The University of Nebraska on April 20 announced a $50 million founding gift from the Robert B. Daugherty Charitable Foundation to support a new global Water for Food Institute. The gift, one of the largest in the university’s history, will create a multi-campus center for research, education and policy analysis relating to use of water […]
East Campus employees have retooled UNL’s use of horse apples, poultry poop and small animal excrement. For the second season, Animal Science employees are converting the three-pronged manure mix into a natural fertilizer and selling it to area gardeners for $2 per cubic foot (or in bulk for $45 per cubic yard). And, according to […]
The Department of Psychology has been setting the standard among its peers for 120 years. It offered what was most likely the earliest formal instruction in psychology west of the Mississippi River. It established the first psychological laboratory dedicated to training undergraduates. Members of the Department of Psychology stand on the steps of Morrill Hall. […]
Stephen Lahey is wrapping a long-time hobby into a research project. Lahey started painting miniature military figures as a boy. He has a wide-ranging collection, with thousands of figures representing classical historical figures to average military grunts. Lahey even continued to work on figures as a corpsman with the Marines — though he admits lining […]
The 2009 Associated Press Player of the Year and winner of the Lombardi, Outland, Bednarik and Nagurski football awards — UNL graduate Ndamukong Suh — announced April 17 he will donate $2 million for use in the Nebraska Athletics for Strength and Conditioning Program and an additional $600,000 to the College of Engineering to endow […]
UNL celebrated diversity, students and family during an April 16 dedication of the new Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center. Construction of the $8.7 million, 30,000-square-foot center began in 2008 following receipt of the lead gift from the family of Jackie D. Gaughan of Las Vegas. The other half of the cost is from student fees, after […]
The success of an UNL employee art exhibition has led to a second, more focused show. Thirteen staff/faculty artists will be featured in the UNL Employee Quilt Show. The exhibition will show in two venues — April 26 to May 6 in the Nebraska Union Rotunda Gallery, and May 7-20 at the International Quilt Study […]
Painter Wendy Hall will be the 2010 Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence April 27-May 2 at the UNL’s Great Plains Art Museum. During her residency, Hall will create two paintings: one still life and one bucolic scene from her farm. The commissioned works will become part of the museum’s permanent collection. Artist Wendy Hall’s “Corn and Beans,” […]
A series of visits is planned with four candidates identified by a search committee seeking the recommended new hire of the University of Nebraska vice president and vice chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The four finalists are Cheng-i Wei, Cameron Hackney, Ken Grafton and Ronnie Green. Beginning April 26 the candidates […]
The UNL Chapter of Sigma Xi, the science and engineering honorary society, has announced the winners of its 2009 awards for outstanding researchers, outstanding graduate student, and outstanding science librarian. Recipients being honored are: Sally Mackenzie, professor of Agronomy and Horticulture, has been selected for the Outstanding Scientist Award for international recognition on the genomes […]
