UNL Points of Pride

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

Investing in Students

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.

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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

Building Nebraska

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.

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Study abroad trip is life-changing experience

Alex Pribil wasn’t the kind of guy who’d volunteer to stand at a podium and speak to people. It’d make him uncomfortable. He’d avoid it when he could. Yet this past spring, he gladly offered to be one of the student speakers at a luncheon for NU donors.

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Garden of happy tears

She didn’t mean to cry.
But Dorothy Enright did, and her tears made it hard to see the garden and its trees and shrubs, its paths where the students walk.

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Gift adds up to improve math education in Omaha

Helping students improve their math skills by investing in math teachers is behind the logic of a $5.5 million gift. It creates the NebraskaMATH Omaha Public Schools Teacher Leader Academy, providing continuing education to math teachers in Omaha.

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Winning? UNL whiz-kids have an app for that

UNL Raikes School students Neema Bahramzad, Alec Johnston, Chris Johnson, Clay Upton and Derek Guenther – “Team Stock Bros” – sit around a table, staring at a computer screen as they wait for word on who’s won the TradeKing national app-development contest.

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Measure your life by the difference 
you’ve made in someone else’s.

When you make a gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation you can trust that it will be used in the way in which it was intended. That’s a promise we’ve kept with our donors since our organization was founded in 1936.