º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University President Fred Ohles was invited by the White House on December 4 to discuss action steps that will help more students prepare for and graduate from college.
Nolan Lott was only a toddler when Ron Howard’s film, Apollo 13, hit the theaters.
When he was old enough to watch and understand the Academy Award-winning film about the aborted 1970 lunar mission, he —like many young boys — dreamed of becoming an astronaut.
Over the past four decades, nearly 800 lab rats have walked, climbed and jumped their way to coveted gold medals at º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University’s annual Xtreme Rat Challenge.
Energetic. Inventive. Committed. That’s how colleagues and students describe music professor John Spilker.
“Students will come, and they will stay when they have taken inventive, demanding and engaging classes like those taught by John Spilker,†wrote Sandra McBride, assistant professor of English.
Andrew Reuss first became interested in Japan as a middle school student. He continued that interest at º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University, meeting Japanese exchange students, enrolling in Japanese classes, participating in Japanese round table discussions, and writing to a Japanese pen pal.
New bachelor’s and master’s degrees, a new forward-thinking general education curriculum, a new sport, new facility updates, new faces. We certainly have a lot to look forward to for the new academic year. Here are some highlights:
In May, Kelsy Reynoldson walked the stage and proudly picked up her diploma from º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University, where she majored in language arts education and minored in writing.
Dr. Fred Ohles, President of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University, awarded degrees to approximately 575 undergraduate and graduate students during º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University’s 125th annual commencement held Saturday, May 17.
Most know little more about Rwanda than the 1994 genocide that devastated the country. But Gerise Herndon, professor of English and director of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½â€™s Gender Studies Program, hopes the students she leads to Africa in June will discover that Rwanda is now a changed nation.
Three º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University students have each been awarded the prestigious Boren Scholarship, which will send them abroad for one year to develop language skills.
This spring º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University students Alex Langley and Rebecca Brune will begin implementing a new program aimed at empowering middle school girls as they transition to high school.
While on sabbatical in Vienna, Austria, communication studies professor Karla Jensen continued her own study of German while immersing herself in a new culture.
Cathy Nelson, associate professor of Spanish, has been selected to serve on the National Screening Committee (NSC) for Fulbright Scholarship applications.
Nelson will evaluate applications for the Fulbright U.S. Student English Language Teaching Assistantships in Spain.
Ben Gotschall, energy director for Bold Nebraska will discuss Nebraska’s role in the Keystone XL Pipeline debate at an upcoming º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University Forum lecture.
