Category: Student Access and Success

Where Curiosity Becomes Purpose

June 7, 2024

UNO plays an essential role in helping Nebraska address its health care workforce shortages by providing foundational STEM classes and a path to health careers.

Bringing Health Care Home

May 22, 2024

During his 22-year tenure as UNK chancellor, Doug Kristensen, J.D., has been a dedicated advocate of bringing health care education to the Kearney campus and creating jobs where they’re needed most.

Serving Nebraska, Serving Students

May 21, 2024

Growing up, the Marsh kids always knew their parents valued education. Today, the Frank and Shirley Marsh Scholarship Fund honors their memory and their significant contributions to Nebraska and UNL.

Reaching Students Where They Are

May 21, 2024

Lou Anne Rinn is not simply giving back to students at her alma mater. She is reaching them in the most effective ways, considering obstacles and how she can help students get around them.

Doug Waggoner talks with students in the Investors With Purpose program.

Investing in Students

April 8, 2024

Doug Waggoner has created a unique program for business majors at UNL. Investors With Purpose is a wealth management course that brings students together with global investment professionals.

‘Public Health, It’s Everything’

April 8, 2024

Katie Weitz believes the College of Public Health can make the world a better place. But it’s hard to explain what it is: “I think everybody would care about public health if they knew what it was.”

Dean Lance Perez talks with civil engineering seniors on the first day of class. The seniors have to wait unitl next week for their first classes in the building as the CE area is being finished this week. First day of classes in Kiewit Hall. January 22, 2024. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing

A newly opened six-story building on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln campus was designed with state-of-the-art features to prepare a growing number of engineering, construction and computing graduates.

A Global View to Giving Back

January 31, 2024

Sharon Redding has traveled to more countries than she can count in her nursing career. Her experiences led her to create a planned gift allowing future nurses to travel internationally.

During her visit to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in September, philanthropist Millie Williams met with Andrea López Mercado, right, one of the newly named and newly funded Williams Scholars. Photo courtesy of UNMC Strategic Communications

Inspired to be a Pharmacist

December 1, 2023

UNMC Williams Scholar Andrea López Mercado grew up in Lares, Puerto Rico, and was living in the town when it was hit by Hurricane Maria in 2017. She was inspired to pursue a Doctor of Pharmacy degree after witnessing the kindness of pharmacists in the storm’s aftermath.

Valery Wachter, a Burnett Society member and artist, has established a planned gift supporting studio arts majors at UNL.

Helping Paint a Bright Future

November 30, 2023

Artist Valery Wachter has established a planned gift supporting studio arts majors in the College of Fine and Performing Arts at UNL.

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May 24, 2024