It’s been around four months, but Mark Petersen still can’t believe the new space he works in. “It’s amazing here,” said Petersen, an Abel-Sandoz dining services associate. “Our new space is really great. It’s like working and eating in a lodge.” The year-long renovation of the Abel-Sandoz Dining Services space was completed in July, just […]

Daniel Griggs has earned opportunity and reward in the Special Olympics. He is a decorated, three-time member of Team USA. He has won medals in the Special Olympics World Games in New Haven, Conn.; Raleigh, N.C.; and during a dream trip to Shanghai, China. But it’s the next competition that has the 15-year UNL Dining […]

Dining Services employees in the East Union are gearing up for a week-long, Special Olympics challenge. And they’ve enlisted a fleet of brown UPS trucks to pull it off. Starting around 4 a.m. each day of the Special Olympics 2010 USA National Games, the Dining Services crew will begin building boxed lunches for athletes competing […]

Students power growth of Dining Services program that taps into area food stuffs UNL’s “Good. Fresh. Local.” program is blooming. Now in its fourth year, the program taps into Nebraska grown and produced food products, incorporating them into housing meals programs at Cather-Pound-Neihardt and East Campus. The sustainable food project started offering Nebraska-produced meals once […]