Exhibit features digital images woven into cloth The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery will present “Lia Cook: In Touch, Faces and Mazes,” a solo show featuring the work of Lia Cook, March 16 through April 10. Cook, a weaver from Berkeley, Calif., uses an electronic Jacquard hand loom to weave faces that dissolve into continuously changing, […]

Admissions team gives hands-on review of student applications In an era of online applications, UNL’s admissions process remains a very hands-on operation. Nearly 95 percent of all new student applications for admission to UNL are submitted electronically, said Nathan Fuerst, associate director of operations for admissions. However, the admissions team reviews each application twice before […]

University officials are asking faculty to be prepared. While details continue to emerge, time is shedding light on how universities can benefit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act crafted by Congress. The act includes $53.6 billion in new aid to states, more than $20 billion to federal agencies for research grants and facilities, and […]

Committee draws Fenton, a former Olympiad, to UNL The Chancellor’s Wellness Committee is gearing up for an active spring. The Wellness team is presenting a series of events, including a March 24 presentation by Mark Fenton, an international wellness speaker. Other events include participation in the N-Lighten Nebraska program (through May 1), a smoking cessation […]

Kimberly Barrett is the new face of wellness at UNL. Barrett is the wellness coordinator for Campus Recreation and UNL. She is also the chair for the Chancellor’s Committee on Wellness. Barrett is a wellness program manager, certified through the National Wellness Institute. She previously served as the physical activity coordinator for the Nebraska Department […]

In an effort to reduce food waste, improve environmental impact and bring down costs, UNL dining halls will convert to a trayless system in late March, officials said March 9. The decision to eliminate trays in the five campus dining halls was made official after UNL’s student Residence Hall Association voted 30-6 March 8 to […]

The next E.N. Thompson Forum lecture is also the second annual Charles and Linda Wilson Dialogue on Domestic Issues. The discussion, “Illegal Immigrants: Path to Citizenship?” is 7 p.m. March 25 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Michael Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair of Law at the University of Houston, and Vernon Briggs, […]

UNL hosted a Japan Festival on March 5 in the Nebraska Union and Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. The Japan Festival was sponsored by the UNL Japanese Program and the Consulate General of Japan in Chicago. Photos by Tom Slocum/University Communications.

Verbatem – Chancellor Harvey Perlman issued this March 9 e-mail about UNL’s current budget situation. Dear Colleagues: I write again about the budget situation. I wish I had good news. Indeed, I wish I had news that would provide some certainty. Neither is the case. President Milliken’s Feb. 25 letter outlined the situation. We know […]

A scholarship in memory of Brian Smith is keeping his passion for learning alive even though the UNL student’s life was cut short one year ago. A heart attack while on a spring break study trip was the only sign of a pre-existing health condition. Smith, a native of Omaha, died March 15, 2008, while […]