Tom Osborne, former Husker football coach and current UNL athletics director, has been named the 2012 Walter Camp Football Foundation “Distinguished American.” The award is presented annually to an individual who has used their talents to attain great success in business, private life or public service and who may have accomplished that which no other […]

A research team based at UNL wants to understand what factors predict Latino youth adjustment by launching a large-scale study of Latino youth in Nebraska. The goal is to understand the experiences of Latino youth in the state, their strengths and challenges, and the family and community supports that help them succeed. Latinos are the […]

U.S. Air Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, and Ambassador Richard Butler, the United Nations’ former chief Iraq weapons inspector, will deliver the keynote speeches at the UNL College of Law’s fourth annual Space and Telecommunications Law Conference, May 6-7. Butler, an Australian diplomat who served as the United Nations’ chief […]

Kazuo “Kaz” Tada, 86, Lincoln, died Jan. 24, 2010. He was born Aug. 17, 1923 in Seattle, Wash., to Kinzo and Takeyo (Teshirogi) Tada. At the start of World War II, Tada was a freshman at the University of Washington. His family was evacuated from the west coast and sent to an internment camp in […]