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Fall is just around the corner, and for your Nebraska Alumni Association that

means Football Fridays, reunions, homecoming with the jester competition, a

volunteer leadership conference featuring the second annual CORNYs awards, the

Young Alumni Academy, Alumni Masters Week, Scarlet Guard student activities,

Cather Circle, career webinars, Nebraska Legends events, athletic and adventure

tours, and Nebraska watch parties at alumni chapters across the nation. Check out

our complete fall schedule on page 3.

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Football Friday Moves to the Railyard We’re taking the Nebraska Alumni Association’s traditional Football Fridays to Lincoln’s exciting new entertainment district in the

historic Haymarket this fall. Join us at the Railyard, just southeast of the new Pinnacle Bank Arena, at 5 p.m. on the day before each home football game (except Iowa) for children’s activities, live entertainment, appearances by former players and the Husker Spirit Squad, some Sports Nightly live broadcasts and more. Here’s a look at what else we’re doing alumni tour-wise and in Lincoln this fall:

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AUGUST*25 Nebraska Legends Barbecue26-Sept. 6 Taste of Europe Cruise tour30 Football Friday at the Railyard31 Nebraska Champions Club game day (NCC members)

SEPTEMBER*5 Scarlet Guard Meet and Greet6 Football Friday at the Railyard6 Young Alumni Academy application deadline7 Nebraska Champions Club game day (NCC members)*10 Nebraska Legends Scavenger Hunt13 Alumni Advisory Council (AAC members)13 Football Friday at the Railyard14 Nebraska Champions Club game day (NCC members)19-20 Cather Circle Fall Meeting (CC members)*19 SG Third Thursday Social20 Football Friday at the Railyard21 Nebraska Champions Club game day (NCC members)29-Oct. 6 Homecoming week

OCTOBER2 “Career Management” webinar 3 CORNYs Awards Banquet4 Volunteer Leadership Conference4 Homecoming Pep Rally, Jester Competition4 Football Friday at the Railyard5 Nebraska Champions Club game day (NCC members)5 Honors Program Alumni Reunion10 Young Alumni Academy (YAA members)10-18 Pearls of the Mediterranean tour11 Football Friday at Purdue11-12 Daily Nebraskan Reunion15-22 Mosel, Rhine & Main Rivers tour*17 SG Third Thursday Social24-27 Minnesota football tour25 Football Friday at Minnesota

NOVEMBER1 ROTC Fall Reunion1 Football Friday at the Railyard1-2 Yell Squad Reunion2 Nebraska Champions Club game day (NCC members)6 “Networking” career webinar 8-10 Michigan football tour13-15 Alumni Masters Week14 Young Alumni Academy (YAA members)15 Football Friday at the Railyard16 Nebraska Champions Club game day (NCC members)*21 SG Third Thursday Social29 Nebraska Champions Club game day (NCC members)

DECEMBER4 “Elevator Pitch” career webinar12 Young Alumni Academy (YAA members)*15-19 All Stressed Out Study Hall at Wick Alumni Center*Student activities

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Nebraska Alumni Association ContactsDiane Mendenhall, Executive Director, (402) 472-4218Claire Abelbeck, Digital Communications (402) 472-4209Andrea Cranford, Publications, (402) 472-4229Derek Englebart, Chapters/Travel (402) 472-4228Jenny Green, Scarlet Guard/Travel, (402) 472-4220Andy Greer, NCC/Chapters/Hail Varsity, (402) 472-8915Sarah Haskell, Cather Circle/Travel/Chapters, (402) 472-6541Carrie Myers, Venues, (402) 472-6435Larry Routh, Career Resources, (402) 472-8916Viann Schroeder, Special Projects/HHE/VOB, (402) 472- 3390Shannon Sherman, Communications/eNUz, (402) 472-4219Sarah Smith, Video Communications, (402) 472-4246Andy Washburn, Membership/Operations, (402) 472-4239Katie Williams, Events/Legacy Program, (402) 472-8918Kevin Wright, Class Notes/Photos/Graphics, (402) 472-4227Shelley Zaborowski, Awards/Reunions/Colleges, (402) 472-4222

University of Nebraska Foundation Development OfficersInterim Director of Development: Joe Selig, (402) 458-1230Major and Principal Gifts: Greg Jensen, (402) 458-1181College of Architecture: Connie Pejsar, (402) 458-1190College of Arts and Sciences: Amber Antholz, (402) 458-1182, Joye Fehringer, (402) 458-1187 or Victor Martinez, (402) 458-1185College of Business Administration: Matt Boyd, (402) 458- 1189, Sandi Hansen, (402) 458-1238 or Laine Norton, (402) 458-1201IANR: Ann Bruntz, (402) 458-1176 or Josh Egley, (402) 458-1202College of Education and Human Sciences: Jane Heany, (402) 458-1177College of Engineering: Karen Moellering, (402) 458-1179 or Amy Ferguson, (402) 458-1203Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts: Lucy Buntain Comine, (402) 458-1184College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Joanna Nordhues, (402) 458-1178College of Law: Angela Hohensee, (402) 458-1192 or Ben Zitek, (402) 458-1241Libraries: Josh Egley, (402) 458-1202Panhandle Research and Extension: Barb Schlothauer, (308) 632-1207Corporations: Kaye Jesske, (402) 458-1170Foundations: Liz Lange, (402) 458-1229

Published once a year, in August, for University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumni and friends.

Nebraska Alumni AssociationWick Alumni Center1520 R Street • Lincoln, NE 68508-1651Phone: (402) 472-2841 • Toll-free: (888) 353-1874E-mail: alumni@huskeralum.org Website: huskeralum.org

University of Nebraska Foundation1010 Lincoln Mall, Suite 300 • Lincoln, NE 68508Phone: (402) 458-1100 • Toll-free: (800) 432-3216FAX: (402) 458-1298 • E-mail: info@nufoundation.orgWebsite: www.nufoundation.org

Editor: Andrea Wood CranfordFoundation Editor: Colleen FleischerDesign: Kevin Wright

Join Us ForHomecoming 2013

Campus will be abuzz Sunday, Sept. 29, to Saturday, Oct. 5,

with a Huskers Around the World theme and homecoming week

activities for students, alumni and friends.

One of the newer and more popular attractions – the home-

coming jester competition sponsored by the Nebraska Alumni

Association and Scarlet Guard – takes place Oct. 4, immediately

following the parade and pep rally on the Union Plaza. Students will

compete in front of celebrity judges to be crowned “UNL’s Biggest

Fan,” and the winner will make an appearance on the sidelines dur-

ing pre-game festivities the next day. This is the fourth year for the

jester competition.

Homecoming activities open to alumni and the public

include:

• Donating blood (time and place TBD)

• Football Friday, Oct 4, 5 p.m. in the Railyard, Haymarket

district

• Homecoming parade, Oct. 4, 6 p.m. (The Wick Alumni

Center’s Holling Garden provides the perfect viewing spot.)

• Scarlet Guard’s homecoming pep rally and jester competition

immediately following the parade at approximately 7 p.m. on

the Union Plaza (north side of city union, 1400 R Street).

Scarlet Guard, the NAA’s student organization, will once again

compete as a registered student organization in:

• Monday Night Live (skits)

• Blood drive

• Homecoming parade

• Homecoming jester competition

Watch for more details as they become available at

huskeralum.org/homecoming.

Cather Circle Partners with Baylor Evnen

The Nebraska Alumni Association is pleased to announce a new partnership with Lincoln law firm Baylor, Evnen, Curtiss, Grimit & Witt, LLP, and introduce the Cather Circle Speaker Series presented by Baylor Evnen. The new partnership, Cather Circle’s first, will support programming for the alumni association’s mentoring, networking and professional development program for female students and alumnae, with an emphasis on participation from alumnae and students of the UNL College of Law.

The three-year Baylor Evnen speaker series kicks off at the fall Cather Circle meeting, Sept. 19-20, with a keynote address by Nancy Hunter Denney, inspirational author of “Zing!™ 21 Insights on Maximizing Your Influence.” Members will also learn about exciting new research taking place on campus from Prof. Bill Velander, choose from a number of breakout sessions, and attend a Thursday evening golf outing.

A special reception for College of Law faculty, Baylor Evnen associates and guests, and Cather Circle members interested in the field of law will be held Sept.18, on the eve of the fall conference.

Yell Squad AffiliatesThe Yell Squad Alumni are the Nebraska Alumni Association’s

newest official affiliate group. Led by Jeff Castle of Marietta, Ga., 1983 UNL graduate and NAA life member, the group will serve all Yell Squad alumni and will make their public debut Nov. 1-2 with a reunion celebrating the squad’s 110th anniversary.

In addition to Castle, members of the reunion committee include Kari “Cookie” Koziol McConkey, ’85, Gretna; Jane Porter McLeay, ’83, Omaha; and Debra Kleve White, ’80, Austin, Texas. Reunion registration begins Sept. 3 at huskeralum.org/yell-squad-reunion.

More Career Webinars on the Horizon

Last summer, we unveiled our new and improved Alumni Ca-reer Advancement Program designed to provide alumni and friends the opportunity to grow and enhance their careers with programs, online tools and even our own alumni career specialist available for private coaching sessions.

One of the most popular features of this program was a series of career webinars featuring experts and career authors on a variety of topics. We are pleased to follow that up with another round of Wednesday webinars during 2013-2014:

• Oct. 2 – “Career Management” Peter Weddle, recruiter, HR consultant and business CEO turned author

• Nov. 6 – “Networking” Melissa Giovagnoli, career speaker and recipient of a Consummate Speaker of the Year award

• Dec. 4 – “Elevator Pitch” Chris Westfall, National Elevator Pitch Champion and author of the book “The New Elevator Pitch”

• Jan. 8 – “Entrepreneurism” Ben Casnocha, entrepreneur, blogger and co-author of “The Start-Up of

You” among other books• Feb. 5 – “Career Management” Richard Bolles, author of

“What Color is Your Parachute”• March 5 – “Networking” Ivan Misner, founder and

chairman of BNL, the world’s largest business networking organization

• April 2 – “Leadership” Al Duncan, award-winning youth advocate, publisher and authority on soft skills, character education and youth empowerment

• May 7 – “Twitter” Susan Whitcomb, founder and president of The Academies, including Career Coach

Academy, Job Search Academy and Leadership Coach Academy

• June 4 – “Job Search Techniques” John Boyd, speaker, CEO and author of “Selling You”

All webinars take place at 7 p.m. central time and are free to alumni and friends. You’ll also have access to the webinar record-ings and PDFs of their presentations anytime. All you need is a computer, Smart Phone or Smart Pad to participate. You can also join an ongoing discussion about careers, career opportunities and ideas with classmates and fellow alumni.

To learn more and register, visit huskeralum.org/career-advancement.

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New Cather Circle Members, Fall 2013

The Nebraska Alumni Association

welcomes 31 alumnae and 38 UNL

students to Cather Circle this fall.

New alumna members represent

11 states and Washington D.C., and a

variety of backgrounds and professions,

including advertising, agriculture, busi-

ness, teaching, entertainment, entrepre-

neurs and more. Members are selected

for their accomplishments in their

careers and civic activities and for their

interest in mentoring current students.

AlumnAe – Rosemary Abendroth, Ieva

Augstums, Dana Boden, Jill Choate,

Sara Clegg, Tarina Cox, Carrie Davis,

Toni Dutton, Cindy Fleming, Suzanne

Fries, Jane Green, Brooke Heck, Su-

zanne Hince, Karen Kassebaum, Pam

Leeper, Jessica Marsh, Cindy McCaf-

frey, Molly Merrell, Heidi Mortensen,

Barbara Nissen, Mitzi Ritzman, Rachel

Sheehy, Shannon Sherman, Amanda

Sjuts, Kelli Smith, Barbara Thomas,

Andrea Trinklein, Diane Vigna, Beverly

Westerberg, Vicki Westerhaus, Maggie

Yost.

StudentS – Sarah Agee, McKenzie

Bailey, Lauren Bejot, Brooke Busboom,

Cassie Cheek, Taryn DeMaro, Emma

Dickinson, Kimberly Dugger, Nikki

Elgin, Melissa Fenton, Taylor Ficek, Tiler

Grossman, Fen Hanrahan, Alexandra

Herink, Julia Jackson, Alyssa Jacobs,

Amanda Johnson, Harmony Jones,

Melanie Kerr, Samantha Lauf, Catherine

Lee, Christine Lee, Elizabeth Menhusen,

Kianna Moore, Molly Nelsen, Kath-

ryn Painter, Amanda Petersen, Nicci

Poehling, Bridget Reichenbach, Sunny

Russell, Mairead Safranek, Isabel Salas,

Ashley Siebler, Jaimie Sigler, Kaitlin Slat-

tery, Trisha Spanbauer, Ashley Stone,

Taryn Zastrow.

Yell Squad, late ’70s

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The Nebraska Alumni Association hosted alumni staff members from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin for a three-day Big Ten Alumni Relations Institute in Lincoln June 17-19.

Follow the Huskers to Charleston

Be a part of a key early-season trip for the Nebraska men’s basketball team. Join other alumni and fans as we travel to South Carolina to cheer on Coach Tim Miles and the Huskers at the Charleston Classic Nov. 21-25.

The classic features an eight-team field, including UAB, Clemson, Davidson, Georgia, UMass, Nebraska, New Mexico and Temple. The tournament’s bracket format includes 12 games over three days. Each team will compete in one game per day, advancing through the bracket. The two teams that remain undefeated throughout will face off in a championship game on the final day of competition.

Miles and the Huskers return three starters from a team that went 15-18 in Miles’ first season, including guard Ray Gallegos and forwards David Rivers and Shavon Shields. Gallegos, who averaged 12.5 ppg in 2012-13, led the Big Ten in 3-pointers per game and ranked second in school history with 83 3-pointers, while Shields averaged 8.6 points and 5.1 rebounds per game as a true freshman. Rivers started NU’s final 17 games and averaged 5.6 points and 3.4 rebounds per game.

To learn more about the NAA four-night tour to Charleston, including a Saturday Nebraska-Penn State football watch party, visit www.huskersportstravel.com/basketball/charleston-classic.php)

Scarlet and Cream, the university’s official ice cream flavor, was the favorite of the 3,400 students and parents who attended this year’s Scarlet Scoop in conjunction with New Student Enrollment. During the 24-day event we welcomed 560 new members to Scarlet Guard and went through 135 gallons of UNL Dairy Store ice cream.

Introducing a New Benefit for Husker Alumni and Friends

Nebraska alumni and friends can now earn great rewards, enjoy award-winning customer service and sup-port the Nebraska Alumni Association and our mission to advance the University of Nebraska-Lincoln by signing up for the new Husker Discover it card.

The custom-designed card features Discover’s cash rewards program, including access to Shop Discover, an online shopping portal offering cash-back bonuses on pur-chases at more than 200 online retailers. In addition, with every purchase, you’ll be giving back to your alma mater through the Nebraska Alumni Association.

“We are excited to join with Discover to promote the University of Nebraska-Lincoln by involving its students, alumni and friends in innovative alumni programs and services,” said Diane Mendenhall, executive director of the NAA.

During select seasons and events the card will also feature bonus reward opportunities on Nebraska-related purchases such as gifts to the NU Foundation and items bought through the athletic department, campus bookstore and alumni association.

For more information on the card, please visit www.Discover.com/HuskerAlumni or call 1-800-204-1336 and use invitation code KCR8 to apply directly for the Husker Discover it card.

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Thank You to Our Newest Life Members and Contributors to Our Programs

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new nAA life membersJan. 1 to June 30, 2013

Nancy A. AdmireJoanne AllenPatrick K. AllenJennifer A. AmendGeorge E. Andrews, IIRoger K. and Barbara G. AnninV-Etta M. AumanRasheed M. Azzam, Ph.D.Shari L. BahenskyGuillermo A. and Jody BaileyMatthew J. BaileyWilliam H. Bancroft, M.D.Leonard P. BarkerDennis M. BartonJack A. BasslerTroy A. Bauer, Ph.D. and Kay A. BauerRobert H. BeckerDiana M. BeeErnest A. BerrySharon M. BerryRoger J. and Sherry J. BloodLyle W. and Phyllis A. BlueEdward M. BodenMarc N. Boggy, M.D. and Karen C. ReynoldsWilliam W. and Kimberly J. BoothElliott T. Bottorf and Melissa SmidtAmy S. BouskaRaymond K. and Marilyn K. BradsbyAlex E. BrandesBryan D. Bredthauer, M.D. and Gertrude A. BredthauerRoger D. Breed, Ed.D. and Judy K. BreedJeremy M. BrittonJames D. Brooke, M.D.Steven E. Buck, Lt.-Retd.Sandra K. BuckendahlDeena M. BunzelJohn R. BurgesonJeffrey W. Burianek and Jill S. Reel, M.D.James W. CanneyDonald J. CarlyonChad M. Carpenter, D.D.S.Roger L. and Barbara J. CarpenterPerry A. and Vicky L. CaseEric D. CecrleGary L. Chingren, M.D.Philip T. ChristensonThurman B. Clendenin, Jr.Carol S. ColeNicholas F. and Chelsea L. ConwayRichard B. CoryRichard F. and Denise CostelloMelissa A. CrabbNed H. Criscimagna, Lt. Col. -Retd.Bob J. and Patricia L. CrislerShannon M. Cummins, Ph.D. and Clay D. StevensJudith L. CunninghamHailey E. Daehnke, Ph.D.Kathryn A. DagermanC. Mark DaltonBecky A. and Erich H. DeitenbeckDe Ann M. DemoBrandi J. Dimmitt, D.D.S.Jon D. Dittenber and Alicia J. Kelley-DittenberRonald F. DivokyWayne E. DolezalKyle D. and Elizabeth DoperalskiRichard J. Doyle, Jr.Lawrence F. Drbal, Ph.D.

Douglas F. DuchekStanley G. Ebner, Ph.D.Michael C. EldoradoKenneth O. Elvik, Ph.D.Virginia A. Eman Wheeless, Ph.D.Tennent W. Emmons, IIIJennifer L. and Derek J. EngelbartGregory L. EnglerMildred G. EstenJoshua A. FaganJames A. FairbanksHarold and Linda FarrierJohn H. and Carole FeekByron G. and Janice L. FegleyPolly J. FeisJay A. FennellWayne L. FlowerdayClifton N. Foster, Ed.D.Clarice A. FredenburgCory A. FredenburgJason L. FredenburgElizabeth J. FrerichsThomas J. and JoAnn J. FretzSteven J. and Meggan M. GangwishRoger W. and Patricia GareyWayne G. and Kathy M. GatesMasoud Ghohestani, O.D.Donald W. GillilandSandra K. GonzalesMichael L. Goodin, M.D.Pamela G. and Merlin J. GreenMatthew A. Greenquist, Ph.D. and Suzanne M. Greenquist, D.O.Stephen H. GrosserodeVirginia M. HabaShane K. HalversonNicholas J. and Rachel L. HansonSuzanne M. HastedtByron K. and Barbara C. HeierGary B. HembdRichard D. HentzenJames F. and Rene L. HinmanWayne J. HinrichsCarl D. and Shirley A. HobsonChad J. Hoge, D.D.S. and Mikala A. Hoge, D.D.S.Gregory R. and Debra D. HohlRichard L. and Margaret M. HolmanCreighton E. HolscherRobin G. and Mary B. HoltmeierStephen J. HothCraig D. Hundt, Sr. and Vicky L. HundtDonivan C. and Lola HuwaldtJudson J. and Kaye L. JesskeBarbara J. JohnsonMuriel C. JohnsonRobert C. JohnsonDaniel S. JonesDarin D. KatzbergJoyce A. KaufmannChristopher R. and Jane K. KelleyHarry F. and Elizabeth A. KenyonRuth Kiekhaefer HarnappDonald J. and Donna C. KinlinMarissa M. and Jason KivettKaren L. and David C. KnaupMerle C. and Elna KnuthWilliam G. KochanowiczNorman D. KoesterKarl H. KostbahnBradley D. and Erin L. KrausLynn E. Krelle and Michael GaitherSteven K. Krueger, M.D. and Judy A. KruegerDale F. Kruse, Ed.D.Jeffrey L. KuceraAngela R. Kuhlman

Russell L. and Jerri L. KummJonathan T. KurtzJulie A. Lancaster GoodmanKelsey L. LarsonSean P. LaurettiGary E. LeeLinda LeisingMarilyn K. LieuranceCarlos E. Lopez, IIIRobert J. and Donna J. LundbergVerniel R. LundquistDavid R. MadiganEdward D. Maisey, D.D.S.Michael W. ManningDwight J. Mayberry, Ed.D.Evan E. Miller, Ed.D.Connie L. MillikenElizabeth J. ModerowMargaret A. MooreBilly E. MoslanderTodd G. and Brenda K. MundhenkeDaniel S. MurowAnna L. NelsonDuane L. and Cindy NelsonScott R. NidayAlan W. Nielsen, Ph.D.Gary O. OakesonDonald D. Oelsligle, Ph.D. and Jean L. OelsligleAnne L. O’Keefe, M.D.Sarah D. OliveriusDavid C. and Agnes A. OlsonGarry L. and Patricia E. O’NeillJustin C. and Alison L. OsborneAllen F. OstdiekKenneth M. ParkisonMike PateJanet K. PattersonLeonard E. PavelkaBrad J. PearsonLarry L. PeltzCaroline E. Pierce LerroShane A. PotterMargaret A. PoupardEdward J. PresslerJoseph W. Preusser, Ph.D.Emily M. Pribyl and Wade E. ThornburgJason J. ProskovecLarry D. RealKara S. ReiberAralyis C. ReidRichard A. Reinhardt, D.D.S., Ph.D. and Pamela S. ReinhardtRonald L. and Linda K. ReiserWilliam C. and Linda K. ReitanPatrick M. and Kirstin J. RickettsRance D. RistauTanya M. Rodecker WendtGerald W. RollerMarcia S. RostSusan J. RoubalRobert W. and Beverly K. RueterDerek C. RuyleRoger D. RyonDavid J. SandfortHarry L. Schawl, IIIDavid J. and Sharlyn L. ScheerAllan H. Schmidt, Ed.D.Dean D. and Judy SchnitzlerDavid E. SchoneweisDavid A. SchroederDonald H. Schroeder, Ph.D.Laura A. SchulteHeidi L. SchulzFrancis G. Schwarting, Ph.D. and Kathleen R. SchwartingBetty J. Schwarz

Cheryl A. ShaferMichael G. and Kathleen ShawAdam N. J. and Rachel A. SheehyJustin T. Sheets and Melissa C. Sheets, D.D.S.Shannon R. ShermanShelby D. ShuttsDavid H. Sieh, Ph.D.Dennis M. Sievers, Ph.D.Paul D. SmithPeter M. SmithMichael C. Smuin, D.D.S.Eyitejumade A. SogbesanJerry G. SpearsKeith G. and Julia E. StaffordLawrence J. Stephens, Ph.D.George F. and Emogene M. SullivanBruce E. Taylor, M.D. and Debra J. TaylorTodd J. Tessendorf, M.D. and Lisa TessendorfGerald G. Thalken, D.D.S.Dwight E. TheobaldEric S. Thomsen, M.D. and Mary J. ThomsenRonald L. TraudtVictor D. TurleySam UshioNick F. and Pam M. VollersFrederick J. Von HollenRalph E. WaddingtonPatrick F. and Anastasia WagnerThomas W. WeberWilliam A. WellsTara S. and Phillip WentaTerry A. and Kristi L. WestJanice M. WiebuschVictor A. Wilkerson, Ph.D. and Kristi WilkersonBrent D. and Janelle M. WilliamsDave C. WohlfarthDianne E. and Larry WoltermanJoha H. WonLouis A. and Nancy B. WormBilly M. WrightJoshua P. WunderlichIrvin YaffeMichael D. ZaidmanTimothy P. Zuraff

Recent nAA ContributorsJan. 1 to June 30, 2013

Donor(s)Linda A. and Jerry D. AdamsRichard M. AldenJennifer A. AmendMarlow J. AndersonMuriel E. and Rolan E. AndersonRyan J. AndersonPatricia C. ArmstrongTracey L. and David A. AshBeverly and Donald K. AtkinsNeal K. BachmanShari L. BahenskyTracy J. Bargman, Ph.D.Thomas D. and Kathryn A. BassSusanne L. Bathgate and Tim E. BereuterKaren K. and Michael F. BaumertRachel I. BaylessSteven W. BeardSteven L. BecherElvira A. and Philip F. BeckenhauerKenneth BeckmanSuzanne E. BeerthuisIvette M. and Lyle D. Bender

Katherine J. Bennett and Gary G. Bennett, Ed.D.Jane R. and Claude E. BerreckmanMark E. BishoffGenie R. and Gaylord L. BishopDouglas L. BlackSusan R. BlackRobert J. BoardmanCarolyn S. and Jack D. BraleyDebora K. Braun and Martell W. GanglerJoyce E. and Kennard L. BrittonStephen S. BrockmannLarry S. BrooksAudrey B. and Norman J. BrownJanice and Norwin W. BrueningPhyllis J. BryantCandace K. and Mark E. BurgeThomas D. CalderGary R. Carlson Ed.D.David K. CarterCarol S. and Michael T. CastDennis K. CernyAnne T. Chan and Albert K. Chan, Ph.D.Billy S. ChildersDuane C. ChunkaCarol A. CiebienSara G. and Andrew A. CleggLenore E. CoatsKerry R. CoilJill M. CombsJanice K. Connor and John T. Connor, IIJames E. CookPhyllis I. CookRichard L. Corey, Jr.David G. and Linda C. CottsGeniece M. and John C. CourtrightGretchen H. CrusickElaine K. and Stephen L. CulhaneSuzanne M. and Shane T. CzarnickEleanor M. Daniel and Arlie V. Daniel, Ph.D.Josephine A. DayGladys M. DedermanRoy DeguchiMaria DeLucia, Ph.D.Mary A. Dick Langrock, D.D.S.Bonnie L. and John R. DietzeGloria B. and Roy G. DinsdaleRosemary DixonArVella F. and Howard P. DoerrMargaret and John Jay DouglassJessica M. DuffVera Q. DulaneyMichael R. and Dorothy A. DuncanLadd L. DuryeaJames V. EbelJodie A. and Daniel C. EdwardsLinda J. and Ronald L. EilersJon A. and Ronald K. EinspahrJeanine H. and Stephen R. EnglandFloyd A. Erickson Jr.Keith R. EricksonDennis L. ErnestMichael L. ErwinTami S. EshlemanRebecca L. and Michael C. EversSheri A. FarrarCharles F. FarritorMelissa A. Feldhaus and Rodger W. Feldhaus, Ph.D.Mary J. FlammeArlene M. FleischerMarilyn A. Fontane, Ph.D.Amy H. ForssIan C. Forsyth

Matthew R. FrankNicole M. FrantaGeorge D. Fraser, Jr.Thomas D. FrenchRichard FritzLois M. FroggePeggy H. and Michael R. FurrowKrystal L. GabelGarnet A. Gardner and Paul J. Gardner, Ph.D.Rose T. GareyWilliam E. GerdesGregory G. GlunzRoger V. GogginsBarbara E. GottschalkDiane K. and Scott A. GronewoldJanet L. GrosvenorBeverly K. and Steven E. GrueberGerald A. GruhnCindy A. and Delwin J. GustafsonC. S. Gutshall and Barbara J. Gutshall, M.D.Aaron and Dina L. HabererClarissa D. Hackett, D.V.M.Janis M. Haggstrom and John A. Haggstrom, M.D.Cheryl L. and Grant N. HansenRamon D. HansenMatthew J. HardebeckBarbara L. and David G. HartmannLinda S. Hartmann and Alfred E. Hartmann, M.D.Ellen M. HaskinsAva L. and Robert C. HastertFred H. Hawkins, Sr.Helen L. Hayes and Orin R. Hayes, M.D.Monty L. HeidenreichGary B. HembdMarilyn J. HendricksonDebra L. and Stephen P. HenningsEugene H. HenningsJoan T. and James R. HenscheidJanice L. and Robert F. HerbekBetty L. and Donald L. HeuermannAlice M. HickeyJohn W. HiemerBryan R. HillJeffrey HillDonna and Lloyd D. HinkleyDoris R. HoffSharon C. and Jerold L. HoffmanNancy J. and William F. HolloranDennis W. HomolkaSharon G. and Jeffrey J. HouchinLawrence M. HubkaLivia M. Hummel, Ph.D. and Ned W. HummelKatherine A. Humphrey and Stephen R. Humphrey, D.D.S.Billie G. HunckRichard D. HuntRenee L. and Russel R. IwanChristine A. JanisRichard J. JanousekLynda A. and Paul E. JasaRonald L. JiedeDorothy F. JobesSandra J. and Lon R. JochensLinda M. and Gerald E. JohnJoan T. JohnsCharlotte H. and Cyrus A. JohnsonConnie J. JohnsonDonald E. JohnsonIrene C. and Larry C. JohnsonPatricia A. Johnson and Edward C. Johnson, Jr.M. Colleen JonesSusan K. and Mark N. Jones Juliann B. and Gary D. JurgensonMichael W. KalisekJohn E. KastlKurt A. KechelyTerry W. KeelerNancy J. and Thomas J. KeeneCharles J. KellyJanice M. Kenner and James R. Kenner, Jr.

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Football ticketsAlumni association members have exclusive access to enter our football ticket lottery. Let us know what games you’re interested in, and we’ll do our best to feed your Husker football appetite.

1.Future HuskersShare the Husker spirit with the wee ones in your life by enrolling them in the Nebraska Legacy Program. We’ll send them Husker related birthday gifts and cards each year.

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Career resourcesLand a dream job. Make a career transition. Find professional connections, or get advice from our career counselor. We’re here to help you grow professionally, no matter your stage in life.

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ALUMNI AWARDSNebraska Alumni Association // Awards Nominations

ALUMNI AWARDSAlumni Achievement AwardEstablished in 1974, the Alumni Achievement Award honors alumni who have a record of outstanding achieve-ments in a career and/or civic involvement. The associa-tion seeks to recognize alumni at all stages of their lives and careers, including young alumni.

outstanding International Alumnus AwardEstablished in 2006, this award honors alumni who were non-U.S. citizens during their attendance at the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln and who have attained national/international prominence through their efforts in educa-tion, sciences, technology, agriculture, the arts, business, humanities, government or other world endeavors.

Alumni family tree AwardEstablished in 1995, the Alumni Family Tree Award hon-ors one family per year that has at least three generations of University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduates and at least two family members with a record of outstanding service to the university, the alumni association, their community and/or their profession.

distinguished Service AwardEstablished in 1940, the Distinguished Service Award rec-ognizes alumni who have a record of distinguished service to the Nebraska Alumni Association and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

StUDeNt AWARDSShane osborn Award Established in 2002, this award recognizes students who share the characteristics of Lieutenant Shane J. Osborn, a 1996 UNL graduate who courageously piloted a U.S. reconnaissance plane to a safe crash landing after it was hit by two Chinese fighters and subsequently endured an aggressive interrogation by the Chinese Government. The Nebraska Alumni Association is pleased to honor Lt. Os-born annually by recognizing a student who demonstrates similar characteristics in his or her daily life including courage, integrity, honesty, humility and faith. The award is not limited to students with ROTC involvement. The winner of the award will also receive a $500 scholarship stipend.

howard and Judy Vann Student leadership AwardEstablished in 1998, The Howard and Judy Vann Student Leadership Award recognizes undergraduate students who have shown exceptional leadership capabilities through energetic participation in student activities, commendable classroom performance, and the personal integrity, perse-verance and sense of honor demonstrated by those who successfully lead their peers. The winner of this award will also receive a $250 scholarship stipend.

RetIReD FAcULty AWARDdoc elliott AwardEstablished in 1986 to honor a retired University of Ne-braska-Lincoln faculty or staff member who has exhibited a record of exemplary service, whose caring has made a difference in the lives of students and alumni and who has gone beyon d traditional expectations. Recipients must be former faculty or staff members of UNL who have been retired at least five years.

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By Grace Larson, ’76, OLLI Marketing Chair You order an entrée at one restaurant and it is disap-

pointing. You order the same entrée at another restaurant and it is terrific. The difference? Maybe it’s a special ingre-dient in the recipe – a key ingredient that ensures quality and leaves the diner wanting to return for more.

Such is the case with OLLI at UNL. OLLI has some very special ingredients in the form of current and retired UNL professors who ensure the quality of OLLI’s courses and leave lifelong learners wanting to register for more courses.

The word is out about OLLI and it is growing! In 2010-11, OLLI at UNL saw a 24 percent increase in membership. In 2011-12, the growth rate was 13 percent. The growth rate for 2012-13 has surpassed 13 percent and OLLI currently has more than 1,000 members.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) pro-motes lifelong learning by providing stimulating courses, special events and varied opportunities designed specifically for lifelong learners, primarily those 50 years and older. Courses are non-credit and have no tests or grades. OLLI at UNL is one of 115 lifelong learning programs supported in part by the Bernard Osher Foundation on university and college campuses across the country.

OLLI greatly appreciates the contributions that many current and retired UNL professors have made and continue to make toward OLLI’s growth and popularity. The following professors are just a sample of the excellent “faculty” of OLLI:

• Kwakiutl Dreher, associate professor, English and ethnic studies, has facilitated discussions of novels and films.

• Shane Farritor, professor, mechanical and materials engineering, has taught classes on railroad

technology and surgical robots.• Vanessa Gorman, associate professor of history,

has taught courses on the Roman Revolution, culture and society.• Fayrene Hamouz, associate professor, nutrition and

health science, has taught courses including Food Senses, International Cuisine, Kids in the Kitchen and an Adult Entertainment Series.

This fall, several courses will have been developed and coordinated by current and retired professors. These are the people with the ideas that become a diverse menu of intellectually stimulating courses. Among the fall course coordinators are:

• Ed Schmidt, emeritus professor, physics and astronomy, is coordinating a course on astronomy. • Bob Haller, emeritus professor, English, and Bob

Stoddard, emeritus professor, anthropology and geography, are coordinating a course on the

Politics of Religious Diversity. Others from UNL serving as instructors this fall

include:• Bob Kuzelka, emeritus associate professor, School

of Natural Resources, will teach a course entitled “Central Platte River Science and Management.”

• Scott Anderson, professor, School of Music, will teach a course entitled “From the Outside Looking in: The Band and America in the 1960s and 70s.”

• Carolyn Ducey, curator of collections, Interna- tional Quilt Study Center & Museum, will teach a course entitled “Quilt History: Real and Imagined” with IQSCM staff members Marin Hanson, cura- tor of exhibitions, and Jonathan Gregory, assistant

curator of exhibitions. If you are interested in learning more about OLLI,

please contact the OLLI office at 402-472-6265, e-mail: olli@unl.edu or go to the OLLI website.

Enter the 2014 Nebraska Magazine Writing Contest and compete for a byline!

the categories •AlumniProfiles:WriteaboutaNebraskagradwithaninteresting hobby or career.

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individuals have made donations to UNL during the campaign.

57,982of new funds to the UNL campaign support student scholarships.

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CAMPAIGN PRIORITIES• Students• Faculty• Global Engagement• Agriculture and Life Sciences• Information Technology• Cancer Research• Architectural Engineering

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By Robb CrouchGuests from around the world who visit the Interna-

tional Quilt Study Center & Museum will soon see even more inside thanks to planned expansion of the museum. The Robert and Ardis James Foundation made a $7 million gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation’s Campaign for Nebraska for expansion of Quilt House on UNL’s East Campus.

An addition on the west side of the building of about 12,400 square feet will feature new gallery space for more exhibitions as well as additional room for quilt collection storage and care, education and museum operations.

About his continued investment, Robert James said Quilt House is dedicated to the people of Nebraska, to quilt lovers and to those who have helped recognize quilts as true art. “It is helping the world comprehend a previously under-appreciated form of art,” he said. “That’s what it’s done, andthat’s what Ardis and I always had in mind.”

The James Foundation also donated $1 million to establish a permanent endowment, and annual net income from it will provide a stipend for the executive director for salary, research or program support.

“Because of the vision and generosity of Bob and Ardis James, our university has become the most important place for the scholarly study, research and curated exhibition of quilts as an international art form,” said Chancellor Harvey Perlman.

Quilt House, made possible with private support, opened its current 37,000-square-foot building in 2008 as a focal point for the study, conservation and exhibition of quilts. The building was designed by world renowned Rob-ert A.M. Stern Architects of New York with local architects Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture of Omaha.

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He was kind. Fred’s wife, UNL alumna Pamela Bar-tling Buffett, ’64, told the Omaha World-Herald he was a “glorious” man. But none of that could cure the kidney cancer that afflicted him. Like many families, the Buffetts ended up losing a loved one to cancer. Fred died of cancer in 1997 at age 60.

Pamela Buffett recently gave a gift in tribute to him and to his Nebraska roots – the lead gift for a cancer center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center that will be named the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. It will place Nebraska “at the leading edge of cancer care, research and education,” UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., said at a May 3 news conference highlight-ing the name of the new center – the largest project ever at UNMC.

“Fritz fought a courageous cancer battle until the very end,” said Warren Buffett’s daughter, Susie, who repre-sented Pamela Buffett at that press conference. “It is truly exceptional for Pamela to make this gift in his honor, for the benefit of potentially thousands upon thousands of cancer patients worldwide.

“These patients will benefit from the research advances that will be developed here, as well as the outstanding patient care that will be delivered.”

The center will integrate state-of-the-art cancer research with state-of-the-art cancer care. It will allow UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center to recruit and retain the very best cancer researchers and clinicians in the country.

In addition to cancer, the $370 million project in-cludes a plan to update the outpatient services at UNMC. In all, the project is expected to provide 4,657 new jobs to the metro area, infusing $537 million annually into the economy.

Pamela graduated from Omaha Central High. She studied elementary education at the University of

Nebraska-Lincoln where she was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority.

Pamela met Fred through the Buffetts (Warren’s and Fred’s fathers were brothers). Pamela’s older sister, Sally, was a high school friend of Susan Thompson, who later became Mrs. Warren Buffett. Susan hired Pamela to babysit the Buffett children, which ignited her passion for working with children.

“She was just sensational with the kids,” Warren Buffett told the World-Herald. “She got to be a good friend of mine and Susie’s. She went on trips with us and did all kinds of things. She was a member of the family.”

Later, she and Fred had two daughters, Sarah and Rebecca. For 15 years, Pamela taught elementary school. She reflects upon her years in education fondly.

“My time spent as an elementary school teacher is one of my greatest gifts,” she said. “I am enormously grateful for the meaningful education I received at UNL.”

At a celebration the night of the groundbreaking, Pamela Buffett spoke in a video interview with much feeling about her late husband and the rest of her Buffett family. She thanked Warren Buffett, “the greatest money doctor, the kindest person, who has helped me and my husband Fred along this journey in life.”

She thanked Warren’s late wife, Susan Buffett Sr. “She influenced my heart and my soul at a very early age. Susie cared about and taught us the lessons of ‘every person was important,’ ‘every person mattered,’ ‘every person deserved love.’ And Susie sits on my shoulder every day of my life, whispering in my ear the lessons that we all should know in life.”

And she spoke of Fred. “He had a kind and sensitive heart to all those around him,” she said. “So the perfect tribute to him is a cancer center on the soil that he loved – in Omaha, Nebraska.

“As I see his name alongside the University of Nebraska, my heart will swell with pride.”

The gifts to the cancer center support the University of Nebraska Foundation’s comprehensive fundraising campaign, the Campaign for Nebraska: Unlimited Possibilities. To learn more, visit cancercenternebraska.org or to make a gift, contact the University of Nebraska Foundation at 800-432-3216.

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UNL Grad Gives to Cancer Center in Memory of Husband

Fred “Fritz” Buffett and Pamela Bartling Buffett

He was a marathon runner.

He could run like the wind. He was fit.

He had a famous name: Buffett. Fred “Fritz” Buffett grew up in Omaha and was a

first cousin to billionaire Warren Buffett, the CEO and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.

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By Colleen Kenney Fleischer, ’88His sombrero is big. His mustache is black. (Wax keeps it curled just right.) His bandolier is loaded with corn, not bullets. They call him the “Husker Hombre.” “Hey, Hombre!” they shout to him during Husker games at

Memorial Stadium. “Go Big Red!” he shouts back, slapping high-fives. This Mexican cowboy came up from South Texas six years ago

and found a home in Nebraska. His real name is Paul Favela, who in real life is a third-year dental student in Lincoln and a 2011 UNL graduate.

“I’ve never had anything bad said to me, which surprised me at first,” Favela said. “But when you really think about it – and about Husker fans – it really shouldn’t be surprising.”

You can see him and his amigos sleeping outside the stadium the night before games so they can get the best seats. Feel free to give them coffee, he said, if you see them there in line some cold morn-ing.

You can see him during games in the south end of the student section.

You can see him on TV when the Huskers play at home – he’ll point a giant ear of corn at the camera or do the “bones” with his arms and look menacing. But there’s usually a smile under that mus-tache because Memorial Stadium is one of his favorite places to be.

“It’s always fun to see people who are excited for Husker foot-ball just like me,” he said.

“Looking out at the stadium – it’s just the best. It’s what I live for. You see that everybody is cheering for the same crew of kids out there, the same team, the same idea and the same institution. We’re all there to support the football team and the school. And we’re there because we’re Huskers.”

What is a Husker Hombre?It’s just him acting kind of ridiculous on Saturdays, Favela said.

It’s fun for him and the other fans. The Hombre was born one spring game after Husker Coach Bo

Pelini made a joke about a “peso defense” – not quite a nickel, the coach said.

Favela saw a sombrero sitting in his garage. He wrote “peso” on one side and “defense” on the other and wore it to that spring game. People liked it.

Over the summer, he created the first outfit. His mom back in Victoria, Texas, stitched together the red jacket with the corn bando-liers. He started growing the mustache. His dad’s mustache became the model.

“You can’t be an old school Mexican cowboy,” he said, “without having a really legit mustache.”

“Hombre” means “good guy.” Somebody on a Husker website first suggested the name. Favela liked it right away. He thought it was hilarious – the perfect mix of Nebraska and the Old West.

“The joke is that in English, the ‘h’ in ‘Husker’ and ‘Hombre’ alliterate,” he said. “But in Spanish, the name doesn’t alliterate at all because there’s no ‘h’ sound in Spanish.”

Favela said there would be no Husker Hombre if not for the scholarships he has received over the years – both as an undergradu-ate chemistry major at UNL and now as a dental student at UNMC. (The College of Dentistry is located on UNL’s East Campus, which makes it convenient for the Husker Hombre to get to the stadium.)

“Throughout my whole stay here in Nebraska, with having the best time I’ve ever had and having such a life-changing experience, I’ve always wanted to say thanks to all the donors and everybody in-volved in the scholarship process because without that first scholar-ship, this wouldn’t have been possible.”

Favela hopes to start a dental practice in Nebraska someday. And a family.

He met the woman he’ll marry in Lincoln. Last season, he told her he’d propose if the Huskers won 10 games, which they did. They’ll marry this December.

The Husker Hombre said he’ll hang up his sombrero when he’s done with dental school. But he’ll never stop supporting the Husk-ers.

He plans to give back to the university and its students some-day, he said, because people gave back to him.

“This is what is supposed to happen in my opinion – you bring kids from all over the country, from South Texas like me – people who have never been to Nebraska before – and you show them what Nebraska is about and they’ll stay. I think that’s good for the state.

“The state is going to have one more dentist now, thanks to everybody who’s ever helped me out.”

Gracias.And Go Big Red!

Supporting talented students like Paul Favela – a.k.a. the “Husker Hombre” – is a top priority of the Campaign for Nebraska. If you’d like more information about how to help, contact the University of Nebraska Foundation at 800-432-3216 or visit campaignfornebraska.org/students.

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For its 24th season of world-class performing artists, UNL’s Lied Center for Performing Arts will present 51 performances of 31 shows from a wide range of genres including Broadway, classical music, dance, theater, world music and jazz, comedy, holiday performances, folk music and shows for families.

The lineup includes:

SePtemBeR

27-29 Blue Man Group

oCtoBeR

2 Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company

16-20 Love, Loss, and What I Wore

23 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist

30 Riders in the Sky

noVemBeR

5 Dream Carver

12-13 Memphis

15 Jim Belushi & The Chicago Board of Comedy

deCemBeR

3-4 Cirque Dreams Holidaze

19 Canadian Brass Christmas

JAnuARy 16 Take 6

28 Martha Graham Dance Company

feBRuARy

13 Béla Fleck/Abigail Washburn, the Del McCoury

Band

15 Rock of Ages

22 John Mueller’s Winter Dance Party: Tribute to

Buddy Holly

27 Cleveland Orchestra

mARCh

4 The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle

Favorites

7-9 I Love Lucy® Live on Stage

11 Ireland’s Dervish

15 Hair

21 Arnaldo Cohen, Piano

22 Wayne Brady

25 Soweto Gospel Choir

29 David Krakauer: Ancestral Groove

APRIl

4-5 West Side Story

11 Streb

16 The April Verch Band

23 Ramsey Lewis/John Pizzarelli: The Nat King Cole

Tribute

25-27 A Mighty Fortress is Our Basement – The Church

Basement Ladies

mAy

1 Moscow Festival Ballet: Cinderella

For more information, call the Lied Center Ticket Office at 402-472-4747 or 800-432-3231, or visit the website.

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Lied Center Announces

2013-14 Season

Blue = Broadway

Red = Theater

Pink = Holiday

Purple = World Music and Jazz

Black = Classical

Orange = Family

Brown = Dance

Green = Folk

Turquoise = Popular and Comedy

Blue Man Group

Cirque Dreams Holidaze

West Side Story

I Love Lucy® Live on Stage

By Gillian KlucasFrom preventing software snafus and improving solar technol-

ogy to research to improve human health and treat ailments, UNL faculty continue to win prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER awards.

These five-year awards support research by junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, teaching and the integration of education and research. Recent UNL winners are: Harnessing the Sun

Jinsong Huang thinks solar energy devices will become so inexpensive and pliable that nearly any surface, including windows and clothing, will harness the sun. Scientists are working to replace today’s silicon-based solar cells with organic polymers, or plastics, which are cheaper and more flexible, but less energy efficient.

With a $400,000 CAREER award, Huang, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is improving the poly-mer’s efficiency as a semiconductor. By inserting ultra-thin layers of ferroelectric polymers, inexpensive materials that hold large permanent electrical polarizations on each side, he’s able to increase a solar cell’s internal electric field. That, in turn, generates more electrical current.

Organic polymer solar cells’ low cost and increased pliability will lead to new applications and greatly expand the ability to capture the sun’s energy.Tackling Software Glitches

Developing today’s complex computer software involves thousands of people working – sometimes at cross purposes – in numerous countries. Resolving inevitable glitches is expensive and time-consuming. With a $500,000 CAREER award, Anita Sarma, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, is develop-ing software to help programmers work more efficiently, which will reduce costs and software defects.

Sarma uses data-mining techniques to analyze the effects vari-ous tasks and file changes had on previous programming efforts. That information allows her to make predictions about future pro-gramming, from which she will develop software that can analyze, in real time, the current development situation and identify the best next task. So when a programmer finishes a task, the program analyzes what is happening and suggests tasks that avoid conflicting with others.

Sarma’s solution will be available as a plug-in for Eclipse, a software development program.Unraveling Clues to Prevent Restenosis

Linxia Gu uses powerful computers to better understand the biological mechanism of restenosis, a debilitating and sometimes fatal complication of a common treatment for coronary heart

disease and other conditions. Propping open clogged arteries using tiny mesh tubes called stents sometimes leads to strokes or heart attacks when vascular cells react by making new cells that restrict blood flow.

With a $406,248 CAREER award, Gu, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering and a member of UNL’s Ne-braska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, is building computer models to understand the changes cells undergo and how those changes relate to alterations in arterial tissue structures.

This knowledge will help researchers improve prevention and treatment options, and help manufacturers design better stents. The technique also could be used to interpret other clinical obser-vations, such as aortic aneurysms and traumatic brain injuries. Devising Gene Delivery Tools

Gene therapy holds tremendous potential, but requires an ef-fective, safe method of delivering genes to cells.

Angela Pannier, associate professor of biological systems engi-neering and a member of the Center for Nanohybrid Functional Materials, is using a $419,051 CAREER award to develop 3-D nanostructured surfaces to use as gene delivery tools. The surfaces have columns, and the spaces between columns can be loaded with DNA, similar to a toothbrush holding toothpaste. Touching the nanostructure to the cell unloads the DNA. She’s also designing nanostructured surfaces that alter cells to make them more recep-tive to receiving genes.

This method allows a cell to use genes without incorporat-ing them into its chromosome. Potential uses include reducing post-surgery inflammation, promoting bone integration after a hip implant and treating genetic diseases.Studying Coenzyme Q

Gilles Basset, assistant professor of agronomy and horticulture, studies coenzyme Q, an elusive micronutrient found in nearly all organisms, including humans. This vital compound is so fragile that conventional research approaches can’t reveal many aspects of its production.

With a $784,820 CAREER award, Basset, a member of UNL’s Center for Plant Science Innovation, is harnessing computer power to identify the genes involved in coenzyme Q synthesis. Using bio-informatic techniques, such as comparative genomic data mining, he looks for associations within the entire genetic makeup of dif-ferent types of organisms. Organisms that synthesize coenzyme Q should have genes in common that are missing in those that don’t. Additional techniques further narrow the list of gene candidates by identifying similarities in how genes are expressed.

Basset’s research may lead to improving plant-based foods and human health.

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Early Career Faculty Earn NSF Awards

Jinsong Huang

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Linxia Gu

Angela Pannier

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will lead a new $7.125 million research collaboration involving six univer-sities and an industry consortium to develop a new genera-tion of electronic devices.

Semiconductor Research Corp. and the National Insti-tute of Standards and Technology awarded a UNL physics team a five-year contract to lead a new Center for Nano-Ferroic Devices as part of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative.

“Our faculty’s leadership of this collaborative research endeavor sponsored by a leading research consortium and the federal government is the latest recognition of UNL’s strength in nanotechnology and materials science,” Chan-cellor Harvey Perlman said.

The center will harness the significant advances UNL and its Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) have made in exploring nanomaterials with unique properties that may prove the key to surpassing the limitations of current technology, said UNL physicist Evgeny Tsymbal, who co-directs the new center with UNL physicist Peter Dowben. The National Science Foundation funds UNL’s MRSEC.

“It’s extremely important that we have MRSEC at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln because the new center is a natural continuation of the research that we’ve been doing,” said Tsymbal, who is also MRSEC’s director. “Now we’re rising to a new level.”

This joint research with five other universities will help transform basic university discoveries and knowledge into actual devices, in collaboration with industry. UNL is partnering with researchers at the University of Califor-nia, Irvine; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of Delaware; and Oakland University.

Advances in silicon-based technology have made elec-tronics ever smaller, faster and less expensive. But industry experts believe this technology will reach its limit within the next decade. That’s because today’s electronics use an electric charge to store and process information. Charges leak energy, generating heat and limiting the number of transistors that can be packed onto a chip. They also use energy, reducing battery life.

The new center will pursue three promising alterna-tives. Each takes advantage of unique, nano-scale properties that require much less energy, which would enable more compact and powerful devices.

In one initiative, UNL physicist Alexei Gruverman will lead a team based on his and Tsymbal’s work focused on nano-thin ferroelectric oxide, a material with both positive and negative polarization directions that can be reversed by switching voltage, which doesn’t generate heat. That duality is important because the polarization direction can be read like a binary code to store information. Gruverman and colleagues have shown that reversing the polarization

changes the level of resistance as electrons pass between electrodes. Measuring that resistance would allow the device to read the polarization direction, and thus, the informa-tion it contains.

A second initiative relies on UNL physicist Christian Binek’s work with spintronics, which manipulates electron spin, in addition to charge, to store information. Tradi-tional magnetic memory devices use a current to generate a magnetic field and change the magnetic direction, which is the binary method of storing information. Binek’s team discovered how to switch magnetization using voltage instead. The magic ingredient is chromia, the oxide form of chromium, which can be magnetized with voltage. Bringing a nano-thin film of chromia into contact with a ferromag-netic material and applying voltage switches the material’s magnetization direction.

The center’s third initiative, led by Ilya Krivorotov at the University of California, Irvine, carries information not just by switching the spin direction, but also by generating spin waves. Much like a sound wave carries information through time and space, a spin-wave device would be able to interpret information carried on a spin wave, which can also be generated using low-energy voltage.

All of these methods have the potential to go beyond today’s semiconducting systems, which would greatly expand computing potential, Tsymbal said. But he empha-sized the need for collaboration among researchers and with industry to take these fundamental principles out of the laboratory and into specific devices.

Prem Paul, UNL vice chancellor for research and economic development, agreed: “This university-industry consortium partnership brings together critical funding and expertise to transform the basic research discoveries at universities into a new generation of innovative devices to benefit society.”

UNL physicists Kirill Belashchenko and Xia Hong also are members of the new center. Industry partners involved in the projects include IBM, Intel, Micron Technology, Texas Instruments and GlobalFoundries.

Semiconductor Research Corp. is the world’s lead-ing university research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies. The Nanoelectronics Research Initiative and the collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology are managed by the Nano-electronics Research Corp., a special purpose subsidiary of Semiconductor Research Corp.

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UNL physicists involved with the new Center for NanoFerroic Devices, from left, are: Alexei Gruverman; Peter Dowben, CNFD associate director; Kirill Belashchenko; Xia Hong; and Evgeny Tsymbal, CNFD director. Not pictured, Christian Binek. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications

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Nebraska Innovation Campus

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Stories by Dan Moser

Nebraska-grown Tomatoes

IANR researchers are working

with ConAgra Foods to test the feasibil-

ity of growing processing tomatoes in

Nebraska greenhouses.

ConAgra Foods, based in Omaha,

is the first private business to announce

plans to be a tenant of Nebraska In-

novation Campus. The company already

is using East Campus greenhouses in

cooperation with UNL agronomists,

horticulturalists and food scientists.

Eventually, it will use space in the NIC

greenhouses.

ConAgra Foods’ tomatoes are field

grown in California for the company’s

Hunt’s canned tomatoes line. If Ne-

braska greenhouses prove promising

for growing tomato varieties used in

canning, the company could conduct

year-round research in Nebraska at

every stage.

“We are discussing the possibility of

doing some canning of these test toma-

toes at the NIC. This would be everything

from peeling the tomatoes, preparing

them for the can and then steps needed

for food safety of canned products,” said

Mike Parker of ConAgra Foods Research

Quality & Innovation. “We see oppor-

tunity with the NIC when it comes to

research and development on our Hunt’s

products.”

So far, the project has one full-time

staff person at UNL, with that likely to

grow. In addition, two students are work-

ing on the project through the UCARE

(Undergraduate Creative Activities and

Research Experiences) program.

“We believe there will be more

opportunities as the NIC facility is built

out,” Parker said. “We are definitely

excited about the opportunity to create

a talent pool of students with experience

on our products.”

Dan Duncan keeps a list of potential partners for the Nebraska Innovation Campus. One day last winter, he figured it was more than 60.

“Those range from they’re going to be there to probably un-likely but still worth considering,” said Duncan, executive director of the 232-acre private-public research campus taking shape on the former Nebraska State Fairgrounds.

“For over a year I’ve been selling a PowerPoint,” Duncan said. “That’s all I’ve had to sell.”

Not so anymore. The first private partner, Omaha-based ConAgra Foods, committed to the campus last fall and construc-

tion was proceeding apace this summer. A new business accelerator is on board for fall too. Terence Bowden’s first steps are to spend some time listening to faculty and students to get some perspec-tive on what support is needed for starter companies; he’ll also be working with community leaders and then form a business plan to shape the future, Duncan said.

In another recent development, the Nebraska Alumni Associa-tion will manage and run NIC’s conference facility, and the first university tenants of the campus will be the Department of Food Science and Technology.

Bottom line: In the last year, Duncan has much more to sell

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than a hazy concept with pretty artist’s renditions. He compares ConAgra’s agreement to efforts to fill a shopping mall by landing that first big anchor store.

There’s plenty of interest, Dun-can said. “I could be leasing a lot of space now if we had it available. People are out there looking right now for this kind of space.”

Phase I of construction com-prised about 300,000 square feet of space, divided among four buildings that includes lab, greenhouse and of-fice space, a 400-seat conference room and a restaurant. The design incorporates two historic Fairgrounds structures – the 4-H Building and the Industrial Arts Building.

Twenty-five years from now, it’s envisioned there will be 2 mil-lion square feet of space with up to 7,000 people “living, working and playing” there. That’s a pace of about 80,000 square feet of new space a year, Duncan noted.

“This is a very aggressive growth plan.”Duncan said there’s only about 96 acres of buildable space,

so construction will have to average three stories in what will be a “dense urban-type environment,” except with more green space.

Amenities such as restaurants, gym, dry cleaners and living space will be key too, he said.

Duncan said private industry will be drawn by the opportu-nity to work with university faculty and bright students. He said he also expects Innovation Campus to be a student recruitment draw.

“We’re going to give students mechanisms to start their own businesses. We’re going to have internships with these companies,” he said. “I’ve heard from students who already own their own busi-nesses who are interested in space where they could meet clients.”

Yes, much more than a PowerPoint now.

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Hybrid Popcorn Research

ConAgra Foods also will be pop-

ping up at the Nebraska Innovation

Campus with research into popcorn

hybrids.

Working with IANR scientists,

the effort aims for more effective and

efficient breeding of new commercial

varieties for ConAgra’s Orville Reden-

bacher’s popcorn, said Mike Parker

of ConAgra Foods Research Quality &

Innovation.

Three full-time jobs are anticipated

initially, as well as support staff, Parker

said.

“The UNL research team is still

determining which projects will be

best for the program and once those

are identified, there will be graduate-

level positions needed to support this

research,” Parker said. “Additionally,

there will be work opportunities in the

popping lab and popcorn fields.

“We are very excited to be at the

front of this innovation wave being cre-

ated in Lincoln. We see huge value in

leveraging the expertise and creativity

that the university cultivates,” he added.

More ventures between ConAgra

Foods and UNL are likely.

“We’re being very focused on the

initial projects to ensure both sides un-

derstand how it will work and can show

value delivered to their respective sides.

ConAgra Foods has such a diverse

portfolio, we definitely see opportunities

for future exploration with UNL,” Parker

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Real-time Market Action

Plans are underway for an agricul-

tural economics commodities trading

room, providing real-world experience

under faculty direction and supervision.

Just as chemistry students have

labs for conducting scientific experi-

ments, a commodities trading room will

allow ag economics students to analyze

portfolios, develop and test trading

strategies, and develop risk management

strategies in a dynamic learning envi-

ronment, said Larry Van Tassell, head

of IANR’s Department of Agricultural

Economics.

Providing university students with

a real-time commodities training market

increasingly is becoming the norm na-

tionwide, Van Tassell said.

The room will provide faculty and

students a place to conduct research

and, combined with courses in a

new commodities trading option, give

students advanced training in markets,

merchandising, futures and options.

By Cheryl Alberts, ’86, ’00Nebraska’s state grass could be rising to new heights.Little bluestem (Schzachyrium scoparium), along with other

tough native Nebraska grasses, are top contenders for topping off green roofs, said Richard Sutton, who teaches horticulture and landscape architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“Green roofs have been around for ages,” Sutton said, cit-ing pioneer sod houses. His five-year study with undergraduate research students and four Lincoln collaborators details the how-to’s and costs of seeding native grasses onto rooftops, and provides insights for the green roof course he teaches.

“Green roofs represent a man-made ecosystem,” Sutton said, noting on a 105-degree day last year he found a giant praying mantis on the green roof of the Arbor Day Foundation in Lincoln. It had retreated from rooftop sedum into its cooler native grass.

Green roofs could attract other beneficial insects such as wild bees, whose annual pollination value is worth millions of dollars, he said.

Stormwater control is a key green roof advantage, slowing run-off through its medium of heat-expanded lightweight shale, sand and compost, he said.

Acting as a giant sponge, the green roof absorbs water until saturated, then slowly releases overflow. This lessens the load on storm sewers, reducing flooding.

The Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources professor

hopes more green roofs are considered for new construction. His study covered plant species, season, spacing, biomass, mainte-nance and cost. He calculates labor and native grass seed to plant a 1,000-square-foot rooftop six inches deep runs 79 cents per square foot.

That compares to $5 per square foot to plant sedum, a flower-ing exotic most often used for green roofs.

By complementing sedum with native little bluestem, blue or hairy grama, sand dropseed or dryland sedges, Sutton said green roofs can better withstand heat, drought and wind, with little or no water and fertilizer.

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A New Generation of Makers: Building Creative Confidence in Undergrads

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By Sarah Thomas Karle, assistant professorWe are all creating all the time, both consciously and

unconsciously, but our understanding of how, and our confidence in the process, can be mysterious or suppressed. The truth is that the best scientists, entrepreneurs, engi-neers, soldiers, CEOs, sports coaches, hockey players and architects are all creative. Creativity includes being attuned to the people and culture you are immersed in and having the experience, wisdom and knowledge to frame the real problem and, more importantly, the ability to create and enact solutions. In a time when creativity is the foundation for innovation, our primary responsibility as educators is to prepare a generation of students to rise with the challenges of our times.

This coming academic year, the College of Architec-ture in collaboration with the Jeffery S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management will offer a course for freshman students focused on developing creative intelli-gence. Intended for students with little or no design experi-ence, the course introduces central issues and approaches to design as an interdisciplinary process. This process, which has been called design thinking, was developed for students ranging in age from kindergarten to post-professionals at Stanford’s Hasso Platter Institute of Design. It draws on methods from engineering and design and combines them with ideas from the arts, tools from the social sciences, and insights from the business world. At UNL, undergraduate students will work collaboratively using a design think-ing process to address relevant and real-world challenges beyond the campus.

During the semester students will be asked to utilize their creative problem-solving abilities to address chal-lenges ranging from logo design to the design of intellec-tual property. The goal of the course is to teach design as a systematic, practice-defining method of creative innova-tion. The process is intended to become a normal way of problem-solving, not the exception. In a time where creativity is the source of value, where entrepreneurs drive growth and where social networks are the building blocks of the economy, we look forward to educating the next generation of UNL graduates to enter the workforce with creative confidence.

The course will be co-taught in the fall by Brian Kelly, assistant professor of architecture, and Ian Cottingham, assistant professor of practice and associate director for Design Studio at Jeffery S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. The course, developed in col-laboration with UNL blended learning coordinator Sydney Brown, will implement innovative blended learning educa-tional strategies.

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Students are encouraged to create physical representations to advance their ideas.

The studio environment creates a collaborative atmosphere where students and faculty together generate unexpected ideas by reframing challenges.

Student learning extends beyond the campus through expert interviews and field trips. Students in the College of Architecture receive a behind-the-scenes Capitol tour from Capitol Architect Robert Ripley.

Students are taught visual communication skills ranging from freehand drawing to digital and physical model making strategies. Students in the College of Architecture receive a gestural drawing lesson from Design Drawing Instructor Chip Stanley.

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Doppler on Wheels Gives Students Rare Opportunity

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By Deann Gayman, University CommunicationsAs the skies blackened and a storm moved into south-

western Oklahoma on a Saturday in late March, a group of University of Nebraska-Lincoln students were patiently watching it, tracking its course.

They weren’t situated in a lab, reading secondary data from weather stations, but were on the ground in Lawton, Okla., ready to deploy their own state-of-the-art equip-ment.

These 17 students from Adam Houston’s radar meteo-rology class had waited all day to intercept a weather sys-tem and a supercell thunderstorm was within their midst.

Now, it was time to go.On the heels of this storm, the students used the

Doppler on Wheels to get real-time data that none of the students had ever worked with firsthand.

It was an astounding experience, senior Casey Griffin said, and not one he was fully prepared for, even though he’d been storm-chasing before.

“It was a lot more complicated and difficult than I thought it would be,” he said. “There’s a lot of training and background that’s needed before working with an instru-ment like this. It’s very sensitive equipment and it’s spent its life being exposed to the elements. There were worries that we would have problems.”

As a group, the students made meteorological predic-

tions during the week prior to the trip to decide which direction they would go in order to intercept a storm. As Houston described it, “the students really got to flex their forecasting muscles.”

The students had a clear and direct focus: to find the kind of storm and conditions that would provide data for each of their individual projects. Of course, there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all storm, so students worked all week to predict where the best storm for their collective use would roll in.

“The fact that we were able to intercept that storm was great,” Houston, associate professor of Earth and atmo-spheric sciences, said. “When you catch a supercell, that’s a big deal.”

The DOW was on loan from the Center for Severe Weather Research and the National Science Foundation. As a mobile Doppler radar, the DOW collects detailed information on atmospheric phenomena. Every other year, Houston teaches the Radar Meteorology course and puts in a request to use the DOW. Houston challenges each student in the class to come up with a project that uses data collected with the DOW to support the student’s hypothesis. The cutting-edge technology provides many important lessons in the class. Not only are students able to learn how to use the technology as well as the data that can be attained from it, but they also get a valuable dose of

fieldwork, something that can’t be done in a classroom.“I want them to get experience working with a

cutting-edge piece of instrumentation and forecasting with purpose,” Houston said. “If you make the wrong decision, you don’t get your data.”

Griffin said the assignment and subsequent trip with the DOW is also a lesson in patience and acceptance. Since very few students in the class had been storm chasing before, he said much of Saturday before the storm hit was spent worrying if there would actually be any activity.

“There is that ‘bust potential’ as they call it, and learn-ing to deal with that and taking it in stride is very impor-tant,” Griffin said.

But the supercell was exactly what they were hoping for, so the experience was a very positive one for Houston and his students. And it’s not one that many undergradu-ate students get to have, which makes it even more valu-able, Griffin, a meteorology and mathematics major from Omaha, said.

“It’s an extremely unique opportunity,” he said. “It’s an experience that most undergrads don’t get at other schools across the nation. There’s no meteorology that you can really do in the lab. This was true fieldwork, working with instrumentation and trying to make the best decisions with the information you have.”

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One recent example of how the program complements the career of a veteran is Brett Whorley, who needed a Big Ten MBA program that could accommodate his job as a naval officer. He found what he was looking for at UNL.

“In the fall of 2009, I had just returned from sea duty in Japan,” Whorley said. “I needed a solid flexible MBA program to meet my needs, and UNL fit perfectly. I was able to accomplish my class projects and discussions in my free time on travel, and between obligations as a flight instructor.”

Although online education is sometimes perceived as being not as compelling as the classroom experience, he found his experi-ence at UNL to be very engaging.

“The online courses exceeded my expectations,” he said. “I thought the communication would be mostly one way. However, the collaborative online venues facilitated interaction at a level I never thought would be possible from a distance.”

Whorley believes completing a graduate degree is a must for a naval officer. He was named Naval Flight Officer of the Year (Shore

Duty) in 2012 for the Navy’s E-2C Hawkeye Community and was directly responsible for the coordination, instruction and evalua-tion for 60 Hawkeye aircrew.

“The UNL MBA allowed me to study on my schedule while working full time. I also wanted a program that had a founda-tion as a traditional ‘brick and mortar’ education with a good reputation. The program has already paid dividends in my current position at U.S. Naval Central Command staff where I work in the current operations department,” he said.

Whorley grew up in Knoxville, Tenn., and attended Georgia Tech on a Navy ROTC Scholarship and earned an undergraduate degree in international affairs.

“I chose the international business specialization with my MBA degree and appreciated the international management and finance courses. The ability to use the knowledge I learned in those classes to have intelligent conversations and build a good rapport has been invaluable.”

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln MBA program is ranked No. 3 for Best Online MBA Programs

for Veterans, according to a new U.S. News & World Report listing. To achieve the veteran-specific

ranking, schools had to already be on the respective U.S. News & World Report listing for best

online programs. The UNL MBA Online program was ranked second in the Big Ten and 17th in the

nation overall.

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Architects Selected for CBA Building

Plans for a new state-of-the-art Col-

lege of Business Administration building

at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

took another step forward with selec-

tion of project architects. On March 15,

the University of Nebraska Board of

Regents approved Robert A.M. Stern

Architects of New York and Alley Poyner

Macchietto Architecture of Nebraska as

architects for the new building.

The planned $84 million facility

makes way for one of the most signifi-

cant events in the history of the college

and represents the largest academic

building project in recent history at

UNL. With approximately 240,000

square feet, the building will include

space for interactive learning, collabo-

ration, conferences, competitions and

other events; program-specific state-of-

the-art classrooms; “one stop” student

support services; and improved and

expanded technology that will support

current and future business programs.

The building will be constructed

at 14th and Vine streets, just north of

Kauffman Academic Residential Center.

The entire project will be privately

funded through donations.

In the last three years, the College

of Business Administration has seen

a dramatic increase in enrollment,

including a 25.4 percent increase in fall

2012 in freshmen and a 15.8 percent

increase in transfer students.

Robert A.M. Stern Architects is

one of the world’s leading architecture

firms with wide experience in residen-

tial, commercial and institutional work.

Founder of the firm, Robert Stern is

dean of the Yale School of Architecture.

Based in Omaha, Alley Poyner

Macchietto Architecture is a 25-year-old

design firm with extensive academic

experience and an open studio culture.

“During a recent visit to Lincoln,

Robert Stern and I discussed the new

building and what it is like being deans

at Yale and the University of Nebraska,”

said CBA Dean Donde Plowman. “We

are so thrilled for the guidance of these

national experts in business school

design in planning our new facility.”

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College of Education and Human Sciences

CEHS Brain Research a Balancing Act

By Brad StaufferBalance. With it our lives our normal. Without it our lives are

anything but. From an athlete’s perspective, balance is make or break. With-

out exceptional balance, Taylor Martinez would not have run for more than a thousand yards and thrown 23 touchdown passes for the Husker football team last season.

Now think about brain concussions and their potentially debili-tating results. The effects can alter the course of a team’s season, or the course of an individual’s life. Getting athletes safely back in the action and helping individuals more quickly lead normal lives after concussions is the focus of one-of-a-kind research by Julie Honaker and her team through the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders in the College of Education and Human Sciences.

Honaker, a clinical audiologist who earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati and also completed a post-doctoral fellow-ship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is an expert on balance disorders. Research on concussion, she noted, has emphasized the cognitive aspect of the brain, and much progress has been made. But less is known about other concussion symptoms such as imbalance and dizziness, the two most common symptoms other than head-aches.

“I want to understand why athletes are truly dizzy and have instability following injury,” said Honaker. “I can hypothesize, but I want to prove it or redefine the question to better understand. When we better understand we can start to tailor interventions, and rehabilitation techniques can be better defined.”

Don’t expect this research to be a one and done study, she said, but rather a step in the right direction. A large data pool and replica-tion is necessary and that takes time. Fortunately, Honaker and her colleagues have a readily available source of data subjects – Univer-sity of Nebraska athletes.

“Having support from athletics is great,” said Honaker. “It’s really Coach (Tom) Osborne’s vision to have a research complex to make athletes the best they can be in the classroom and on the field.”

Osborne, recently retired as athletic director, will soon see a big piece of his vision completed. The Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior (CB3) will open this summer in the new expansion project on the east side of Memorial Stadium. Honaker’s balance research lab will shift from The Barkley Memorial Center on East Campus to the CB3 facility.

The 22,000-square-foot center will include state-of-the-art brain imaging equipment, and research will involve numerous academic disciplines, creating a research facility unlike any other. Dennis

Molfese, an internationally recognized expert in research that links the brain and behavior, will direct CB3. Molfese will be a collabora-tor in Honaker’s research, and the combined resources of CB3 hold great promise for concussion research.

“To our knowledge, this is the first study to combine neuro-psychology and vestibular,” said Honaker. “It’s also the first facility to house concussion research within an athletic facility. It’s really cutting edge.”

The body’s sense of balance is managed through the vestibular system and works in conjunction with sensory systems such as vi-sion, touch, hearing and the skeletal system. The vestibular system involves integrated structures of the inner ear and brainstem and communicates with other structures within the brain to execute co-ordinated movements of the eyes, head and body. Honaker and her research team hypothesize that these structures may be compromised after a head injury causing impaired balance.

Student athletes who have a history of brain concussion are screened to help establish research baselines. Assessment questions provide data for symptoms, overall mood, fatigue level and other variables for study. Additionally, athletes participate in a variety of tests to measure walking gait, assess balance and posture, and track eye and head movements.

Sophisticated eye tracking technology is used to measure gaze stability, how well subjects follow a target and other factors. A cam-era integrated into goggles detects the darkest part of the eye to track pupil movement. Researchers can even manipulate head movement to possibly provoke irregular eye movements, called nystagmus. Eye movements, Honaker said, could tell researchers where concussion-related problems are coming from.

Ultimately, this CEHS research could better identify who is susceptible to residual effects after head injury and lead to improved support for the needs of head injury patients. Honaker also hopes that her research may someday lead to more protective athletic equipment and provide better insights about when it’s safe for con-cussed players to return to play.

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Downtown Upgrade: Durham School Students Help Nonprofits Improve Facilities

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Ph.D. student Jessie Patterson secures a safety harness as test subject Paul Patterson stands on a forceplate surrounded by a moveable screen. The device measures center of gravity or balance, as the forceplate or screen moves. Sensors in the forceplate detect body sway through weight distribution in the feet. Ph.D. student Robin Criter is at the controls of the computerized dynamic posturography system.

CEHS researcher Julie Honaker passively moves the test subject’s head as electronic monitors track head movement. This test measures the subject’s visual acuity by his ability to read information on a computer screen during head movement. If vision is blurred, it indicates a potential problem with the inner ear system, brain or both.

Getting athletes safely

back in the action and

helping individuals more

quickly lead normal lives

after concussions is the focus

of one-of-a-kind research by

Julie Honaker and her team.

By Carole WilbeckSure, Lincoln Haymarket development projects such

as the new arena, offices and residences are exciting for UNL Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction community members to be involved in, but that’s not the only need for construction expertise in the city.

Each year, Durham School Professor Tim Wentz’s ARCH 333 / CNST 305 class helps a local organization with planning for facility needs: renovations that may not be glamorous but make a big difference in the quality of day-to-day services for local people in need. This hands-on work benefits the selected nonprofits and provides real-world learning that integrates prior courses’ concepts for upper-level Durham students.

Wentz has led student team engagement for a daycare site, a campus historical building’s return to functional use, and a 1910 church becoming a community center. He chooses worthy organizations where students can “apply the fundamental concepts of mechanical systems to solve an identifiable set of problems.” He has found that, with a half-dozen teams of three or more students, multiple ap-proaches yield varied problem-solving outcomes each term.

The 2012-13 location – Cornhusker Place at 721 K

Street – is where “men and women with limited financial resources heal the wounds of substance abuse and become productive, contributing citizens,” according to the CP mission statement.

In a project overview and during site visits, Wentz’s students learned the realities of CP operations: “Our building has been utilized for the past 70 years for a variety of functions, most not aligned with the services that our agency provides today. Additionally, several of the services we provide require specialized operating areas. Some of these have been added within the building as capital fund-ing has been available, some have not. The building’s in-frastructure … has been a drawback to its functionality to some extent … and questions about how to improve those infrastructure issues impact decisions about how best to use the building to meet service additions going forward.” Cornhusker Place also stipulated renovation costs should not exceed $100-$130 per square foot.

On the Blackboard course hub, students studied the Request for Proposal about the project and expectations. Crucial in each student’s grade (and the primary deliver-able for CP as the “client”) was the team response, focusing on energy efficiency and sustainability factors to minimize resource consumption in HVAC and plumbing systems,

and building envelope modifications that improve the indoor environment. Incorporating appropriate Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) credits was another expectation.

The 12-20 page project papers (with additional bibliographies and spreadsheets on heating and cooling loads and water consumption) were augmented by teams’ 20-minute project interviews with CP representatives. Each team also provided a “drawdel” – half model, half drawing – depicting proposed wall and roof sections.

Several teams pushed beyond LEED Silver levels to pursue LEED Gold certification, without significant cost increase for the client. Wentz and CP representatives praised one group’s unique approach to the kitchen and dining aspects, co-locating them on the same floor and adding commercial equipment from the project wish list, while keeping to the budget parameters and sacrificing only under-utilized space.

“The class did a phenomenal job of understanding our needs and the needs of our clients,” said CP Executive Director Phil Tegeler. “We will use the classwork to move ahead in our discussions about next steps for our building. The university’s partnership in this project is greatly appre-ciated and will have lasting impact for our programs.”

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Matthew Stier of Blair is the first recipient of the scholarship established by former Nebraska and current Detroit Lions standout Ndamukong Suh in 2010, at the college from which he graduated.

Stier will begin studies at UNL this month in con-struction management, the major Suh pursued at UNL.

“I’ve always been interested in engineering, and I chose to study construction management at UNL because of the hands-on learning,” he said.

On May 18, Suh accompanied Stier and his family on tours of the UNL engineering buildings, Memorial Stadium and other campus locations. They ended the day with a reception hosted by the Suh Family Foundation at UNL’s Lied Center for Performing Arts.

“My hope for Matthew is that he runs with this op-

portunity and enjoys his experience at UNL,” Suh said.The Ndamukong Suh Scholarship provides $10,000

for an aspiring engineer to study at UNL. Before becom-ing the second overall pick in the 2010 National Football League draft, Suh pledged a $2.6 million gift to UNL, with $600,000 dedicated to an endowment fund to support the dreams of future engineers.

As a UNL student, Suh was a scholarship recipient

and said he valued the positive influence of his experience. Suh has extended his philanthropy by helping Detroit’s inner-city youth with a focus on education, health and wellness. He has provided supply-filled backpacks, visited students in multiple schools and made hospital visits in the community. He also has offered support in his parents’ homelands of Jamaica and Cameroon, including the adop-tion of a school.

First Suh Scholarship Awarded

(Left to right) Ndamukong Suh with Matthew Stier; Eddy Rojas, director of UNL’s Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction; and Tim Wei, dean of the College of Engineering.

By Kathe AndersenIt is rare feat for an undergraduate college student

to present at a conference sponsored by the International Horn Society.

But that’s exactly what UNL School of Music senior Steven Cohen did at the 2013 International Horn Sympo-sium (IHS) in Memphis, Tenn, on Aug. 1, when he pre-sented “From ON stage to UNDER it: Transforming from an Orchestral to Pit Hornist and Back,” providing a look into the world of professional pit/Broadway horn playing.

“It is very uncommon for an undergraduate student to present at the IHS,” said associate professor of horn Alan Mattingly. “Occasionally a graduate student will give a presentation, but by and large, only professional horn players and teachers at the peak of their careers are chosen to present.”

Cohen grew up in Great Neck, N.Y. He began study-ing at Mannes College The New School for Music, but took leave in May 2010 to join the touring production of “The 25th Anniversary Production of Les Misérables.” He

performed as principal horn there from November 2010 to January 2012 until he began studying at UNL.

The production was a special one for Cohen, who was introduced to “Les Misérables” when he was 11 years old.

“I fell in love with the show immediately,” Cohen said. “My dream job from that point on was to play the show.”

A contractor hires touring musicians. Cohen’s wife, Jill Bartels Cohen, ’05, who is also a horn player, had

connections that led to the couple’s hiring for the “Les Misérables” touring production.

“I remember I was at work when my wife got the phone call from the contractor asking if we were inter-ested,” Cohen said. “I about had a heart attack. The show is something that had been a part of me since I was 11. I lost my father when I was 14 … [and] that show really car-ried me through the loss. There are instances on tour that I literally would just start crying because the show is that powerful.”

Describing Cohen as a “fantastic” horn player, Mat-tingly said, “He has performed in a wide variety of musical settings. He is also an active freelancer in the area, playing numerous productions in Lincoln and Omaha.

“He is definitely not the ‘typical’ undergraduate stu-dent. Steven can offer great insight to horn players about the differences between playing on stage with an orchestra and playing under the stage in the pit of a musical produc-tion.”

While they share some similarities, playing in a pit orchestra offers some chal-lenges not typically found in the orchestral setting.

“There are a lot of vary-ing styles that you’re asked to do within the pit setting that you’re not asked to do in the orchestral setting normally,” Cohen said. “Also the way that the horn is used in the pit, be-cause of its unique versatility, your part could be a horn part, but you could also be filling in the role of second trumpet or third saxophone.”

Playing in the pit also typically means more playing.

“One of the differences I like to point out is the time that you’re going to be spending playing,” Cohen said. “Most orchestra concerts are two hours in length with an intermission, and you play them three or four times per week at the most. With a show, you’re looking at playing eight times a week for three hours at a time with two shows on Saturday and Sunday. Your body is utilized differently. The physicalness of keeping up with it, especially with your

chops, is very scary.”Another difference is the number of people that you

work with.“You go from the orchestral setting of working with

100 people to the pit orchestra, which is typically much smaller. The most I’ve worked with in a pit was in ‘South Pacific,’ and that was 22 people,” Cohen said. “What’s asked of you within your part is a lot more. You’re dealing with smaller numbers, so you have to create a big deal of sound.”

But Cohen has a passion for playing in the pit.“People don’t think about it much. You listen to show

tunes on the radio, but what went into that?” Cohen said. “That’s what pushed me to do this.”

He also appreciates having the opportunity to change people’s lives through music.

“This music has the ability to transform people. The emotional experience is there,” Cohen said. “Even if you’re an amateur horn player, there are so many things you can do to really give a full performance because you’re part of what’s going on. It’s not just what’s happening on stage. You, as a player, especially if it’s a really significant horn part, have moments in that horn part that drive the entire show. It was my job at ‘Les Mis’ to bring those moments to life because when it was our time to shine, we had to really shine.”

But he also believes there is no such thing as a perfect performance.

“You can play every note, every single way you want to, but there’s a whole other spectrum because of what’s happening on stage,” Cohen said.

Cohen strives to get that emotional reaction from the audience.

“That’s a complete performance for me,” Cohen said. “It’s understanding yourself as a musician and bringing your feelings forward through your playing. It’s painting a picture of what’s happening on stage through your playing.”

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Steven and Jill Cohen perform outreach for school children in November 2011 in Cleveland, Ohio, during the “Les Misérables” tour. Photos courtesy of Steven Cohen.

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By Cody Broder, J Alumni News staff It is a phrase many people use without knowing the meaning

firsthand. For the last three years, the Newman Center has given University of Nebraska-Lincoln students the opportunity to truly understand what the popular phrase means.

Among the 19 Catholic students who went on this year’s spring break trip to Rome, Italy, were two College of Journalism and Mass Communications students – Emily German and Wyn Wiley. The collegiate ministry chapter of UNL’s Newman Center – The Fellowship of Catholic University Students – sponsored the trip.

Father Ben Holdren of the Newman Center works with his brother at the Catholic News Agency in Rome to make the trips happen. He first began taking students to Italy in the spring of 2011 when a student who wanted to see the sights brought up the idea. He took 33 the first time and 70 the second.

German and Wiley were looking for an opportunity to go on a mission trip in the Central America region, but according to Wiley, none of the trips they were looking into aligned with UNL’s spring break schedule.

German, who graduated in May with a degree in advertising and public relations, said, “We felt like it was the best option.”

Holdren estimated the participants began meeting before winter break to coordinate the trip.

“Most of the trips are very loosely planned beforehand,” Holdren said. “Then it’s opened up to the students to see if there is anything that they would like.”

Nowhere in the group’s plans, though, was the papal audience for journalists on March 16 and the Inauguration Mass of Pope Francis on March 19, when the group was in Rome.

German, who went to Rome while in high school, said she no-ticed several differences. She said it was busier and there was more excitement, decorations and security around St. Peter’s Square.

“There was a jubilant feeling because we were all excited about the new pope and all the really cool things that go along with that.”

Wiley said it was a melting pot of people from different areas.“There were so many people from everywhere around the

world,” the senior advertising and public relations major said. “It was really cool to see the city come alive as a cultural hub and see so many people excited for one event.”

Along with the UNL group, which consisted of Nebraska college students and adults from the FOCUS program, German recalled interacting with people from many areas of the world, in-cluding Spain, Brazil and Japan. Even though there were racial and lingual barriers between people, German said everyone was friendly because they knew they were all there for the same reason.

After spending the majority of their trip in Rome, the stu-

dents took a day trip to Florence, Venice and Milan, Italy. German said she possesses something valuable that allowed her

to take something extra away from the trip: A “hunger” to learn of different cultures and languages.

“Experiencing another culture allows you to open your mind in a new way,” she said. “There is no way you could experience another culture from your own home, state or country.”

“I guess something I didn’t expect was how much I would learn about history,” said Wiley. “Rome is pretty neat because it’s chalked full of the present day, the past and everything in be-tween.”

After months of preparation and excitement, airplane rides and train rides, the trip was over and the students were back in the United States.

“I think Rome and all of Italy lived up to the hype,” Wiley said. “It was even better than I expected because I got to spend the trip with a great group of friends and new friends.”

Now in Florida studying to become a FOCUS missionary, German, who graduated with a double concentration in art and history, said she did something she “never thought she would be able to do” by going on the trip.

Wiley said it is always a great idea to experience different areas of the world if you can.

“Truly YOLO (You Only Live Once),” the senior said. “Take every opportunity you can to travel and surround yourself with friends.”

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When in Rome ...

Witness to HistoryStephen Driscoll, an Omaha native

who is studying broadcasting, journalism

and global studies, was in Rome as a

Catholic News Agency intern when Pope

Benedict XVI announced his resignation

on Feb. 11. Driscoll helped to cover Car-

dinal Bergoglio’s election as the Bishop

of Rome on March 13 and inauguration

as Pope Francis on March 19.

Wiley and German attended a papal audience for journalists in Paul VI’s Hall of the Vatican during their trip to Rome, Italy, March 14-24. Photo courtesy Wyn Wiley.

Wiley and German pose before one of the many fountains in Rome. Photo courtesy Emily German.

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Law Training Leads to Alternate Career

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He tells them to figure out what they are good at, to know how they are wired, to find out “what trips their trigger,” and then be willing to follow that journey. For Hansen, that journey took a somewhat circuitous route, but then it brought him to Center-Pointe.

Many people influenced Hansen along that journey. One was an instructor he encountered as an undergraduate student at UNL’s Centennial College. He suggested that Han-sen should volunteer at a drug crisis line that had recently started. That appealed to Hansen because growing up he had friends with drug problems and he developed “an innate sense of how to be a helper among my peers and a predisposition to handling crises that I didn’t understand at the time.” Two years later, Hansen was the crisis line’s first paid director.

The next step on Hansen’s journey was with Lincoln Public School’s SKIP program, which provided drug and alcohol-related intervention to children in the school sys-tem. After a brief time as a counselor with the organization that is now CenterPointe, he returned to UNL to complete his undergraduate education and then enrolled at Nebraska Law.

Hansen joined the Healey and Weiland law firm upon his graduation to pursue his interest in trial work. But, he ultimately found that the passion he thought he would have for it was not there.

He decided he was in need of a change, and the Lincoln Lan-caster Drug Project was looking for a director of development. He was already doing legal work for the agency, so he proposed that he be hired to do both jobs.

One of the first things he did when he was hired was change the name. CenterPointe was born. The development job put Han-sen “in the position of thinking broadly about the organization. I was able to understand what our donor base was, what kind of future we had and where we fit on the continuum of non-profits. It established my vision about what we needed for this agency to succeed.”

Here is how Hansen describes CenterPointe: “We provide active treatment, rehabilitation post-treatment and housing for

people who have both mental illness and addiction issues. The im-portant thing that we do that is different from what a lot of organi-zations throughout the country do is that we integrate the mental health and addiction issues. When they’re in with the therapist it’s not just mental health or addiction; it’s both all wrapped together. ... Many of the people we work with are homeless or on the verge of being homeless. People who are on the street are not going to get

better. So we have four units that are identi-fied for people who are chronically homeless and others that are transitional. The housing is subsidized so that they never spend more than 30 percent of their own income. We provide a comprehensive and holistic plan that involves vocation and housing and substance and mental health.”

When the CEO position at Center-Pointe opened up, Hansen didn’t apply for it even though he was serving as the interim. It seemed like it would be “too much rigma-role, too much junk, too much time spent writing grants and preparing budgets.” Two events led him to change his mind.

His dad told him to take the job and do it the way that worked the best for him. The second event was when he was watching “The Lion King” “for the 497th time with my little ones.” Simba sees his father, Mufasa, in the clouds and Mufasa says, “You need to rise to be who you were born to be.” Hansen knew he had to take the job.

“I have found my bliss. I am involved in a fairly sophisticated, intense, political, creative, very business-oriented world of health-care, and I love every second of it.”

As executive director, Hansen cannot provide legal representa-tion to the organization. Yet he calls on his legal training every day.

“I would not be here if I had not gone to law school. No ques-tion in my mind. It developed my thinking in a way that gave me the capacity to imagine, to problem solve. I problem solve every single day. What you don’t understand in your first year of law school and sometimes into your second year is how your brain is being trained.”

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From time-to-time, Christopher (Topher) Hansen, ’85, executive director of CenterPointe and

recipient of the 2012 Executive of the Year award from the Association of Nonprofit Executives,

is asked to return to the College of Law to talk to students interested in “alternate career choices.”

A Trio in ConcertLaw Dean Susan Poser joined two

internationally known members of the

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra – violinist

Eileen Siegel and cellist Kari Ravnan

– to present a private concert at the

Lied Commons in July. With Poser on

the piano, the group performed Franz

Schubert’s Trio in B flat major, D.898.

Siegel began playing the violin at

the age of 5. A native of Chicago, she

has lived in Norway since 1988 when

she won the associate concertmaster

position for the Oslo Philharmonic. She

has been soloist with her orchestra on

many occasions and has taught at the

Barratt Due Institute in Oslo for the

past 20 years. Poser and Siegel met in

1975 at the Interlochen National

Music Camp and have been close

friends ever since.

The daughter of the late Audun

Ravnan, professor of piano at UNL for

36 years, Kari Ravnan toured with her

father and has appeared as soloist with

European and American orchestras.

She is founder and artistic director of

the Horten Chamber Music Festival

and has a special interest in teaching

chamber music.

Poser, dean and the Richard &

Catherine Schmoker Professor of Law

at the University of Nebraska College

of Law since May 2010, has played

the piano since she was a child. She

took lessons from Professor Ravnan in

1995 and continues to study music, a

longtime avocation for her.

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Fall 2013 Husker Athletics Schedules

* Indicates conference game/meet; home games in RED. Photos courtesy of Nebraska Media Relations. footBAll Aug. 31 Wyoming, Memorial Stadium, 7 p.m. Sept. 7 Southern Miss, Memorial Stadium, 5 p.m. Sept. 14 UCLA, Memorial Stadium, 11 a.m. Sept. 21 South Dakota State, Memorial Stadium, TBAOct. 5 Illinois,* (Homecoming) Memorial Stadium, 11 a.m. Oct. 12 Purdue* at West Lafayette, Ind., 7 p.m. Oct. 26 Minnesota* at Minneapolis, TBA Nov. 2 Northwestern,* Memorial Stadium, TBA Nov. 9 Michigan* at Ann Arbor, Mich., TBA Nov. 16 Michigan State,* Memorial Stadium, TBA Nov. 23 Penn State* at State College, Pa., TBA Nov. 29 Iowa,* Memorial Stadium, 11 a.m.

VolleyBAll Aug. 24 Red/White Scrimmage, Devaney Center, 7 p.m. Aug. 30 Louisiana-Monroe at St. Louis, Mo., 4:30 p.m. Aug. 31 Auburn at St. Louis, Mo., 10 a.m. Aug. 31 Saint Louis at St. Louis, Mo., 7 p.m. Sept. 6 Villanova, Devaney Center, 7 p.m. Sept. 7 Georgia, Devaney Center, 2 p.m. Sept. 12 St. Mary’s, Devaney Center, 7 p.m. Sept. 13 Dayton, Devaney Center, 7 p.m. Sept. 14 Iowa State, Devaney Center, 7 p.m. Sept. 22 Texas at Austin, Texas, 1 p.m. Sept. 27 Northwestern* at Evanston, Ill., 7 p.m. Sept. 28 Illinois* at Champaign, Ill., 7 p.m. Oct. 4 Minnesota,* Devaney Center, 7 p.m. Oct. 5 Wisconsin,* Devaney Center, 7 p.m. Oct. 11 Michigan* at Ann Arbor, Mich., 6 p.m. Oct. 12 Michigan State* at East Lansing, Mich., TBA Oct. 18 Indiana,* Devaney Center, 7 p.m. Oct. 19 Purdue,* Devaney Center, 7 p.m. Oct. 23 Iowa,* Devaney Center, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 25 Ohio State* at Columbus, Ohio, 6 p.m. Oct. 30 Illinois,* Devaney Center, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 2 Northwestern,* Devaney Center, 7 p.m. Nov. 8 Wisconsin* at Madison, Wis., 7 p.m. Nov. 10 Minnesota* at Minneapolis, 3:30 p.m. Nov. 15 Michigan State,* Devaney Center, 7 p.m.

Nov. 16 Michigan,* Devaney Center, 7 p.m. Nov. 22 Purdue* at West Lafayette, Ind., 6 p.m. Nov. 23 Indiana* at Bloomington, Ind., 6 p.m. Nov. 27 Iowa* at Iowa City, Iowa, 7 p.m. Nov. 30 Penn State,* Devaney Center, 7 p.m. NCAA TournamentDec. 5 - 7 NCAA 1st and 2nd Rounds at Campus Sites, TBA Dec. 13 - 14 NCAA Regionals at Lincoln; Los Angeles; Champaign, Ill.; Lexington, Ky., TBA Dec. 19 NCAA National Semifinals at Seattle, TBA Dec. 21 National Championship Match at Seattle, TBA

CRoSS CountRySept. 6 Augustana Twilight at Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 p.m. Sept. 21 Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational Pioneers Park, 10 a.m.Sept. 28 Roy Griak Invite at Minneapolis, Noon Oct. 19 South Dakota Invite at Vermillion, S.D., 10 a.m.Nov. 3 Big Ten Championships* at West Lafayette, Ind., 10:45 a.m. Nov. 15 NCAA Midwest Regional at Ames, Iowa, 11 a.m. Nov. 23 NCAA Championships at Terre Haute, Ind., 11 a.m.

men’S GolfSept. 10 - 11 Fairway Club Invitational Nebraska City, Neb. (ArborLinks Golf Course) 8:30 a.m. Sept. 22 - 23 D.A. Weibring Intercollegiate at Normal, Ill. (Weibring Golf Course) 8:30 a.m. Oct. 8 - 9 Firestone Invitational at Akron, Ohio (Firestone Country Club) 7:30 a.m. Oct. 22 - 23 Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate at Las Cruces, N.M. (NMSU Golf Course) 9 a.m. Oct. 26 - 27 Price’s Give ‘Em Five Invitational at El Paso, Texas (Butterfield Trail Golf Club) 9:30 a.m.

women’S GolfSept. 9 - 10 Chip-N Club Invitational, Wilderness Ridge, 8:30 a.m.Sept. 16 - 17 Minnesota Invitational at Minneapolis, 8:30 a.m.Sept. 23 - 24 Marilynn Smith/ Sunflower Invitational at Manhattan, Kan., 8:30 a.m.Oct. 19 - 20 Hoosier Fall Invitational at Florence, Ind., 7:30 a.m.Oct. 27 - 29 Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown at Las Vegas, 9:30 a.m.

SoCCeRAug. 16 Colorado College, Nebraska Soccer Field, 4 p.m.Aug. 23 Southeast Missouri State, Nebraska Soccer Field, 6 p.m.Aug. 25 Cincinnati, Nebraska Soccer Field, Noon Aug. 31 BYU at Provo, Utah, 8 p.m. Sept. 2 Utah State at Logan, Utah, 2 p.m. Sept. 8 Arkansas at Fayetteville, Ark., 2 p.m. Sept. 13 San Francisco at Lawrence, Kan., 1:30 p.m. Sept. 15 San Diego at Lawrence, Kan., 10:30 a.m. Sept. 19 Michigan State,* Nebraska Soccer Field, 2 p.m. Sept. 22 Denver, Nebraska Soccer Field, 1 p.m. Sept. 27 Northwestern* at Evanston, Ill., 7 p.m. Sept. 29 Illinois* at Champaign, Ill., 1 p.m.

Oct. 3 Iowa,* Nebraska Soccer Field, 4 p.m. Oct. 6 Michigan,* Nebraska Soccer Field, 1 p.m. Oct. 11 Purdue* at West Lafayette, Ind., 6 p.m. Oct. 18 Wisconsin* at Madison, Wis., 7 p.m. Oct. 20 Minnesota* at Minneapolis, 1 p.m. Oct. 25 Ohio State,* Nebraska Soccer Field, 4 p.m. Oct. 27 Penn State,* Nebraska Soccer Field, 1 p.m. Nov. 1 Indiana,* Nebraska Soccer Field, 4 p.m. Big Ten TournamentNov. 6 - 10 TBA at Champaign, Ill., TBA

Athletics

Nebraska’s Ultimate Triple Play

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By Randy York, ’71When it comes to modern facilities, Nebraska rarely

has felt it takes a backseat to anyone in college athletics. One of a handful of NCAA Division I schools that does not use taxpayer money or student fees to support its athletic program, the Huskers have relied on a sold-out Memorial Stadium for 50 consecutive years to feed their hunger to achieve overall excellence. Tom Osborne, a driving force behind that magic carpet ride for a quarter century as head football coach, wasted no time taking on that commitment during a five-plus-year stint as Nebraska athletic director. Before his retirement last January, the Hall-of-Fame coach had put together a master plan that will unveil Nebraska’s ultimate triple play this fall:

1. An expanded East Stadium that will boost Memorial Stadium’s ability to accommodate

92,000 fans in Nebraska’s ongoing NCAA record of 325 consecutive sellouts since 1962;

2. A joint venture public project with the City of Lincoln to open the downtown Pinnacle Bank Arena that already has produced a first in

Nebraska men’s basketball history – a 2013-14 season sellout of more than 15,000 seats – a mile- stone that was achieved a full six months before Nebraska plays its first game inside that state-of- the-art arena; and

3. An innovative Devaney Center project that will double the capacity for Nebraska women’s

volleyball and wrestling and markedly upgrade the facilities for women’s and men’s gymnastics in a $20 million extreme makeover of a 37-year-old building. The new facility will give the Huskers the

opportunity to expand the nation’s longest sellout streak in the history of NCAA women’s athletics. After 12 years of sellouts, Nebraska’s powerhouse volleyball program now will seat just short of

8,000 fans with all reserved seats sold in advance, plus a chance to accommodate up to 400 standing- room-only ticket buyers.

In addition to these three aggressive construction ini-tiatives, a new $20.4 Nebraska Soccer and Tennis Complex has been approved. It will be built on 28 acres owned by UNL on the former site of the Nebraska State Fair camp-

ground adjacent to the Nebraska Innovation Campus. UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman and Nebraska Director of Athletics Shawn Eichorst announced the project in mid-July, and construction will begin in May 2014.

If location, location, location are the three most im-portant words in real estate, Nebraska is doing everything possible to prove that execute, execute, execute are the three most important words in the upgrading of athletic facili-ties. Here’s a closer look at Nebraska’s Ultimate Triple Play:

East Stadium Blends Old and New

Let’s give Nebraska’s athletic brain trust the respect it deserves. With one major expansion area still available, athletic leaders and sports architects were in complete agreement when they decided they could honor and respect the traditionalists at the same time they could “wow” the futurists. Those who thought this last major expansion would be just another round of more suites and seats grow-ing out of more concrete to increase game-day crowds from 85,000-plus to 92,000, will learn otherwise when they step inside Memorial Stadium again this fall.

First and most importantly, the existing East structure was protected as is. Its shell was preserved and expansion became a separate building over the existing structure. The timeless quality of the old will still warm, exalt and stimu-late those fans who have been filing into Memorial Stadium for decades in this, the 90th anniversary of the stadium.

The carefully planned stadium makeover, however, will be a real game-changer on game day for two reasons: 1) The East Stadium will be twice as high as it was last year; and 2)

It promises to be twice as loud because there will 15 rows of seats on top of the new skyboxes, from one sideline to the other. For the first time, Nebraska opponents will be look-ing at a true wall of red that will produce surround sound like never before.

The new East Stadium interior holds more than 52,000 square feet of research space – including the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior (CB3) directed by Dr. Dennis Molfese, one of the world’s foremost experts on concussion research, and the Nebraska Athletic Perfor-mance Laboratory (NAPL) directed by Judy Burnfield. CB3 is an academic-based initiative, and NAPL is athletic-based. They will work collaboratively on research to enhance the performance, safety, health and well-being of both student-athletes and people in the community.

NAPL will use high-tech tools to analyze an athlete’s performance so that the effect of different training inter-ventions can be determined. Technology-driven tests on helmets and footwear are examples of ways to maximize safety and performance.

“Other projects will be more long-term,” Burnfield said, pointing to researching factors that may predict inju-

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ries or chronic conditions.In other words, what the lab uncovers will

be relevant outside athletic facilities, according to Burnfield, whose NAPL group also will col-laborate with the Institute for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering at Lincoln’s Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital.

NAPL recently received a significant grant to purchase state-of-the-art technol-ogy because the research work will benefit people of all ages, not just student-athletes. “We’re driving our research by the needs of those served in the environment,” Burnfield

said. “We’ll be doing research not only while student-athletes are in our academic program, but also as they age. Our goals are to help athletes perform optimally while reducing their risks of injuries and complications later in life.”

One Miles’ Dream Comes True: A Season of Sellouts

If you’re looking for the upset in Nebraska’s ultimate triple play, let the record reflect a triple-name answer … Pinnacle Bank Arena. After all, Nebraska football has an ongoing NCAA record of 50 consecutive years of home game sellouts. Husker volleyball has its own ongoing home-game sellout streak of 12 consecutive years. Men’s basketball? Well, let’s just say Big Red fans need not dig into any record book or archive. No Nebraska men’s or women’s basketball team has ever sold out a season, let alone accomplished such a feat six months before the season opener. It is one Tim Miles dream that already has come true, thanks to a well-orchestrated marketing campaign that helped unite Huskers across the state.

As tactical and strategic as he is creative, Miles can’t wait to launch a new era of Nebraska basketball at Pinnacle Bank Arena, and look who’s coming to Lincoln for the opening game – Florida Gulf Coast (FGC), the only No. 15 seed to ever reach the NCAA Sweet 16, which FGC did last March. Four starters return from that team, and Miles is counting on a certain level of March Madness permeating the Downtown West Haymarket Area on Friday, Nov. 8, the night before Bo Pelini’s Huskers play Michigan in the Big House.

Please don’t anyone forget that Pinnacle Bank Arena is also the new home of the Nebraska women’s basketball team. Connie Yori, a recent National Coach of the Year, has recruited the likes of WNBA rookie Lindsey Moore and legitimate first-team All-America candi-date Jordan Hooper, who will enter her senior season after playing a lead role in the USA Basketball Women’s World University Games gold medal this summer in Russia.

Talk about glitz, glamour and game-day atmosphere. The Nebraska women will be the first to play inside Pinnacle Bank Arena, hosting UCLA at noon on the same day that the men will

host Florida Gulf Coast. The women are expecting to draw at least 10,000 for their season opener, but don’t be surprised to see that total go higher when Lincoln and surrounding communities understand that history will be made and an outdoor festival will surround all the indoor action.

The Huskers’ day-night doubleheader will celebrate the impor-tance of life skills. Nebraska Athletics is partnering with the Lincoln Public Schools and with the Nebraska High School Hall of Fame Foundation. Before the women’s game, several area school districts will participate in a Pep Rally that will promote education, sports-manship and responsible choices.

Miles was truly surprised when Nebraska sold out its season so quickly.

“We’re blessed with tremendous fans who want to see a winner and are excited about their new surroundings,” Miles said, remind-ing everyone that it takes more than sold-out signs to create a winner.

“I want everybody who bought tickets to show up, and I want everybody to shout at the top of their lungs when they get inside that arena,” Miles said. “This is just the first step in a whole lot of steps we need to be a championship-type team. That’s the goal. Selling out is very important in my book, but it’s just part of getting the wheels to turn up that hill we will all start climbing, and we’re going to do that together.”

‘New’ Devaney Era Already Delivering Big Dreams

John Cook dreams big, but even a perfectionist can be sur-prised, if not shocked, when he sees a renovated Bob Devaney Cen-ter. Wearing a hard hat and walking through a certifiable mess in mid-July, Nebraska’s ultra-successful head volleyball coach said his jaw dropped when he caught a meaningful glimpse of the Devaney Center’s extreme makeover. Like everyone else, including promi-nent national recruits, Cook couldn’t help but shake his head. “You just look up, and it’s really cool,” said Cook, whose own new office makes him a “neighbor” to five sold-out luxury box suite owners on the south side of a remarkably reconfigured facility.

Those who know Cook understand his meticulous nature. He sees every last detail as a strategic piece of the puzzle. This make-over is designed to make Nebraska volleyball one of the few NCAA

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‘Team Jack’ Wins an ESPY

On July

17, the only day

of the year that

none of the major

North American

professional

leagues had a

game scheduled,

a 7-year-old pedi-

atric brain cancer

patient from

Atkinson, Neb., shared the spotlight with

the biggest stars and greatest legends in

all of sport. Jack Hoffman, the record-

holder for the longest touchdown in

Nebraska Spring Football history, won the

ESPY Award for “Best Moment” in sports

over the past year. When he received the

coveted ESPY, he was surrounded by his

family, Nebraska quarterback Taylor Mar-

tinez and Husker wide receiver Kenny

Bell at the nationally televised ceremony

at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.

An ESPY Award is different than a

Grammy for music, an Emmy for televi-

sion, an Academy Award for film or a

Tony Award for Broadway. Award winners

are selected exclusively through online

fan balloting. Big Red fans undoubt-

edly led the charge and did more than

their fair share supporting Jack, but let’s

be honest here. With nearly 8.1 mil-

lion views of the Huskers.com YouTube

video of Jack’s most famous run, plus

the views ESPN accumulated in its own

national voting process, Jack is a semi-

national hero and, perhaps, even a bit of

an international celebrity by now.

The Hoffman family thanked

Nebraska Coach Bo Pelini “for having

the guts to put a 7-year-old in a football

game,” Rex Burkhead “for all he’s done

for Jack over the past two years,” the

entire Nebraska football team “for mak-

ing Jack a part of the team,” all the fans,

especially Husker fans “who supported

Jack in this fight and voted for Jack,”

and ESPN for helping Jack and his family

raise national awareness for pediatric

brain cancer.

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women’s sports to turn a profit but Cook still wanted to preserve all the traditional trappings of the Coliseum, Nebraska volleyball’s beloved home for nearly four decades. At the same time, he wanted the new facility – which volleyball shares with women’s and men’s gymnastics and wrestling – to dazzle players, coaches, opponents, fans, recruits and national television cameras. He wanted a world-class facility so unique that it could only happen at Nebraska.

Exhibit A in that evidence is Cook’s own office. Where else can a head coach look south and see the State Capitol building and then turn around and see the playing court below? That court, thanks to the generosity of Bill and Ruth Scott, will carry the name of his predecessor, Terry Pettit, when Nebraska hosts Villanova in its first official match at the Devaney Center on Sept. 6. Why Vil-lanova for such a historic game? Because Pettit’s daughter, Emma, is the Wildcats’ setter, and Cook knows all about how tough it is for a coach’s daughter to lead a team at the highest collegiate level. When Pettit’s name commemorates this new facility, Husker fans will do what only they can do – cheer enthusiastically for two things at the same time, even if one is wearing a different uniform.

The Huskers have 15 regular-season home matches in their in-augural season inside the new Devaney, including six against teams that reached the NCAA Sweet 16 last year. Nebraska will host first and second-round NCAA matches, plus serve as one of four regional hosts that will determine the 2013 NCAA Final Four.

Nebraska finished 26-7 and ranked No. 7 in the 2012 final ratings. The Huskers fell one match win short of making the Final Four and return only two starters from that team. Their 2013 re-cruiting class, however, was ranked No. 1 nationally, and all eyes are focusing on the perennial goal.

John Ingram, Nebraska’s associate athletic director in charge of capital planning and construction, has been excited about all three major construction projects – the East Stadium, the Pinnacle Bank Arena and the Devaney renovation. “I’ll be honest. I’m most excited about the transformation of the Devaney Center from a 37-year-old facility that had fallen behind the times to a world-class venue for volleyball, wrestling and women’s and men’s gymnastics. It’s going to change the game for all four programs.”

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