Retired athletic trainer George ‘Sully’ Sullivan has served Huskers since 1953 In 55 seasons with the Huskers, George “Sully” Sullivan has missed only one home football game. And, honestly, that one doesn’t count. “I missed the spring game in 1997 to serve as a trainer for the PanAmerican Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil,” said Sullivan, […]
Project delves into nation’s capitol during War Between the States The latest project from UNL’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities is a highly collaborative exploration of Civil War-era Washington. Faculty from several academic departments and the CDRH are working together to map changes in the city’s topography, and searching for stories of medical […]
Mint green colored pistachio-flavored milk soon might become a standard in the Dairy Store. It will, at least, if everything goes according to the plans of two food science and technology students who visited southern India this summer and learned how to create the milk. The trip by Yulie Meneses and Alex Nelson was the […]
Struggling to read is frustrating for young readers and places stress on families who don’t understand why their child may be lagging behind in school. The Reading Center at UNL has been a resource for Nebraska families for five years by helping children of all ages improve their reading abilities and do better in school. […]
Three-dimensional, real-time X-ray images of patients could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at UNL and a pair of Russian institutes. In a paper to be published in Physical Review Letters, Anthony Starace, a UNL physics and astronomy professor, and his colleagues give scientists important clues into how to unleash […]
Six days of activities, all free and open to the public, celebrate Chinese Culture Week at UNL. Events kick off Sept. 28 and conclude Oct. 3. The week observes the second anniversary of the establishment of UNL’s Confucius Institute, the 30th anniversary of the normalizing of diplomatic relations between the United States and the People’s […]
University Police continue to investigate a Sept. 18 motor vehicle accident on East Campus that left 75-year-old Curtis Twedt of Lincoln dead. Twedt’s car crashed into Chase Hall at about 11:19 p.m. and he was pronounced dead on the scene when rescue workers arrived. A passerby witnessed the accident and summoned police. Twedt’s car, a […]
Verbatem – Alan Cerveny, dean of admission, issued this Sept. 17 e-mail about UNL’s 2009-2010 student enrollment figures announced Sept. 4. In September 2004, a headline in the Lincoln Journal Star announced that UNL’s fall enrollment had dropped to a 30-year low. With an enrollment of 21,792 students, people began to publicly question whether UNL’s […]
Self-employment continues to grow in rural Nebraska, especially as “people are pasting together bits and pieces of work” in tough economic times, according to the Nebraska Rural Poll. Surveys for the annual UNL poll were mailed to about 6,400 randomly selected households in Nebraska’s 84 rural counties last March. Results are based on 2,852 responses. […]
A new initiative has launched and is aimed at increasing the number of faculty who lead study-abroad courses or incorporate international perspectives in classes, and increasing the number of students who participate. Chancellor Harvey Perlman announced the project, Global Gateway, during the Sept. 10 State of the University address. A student, faculty and curriculum development […]
