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 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, […]
A core group of College of Law faculty has created a recycling program that encourages participation of other faculty, staff and students. “We had this group of six of us here that recognized that we weren’t living up to our environmental responsibilities,” said Brian Striman, a professor of law library and head of the college’s […]
UNL finished in 61st place overall for total materials recycled during the national RecycleMania competition. During the eight-week event, UNL recycled 294,207 pounds of paper, cardboard, plastic and aluminum. The total is 9 percent higher than UNL’s tally from the 2012 RecycleMania contest. The UNL total also represents a 514 metric ton reduction in carbon […]
Four UNL students have been chosen to complete undergraduate research fellowships through the Beckman Scholars Program. Ashley Thelen of Mitchell, S.D., Valerie Eckrich of Lincoln, and Jessica Chekal and Qianli Wang of Omaha are UNL’s Beckman Scholars for the 2013-14 academic year. The award provides scholarship funds to each student to conduct research under the […]
UNL’s Master of Business Administration program is ranked among the best online offerings for United States veterans. According to U.S. News and World Report’s list of the “Best Online MBA Programs for Veterans,” the UNL program is No. 3 in the nation. To be included in the veteran-specific ranking, universities had to already be ranked […]
Eve Brank, associate professor of psychology, has been awarded a nearly $200,000 National Science Foundation grant to conduct research into why citizens consent to searches. She will work with Jennifer Groscup of Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., on the project. The grant is from the NSF’s Law and Social Science program. The duo will examine […]
The next edition of the Scarlet publishes June 27. The deadline to submit items for publication is 4 p.m. June 20. Other Scarlet publication dates this summer are July 25 and Aug. 15. For more information, contact Troy Fedderson at tfedderson2@unl.edu or 402-472-8515.
The University Libraries are requiring the use of a personal identification number to access online systems. The use of PINs, which started May 13, is to protect library cards from unauthorized use. Users must establish a PIN when they log into a library account or the UNL libraries database. The PIN will be used to […]
Margo Berends of Aurora, Colo., and Anh Ha of the Thanhxuan district, Hanoi, Vietnam, received UNL’s 2013 Outstanding Student Leadership Awards during an April 26 recognition dinner at the Van Brunt Visitors Center. The awards were presented by the Office of Student Affairs. UNL selection committees on behalf of Student Affairs annually select one male […]
