Sparked by a sojourn into the group’s history, emeriti faculty have raised funds and purchased a gravestone for Zelma Wisherd.
Wisherd died in 1981, bequeathing 20 percent of her estate (more than $36,000) to the University of Nebraska Foundation for the benefit, welfare and comfort of the emeriti association. The money was given in honor of [...]

NSF grant to fund innovative, water-focused graduate education program
UNL is launching an innovative, interdisciplinary graduate education program to prepare future scientists, policymakers and natural resource managers to address increasingly complex global water issues. The program is funded by a $3.1 million National Science Foundation grant.
The five-year grant from NSF’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship [...]

From drop-out to chimney sweep, Allen develops niche among academics
Craig Allen has charted a career path inspired by the words of Jack London and the grunge of chimney sweeping.
Toss in some helpful “work faster” demands of a few supervisors/high school dropouts, and you could correctly say Allen has led a non-traditional march into academia.
“I [...]

The Lester F. Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum is home to a purring Allis Chalmers.
But forget fieldwork and gleaming red metal. Think mouse chasing and gray fur.
For the last three years, the tractor museum has been home to Allis Chalmers, a stray cat who was so hungry she wandered repeatedly into the East Union.
“We [...]

Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center construction rolls into final month
– Photos by Troy Fedderson/University Communications.
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Miguel Contreras, an employee of the Omaha-based Demarco Brothers Co., works on the floor of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center on Nov. 13. According to site supervisors, the new campus building is about one month away from completion. [...]

Composite image from three telescopes is part of International Year of Astronomy celebration
Two new mural-sized images are taking University of Nebraska State Museum visitors on a journey to the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
The photographs, unveiled during a Nov. 15 ceremony in the museum’s Mueller Planetarium lobby, commemorate the 2009 International Year of Astronomy. [...]

Great Observatories explore Milky Way’s ‘heart of darkness’
The Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory are NASA’s premiere space astronomy missions, known collectively as the Great Observatories. In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, the three telescopes have collaborated to produce the unprecedented image of the central region of the [...]

UNL is celebrating the 100th anniversary of awarding geography degrees with a weeklong celebration, Nov. 16-20.
The University of Nebraska awarded its first doctorate in geography 100 years ago, with the honor going to Joseph Allen Warren, whose dissertation was “An Agricultural Survey of Nebraska.” At the time, the University of Chicago had the only other [...]

Scott Nye, a groundskeeper with Landscape Services, mows on the west side of Entomology Hall on Nov. 13.

The Woods Charitable Fund awarded grants totaling $115,000 to three UNL programs in November.
The Center for Children, Youth, Families and Schools was awarded $100,000 to support the center’s “Building Bridges Through Relationships” program for two years. The program is designed to increase engagement, motivation and achievement among ninth-graders at risk of dropping out of Lincoln [...]