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The 'University of Nebraska–Lincoln', often called 'UNL', but also known as 'Nebraska' or 'NU', is the
flagship institution of the
University of Nebraska system. UNL was founded in 1869 as a
land-grant university under the provisions of the
Morrill Act. It is located in
Lincoln a few blocks north of the
Nebraska State Capitol. The University has two campuses: City Campus, which is the university's main campus, and East Campus, which was originally purchased for use as the university farm. The University is a member of the
Association of American Universities and is listed as a Carnegie Research I institution.
Academics
The '
J.D. Edwards Honors Program' is an honors program at UNL that focuses on students specializing in the integration of both
computer science and
business management. The goal is to train the next generation of business leaders.
Academic divisions
The university offers over 140 undergraduate majors and 275 programs of study through ten colleges:
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College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
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College of Architecture
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College of Arts and Sciences
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College of Business Administration
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College of Education and Human Sciences
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College of Engineering and Technology
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Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts
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Graduate Studies
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College of Journalism and Mass Communications
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College of Law
UNL also offers programs at its campus from other University of Nebraska institutions, including the
University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Public Affairs and Community Service, the
University of Nebraska Medical Center colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, and the
Peter Kiewit Institute managed in partnership with the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Campus
Hamilton Hall
In 1869, the original University of Nebraska campus was laid out on four city blocks and comprised one building called University Hall. Currently, the university has two campuses, totaling 613 acres: City Campus, which is just north of downtown Lincoln, and south of the
Nebraska State Fair grounds, and East Campus, which is approximately two miles northeast of City Campus.
Unions
'
Nebraska City Union' is the student union located on the southern part of City Campus. Many services are offered to the students including dining, computer labs, and other recreational activities, while the lower level of the union houses the University Bookstore. The City Union also provides space for student organizations as well as holding offices for the Daily Nebraskan and the student government. The Rotunda Gallery showcases various student artwork. In spring 2006, the student body voted to finance an expansion to the City Union including adding new space for the university Culture Center (formerly in a different building).
'Nebraska East Union' is located on East Campus and offers similar student services as the City Union. The Loft Gallery provides space for community and student artwork.
University libraries
Love Library
The
University Libraries are the only set of comprehensive research libraries in Nebraska. 2.6
million volumes reside in UNL's two main libraries. The 'Don L. Love Memorial Library' is the main library on campus and houses collections on
social sciences and
humanities. Other academic disciplines are housed in six branch locations on campus:
★ Architecture Library
★ C.Y. Thompson Library
★ Engineering Library
★ Geology Library
★ Mathematics Library
★ Music Library
The 'Marvin and Virginia Schmid Law Library' serves the UNL College of Law.
Museums
★ The '
University of Nebraska State Museum' is located on campus in Morrill Hall. The museum holds several collections and exhibits particularly featuring
natural history and famously houses
mastadon bone
fossils. Because of these fossils, and a large bronze mastadon statue located in front of the building, it is popularly known as "Elephant Hall".
★ The '
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden' is home to more than 12,000 works of art in all media and is a comprehensive collection of
American art with prominent holdings in 19th century landscape and
still life,
American Impressionism, early
Modernism, geometric abstraction,
Abstract Expressionism,
pop,
minimalism, and
contemporary art. The gallery contains works by such well known artists as
Edward Hopper,
Andy Warhol,
Jackson Pollock,
Mary Cassatt, and
Georgia O'Keeffe.
★ The 'Great Plains Art Museum' is home to the Christlieb Collection
[2] which features American western art and Americana.
Performing arts venues
★ The '
Lied Center for Performing Arts' is a
performing arts venue used primarily for orchestra concerts and theatre performances.
★ The '
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center' is a two screen theater located on the UNL City Campus. It features primarily
arthouse and
independent films, and
documentaries.
★ The 'Howell Theatre' and 'Studio Theatre' are home to the performances of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film.
Other points of interest
★ '
University of Nebraska Press' has a strong program for publishing original works and reprints of significant works about the West. The "Bison Books" imprint is a series of high quality trade paperback editions of significant titles.
★ The '
International Quilt Study Center' is on East Campus.
★ The 'Maxwell Arboretum' located on East Campus is part of the
Nebraska Statewide Arboretum.
Athletics
Memorial Stadium
The school's sports teams are named the 'Nebraska
Cornhuskers' (or simply the 'Huskers'). They compete in
NCAA Division I (I-A for football) as members of the northern division of the
Big 12 Conference. The Huskers have 21
varsity teams that compete in 14 different sports and claim all or part of 23 National Championships across 5 sports, most notably Volleyball, Football, and Gymnastics.
Student life
About 78% of UNL students are from Nebraska. The rest are from all fifty states and 114 foreign countries. On-campus students are also members of the UNL
Residence Hall Association, which serves as the governing body for the residence halls. Select senior honoraries include the Nebraska-only
Society of Innocents and the Black Masque chapter of
Mortar Board.
Residence Halls
Approximately 40% of the student body lives on-campus in 14 traditional
residence halls, and two on-campus apartment-style halls.
There are 11 traditional residence halls on the City Campus:
★ Abel
★ Cather
★ Harper
★ Husker Hall
★ Kauffman Center
★ Pound
★ Neihardt
★ Sandoz
★ Schramm
★ Selleck
★ Smith
Three traditional residence halls are on the East Campus:
★ Burr
★ Fedde
★ Love Memorial Co-op
And two on-campus apartment-style halls are located on the City Campus:
★ The Courtyards
★ The Village
Student government
The governing body for UNL students is the '
Association of Students of the University of Nebraska', or 'ASUN'. Every year students vote for a president, two vice presidents, and a senate that is composed of representatives from each college. The president also acts as the student regent to the NU Board of Regents.
Greek houses
UNL has a significant
Greek population, with about 5,200 students being members of 29 fraternities (28 chapters and one colony) and 14 sororities. There are numerous events on campus throughout the year such as decorating "Greek Row" for the homecoming parade and various philanthropy events.
Media
The '
Daily Nebraskan', known to students as the ''DN'', is UNL's student newspaper. It was established in 1901 and is published every weekday during the fall and spring semesters and weekly during the summer.
UNL operates a
Class A FM radio station,
KRNU, which broadcasts on 90.3 FM and has a range of approximately 20 miles. The station plays mostly
alternative and
modern rock as well as running sportscasts of Nebraska's home events, news, live public affairs broadcasts of campus speakers and forums.
Notable alumni
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Edith Abbott,
social worker, educator, and author.
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Grace Abbott, pioneering American social worker, attended the university in the early 1900s.
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Hazel Abel, former US Senator from Nebraska.
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George W. Beadle, winner of the 1958 Nobel prize in physiology and medicine received his bachelor of science and master of science degrees from the College of Agriculture in the 1920s. The George W. Beadle Center for Genetics and Biomaterials Research at UNL is named for Dr. Beadle.
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Douglas A. Block,
US Navy Captain, commanded and served on combat war ship
USS Simpson (FFG-56), the second
frigate ship in US Navy history to sink an enemy ship.
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John Robert Brown, former US judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, one of the "
Fifth Circuit Four" crucial to
civil rights decisions.
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Herbert Brownell, Jr.,
Attorney General under President
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Warren Buffett, the "Oracle of Omaha" and third-richest man of the world (net worth of $43 billion).
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Johnny Carson, longtime host of ''
The Tonight Show'', who, before his death, donated 5.3 million dollars to the College of Fine and Performing Arts.
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Willa Cather, distinguished novelist, studied at the university in the 1890s. Her novels include ''
O Pioneers!'', ''
My Antonia'', and ''
One of Ours'', for which she won the 1923
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. The
Willa Cather Archive is available from UNL.
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Aaron Douglas, distinguished painter and leader of the
Harlem Renaissance, received his B.F.A. from the university in 1922.
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Harold Eugene Edgerton, distinguished MIT professor and inventor.
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Rollins A. Emerson, American geneticist.
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Darin Erstad, former baseball All-American and punter at UNL; drafted with the top overall pick in the 1995
MLB Draft by what is now the
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim; a two-time
MLB All-star and three-time
Gold Glove winner for the Angels (only player in MLB history to have won Gold Gloves as an outfielder and an infielder); currently plays center field for the
Chicago White Sox.
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David Fellman, political scientist.
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Rulon Gardner, amateur wrestler and
mixed martial arts competitor; won the
2000 Summer Olympics gold medal for wrestling, defeating the previously undefeated champion of 13 years,
Alexander Karelin.
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Alex Gordon, former baseball All-American at UNL, being named the unanimous national player of the year in 2005; drafted second overall in the 2005 MLB Draft by the
Kansas City Royals; won
Baseball America's Minor League Player of the Year award in 2006 while playing for the
AA Wichita Wranglers; currently starts at third base for the Royals.
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Ahman Green, former running back All-American at UNL, current NFL pro bowler, signed with the Houston Texans in Spring of 2007.
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Kip Gross, retired
Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the
Cincinnati Reds,
Los Angeles Dodgers,
Boston Red Sox,
Houston Astros, and
Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters of the
Japan Pacific League.
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Stanley K. Hathaway-Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and former Wyoming Governor
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Joe E. Holoubek - (1915-2007) M.D., founder of Louisiana State University at Shreveport Medical School, author of historical novel ''Letters to Luke'' (2004)
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Galen B. Jackman,
US Army Major General,
Nancy Reagan's escort throughout the
death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan, and first commanding officer of the
Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region.
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Dan Johnson, MLB Player,
Oakland Athletics
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Weldon Kees, notable poet.
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Bob Kerrey, a
Medal of Honor recipient in
Vietnam, Democrat, former governor of Nebraska, former senator from Nebraska, and a member of the
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (known as the 9/11 Commission).
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J. Martin Klotsche, first chancellor of the 23,000-student
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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Ted Kooser, who was named
Poet Laureate of the United States in 2004, won the 2005
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, took a master's degree at the University of Nebraska in 1968 and was a visiting professor in the English department.
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Al McIntosh, distinguished newspaper editor featured in
Ken Burns' documentary "
The War."
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Frank Uryasz, Business Owner , Drug Free Sport
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Mikki Moore,
National Basketball Association player for the
Sacramento Kings.
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Ben Nelson, senator from Nebraska and former governor of Nebraska.
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John J. Pershing, first general officer to be named
General of the Armies (only
George Washington outranks him in American military history), commander of the
American Expeditionary Force in Europe during
World War I; took a law degree at the University of Nebraska while serving as the Professor of Military Science in the 1890s.
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Emily Poeschl,
Miss Nebraska USA 2006.
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Louise Pound, longtime English professor at UNL & president of the
Modern Language Association, 1954-55.
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Roscoe Pound, distinguished legal scholar and dean of
Harvard Law School.
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James G. Roudebush, U.S. Air Force
Lieutenant General and
doctor of medicine, currently serving as
Surgeon General of the
United States Air Force.
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Virginia Smith, Republican
U.S. representative from Nebraska, 1975-1991; last woman to represent Nebraska in Congress.
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Adam Stern, baseball player.
Trivia
★ UNL was the first academic institution west of the
Missouri River to grant the
Ph.D. degree.
★ The world's first undergraduate psychology lab was established at UNL.
★ For a few weeks in the 2004 fall semester, rocker
Tommy Lee attended several classes at the university for the
NBC television show ''
Tommy Lee Goes to College''.
★ UNL is also home of the Pershing Rifles National Headquarters. This is in recognition of General
John J. Pershing (an 1893 NU law school graduate and former professor of Military Science and Tactics) who created "Company A," a competitive drill team, for the University of Nebraska's Cadet Corps in 1891. The drill team won the National Competitive Drills in 1892, changed its name to the "Varsity Rifles" when it became a recognized fraternal organization in 1893, and finally changed its name again to the "Pershing Rifles" in 1894. UNL rededicated the Military and Naval Science Building as the John J. Pershing Military and Naval Science Building on April 20, 2006.
External links
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletic Department
References
1. "2006 NACUBO Endowment Study". ''National Association of College and University Business Officers''.
2.
Great Plains Art Museum
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