Individual recycling efforts led by faculty, staff and students are helping reduce UNL’s carbon footprint. In 2012, UNL achieved a 51 percent recycling rate — which means the university recycled more waste than it sent to the local landfill. The percentage is 10 points more than 2011 and is four times greater than the 12 [...]
UNL’s Johnny Carson Theater is getting a $571,500 facelift. The renovation, made possible with a gift from the John W. Carson Foundation, was announced April 26. The project will include a complete redesign of the theater’s entrance and lobby and a new performance floor. At the gift announcement, Chancellor Harvey Perlman said UNL is again [...]
Starting June 5, WageWorks Inc. will be administrator of the University of Nebraska’s flexible spending account plans. WageWorks replaces the university’s internal administrative system. The change only affects employees currently enrolled in health or dependent care flexible spending accounts. Keith Dietze, director of universitywide benefits, said WageWorks will provide improved plan features and more options [...]
Food Processing Center celebrates 30th anniversary with open house UNL’s Food Processing Center will celebrate its 30th anniversary in June with tours and free ice cream. An open house is planned from 1-5 p.m. June 9 at the center, in the Food Industry Complex on East Campus. Tours of the center’s pilot plants will be offered, as will interactive displays on sensory testing, marketing, [...]
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Physics team leads $7M research collaboration UNL will lead a new $7.125 million research collaboration involving six universities and an industry consortium to develop a new generation of electronic devices. Semiconductor Research Corp. and the National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a UNL physics team a five-year contract to lead a new Center for NanoFerroic Devices as part of the [...]
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Women headline Jazz in June series The voices of four women will be featured in the 22nd season of Jazz in June. Organized by the Sheldon Art Association and Sheldon Museum of Art, the free concerts take place every Tuesday in June at 7 p.m. with activities beginning as early as 5 p.m. The concert series opens June 4 with the [...]
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Goddard selected interim dean of Arts and Sciences Steve Goddard has been appointed to the position of interim dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. Ellen Weissinger, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, announced the appointment on May 15. Goddard will formally accept the appointment, which is pending Board of Regents approval, July 1. A member of UNL’s faculty since 1998, Goddard [...]