By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006 Poetry has often served to remind us to look more closely, to see what may have been at first overlooked. Today’s poem is by Kaelum Poulson of Washington state. A middle school student and already accomplished maker of poems, he writes of the thankless toils of an unlikely […]
Prairie Schooner and the University of Nebraska Press have announced the winners and runners-up for their annual awards for books of short fiction and poetry. The winners were chosen from almost 2,000 submissions from around the world. The winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in short fiction is Anne Finger for her manuscript, […]
Artist renditions of two GreatPlants prairie natives won the botanical print competition sponsored annually by Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. The traditional botanical print winner was Becky Uhler of Washington with her illustration of the early-blooming prairie smoke or Geum triflorum. Gretchen Peters of Gering won the award for her interpretation of Prairie Gold quaking aspen. There […]
Bird’s-eye view of Allis-Chalmers HD-19 crawler hitched in front of four tractors as it is being driven around the University of Nebraska’s tractor test track in 1948. The crawler is shown from the front and is rounding a curve in the track. The tractor test car is between the crawler and the tractors hitched to […]
DIGGING IN – Dignitaries remove ceremonial shovels of dirt during the Sept. 17 breaking ground ceremony for the Gaughan Multicultural Center on the Nebraska Union Plaza. Pictured (from left) are: Brian Hamilton, representing the University of Nebraska Foundation Grants Committee; Hideyuki Matsubara, treasurer and director of administration and production control for Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corporation; […]
Student duo part of an international project learning about, covering election The College of Journalism and Mass Communications will host two political bloggers from Egypt in September and November as part of an international project that focuses on the U.S. election. Mahmoud Saber, a 21-year-old sociology and arts major at Ain Shams University in Cairo, […]
David Gergen, scholar and presidential adviser, talks with UNL student Jamie Dick following a Sept. 18 luncheon in the Van Brunt Visitors Center. Gergen gave the first lecture in the 2008-09 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues.
Mid-America Arts Alliance selected UNL’s Tractor Test Museum as one of 20 museums to participate in the Hands-On Experiential Learning Project. In Nebraska, HELP is implemented in partnership with the Nebraska Arts Council and made possible through the generosity of the Nebraska Arts Council, the Cooper Foundation, Sue Renken, the Institute of Museum and Library […]
The Diversity Working Group will present a program from noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 30 in the Nebraska Union (room posted). Trina Creighton will present her documentary film, “The Academic Achievement Gap: We Do Better When We Know Better.” The film highlights a case study in Omaha, of the barriers to higher education faced by […]
The University of Nebraska Office Professionals Association seeks nominations for the Floyd S. Oldt Boss of the Year award. The award will be presented at UNOPA’s Nov. 11 luncheon. The deadline to nominate is Oct. 15. For more information, go to http://unopa.unl.edu/awards.htm or contact Beth Zager at 472-0299.
