Janos Zempleni, professor of nutrition and health sciences and animal science, will receive the 2014 Outstanding Investigator Award from a research interest section of the American Society for Nutrition. The award, announced by the society’s Vitamin and Mineral Research Interest Section, will be presented April 26 at the 2014 Experimental Biology conference in San Diego. […]
Four UNL faculty earned the University of Nebraska’s most prestigious awards for research, creative activity, teaching and engagement. Those earning the honors for UNL are Shane Farritor, professor of mechanical engineering; Susan Sheridan, professor of educational psychology; Judy Walker, professor of mathematics; and Donald Weeks, professor of biochemistry. The universitywide awards, announced April 4, recognize […]
UNL Police Chief Owen Yardley is helping a federal committee to craft regulations for the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (Campus SaVE) Act. The legislation reauthorizes the Violence Against Women Act and amends the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act to further address the violence women face on college campuses. […]
Alex Mallory has earned a 2014 Udall Scholarship. The junior history and political science major is the first UNL student to receive the award. Established in 1992, the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation provides $5,000 scholarships to students who have shown a commitment to careers related to the environment and to Native […]
UNL’s Lester F. Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum is getting a new look and a refocused mission. Since becoming the manager of exhibits in 2012, Lance Todd has organized an update of the East Campus museum. The new direction — which includes a mission to showcase tractors that were innovative and/or actually tested at […]
Sometimes it’s hard to find beauty in everyday life. Not for Judy Walker. “Mathematics really is beautiful,” she said. “Helping students look at mathematics beyond just a set of rules and procedures and see it instead as truth and as beauty is what I enjoy doing.” Walker, chair and Aaron Douglas Professor of Mathematics, demonstrates […]
Parking and Transit Services is again offering a free StarTran bus pass with every UNL parking permit order. The bus pass must be requested via email to unlpts@unl.edu after individuals complete a parking permit order for the next fiscal/academic year. Orders can be completed for fiscal year faculty/staff (July 1 to June 30), academic year […]
The Lied Center for Performing Arts has received a tourism marketing grant from the Nebraska Tourism Commission. The $15,000 award will be used to promote the Lied’s 25th anniversary Broadway performances to Nebraska communities outside of Lincoln. The Nebraska Tourism Commission awarded 25 of the grants totaling nearly $180,000 to entities across the state. The […]
Don Weeks grew up on a small farm in Indiana and remembers taking in the raising of livestock and plants with great interest. It was his freshman botany instructor at Purdue University who whetted that appetite. “He opened my eyes to things I’d been seeing all my life but not understanding,” Weeks said. That curiosity […]
A career dedicated to improving children’s development has earned Susan Sheridan the University of Nebraska’s highest honor for research. Sheridan, a George Holmes University Professor of educational psychology and founding director of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, received the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity award. Sheridan has spent more […]
