years -- to deliver some sense of Nebraska, the state where they all live and work. The exhibition will open with a First Friday reception 5-7 p.m. Sept. 4 featuring the artists. more....
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
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Consultants Outline Progress, Recommendations for Innovation Campus
The proposed Nebraska Innovation Campus will be a place where researchers, businesspeople and instructors will "live, work, learn and play" and capitalize on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's prime areas of research strengths in food, water and fuel -- among others.
At a briefing today to the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, campus consultants Mary Jukuri of SmithGroup/JJR and Jay Noddle of Noddle Cos. together with university planners outlined progress, vision and recommendations, and preliminary directions at this stage of planning for Nebraska Innovation Campus. more....
NEBRASKA INNOVATION CAMPUS
New Campaign Celebrates Successes, Connections With Husker Faithful
Here's a scene that has played out countless times around the country and the world: A guy in a University of Nebraska T-shirt is standing on a crowded street corner, and another guy -- this one wearing a Big Red ball cap -- approaches him with a handshake and strikes up a conversation.
Over the next few minutes, the strangers become fast friends. They talk about their hometowns, their majors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, their common links at UNL and any recent or upcoming visits to Lincoln. They part reminded that no matter where you are in the world, UNL is often just a handshake away -- and that the Power of Red is real.
UNL is bringing this communal connection to Huskers living around the globe with a new "Put Yourself On The Map" campaign -- an interactive way for alumni, faculty, staff, students and fans of the university to connect with, to learn from and to learn about one another. more....
PLANET RED
H1N1 Page at UNL Updated for Fall
The university continues to closely monitor the worldwide and local impact of H1N1 flu. At this time there is no immediate impact on UNL, its community or operations, except heightened alert and awareness, and efforts to communicate the necessity of proper hygiene and stemming the spread of the virus.
For more information, including Student and Employee attendence policies, visit the H1N1 Information page at http://emergency.unl.edu/.
A Woman In Berlin and An Unlikely Weapon Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents A Woman In Berlin and An Unlikely Weapon. Both films will screen through September 10.
More information about each film and schedules are available at the Ross website.
