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• News Release

Multiple records were broken in the sixth year breaking $100 million in gifts to the foundation

• UNK

Why do you give thanks for UNK?

Don Swanson keeps a small treasure in a box in his bedroom.
“I wouldn’t ever think of parting with it,” the 91-year-old says. He smiles.
It’s a piece of shrapnel.

• UNO

Orv Menard didn’t want a funeral.
Instead, he just wanted people to gather at the school’s alumni house for an afternoon of conversation and sparkling French wine – Cremant – all on his dime, and some good Dixieland music.
They did.

• News Release

Funds will forever support the university’s Buffett Early Childhood Institute and its public outreach and education programs across Nebraska.

• UNMC

The Nancy Armitage Pancreas Cancer Clinical Research Professorship honors Nancy while forever supporting the university’s efforts in pancreatic cancer clinical research.

• News Release

The gift will assist students committed to improving water and food security in developing countries.

• UNMC
• UNO

The University of Nebraska Foundation mourns the loss of Dick Holland, who died August 9, 2016.

• Planned Giving
• UNMC

The Pearsons’ gift helps fund research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in macular degeneration and regenerative medicine and supports two existing endowed funds established at the University of Nebraska Foundation by the Pearsons during their lifetimes.

Looking back now, he says, it probably was too serious of a talk to have with such a little boy. He was just 5 at the time. His dad was still alive. He was visiting his dad’s room in a bare-bones public hospital near their home in Burkina Faso, a third-world country in West Africa. […]

• News Release
• UNL

Performing arts collaboration to feature superstar ballerina Misty Copeland with the American Ballet Theatre of New York and the St. Louis Symphony.

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• UNK

Professor Younes, who is chair of the social work department in UNK’s College of Natural and Social Sciences, has left a lasting impression on many students.