Year in review – 2008-2009 This is the 5th annual Year in Review, created by the UNL Scarlet and University Communications. As usual, the task of reviewing the past year has revealed remarkable progress and laudable achievements. Although the publication cannot list every single accomplishment and success collectively achieved by faculty, staff and students at […]

Construction changes face of campus Construction projects continued to change the face of UNL – increasing research and education opportunities – in the 2008-09 academic year. The university recorded a number of completed construction projects, including the Children’s Center (see story below), the Law College’s Acklie Classroom Wing, Abel-Sandoz Residence Hall Welcome Center, a geothermal […]

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The new Children’s Center at UNL opened Aug. 24 with 90 children enrolled in the inaugural class. The center – UNL’s first on-campus care facility for children – is located at 22nd and W streets, on the north side of the Whittier Building. Features of the center include a security system developed with the assistance […]

Highest enrollment in 14 years With 24,100 students enrolled in the fall semester 2009, UNL recorded its highest enrollment since 1995. The enrollment, reported Sept. 4, represents a 2.2 percent increase over fall 2008. Of the 527 students who comprise the increase, 429 are undergraduate students, 91 are graduate students and seven are in professional […]

Nebraska 4-H is emerging as a national leader in science education, thanks to a nearly $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation that is taking 4-H robotics and GPS/GIS curriculum national. The new grant, “Scale-Up: National Robotics in 4-H: Workforce Skills for the 21st Century,” allows 4-H to expand its current program, offered mostly […]

UNL received a $9.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation for “Nebraska Math,” a statewide program aimed at improving mathematics achievement for all students and narrowing the achievement gap for at-risk students in kindergarten through third grade. “Nebraska Math” is a partnership of UNL, Lincoln Public Schools, Grand Island Public Schools, Papillion-La Vista Public […]

The new Barkley Memorial Center Autism Spectrum Disorders Project has begun. It has a three-part mission that will expand evidence-based intervention practices for young children with autism spectrum disorders, according to Ellin Siegel, director of the program and associate professor in special education and communication disorders at UNL. The project staff will conduct research, educate […]

Peter Bleed, Doug Scott and UNL students are helping bring an 1865 Indian war battle site in western Nebraska into focus. During the final three weeks of UNL’s Summer Field School in Archaeology – an annual summer course that immerses students in the study of historic sites – the researchers led 10 students in an […]

News-editorial student Chris Rosacker participated in the second annual Middle East Journalism Boot Camp in Egypt and Qatar. The American University in Cairo and Qatar University sponsored the three-week program in June. This is the second year a UNL journalism student participated in the program. Graduate student Lisa Munger participated in the first Middle East […]