UNL’s University Theatre closes the spring season with “Bloody Poetry,” which mixes legendary literary characters and intense discussions about radical politics, free love, poetry, artistic defiance and intellectual rage. Performances are 7:30 p.m., April 9-10 and 14-17 in the Temple Building’s Studio Theatre. Tickets are $16 general admission; $14 for faculty, staff and seniors; and […]

“The Black Ocean: Europe-Africa-America,” an exhibition of appliquéed banner narratives created by French artist William Wilson and documenting the complicated history of the infamous “triangle trade,” are on display through April 30 at UNL’s Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery. The Paris-based multi-media artist is on campus April 7-15, and will present a free public talk at […]

Clifford M. Hardin, chancellor of the University of Nebraska from 1954-1968, died at his home in Lincoln April 4. He was 94. Among his survivors is Cynthia Hardin Milligan, dean emeritus of the College of Business Administration at UNL. UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman called Hardin “the founder of the modern University of Nebraska,” and said […]

Typewriter, love of horses spur career path As a young girl, Jonis Agee loved writing and she loved horses. One day, her father brought home a huge manual typewriter and a typing book from his downtown Omaha office. “And so there I was, about 10 or 11 years old, and I thought, ‘OK I’m going […]

The dedication of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center opens with a Native American blessing at 5 p.m., April 9. The blessing by Mitchell Parker will be followed by traditional Native American hand games at 6 p.m.. The week-long celebration ends with a dedication with the Gaughan family, 5 to 6:30 p.m., April 16. Remarks will […]

Matthew Boring, a junior music major, is a recipient of the Truman Scholarship. The Truman Scholarship is a $30,000 highly competitive, merit-based national scholarship awarded to undergraduate students for financial support to attend graduate or professional school in preparation for careers in government, the nonprofit sector or elsewhere in public service. The scholarship foundation received […]

Excitement, intensive research, rumor and controversy have surrounded the Dead Sea Scrolls since their discovery more than 60 years ago. The scrolls will be the focus of the spring Nebraska Lecture. Sidnie White Crawford, Willa Cather professor and chair of classics and religious studies, will discuss their discovery, study and publication, as well as controversies […]

Fusarium head blight, or wheat scab, is a destructive disease that costs growers money at the elevator by not only lowering yield and grain quality, but by the presence of deoxynivalenol, a mycotoxin produced by the scab fungus. To help combat this costly disease, a UNL plant pathologist is working to effectively manage it. Stephen […]

The Academic Planning Committee will host hearings on proposed budget cuts on April 9 and 23. The April 9 hearing, 1 p.m., in the East Union, involves the $3.6 million in reductions proposed March 9 for the current academic year. For more information, go to http://go.unl.edu/dbd. The April 23 hearing will examine proposed reductions in […]

It’s a mission most folks would probably shy away from: the search for as many of Nebraska’s snakes as can be found. But that has been the calling for at least 20 years of UNL herpetologist Dennis Ferraro, who will present a public discussion of his never-ending hunt April 14 in the next Paul A. […]