The renovation of the Devaney Sports Center will shift UNL commencement exercises to three different locations in 2013. The change is due to a $20 million project that will convert the Huskers’ basketball home since 1976 into a volleyball arena. The renovation is scheduled to begin shortly after the current NCAA basketball season ends. It […]

Commencement exercises for approximately 1,500 graduates are scheduled at UNL on Dec. 14 and 15. Graduate commencement exercises, including doctoral hooding, will begin at 3 p.m. Dec. 14 for students earning doctoral and master’s degrees. Undergraduate exercises will begin at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 15. Both ceremonies will be at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The […]

Commencement exercises for nearly 1,500 graduates are scheduled at UNL on Dec. 16 and 17. Graduate commencement exercises, including doctoral hooding, begin at 3 p.m. Dec. 16 for students earning doctoral and master’s degrees. Undergraduate exercises begin at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 17. Both ceremonies will be at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The College of […]

Fall commencement exercises are Dec. 17 and 18. Graduate commencement exercises, including doctoral hooding, begin at 3 p.m. Dec. 17 for students earning doctoral and master’s degrees. Undergraduate exercises begin at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 18. Both ceremonies are at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The College of Law will have a separate hooding and commencement […]

UNL will confer its Charles Bessey Medal to NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson during fall commencement ceremonies Dec. 18. The Bessey Medal is presented by UNL in recognition of distinguished achievement in the sciences or in fields grounded in the sciences. The medal’s namesake, Charles Bessey, was one of the world’s pioneers in botany. Bessey was […]

Jeff Raikes, chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and benefactor of the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management, will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree at UNL’s May 8 undergraduate commencement exercises. Raikes’ talk is “Nebraska Can Change the World.” The late Ron Raikes, Jeff […]

UNL’s fall commencement exercises are scheduled for Dec. 18 and 19. Graduate commencement exercises, including doctoral hooding, will begin at 3 p.m. Dec. 18 for students earning doctoral and master’s degrees. Undergraduate exercises will begin at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 19. Both ceremonies will be at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The College of Law will […]

Approximately 2,400 students received degrees at UNL commencement exercises May 9 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Photos by Craig Chandler/University Communications.

Cordes, Walker Sorensen will address grads Approximately 2,400 students will receive degrees at UNL commencement exercises May 8 and 9. Chancellor Harvey Perlman will preside at the ceremonies for recipients of master’s and doctoral degrees at the Bob Devaney Sports Center at 3 p.m. May 8 and at the ceremonies for recipients of baccalaureate degrees […]

UNL will create a new tradition this month when it institutes a two-day commencement celebration Dec. 19-20. Because of increased enrollment and continuing student participation in commencement exercises, the Bob Devaney Sports Center no longer has the capacity to hold one commencement accommodating all students. As a result, UNL will conduct two commencement ceremonies three […]