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Vol. 10, No. 1Nebraska Alumni Association

University of Nebraska Foundation

Nebraska Alumni Association ContactsDiane Mendenhall, Executive Director, (402) 472-4218Claire Abelbeck, Digital Communications, (402) 472-4209Andrea Cranford, Publications, (402) 472-4229Jenny Green, Student Programs/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, (402) 472-4219Sarah Smith, Video Communications, (402) 472-4246Andy Washburn, Membership/Operations, (402) 472-4239Kevin Wright, Class Notes/Photos/Graphics, (402) 472-4227Shelley Zaborowski, Awards/Reunions/Alumni Masters Week/ Colleges, (402) 472-4222

University of Nebraska Foundation Development OfficersInterim UNL 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) 458-1182College 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 Communication: 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 twice a year, in August and February, 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: www.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 Kenney FleischerDesign: Kevin Wright

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1) The Nebraska Alumni Association teamed with a live Sports Nightly broadcast to draw a large Husker crowd at B.B. King’s Blues Club on the eve of the Capital One Bowl. 2) A pep rally, including an appearance by the Cornhusker Marching Band, followed the Sports Nightly event in Pointe Orlando. 3) Tom Osborne, former Huskers and the NU Spirit Squad and mascots held the huddle crowd’s attention at McCracken Field, just steps from the Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium.4) Jim Rose interviews Tom Osborne at the Capital One Husker Huddle. 5) Creative face painting was one of many attractions at the pre-game huddle. 6) Husker fans cheer as Big Red takes the field at the Capital One Bowl game Jan. 1.

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Legends Scholarships Growing

In 2011, the Nebraska Alumni Association joined forces with the NU Foundation and the UNL Office of Admissions on the Nebraska Legends Scholarship Program to help recruit and provide scholarships to the best and brightest high school students.

Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends across the country, 138 Nebraska Legends Scholarships were awarded in 2012. That number also includes scholarships provided by two alumni chapters, and the number is certain to grow as 15 alumni chapters are providing 38 scholarships in 2013.

As of Dec. 18, 2012, the following alumni chapters now support the Nebraska Legends Program:

• Siouxland Huskers• Idaho Huskers• Mad City Huskers• Tampa Bay Huskers• Chicagoans for Nebraska• Northern Nevadans for Nebraska• Coloradans for Nebraska (endowment)• Georgians for Nebraska• Oregonians for Nebraska• Washington Cornhuskers• North Texas Nebraskans• Kansas Cornhusker Club• South Carolina Huskers• Iowans for Nebraska• NYC HuskersFor more information on the Nebraska Legends pro-

gram, visit nufoundation.org/nebraskalegends.

Cather Circle Spring Meeting Set

Cather Circle, the Nebraska Alumni Association’s men-toring group for alumnae and collegians, will gather March 7-8 for their spring meeting. First up: A dinner on March 7, featuring guest speaker JoAnn Martin, Ameritas CEO and president, and recognition of the Cather Collegian and Alumna of the Year and past student scholarship winners.

The theme for the meeting that follows on March 8 is “Work with Me” with the focus on empowering leadership, relationship building and influence. The daylong session features committee meetings, a business meeting, a women in business panel and lunch with an etiquette workshop

at the Nebraska Champions Club. Afternoon activities include breakout sessions on video introductions, finances and negotiation; a speaker from Gallup; and tours, all at NU Athletics’ new Student Life Complex.

The event concludes with participants attending a reception and show at the Lied Center.

Alumni Career Webinars Offered

The Nebraska Alumni Association is pleased to present the following career advancement webinars focused on career building and job seeking in today’s social media envi-ronment. We invite you to take part in these online events, delivering top career authors and experts to your computer for live webinars. All content is free to Nebraska alumni and friends.

Upcoming Webinars Include:• LinkedIn Makeover – March 6, 7 – 8 p.m. CDT• Five Steps to Your Personal Brand – April 3, 7 – 8 p.m. CDTAll you need is a computer, Smart Phone or Smart

Pad to participate. You can also join an ongoing discus-sion about careers, career opportunities and ideas with classmates and fellow alumni. Knowing you have a busy schedule, you’ll also have access to the webinar recordings, and PDFs of their presentations anytime, via any device.

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

For personal, hands-on career assistance, contact the NAA’s own alumni career specialist, Larry Routh, lrouth@huskeralum.org, 402-472-8916.

ROTC and Military Alumni to Honor Newly Commissioned Officers

The Nebraska Alumni Association ROTC and Military Affiliate will hold its third annual spring banquet April 11, in conjunction with the 2013 ROTC Joint Service Chan-cellor’s Review.

The annual Chancellor’s Review consists of a formal pass-in-review parade of all ROTC cadets and midshipmen, and the presentation of academic and leadership achieve-ment awards and scholastic scholarships to individual cadets and midshipmen. Through the generous donations of ROTC and Military Affiliate alumni, scholastic scholar-ships will be awarded to a cadet and midshipmen from each of the three service branches represented at UNL.

The Chancellor’s Review begins at 3:30 p.m. in Cook Pavilion, adjacent to the M&N Building. The banquet, honoring all cadets and midshipmen who will graduate in May, will be held at the Van Brunt Visitors, 313 N. 13th St.

Dinner reservations are $35 for affiliate members and $45 for non-members, and space is limited. For more in-formation, please contact the ROTC and Military Affiliate at unlrotcalumni@gmail.com or the Nebraska Alumni As-sociation at 1-888-353-1874. To register go to huskeralum.org/affiliate-groups. The deadline for registering is April 4.

ALL STRESSED OUT: More than 1,500 students came to the Wick Alumni Center to study for December finals – consuming 28 canisters of pop, 450 bags of popcorn and 250 chicken strips – the latter in a record three minutes and 26 seconds!

Yell Squad Reunion Planned

The yell squad tradition at the University of Nebraska dates back to 1903 when an all-male squad was founded by the Innocents Society to promote school spirit.

More than a hundred years later, the cheers are led by an all-female group.

The Nebraska Alumni Association is organizing a 110th anniversary reunion for the all past and present Yell Squad members on Nov. 1-2, 2013. Alumni of the group will have a chance to reconnect with old friends and see what’s new on campus. Tentative plans call for campus tours, a Friday evening social and dinner, a pre-game event and the Nebraska vs. Northwestern football game.

Serving on the reunion committee are: yell squad alumni Jeff Castle, ’83, Marietta, Ga,, Debra Kleve White, ’80, Austin, Texas; Kari “Cookie” Koziol McConkey, ’85, Gretna; and Jane Porter McLeay, ’83, Omaha; and Shelley Zaborowski and Kelsey Sievers of the Nebraska Alumni Association.

The alumni association is in the process of identifying Yell Squad alumni and coding their records accordingly.

If you were a member of the group, please complete the online form at huskeralum.org/yell-squad-reunion-form5, so you can receive additional information as it becomes available. You can also begin reconnecting on the Yell Squad

Alumni Facebook page (facebook.com/110thAnniversaryYellSquadReunion). Reunion information will also be posted at huskeralum.org/yell-squad-reunion.

Enter the 2013 Nebraska Magazine Writing Contest and compete for a byline!

The Categories •AlumniProfiles:WriteaboutaNebraskagradwithaninteresting hobby or career.

•NostalgiaPieces:Tellusaboutamemorablestudentactivity you participated in at UNL, or write about a favorite professor.

The PrizesThree prizes will be awarded in each category, and the winning articles will be published in Nebraska Magazine.

•1stPrize:$500 •2ndPrize:$250 •3rdPrize:$100

The DetailsArticles must be 750 to 1,000 words in length, typewritten. Entry deadline is April 15, 2013. Submit entries, along with the author’s name, address and phone number.

•Bymail:MagazineWritingContest,WickAlumniCenter,1520 R Street, Lincoln, NE 68508-1651. •Bye-mail:nebmag@huskeralum.org•ByFAX:(402)472-9289•Online:huskeralum.org/

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

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New NAA Life MembersJuly 1 to Dec. 31, 2012

Derek A. Aldridge and Kim S. Aldridge, Pharm.D.Dan R. BakerCarl E. and Jennifer A. BartholomewRobert E. Bates, Jr., D.D.S. and Carol Bates, D.D.S.Jeremy M. Baum, M.D. and Laura L. BaumRebecca G. Beard, Ph.D.James B. Beck, Jr. and Nancy J. BeckRichard A. and Patricia A. BeckerDorothy J. BellRaymond W. Bieber, Ph.D.Billy J. BolinBobby C. BolinSamuel E. Boon, M.D. and Patricia L. BoonAlex J. and Marilyn M. BorchardtShauna L. BoseHarold B. Bowers, D.D.S.Matt B. and Sara A. BoydCaroline L. BrauerAbbey BreinigThomas G. Brewster, M.D.Nancy J. and Kelven BrozekLorain C. Buethe, Ed.D.Meagan G. BukinGareld D. ButlerThomas R. and Norma CambridgeDavid J. and Lois J. CarlsenLance P. CarlsonBarbara P. and Richard L. ChristensenThomas J. and Cheryl L. ClinesMelissa K. and John S. CoburnBruce A. ColvinRyan M. and Sarah C. ComesTony J. Connot, PA-CTamara L. CullenBrian S. and Jeanette DehningDonald L. DicksonGail L. DiDonato, Ph.D.Luis F. DimasBruce L. Drake, USN Ret.Kenneth L. DubasDennis Duchon, Ph.D. and Dean Donde Plowman, Ph.D.Theodore A. DurantJudy L. EgglestonDale W. EndorfHon. Robert B. Ensz and Deborah G. EnszSteve A. and Shirley M. EquallBryan D. ErnestLoren E. and Vicki FairbanksBrian K. and Rebecca L. FellerAmanda C. FergusonMichael E. and Marcia J. FrerichsNancy J. and Todd W. GarreltsGeorge A. and Jane E. GevoTod A. GlasgowDavid M. Gleason, D.D.S. and Michele M. GleasonCharles L. R. GleesonBeth A. and John GodboutStacy L. Goodwill, D.D.S. and Dan RaymondDaryl D. GrafelmanJon P. GrensemanJamie L. HamakerDebora L. Hamernik, Ph.D.Erin M. HammonsSusan R. HammonsWhitney J. HansenBrooke A. HerbigJohn M. and Nancy L. Herhahn

Bryan R. HillJudith A. HofeldtRichard T. and Mary J. HoldcroftMichael J. HouriganMerideth K. Hueftle, Ph.D.Doris M. HuffakerOtto W. and Sarah S. ImigShannon D. JaegerTerry M. Jensen, D.D.S.Joan T. JohnsJohn A. Johnson, Jr.Larissa L. JohnsonTracy E. JohnsonGerald A. and Elaine JohnstonKenneth A. Kester, Pharm.D. and Margaret K. KesterDavid C. KirbyWilliam and Marlene KnoerzerKim K. KockDen L. Kudrna and Linda Stewart-KudrnaMari Lane GeweckeJason A. LaveneJames G. LeisingJerome D. Leising, Ph.D. and Vestey L. LeisingChristopher A. LeitnerKaren K. LoftisRobert J. LongJeffrey H. Lowe, D.D.S. and Jana F. LoweSharen K. LukowRonda K. MaloleyBrian L. MariskaCarol L. MarshallRoger M. and Carolyn J. MasseyScott D. McMasterSharon B. McNalleyAndrew K. MeadeRobert L. and Susan J. MedinaDenise A. and Richard A. MeredithGerald C. Miller, M.D. and Kimberly A. MillerKimberly A. MitchellNancy A. MorganPamela J. and Michael MorrisonMatthew C. MundtEddie A. Munoz, Ph.D.Allen M. MurphyJohn D. MurphyMarjorie M. NeillDaniel H. NelsonHoward P. NelsonMichael F. NessKimberly S. NeuwirthBruce E. NielsenJulie A. Norskov AdkinsTod J. OchsnerWinston W. and Amanda M. OstergardChristopher L. Ott, Pharm.D.William R. PedersenRobert G. PlananskyWarren V. PorterJohn M. Powell, J.D.Toni S. RadtkeJ. Phillip RamseyDavid M. RasmussenDean F. and Jessie A. RasmussenNancy M. RathjeDale D. ReberLinda K. ReitanStephanie Retzlaff LeedingAmy M. and Tom RiceDavid L. Ridenour and Laura A. Maurstad RidenourKarl D. Robinson, D.D.S.Todd W. Robinson, M.D.Dustin J. RobyWallace H. Rogers, Jr.Nathaniel Sallans

Emily E. SchellerJames P. Schlichtemier, M.D. and Gloria R. SchlichtemierRichard D. Schmidt, M.D. and Judith E. SchmidtDavid J. and Kendra M. SchneiderDonald F. SeacrestBenjamin M. and Lisa M. SedivyViola K. SeeBlair C. SlapperGeorgia L. Stevens, Ph.D.Leonard W. StoneDouglas L. Straub, Jr.Christopher C. Stream, Ph.D.Steven W. StueckArlin R. StutheitGary A. SullivanTedde J. TaegeKent A. TaylorThomas D. Terpstra, J.D.Gale D. and Carole G. TessendorfClaren J. Thomas, IIIJosephine Thomas and Robert B. Thomas, Jr.Beryl K. ThompsonHoward E. and Patricia A. ThompsonRobert C. Trenchard, Jr.William C. and Joan R. TruhlsenAllan R. and Melinda R. VyhnalekRobert E. and Jeanne A. WallaceCharles J. Weborg, Ph.D. and Lois E. WeborgBruce S. and Mary K. WertzDouglas A. and Beverly E. WesterbergMeghanne J. WettaMorgan C. WhaleWarren R. WhiteGordon K. and Jolene J. WiegardtKourt D. Williams, Ph.D.Dayle E. WilliamsonPatricia J. WinterTsu-Hsi Yang, Ph.D.Jeffrey J. Yosten, M.D. and Lisa D. Yosten, M.D.Ronda S. ZarekJames K. Zimmerman, Ph.D.Dennis C. and Ann E. Zitterkopf

Recent NAA ContributorsJuly 1 to Dec. 31, 2012

Elizabeth N. AbelJohn W. Adams, Ph.D.Jessica N. and Jason M. AdelaineShirley E. AdkinsonLloyd R. AlbersPatrick K. AllenStanley L. and Virginia J. Allen Harold W. and Marian L. Andersen Amy K. Anderson, M.D. and Robert L. Anderson, M.D.Roger G. and Shirley J. Andrews Dennis J. and Kathryn E. AnstinePaul A. Archer, CPARonald D. ArpHoward D. AtkinsRichard D. and Katherine A. Ayers Paula D. and Thomas BaackHelen F. Babcock and James C. Babcock, M.D.Henry R. Bader, Jr.William BanwellRaymond P. Barkley, Ph.D.Jennifer A. BartholomewKathy A. BartlettThomas D. and Kathryn A. BassBarb J. and Donald P. Batie

Joanne E. BaumanBrian BeanDavid R. and Catherine A. BeathardGraten D. BeaversPeter R. BeckerCarolyn M. Bednar, Ph.D. and Ladislav F. BednarShirley A. BeierIvette M. and Lyle D. BenderKaren L. and Robert V. BenedaJoyce A. BenedictLawrence A. BennettRuth E. Benson, Ed.D.Sarah Berke and Terry G. Berke, Ph.D.Mildred J. and Harold E. BernsteinKathleen A. BestJacqueline A. and Bernard L. BirkelIris BlandMarjorie J. BockMarcia A. BodenJesse D. BoeckermannBarbara A. and Thomas L. BoekaMargaret A. Boesiger and Dwight D. Boesiger, Ph.D.Darrell R. and Lorajane BolliLinda I. Bolton and Claude M. Bolton, Jr.Glenn M. Bonci and Joan K. RonnenkampMarylouise BookstromLinda J. BorsMark W. BostockJudith A. and Bruce M. BowlingBetty J. and Douglas G. BrackhanNancy C. Brandt, Ph.D. and Robert E. Brandt, Ph.D.Ronald B. BresterJoyce E. and Kennard L. BrittonThomas L. BroadVirginia J. BrokawDale L. BrooksRosemary K. BrouwerDorothy K. BrownGwenyth M. BrownMarie N. and Carl H. BrownBarbara Brugger and Wayne E. Brugger, PEClarence A. BrunkhorstRobert L. Bryant, IIJoy A. BukowyPhyllis A. and Gary F. BurchfieldJames F. Burke, M.D.Michael L. BurksMildred L. Burns, Ph.D.Richard J. ButlerLynette K. and Donald L. ByrnesMarilyn K. CampbellRick CantorLaNeta L. and Stanley L. CarlockMarion D. and Carl S. CarlsonDonald A. CassLauren J. CasterBruce T. CavinChad A. CecrleDonald J. Chase, USAF (Ret)Richard R. Chenoweth, Ph.D.Kelly J. ChermokBilly S. ChildersFred and Gretchen L. ChristensenNadine R. and Roger E. ChristensenStephen B. ClaarAmy L. and Timothy F. ClareDoris A. Clatanoff, Ph.D.Thomas S. Clayton, IVDelores F. CleavengerLeigh A. CleaverMary L. and Gene E. CochraneCora L. Cole

Karen L. Conley and Richard F. McTygueThomas W. Copenhaver, Ph.D.Douglas J. CotnerF. R. CottonSally S. CoyneJames R. Crabb, D.D.S.Warren R. CrawfordLela K. Criswell and Marvin E. Criswell, Ph.D.Gretchen H. CrusickJoseph F. CudaSally D. and Robert J. CunninghamRobert K. CurryGordon E. DahlgrenWayne N. DankertOscar C. Decker, Jr.Bobbie S. DeLoach and William A. DeLoach, Ph.D.Maria DeLucia, Ph.D.Bernadine Denenberg and Michael S. Denenberg, M.D.LaVada DennisKenneth J. Diamond, Ph.D.Morton Dickson, IIIGregory H. DiederichRichard A. Dienstbier, Ph.D. and Karen N. DienstbierLorrie F. and Francis L. DobrovolnyViolet L. DouglassWilliam M. Dowd, P.E.Shirley A. Dowling, Pharm.D. and Jeffrey D. Dowling, M.D.Marilyn G. DowningEd Duncklee and Laura BuchmanMichele M. Eakins and Gregory L. Eakins, M.D.Rosemary G. and William S. EastwoodJohn R. EbyGerry and Ed EckerDemaris A. and Eugene G. EdwardsJodie A. Edwards and Daniel C. Edwards, USAFMariJean Eggen, Ph.D.Stanley C. EhrlichSteven M. EicherSusan C. and Thomas L. EisermanEileen C. Elles and Mark E. Elles, M.D.Jennifer S. EmanuelRichard A. EngbergGregory L. EnglerRobert O. EppJack L. Eriksen, Ph.D.Donald G. Erway, CLUBetty L. and Jerry L. EwingKatrina R. Fahlin and Joel J. ThomsenSally A. FeidmanTina M. Filipowski and Sean R. Filipowski, USN Rear Adm.Minnie M. Fischer and Loyd K. Fischer, Ph.D.Janice A. and Robert H. FitzsimmonsHeather D. Fletcher, Au.D. and Ely J. FletcherRoxie L. FolsomRuth E. FrankEugene S. FreemanJune A. Freeman and Fred H. Freeman, USAF Retd.Linda K. FrerichsLois M. FroggeJean A. Fuller-Stanley, Ph.D.Roger W. GardnerPatricia and Roger W. GareyRichard J. GeierDonald R. GeislerDouglas G. Genereux, Ph.D.Robert E. GeorgeIrma T. and Richard G. Gerlach

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Carol A. GetzRichard A. Gibson, Ph.D.Sharon Gierhan and Ronald D. Gierhan, Ed.D.Cheri and Ted M. GillJosephine A. and Leonard J. GodownMark D. GordonKathy S. and Randall R. GrahamJoseph J. GrassoDonald D. GraulJeri M. and Dennis D. GrayElizabeth R. GriffinDonald R. GrimmSandra R. GrulkeJeanette L. and Jerry P. GuinaneFrank A. HackerPatricia D. and Richard C. HahnMargaret J. and Russell S. HaleRobert H. HaleJohn F. HamannGlenda J. and Robert T. HammonsDonald E. HamptonJennie D. and Jeffrey C. HansonLorraine V. and Max A. HansonMatthew J. HardebeckBeverly A. and Willie L. HarperSamuel F. Hatfield, Jr.Jack C. Hawkins, Jr.Catherine and James T. HealeyTroy W. HeardGerdi G. HeathVictoria A. HedlundJames E. HeiligerDeborah G. HeldC. M. Hendricks and Robert D. Hendricks, Ph.D.Jean C. and Larry D. HenningsRaymond J. HerbertJoseph A. HerzRobert A. HewstonThomas L. HiltM. D. Hinds and Janice E. Hinds, Ph.D.Mary J. and Ernest E. HinesTammy J. HinkleTerri and Dennis C. HirschbrunnerJane J. HirtShirley A. and Carl D. HobsonSandra J. and Darrel H. HoffmanSusan A. and David E. HollmanLouise B. HoltFlorence C. and Burton E. HolthusMichael B. Houk, D.D.S.Edward B. House, Jr.Marty P. HowellSandra J. HowlandJason L. HowlettRichard M. HueschenDoris M. HuffakerJoann and William A. HunnelNorma I. HurdCharles B. HustonLola and Donivan C. HuwaldtLynnette M. HynesSusan C. and Timothy J. IronsTerrie and David A. IrvinRenee L. and Russel R. IwanJon H. JacobiSteven G. and Elizabeth A. JacobsKathy K. JensenCarol A. Jensen-LintonFrank JohannsenGerald E. JohnJane and Calvin R. JohnsonKevin W. JohnsonMary B. JohnsonR. D. JohnsonTheresa A. and Bill J. JohnsonMary L. and Robert H. JordanKathryn A. and Lane L. JorgensenDonald H. Kampbell, Ph.D.Patricia E. and Randall R. KampfeMark T. KanderGenevieve P. KaplanSandra K. KauffmanVal Kaufman and Don A. Kaufman, Ed.D.Scott A. KaufmannChristopher J. KavanDavid W. Keck and Jeannine M. Falter, Ph.D.

Wayne and Nancy L. KehrliJane K. and Christopher R. KelleyRossell N. Kelley and Robert L. Kelley, Jr.Charles J. KellyRaymond E. KincanonSally A. KjelsonKathleen A. KnissMichael D. Koehler, Ph.D.Mary F. Koopman and Theodore Koopman, USN Ret.Barbara J. KostalNan C. KrafkaMarilyn J. Krenz and Robert J. Krenz, D.D.S.Nancy K. Kruse and Dale F. Kruse, Ed.D.Genevieve KumpostAlbert S. LabudaWendi and Carl C. LarsonJanet L. and Gary G. LatimerPeter M. LawsonJoel D. Lebsack, Ed.D.Frances P. LeeperHelen M. LeonhardtJames C. LienemannShirley A. LienertCarleen and Carl LindbergCarol J. and Dan L. LindstromJohn M. LinkDonna L. and F. Bert LinnRoger T. LoganMarilyn A. Lohrberg and Robert H. Lohrberg, Ed.D.Roger W. Long, Ph.D.Marilyn and Richard T. LoweryVera M. and Daniel B. LutzA. Ruth MacartneyVanesa A. MaddocksRuth MagherGary L. MahlerKathryn J. Mahloch and Jerome L. Mahloch, Ph.D.Carl G. MammelNancy MammelCarlos R. Manese, Ph.D.Beodianti S. Manning and Robert E. Manning, Jr.Donna M. MarshallDerrel L. Martin, Ph.D. and JoAnn M. MartinBarbara and Keith V. MartinsonRuth A. Massengale and Martin A. Massengale, Ph.D.Shelley L. and Kent E. MattsonBarry F. and Cleta M. McCannLinda H. McCarty and Bryan K. McCarty, J.D.Kelleen Y. McClain, D.D.S. and Timothy A. McClainThomas W. McCormickDavid C. McGowanJanice E. and Duncan B. McGregorRuth A. McMasterMichael A. McPherson, Pharm.D. and Rogene K. McPhersonMartha L. Meaders and O. Donald Meaders, Ed.D.Diana L. and Allan R. MeierHarold A. MelserCalvin G. MelsonGloria A. MendezSharon A. and Arnold W. MesserMary A. MessickScott F. and Christine L. MessingerCherie L. Metschke and Harlan H. Metschke, Ed.D.Alfred W. Metzger and Esther L. BeynonJeffrey D. MeyerDarlene A. and Arnold C. MillerKathy A. and Andrew T. MillerMarshall MillerVickie L. and Kent R. MillerRita A. and Stanley R. MillsJames R. MinarickDaisy D. and J. Gates MinnickDiane H. MitchellDennis E. Mitchem, CPARichard A. MoorePatricia J. MoranRonald P. Morse, M.D.

Karen K. and Theodore R. MuensterMary and L. K. MullerClara Lee MulosMary J. MulvaneyMichael J. Mulvehill, D.D.S.Jean and Keith G. MumbyMary E. MunnsEddie A. Munoz, Ph.D.Raymond A. MusilHelen E. Mutz and Austin E. Mutz, M.D.John D. MyersLawrence R. NamerowRita K. NeillBarbara G. and Brian A. NelsonSuzanne Nelson Tolman, Ph.D. and Dan E. Tolman, D.D.S.Timothy N. NeumannMary K. NiemeierWalter and Beverly A. NissenJohn R. NolonBen NovicoffMarianne K. Novotny, Ed.D.Douglas D. O’BrienAmy H. O’GaraMary and John W. O’NeillLori L. and Jon K. OchsnerShirley J. OliverTeri J. OliverCynthia A. Olson and Thomas H. Olson, Sr.Joan M. Olson and Jeffrey K. Olson, USN Retd.Karen L. and Robert K. OlsonMarvin P. Olson, Jr. and Nancy NeumeyerPatricia A. OlsonStacie L. Olson and Thomas H. Olson, Jr.Thomas H. Olson, M.D.Randell B. OrtmeierLillian M. OwensLeona PadenDonna R. and Rodney N. PageAnne B. Pagel and Alfred A. Pagel, Jr.Beverly ParsonsSusan D. and Jerry W. PeckhamGrant R. PetersWilliam C. PetersonMark A. PetriCassandra J. and Gary A. PietrokGeorge A. PinckneyStephen H. Pohl, Ph.D.Lois J. and Gale A. PohlmannMadeline M. PoleskyKeith G. PollardRebecca and Rudy J. PospisilJacqueline A. Powell and Robert A. Powell, D.D.S.Jane L. Pratt LefferdinkJames J. PrechtGayle A. and Ray S. PrestonDeloris M. PricePamela J. and Thomas M. PriceMarlene L. and Ivan H. PriggeKenneth A. PutzierLaDonna J. and Gust J. RakesCarin L. Ramsel, D.V.M.Ruth Raymond Thone and Charles ThoneDiane and Richard A. ReedGeraldine F. and Donald N. ReedJudith C. and George W. ReganLarry D. and Deanna S. ReifschneiderCarol J. ReissCarolyn A. and K. Bruce RiddellMarianne B. and Joseph A. RivkinTwyla S. RobertsTeresa K. RobertsonWendy S. RobinsonShirley J. and Barton C. RochmanFrank E. RoehlTeresa A. Romanek and David E. RogersElizabeth B. RomanoffRoy J. RonnfeldtVirginia A. Rosenau and Harold E. Rosenau, D.D.S.William T. SaalfeldManuel Salinas, Jr.Suzanne L. and Robert J. SallMaxine B. J. and Patrick M. SampsonSandra J. SamuelsonEvelyn E. Sanchez, Ph.D.

Deanna J. SandsJames R. SargentElizabeth M. and G. C. SawyerJan ScallySherry L. and Bill C. SchillingAlyce Ann Schmidt and Walter H. Schmidt, Ph.D.Judith E. Schmidt and Richard D. Schmidt, M.D.Roberta R. and Raymond P. SchmidtBobbi Schmidt PetersonDeena M. and James C. SchneiderJeanetta M. and Kenneth E. SchneiderHarold K. ScholzDolores M. and Guy L. SchottlerJudith S. and Lowell D. SchroederRoberta D. and Harold H. SchroederBradley J. SchroerRichard S. SechristLloyd B. SegerWendy and Derry SeldinBecky A. and Rex A. SelineStacey M. and Paul J. SellersAzelia SeversAlagappan ShanmugamTravis R. Shearer, D.D.S.Velma C. Shipley, Ph.D. and Parker L. Shipley, J.D.Adam ShiresDennis D. ShivesMary and Ronald C. ShortridgeBarbara J. ShuckWarren C. SieckeMarsha A. Silvey and Chris P. Silvey, D.D.S.Robert S. SindlarHarry V. SirkJohn V. SkinnerCharles B. SklenarSara E. Skretta, Ed.D. and John A. Skretta, Ed.D.Dora L. SmithMichael V. SmithNancy M. SmithNora and Wilson B. SmithJack F. Snyder, Ed.D.Peggy J. SnyderJoseph P. Sokol, D.D.S.Margery M. SorensonFrank R. SoukupLarry L. SparksMark A. SpotanskiHazel L. Sprandel, Ph.D.Wayne W. SpringerMark A. and Sheri L. St. ClairJackie M. Stanczyk TardyKaren A. StarrSue Steinheider and Robb Steinheider, Lt. Col. Retd.Donald P. SteinkeTimothy J. Stevens, PELisa M. and James D. StewardMary E. and Rex A. StewartMarylin M. StewartDonna J. StilesAlfred Stroh, Jr.Sara S. StronginJudith A. StuthmanDouglas L. SuttonMarcia E. Swan and Marvin A. Swan, D.D.S.Marilyn J. SwansonDale C. SweeneyDiana Tague Eisenach and Joseph B. Eisenach, M.D.Lee R. TalleyRickey D. TankClara E. Tao, D.D.S. and Douglas J. Colvin, D.D.S.Caroline S. TaylorSue A. and Richard M. TemperoAthene F. TenneyRosana M. Tesmer and Floyd S. Tesmer, Ph.D.John E. ThielBeverly J. Thurber and E. Thomas Thurber, D.V.M.Mary C. TiptonNatalie A. and Dennis A. Toalson

Phyllis J. and Del L. ToebbenBrad L. and Carrie L. TolstedtNancy L. and Michael C. TooleyJoan R. and William C. TruhlsenJ. Carr TrumbullShirleen J. and Lawrence S. TuckerDavid A. TurnerRita Turner and James E. Turner, Ph.D.Earlene G. UhrigShirley I. and William G. UmbergerVelta Upeslacis and Janis Upeslacis, Ph.D.Alyssa M. Utecht and Matthew R. HeemstraSuzanne M. and Erik T. Van FleetDarrell G. VankygrifkaMarcia K. and Gregory G. VasekMary J. and Richard A. VeedRichard S. VeysJean C. and John R. VincentJohn R. VoborilStephanie A. VodehnalRuth C. Von GoetzFrederick J. Von HollenShirley P. WachStephanie Wade and Lloyd R. Wade, J.D.Carolyn M. and John J. WagnerDeborah L. and Richard L. WalentineKenneth L. WalkerIris M. and Donald E. WallDorreen M. WanitschkeRichard M. WardellMargaret S. WarnerGene D. WatsonTeresa A. WayJoAnn I. Weaver and Arthur L. Weaver, M.D.Lois E. Weborg and Charles J. Weborg, Ph.D.Reicka L. and John M. WehrmanRoger E. Wehrs, M.D.Suzanne Wenke and Robert A. Wenke, J.D.Charles W. WertzGeorge A. Wessberg, D.D.S.Wayne E. Wessel, D.D.S.Robert L. WetzelKenneth J. WhitcombFreeman White, Jr.Janet Whitla and Dean K. Whitla, Ph.D.Debra J. WilcoxNancy J. Williams and John B. Williams, Lt. Col. Retd.Richard J. and Danette K. WilsonBruce W. WisemanMarcia K. and Dennis M. WolfJoan W. WorrallDianna L. Wright and Leonard D. Wright, Jr.Dixie L. and Brian L. WulfRoy YanagidaTsu-Hsi Yang, Ph.D.Charese E. YanneyMarion E. Yant and Richard S. Yant, Jr.John A. YostAlita A. Young and Gerald D. Young, Jr.Bruce D. YoungDixie L. and Gregory W. ZabkaLee A. Zentner

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Through the annual association ticket lottery, VIP program and the Hail Varsity Society, NAA membership could be your key to a great seat in the newly expanded Sea of Red when the 2013 season kicks off.

Our ticket system is based on membership status, involvement and giving. The more involved you are with the alumni association, the better chance you have of receiving single-game tickets of your choice.

If You Are Already a Member…

For current members, it couldn’t be easier – simply return the Football Ticket Request form ranking the games that interest you. If the association has tickets available for a game you ranked and your membership is active, tickets will be awarded to you. You also have the opportunity to make a new 100 percent tax-deductible gift or upgrade your membership on the ticket form – doing so moves you up the priority list. The request form is also available online at huskeralum.org/fmo.

Not a Member? Not a Problem!

If you want in on the gridiron action and aren’t currently a member, you can join on the request form or online at huskeralum.org before May 1. If you really want to enhance your chances of getting tickets to a top-tier game, join as a life member and consider making a 100 percent tax-deductible gift on top of your life membership. In addition to your game tickets, you’ll enjoy member benefits such as discounts, publications like the members-only Nebraska Magazine, special event invitations and more. New Life Members will also have their names engraved on a bronze plaque for the Life Endowment Wall in the garden at the Wick Alumni Center.

Another Opportunity

Occasionally, tickets become available at the last minute for home and away football games and home basketball and volleyball games. Life members of the NAA are eligible to purchase these tickets by joining the Husker Hotlist. Once your name is on the hotlist, you’ll receive e-mail notification when tickets become avail-able. To join the list, check the box on the form on page 9, or update your huskeralum user profile by selecting “yes” next to the option for the Husker Hotlist.

VIP Packages — Assure Yourself a Seat

NAA members may also participate in the Nebraska Alumni Association’s VIP Football Weekend that includes guaranteed game tickets, a downtown hotel stay, Nebraska Champions Club passes, special tours, access and more. Just pack your red, get to Lincoln and we’ll take care of the rest. For more information visit huskeralum.org or call Sarah Haskell at (888) 353-1874. If you’re not already a NAA member, you may join at the time of your VIP purchase.

Football Season Tickets Available to

Hail Varsity Society

If one game just isn’t enough, a limited number of season tickets will be made available to members of the Hail Varsity Society. For a $4,000 annual donation, society members get access to purchase up to four 2013 season tickets and four Nebraska Champions Club passes, and the ability to request surplus tickets for away football games, volleyball, basketball and Olympic sports. Society membership is extremely limited. For more information or to join the Hail Varsity Society, contact Andrew Greer at (402) 472-8915.

Chapter/AffiliateGroupSeating

Group seating may be available for chapter and affiliate group members. At least 10 chapter or group members must request and receive tickets to any given game to be seated together, based on availability. Chapter and group leaders will work with members to determine the group’s preferred games. Please note, any individual member is free to deviate from the chapter/group preference, if he/she has interest in other games. Contact your chapter or group leader for more information.

Nebraska Alumni Association

MeMBerShiP:Your Ticket to the 2013 Football Season

We’ve Added MoreMemberBenefits!A-List

The Nebraska Alumni Association

partners with arts and athletics venues

in the Lincoln and Omaha area to offer

discounts on tickets to events (such as

NU Olympic sports, Lied Center shows,

Omaha Symphony performances and

others) that become available at the

last minute. Receive e-mail notification

of discounts a few weeks to a few days

before events. Simply update your

huskeralum user profile. Select “yes”

next to the A-List option – you must

be a member of the NAA. Joining the

A-List does not obligate you to purchase

any tickets.

Complimentary Nebraska Olympic

Sports Tickets

Members of the NAA now receive

four complimentary admissions to NU

home Olympic sport competitions.

Vouchers may be used for wrestling,

gymnastics, track & field, soccer, golf,

bowling and cross country. To receive

your vouchers, please visit huskeralum.

org and log in.

Golf Discount

NAA members can now enjoy

deeply discounted rounds at more

than 3,000 golf courses across the

country. Simply select “University of

Nebraska” from the drop-down menu

at www.pifgolf.com and enter your

e-mail address. From there, you can

view available tee times, courses and

discounts by state, city and date.

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PROCEDURE AND DEADLINESPlease complete the form below by May 1, 2013 to be included in the football ticket lottery. Tickets are limited to one game and two tickets per household, with priority going to life members with donations, then life members, then annual members of the Nebraska Alumni Association. Involvement and service moves you to the top of your group. Completion and submission of this form constitutes an application for tickets. Members agree to purchase tickets for a single game for any game ranked below.

TICKET REQUESTSMark your preferences for home and away games on the form below. If your name is drawn to receive tickets, your credit card will be charged and you will receive mail or e-mail confirmation by July 1. The actual per ticket price will match university single-game tickets prices. Home tickets will be available for pickup at the Wick Alumni Center, the week of the game, or at the stadium will-call window on game day beginning three hours prior to kickoff. Away game tickets may be picked up at our pre-game event(s), if applicable or via FedEx for a $25 charge, sent 7 to 10 days before each game.

2013 FootbALL tiCket Request FoRM

Name______________________________________________________________________________

Address_____________________________________________________________________________

City/State/Zip_______________________________________________________________________

Telephone (home)_______________________________ (work)_______________________________

E-mail Address ______________________________________________________________________

Enroll me in the Husker Hot List (must be a life member)

Please charge my credit card: AmEx Discover MasterCard VISA (No checks please)

Credit card #_____________________________________________________ Exp. date____________

Membership/Giving Status: Life Member + Donor Life Member Paying Life Member Annual Member

Member ID # (See your magazine mailing label – directly across from your name)____________________

Affiliate/Chapter Name (if applicable)______________________________________________________

Additional Tax-Deductible Gift to Elevate Priority $___________________________________________

If I am awarded tickets in the lottery process, I agree to purchase tickets for a single game as ranked below. I understand my card will be charged on or around July 1,

and tickets are non-refundable.

(Signature)__________________________________________________________________

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Rank Quantity Price Game Date

_____ 1 or 2 TBD Wyoming Sat., Aug. 31

_____ 1 or 2 TBD Southern Miss Sat., Sept. 7

_____ 1 or 2 TBD UCLA (Life Members Only) Sat., Sept. 14

_____ 1 or 2 TBD South Dakota State Sat., Sept. 21

_____ 1 or 2 TBD Illinois Sat., Oct. 5

_____ 1 or 2 TBD @ Purdue Sat., Oct. 12

_____ 1 or 2 TBD @ Minnesota Sat., Oct. 26

_____ 1 or 2 TBD Northwestern Sat., Nov. 2

_____ 1 or 2 TBD @ Michigan Sat., Nov. 9

_____ 1 or 2 TBD Michigan State Sat., Nov. 16

_____ 1 or 2 TBD @ Penn State Sat., Nov. 23

_____ 1 or 2 TBD Iowa Sat., Nov. 30

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INVOLVEMENT and SERVICE (if any)Postcards of Pride VolunteerHuskers for Higher EducationCather Circle Affiliate/Chapter MemberAlumni Awards CommitteeAlumni Advisory CouncilTravel Program ParticipantHusker Rewards Card Holder Former Board Member (Chapter, Affiliate or Association)

Reunion Attendee Other__________________________________ Other__________________________________ Other__________________________________ Other__________________________________

Send form with credit card info (no checks please), postmarked by May 1, to: Nebraska Alumni Association, ATTN.: Football Tickets, 1520 R Street, Lincoln, NE 68508-1651

Non-Members Complete This Section

Life Membership Paid-in-Full No reminder notices, no annual dues. Add your name to the Life Endowment Wall. nIndividual $1000 nJoint $1250

Life Membership 5-Year Plan Makes life membership easier to afford by billing you annually. nIndividual $230/year nJoint $290/year

Senior Life Membership For our alumni and friends over 65 years old. nIndividual $450 nJoint $550

Annual Membership Less than a dollar per week. nIndividual $50 nJoint $60

Recent Graduate Membership For our newest alumni less than three years out of college. nIndividual $15 nJoint $20

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Digital images of a century of UNL yearbooks are already online (http://yearbooks.unl.edu/) – the only problem is that users can’t current-

ly search the content. The solution is at hand, and we need UNL alumni and friends to help.The University of Nebraska Libraries introduces a new tool – http://

transcribe.unl.edu – where volunteers like you can type the content found on each yearbook page. The transcriptions will then be merged with the digital images, making them searchable.

Anyone in the world with a computer and Internet access can help. So if you don’t live in Nebraska and have always wanted to help your alma mater – this is the volunteer opportu-nity for you!

How to get started:

1. Go to http://transcribe.unl.edu.2. Click on the Yearbook project.3. Make an account – this is not required, but we’d love to recognize any volunteers

that contribute toward the success of this project. 4. Select a yearbook and page to transcribe.5. Start typing what you see on the page.6. Click “Save” when you’re finished.

Details are also posted on the Nebraska Alumni Associa-tion’s Volunteer Opportunity Bank at https://huskeralum.org/volunteer-vob.

Once the yearbooks have been transcribed, other types of documents will be added to the site for volunteers to continue the work of preserving and sharing UNL history.

Warning: This is a highly addictive and fun activity.

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Libraries

Alumni Can Help Make Cornhusker

Yearbooks Searchable

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Shop the UNL Bookstore for the best selection of alumni apparel and gifts.

HUSKER ALUMNI

Imagine transcribing the story written by Willa

Catherfromthe1895yearbook,orfollowing

the evolution of various fraternities and

sororities. Relive the glory days in

the1924yearbookwhenUNLbeat

Notre Dame and the Four Horsemen.

Recapture the early days of different

colleges and clubs such as the Palladian

Society. Find your grandmother or grand-

father’s class entry. Transcribe the rosters

of women’s and men’s athletic teams. You

can do these things and more when you volun-

teer to transcribe or type the content of UNL’s

yearbooksathttp://transcribe.unl.edu/.

In 2013 the Sheldon Museum of Art celebrates the 50th anniversary of the museum’s landmark Philip Johnson building and the 125th anniversary of the Sheldon Art As-sociation, the museum’s dedicated support group.

A series of exhibitions and publications focusing on the strengths of Sheldon’s permanent collection is a highlight of the anniversary year. The exhibitions featuring the Sheldon holdings are Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art (February–April); Fifty Gifts for Fifty Years (July–September); and Paintings from the Sheldon Museum of Art (July–December).

Philip Johnson’s iconic structure will be the focus of The Naked Museum, a period during which all of the museum’s artwork will be put into storage to allow for

exciting and unusual programming in the galleries (May–June). An exhibition “Look for Beauty”: Philip Johnson and Art Museum Design examines the architect’s work on the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, 1960; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1961; and the Sheldon Museum of Art, 1963 (July–September).

Major works by Alexander Calder and Jun Kaneko will be installed west of the building in the sculpture gar-den, and a number of smaller works will be featured in the sunken sculpture garden south of the building.

On Saturday, June 1 the Sheldon Art Association will host a very special anniversary party that will transform the gallery spaces into works of art.

For more information on the 2013 anniversaries of the Sheldon Museum of Art and Sheldon Art Association visit sheldonartmuseum.org or call Monica Babcock at 402-472-2463.

Sheldon Museum of Art

Sheldon Museum Of Art’s 2013 Anniversary Year

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TOMMIEFRAZIER15Most people remember Tommie Frazier, the All-American football quarter-back who helped lead the Nebraska football team to back-to-back National Championshipsinthemid1990s.Tommiecontinuestobeaskedhowhehas handled the pressures of being a world-class athlete; dealing with a career-ending illness; working in the business world; and being a husband, father and friend. Let Tommie share his compelling stories that touch on teaching, teamwork, goals, leadership, adversity, peer pressure and choices with your organization.

Formoreinformation,contact:TATenterprises/18603ednaSt./Omaha,Ne68136e-mail:tfrazier@tommiefrazier15.comPhone:(877)722-2515

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campaignfornebraska.org/unl

individuals have made donations to UNL during the campaign.

55,571of new funds to the UNL campaign support student scholarships.

45%UNL students receive some form of fi nancial aid.

16,000

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

and Construction• Water for Food• Early Childhood Education

42%of donors to UNL are fi rst-time donors during the campaign.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKALINCOLN

Amount Raised Toward $550 Million Campaign Goal2005 2014

of UNL campaign gifts are from Nebraska households/organizations.

All statistics as of November 30, 2012. The Campaign for Nebraska began in July, 2005 and will conclude in December, 2014.

new funds have been established during the campaign to support academic programs at UNL.

828

$606,605,043

58%

If it is the boson particle, this discovery could be one of the greatest achievements in physics in decades. It could explain why particles have mass. It could help us under-stand matter – and the universe. This observation was made at a laboratory in Switzerland, where a super collider generates high-energy collisions of protons in search of it. Protons are smashed together at high speeds in the center of the detector, generating about 31.6 million collisions per second when operating at its peak. This created plenty of work to be divided.

More than 3,000 people from 38 countries worked on this discovery, including faculty and students in UNL’s experimental high-energy physics group.

The UNL team worked on the experiment using a particle detector. They were involved in the production and

testing, installation, and calibration and monitoring of the “pixel tracker” detecting the passage of charged particles.

“I am very proud and excited to be part of the UNL high energy group – one that has established itself as a prominent contributor to the experiment in so many ways,” said Dan Claes, chairman of the department of physics and astronomy and member of the UNL experi-mental high-energy physics group.

Claes believes the strength of the UNL team is magnifed by the energy of his younger colleagues. The group includes five faculty members, four post-doctorate students, three graduate students and four undergraduate students who all contributed to the experiment.

“The Higgs helps us solve one corner of the puzzle,” Claes said, “but not the entire picture.”

UNL Physicists Contributing to Search for God Particle

By Alli Benner, UNL senior

UNL physicists have contributed to a bold discovery along the path to finding the

elusive “God particle.” This past summer, scientists in Switzerland observed a

particle that may be the Higgs boson particle, known as the “God particle.”

University of Nebraska Foundation

From a conversation with JimBy Colleen Kenney Fleischer, ’88

It was very, very traumatic when I first went to school in Lincoln.

“Oh, man,” I thought. “What a big city.” It was 1964. I roomed with a friend from Dannebrog, which

was the same size of my hometown Elba – about 200 people. I don’t think we went anywhere for the first two weeks.

My folks were farmers. They struggled to make a living on ground that wasn’t very good. They didn’t want me to struggle. My dad always told me, “You’re going to college.”

Back in those days you listened to your dad, and so I went to college – to Kearney for two years and then to Lincoln for the last three. My folks helped when they could. But I didn’t like to take too much from them so I’d go home on weekends to work. I’d make enough money – a dollar an hour working for a farmer – to make it through the next week or two.

I’d work all summer long and was able to pay for my tuition, books and most of my rent.

Faye and I married in 1967. She became a nurse and worked in pediatrics and the newborn nursery. I think she fell in love with every baby. I graduated from Lincoln with a degree in civil engineering in 1967. I got a job with Boeing in Wichita, but got laid off. That opened the door for me to go to work for Peter Kiewit in Omaha, which was a job I was grateful to have.

That job took us to some very interesting places. We lived in Saint John in New Brunswick; Montreal and James Bay in Que-

bec; and Edmonton, in Alberta. This was when our children Julie and Robert were young. They both were bilingual, having learned French. I made up my mind that after my “traumatic” experience of transferring to UNL that our kids were not going to live in just one spot their whole lives. This job gave us that opportunity. We eventu-ally moved back to Omaha.

After 25 years with Peter Kiewit I retired and we moved to Ravenna. I went into farming. I grow beans and corn. It’s an inter-esting challenge to see what you can raise each year.

I don’t know if we have a philosophy for giving back. We just want to help get students through college and to see them succeed and make their mark in the world. We want to help kids in the nurs-ing fields get advanced degrees so we can have more nursing teachers – there’s such a need there.

We give scholarships to kids in engineering and construction management. We want our scholarships to go to the kids in rural areas to allow them opportunities to attend college if they so desire.

We feel grateful for the doors that education opened up for us. We just want to help other people that way, to allow them to benefit from the opportunities that may be available to reach the goals that they wish to achieve.

Student support is one of the top priorities of the Campaign for Nebraska. If you, like the Rasmussens, would like to help students achieve a college degree, please contact the University of Nebraska Foundation at 800-432-3216 or visit campaignfornebraska.org/UNL.

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Donors’Goal:GetStudentsThroughCollegeJim and Faye Rasmussen

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Alumni Reach Out to Construction Engineering, Nursing Grad Students

Students studying construction en-

gineering or nursing at the University of

Nebraska benefit from the generosity of

alumnus Jim Rasmussen and his wife,

Faye, who live in Ravenna, Neb. They

established four funds at the University

of Nebraska Foundation to support

students and academic programs.

Three of the funds provide support

for students, academic programs and

renovations of academic space within

UNL’s The Charles W. Durham School of

Architectural Engineering and Construc-

tion in Omaha. Another fund provides

an annual fellowship award to support

graduate nursing students who wish to

one day teach nursing.

The Rasmussens said they are glad

for the opportunity to provide support

for these areas of the university. “The

University of Nebraska gave us the tools

to function successfully in the business

and social environment,” Faye Rasmus-

sen said. “It is our hope these funds will

help give as many students as possible

well-rounded careers so they may also

contribute effectively in society.”

Eddy Rojas, director of The Charles

W. Durham School of Architectural

Engineering and Construction, said the

improved facilities are being well used

and enjoyed.

“I can’t think of a single student,

faculty or staff member associated with

our construction programs who will not

experience the positive impact of these

great facility improvements,” he said. “It

is with deep gratitude that The Durham

School thanks the Rasmussen family for

their contributions.”

Faye Rasmussen, a native of

Kearney, Neb., worked as a licensed

practical nurse before working at home

to raise their two children. She said she

always appreciated her nursing career,

and it was the impetus for directing

a portion of their gift to establish the

Rasmussen Nursing Future Faculty Fel-

lowship to support future nurses.

We feel grateful for the doors that education opened up for us. We just want to help other people

that way, to allow them to benefit from the opportunities that may be available to reach the goals that

they wish to achieve.

– Jim and Faye Rasmussen

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Ag Professor Helps Others Grow

By Colleen Kenney Fleischer, ’88The seed of the Hoegemeyer tree took root in this soil

long ago. It grew strong, against long odds. It learned to thrive.The seed was a teenager, the third son of German

peasants, who stowed away on a ship bound for the United States around 1870. He was 17 years old.

Caspar Hoegemeyer.The Prussians had grabbed his two older brothers and

forced them to fight the French. They both died in the opening battle, and Caspar’s parents were afraid he’d be grabbed next. His father and an uncle rowed him out to sea and hid him in a lifeboat of a ship bound for Philadel-phia. And a better life.

His parents gave Caspar as much as they could for the journey: an extra shirt, a bag of apples and, most likely, their prayers in German to survive.

Caspar spoke no English. He stepped foot on Ameri-can soil penniless and wandered the streets until he heard some Pennsylvania Dutch people speaking his native tongue. One family took him in for the winter. Then he headed west.

He just started walking and didn’t stop until he ar-rived in the Iowa town of West Liberty. He took a job picking corn. It was all hand-picked back then. (Maybe this was the first time that Hoegemeyer hands touched corn, a crop that would come to mean so much to the family.)

A few years later Caspar left on foot again, this time for Nebraska. He carried a knife, a rifle, some clothes, a spade and a hoe. He homesteaded a piece of prairie along Logan Creek, north of Hooper, Neb. He dug a home in the side of a hill. And that’s where he’d sleep the next several winters, like a seed beneath the snow.

From there, the Hoegemeyer tree grew. “It was virtually just a cave, with a sod front wall,

that he dug into the side of the hill,” said Caspar’s great-grandson, Tom Hoegemeyer, Ph.D., a professor of plant breeding at UNL. “Every time it gets 20 below, I think, ‘Man, this guy was tough.’”

This story is supposed to be about Tom, who sits in his office in Plant Sciences Hall on East Campus, telling this story about Caspar. Tom was considered one of the most innovative self-employed plant breeders in the world. Tom is a source of pride for NU’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, where he now works as a part-time professor of practice after spending most of his life breed-

ing corn and running the family business, Hoegemeyer Hybrids.

But Tom said you can’t tell his story without telling the story of his family tree – a narrative that’s like many family stories in Nebraska, of generations planting seeds for the next in the hope of making it stronger.

These towns of Nebraska, big and small, are popu-lated with people with similar family stories, pioneers who thrived under harsh conditions.

You can’t tell the story of Hoegemeyer Hybrids, Tom said, without starting with the sacrifices each generation of the family made for the next.

H. Chris Hoegemeyer was Caspar’s son, and Tom’s grandfather. Chris was born in that sod house in 1878. He was smart. He was good with plants. He was interested in seeds. It was never enough to have just one wheat variety. He had to have six.

Chris attended school only until the third grade. But

Two generations of Hoegemeyers, son Leonard (left) and dad H. Chris look at one of the first bags of hybrid seed.

Tom Hoegemeyer

Leonard Hoegemeyer

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he was far-sighted enough that he de-cided all of his children would gradu-ate from the University of Nebraska.

“The university has made a huge difference to this family,” Tom said.

Tom’s dad, Leonard, was the oldest. He was close in age to his sister Lillian. They started their studies at the university during the Great De-pression. After they’d been in school a few years, it became clear that they couldn’t both afford to stay.

So Leonard dropped out, worked on the farm and sent every nickel to his sister so she could finish her degree. Then she took a job teach-ing chemistry in Omaha, lived on nothing but raw grain and stuff she could get from the farm, and she sent every nickel she made to Leonard so he could finish his degree. Later, their sister Alice got her degree in nutrition.

In the 1930s, Tom said, it be-came apparent that hybrid corn was going to be a wonder-ful new technology. The vision at the time was that the

land-grant universities would do the research, and because they didn’t have the facilities or ability to make enough seed to supply the farmers, the universities contracted to train farmers in different areas to produce hybrid seed to sell to their neighbors. Chris Hoegemeyer was one of those people asked to do it.

“Grandpa was a little bit entre-preneurial,” Tom said. “And he loved seeds and plants anyway, so he really took to doing this.

“And believe it or not, my dad was at the university when he brought the very first bags of parent seed – to grow the first hybrids – home with him on the train from Lincoln. He had one bag for the male and one bag for the female, and they planted 11 acres of seed that they would make the final cross to be a hybrid. That was their first crop

of hybrid seed they produced to sell to their neighbors. That was 1937. And that’s how Hoegemeyer Hybrids got

started.”Last year marked the 75th year of Hoegemeyer

Hybrids. Though the family no longer owns the company, some young men of the family’s next generation still help run it.

Now, Tom, who received his undergraduate degree in crop science from UNL, feels it’s the responsibility of his generation to give back to the university. That’s one reason he’s a professor now. He wants to pass on the real-world knowledge he acquired in the field, literally.

And that’s one reason he’s volunteering to lead the effort to raise money for scholarships and programs for IANR.

“I think we have a responsibility when we get to a point in our lives where we have something to give back – either knowledge or dollars – that we make sure that there are wells dug for the next generation, to make sure that if we don’t plant, we at least fertilize and make opportunities available for future generations.”

Support for agriculture is a priority of the Campaign for Nebraska. If you, like Tom Hoegemeyer, would like to help the University of Nebraska’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR), please call Ann Bruntz at the University of Nebraska Foundation, 800-432-3216.

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By Randy York, ’71When Nebraska opens the biggest entrance to its

$63.5 million East Stadium Expansion Project this fall, football fans will walk through space that goes well beyond 6,200 new seats and 38 new suites. That’s because 50,000 square feet of this refashioned, modernized Memorial Stadium will be devoted to research, and that exploration of the unknown will feature the ultimate odd couple work-ing hand-in-hand ‒ academics and athletics. University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty, Nebraska Athletics staff and private sector partners will team on innovative health and performance research.

This partnership will mark the first on-campus, shared academic/athletic research facility in the history of inter-collegiate athletics. Whether you call it an historic break-through or an opportunity of a lifetime, just understand that these two anchor tenants are the result of a unique collaboration that follows a simple but elegant and hereto-fore unused equation: Academics + Athletics = Innovative Research.

“That’s perfect because that’s what this will be ‒ true innovation coming from two sides that rarely work together ‒ academics and athletics,” said Prem S. Paul, UNL vice chancellor for research and economic development. “All the stars are lined up for this unique partnership, and we’re de-lighted to join forces with Nebraska Athletics. Our national reputation in athletics is opening doors for us in academ-ics. I have absolutely no doubt that linking our prestigious academic and athletic programs will create opportunities we’ve never had before. Our college deans are excited, and our faculty is on board. We are prepared to work together with a man who left an incredible athletic legacy to his home state and now has the opportunity to leave an equally incredible academic legacy.”

Paul is referring to Tom Osborne, now serving as Nebraska Athletic Director Emeritus. Nebraska’s Hall-of-Fame football coach and three-term Congressman has been given “100 percent leadership and accountability to lead the athletic side of this relationship,” said Shawn Eichorst, who succeeded Osborne as athletic director Jan. 3, 2013. “It was an easy decision to make. Coach Osborne’s vision created this partnership. He has everyone’s trust, and his leadership and guidance will get this joint research effort off the launching pad just like we all want. I wouldn’t want it to happen any other way.”

building Private Partnerships

Osborne, 75, is eager to see completion of the athletic research area that will be connected to the academic research area. Communication, cooperation and collabora-tion will be paramount to seize the benefits from research that will feature, among other things, Bryan Heart Insti-tute, which will measure conditioning training designed to improve athletic performance. Known for his pioneering leadership in bringing cutting-edge strength training and nutritional research into the daily lives of his student-ath-letes, Osborne envisions a more comprehensive approach that can range from psychological research to motion analy-sis of athletes lifting weights and everything in between.

Osborne also has developed a strong working relation-ship with Steve Kiene, managing principal at Nebraska Global, a high-tech company which has worked closely with Nebraska Athletics on weight and conditioning train-ing, nutrition, online athlete assessments and biomedical research projects, including on-field, tablet-based concus-sion diagnostics. “We’re strong believers in research and economic development,” Kiene said, “and we’re excited to move some of our best performers into the East Stadium.”

Several performance-related thinkers influenced

Osborne’s vision, beginning with former Nebraska women’s soccer assistant coach Wally Crittenden, who developed his UNL master’s of education thesis on the benefits of a Nebraska Sports Institute that would elevate the Huskers’ leadership positions in a variety of performance-related areas. Doak Ostergard, director of outreach for the athletic department, used Crittenden’s creative idea to start asking “What if?” questions regarding possible tenants in the new East Stadium.

David Hansen, then-chair of UNL’s psychology de-partment, was contemplating moving some of his depart-ment’s research into the Whittier Research Center, a former junior high building that UNL recently renovated to house interdisciplinary research initiatives. “What if you moved your group into the East Stadium instead?” Ostergard asked Hansen after a meeting on the potential for collaborative research between academics and athletics. The more Han-sen thought about the mutual benefits of crossover research, the more he embraced the idea of moving his research team into the East Stadium.

Another cog in this partnership is Brandon Rigoni, a member of the Nebraska football strength and conditioning staff, who completed his master’s degree at UNL and is now

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pursuing a doctorate in biopsychology with an emphasis in statistics. His research centers on athletic performance related to the human stress response system.

Center for brain, biology and behavior

Osborne, UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman and Paul worked closely to make this first-ever joint research facil-ity and unique partnership a reality. A key player in the research effort is Dennis L. Molfese, the Mildred Francis Thompson Professor of Psychology, who will direct UNL’s new Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, a.k.a. CB3. UNL recruited Molfese in 2010 to lead the university’s brain research efforts. Internationally known for his exper-tise in using brain recording techniques to study the emerg-ing relationships between brain development, language and cognitive processes, Molfese is a leader in concussion research. He heads the Big Ten/Committee on Institutional Collaboration’s Traumatic Brain Injury Research Collabora-tion, which has teamed with the Ivy League to study head injuries in sports.

Approved in January by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, CB3 is the linchpin of the East Stadium’s combined research. More than three dozen UNL faculty

from several colleges and other campuses are expected to collaborate on research through this broad-based interdis-ciplinary center, which will employ cutting-edge imaging technology to better understand the biological underpin-nings of behavior and performance.

“With CB3, we’re creating an interdisciplinary center for innovative health and performance research that links academics and athletics and ultimately will improve the health and welfare of our nation’s citizens, including our student-athletes,” Paul said.

No one has to tell Osborne the importance of such research. The game of football eagerly awaits research that could supply answers needed to decrease the frequency and the overall impact of football-related injuries. Osborne believes if solutions are not found to correct the alarming trend and severity of increased concussions, the game will be in jeopardy.

The Big Ten/Committee on Institutional Cooperation and Ivy League concussion research initiative is unique in its focus on short- and long-term involvement by athletes who agree to take part. Osborne said it’s not out of the question that Molfese’s team could measure concussions and determine with definitive research what types of hel-mets could improve the safety of players who wear them.

envisioning a World-Class, interdisciplinary Center

With four decades of experience in brain studies and development, Molfese wants UNL to establish an interna-tional reputation as a pioneering, world-class interdisciplin-ary center that investigates the interface between social, biological, behavioral, engineering and neurological issues.

“Putting good people together leads to good things and the creation of two research spaces in Memorial Stadium will be a compelling catalyst for interaction,” Chancellor Perlman said, adding that the opportunity for student-ath-letes to use the program will provide information that may be more broadly helpful to society than just performance.

Nebraska Global, which will have office space in the East Stadium, is helping Nebraska Athletics design a web-based information portal for parents of student-athletes – a one-of-a-kind technology tool that will help student-ath-letes in every phase of their academic/athletic life and also could become a game-changer for recruiting.

Nebraska’s brain research efforts will stretch well beyond student-athletes and could help soldiers as well as citizens. Paul, Osborne and Eichorst envision the East Sta-

dium facility having the potential to become a center of ex-cellence at UNL, with significant impact on funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense and the private sector. CB3 will be the nation’s only facility to simultane-ously record certain MRIs, eye-tracking and event-related potentials.

osborne: Nebraska in a League of its own

“I don’t know of any school in the country under-taking what we are,” Osborne said. “In athletics, you’re always trying to push the limits of human performance and endurance, and by merging our athletic mission with our academic mission, we can build better relationships, boost our recruiting and retain our top athletes.”

More than four decades ago, UNL’s chancellor asked Tom Osborne to make a choice between coaching football and teaching. If he accepted a job as a professor, he would be groomed to someday become the president of the uni-versity. Osborne, of course, chose football, but also made sure he integrated academics with athletics.

Today, in his farewell tour as perhaps Nebraska’s most popular leader, Osborne is enabling a powerful crossover

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Dennis Molfese. Photo by Craig Chandler of University Communications.

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By Ashley Washburn, ’02For people recovering from an illness or traumatic injury, learn-

ing to walk again is a major milestone. Patients who use automated treadmills or robotic gait devices

during rehabilitation often regain their ability to walk sooner because these machines provide stability, support and mass step repetition while patients rebuild strength.

But at $300,000 or more, small hospitals and clinics can’t afford these machines. A partnership between Madonna Rehabilita-tion Hospital in Lincoln and UNL has yielded an alternative.

Judith Burnfield, physical therapist and director of Madonna’s Institute for Rehabilitation Science, conceived the idea for an ellip-tical machine that offered the therapeutic benefits of standard gait devices at about one-tenth the cost.

She approached Carl Nelson, a UNL mechanical engineer, to help Madonna develop the Intelligently Controlled Assistive Rehabilitation Elliptical system, or ICARE. The ICARE system in-tegrates sensing and actuation components that enable the machine to increase or decrease power depending on the amount of support a patient needs to maintain a natural walking gait.

“Nelson’s leadership ensured that the technology adjusts to the

unique rehabilitation needs of individuals with weakness, move-ment control and pain,” Burnfield said.

Madonna’s Research Institute received a grant from the Nation-al Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to support the ICARE’s development. It is used at Madonna and other leading rehabilitation hospitals to help patients recovering from neurologic and orthopedic disorders.

Madonna partnered with SportsArt Fitness Inc. to manufacture and sell the device in 80 countries, including the U.S. NUtech Ven-tures, a nonprofit corporation that connects UNL researchers with businesses, helped commercialize the ICARE.

Rehabilitation experts recognize the device’s potential. In fall 2011, the ICARE was a finalist for the annual international da Vinci Awards, which recognize new technologies that help people overcome physical limitations.

Nelson said teamwork between researchers and patient-care experts is essential.

“Without Madonna, I wouldn’t have access to a patient popu-lation and rehabilitation scientists, and without us, they wouldn’t be able to customize mechanical systems for these kinds of therapeutic uses,” he said. “We need one another to solve problems like this.”

Judith Burnfield, physical therapist and director of Madonna’s Institute for Rehabilitation Science, and Carl Nelson, UNL mechanical engineer, collaborated on the ICARE.

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Making Strides with ICARE

“Without Madonna,

I wouldn’t have access to

a patient population and

rehabilitation scientists,

and without us, they

wouldn’t be able to custom-

ize mechanical systems for

these kinds of therapeutic

uses. We need one another

to solve problems like this.”

– Carl NelsonUNL mechanical engineer

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By Gillian Klucas, ’91As the world’s population explodes to an estimated 9

billion people by 2050, farmers face the daunting challenge of making the most of every acre of suitable land while pre-serving the environment.

Increasing yields on existing farmland obviates turning to rainforests, wetlands and other unsuitable land.

“The critical question is: Where in the world do we have existing farmland with the capacity to produce much higher, stable yields?” said Ken Cassman, Robert B. Daugherty Professor of Agronomy at UNL.

To answer that question, Cassman and an international research team are developing a tool to identify areas around the globe where significant gaps exist between actual and po-tential yields for different crops. Yield potentials vary widely and often are difficult to measure.

Unlike other efforts to estimate yield potential, the team’s Global Yield Gap Atlas uses a bottom-up approach. Working with colleagues at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the team is recruiting agronomists worldwide to identify key agricultural areas and collect data about local conditions and farming methods. These data are then scaled to the national, regional and global levels.

They also are developing the necessary methodology,

such as accurately convert-ing short-term weather data into long-term patterns and scaling up local yield esti-mates. All information and methodologies are shared on the new public website www.yieldgap.org.

“The beauty of this project is that it is a global project but with local relevance,” said UNL agronomist and co-investigator Patricio Grassini. The atlas will estimate global yield trends and food secu-rity and also help individual countries identify production potential to better strategize resource allocations and trade opportunities.

Agricultural economist Justin van Wart brings a large-scale perspective to the project. His doctoral work for Cassman included developing methods to scale local data to regional and global levels. Now, as a postdoctoral fellow, the Nebraska native finds himself in a new country almost every month, presenting his methods and helping to build collaborations.

“It’s amazing to work with internationally renowned agronomists,” van Wart said. “It’s kind of surreal to be shak-

ing hands and talking directly with the person whose paper I was highlighting for a report just a few months ago.”

With a $2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the team is working in India, Bangladesh and 10 Sub-Saharan African countries. Grassini also has devel-oped collaborations in Argentina and Brazil with funds from the University of Nebraska’s Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute.

Securing food for the future requires accurate informa-tion and decades of planning, said Cassman, who also chairs the Independent Science and Partnership Council, which advises the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, or CGIAR, on the scientific merit of global re-search projects. “We need to do a better job than we have in the past, and that’s what the Global Yield Gap Atlas will do.”

From left, postdoc Justin van Wart with UNL agronomists Patricio Grassini and Ken Cassman.

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Creating Smarter Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

By Ashley Washburn, ’02Unmanned aerial vehicles have long been used for

military purposes, including reconnaissance and targeted attacks. Recent technological advances have made these re-motely controlled aircraft less expensive, smaller and easier to operate, expanding possibilities for UAVs in civilian life.

Potential uses include gathering intelligence, inspect-ing critical infrastructure and managing natural resources. But safety, reliability and autonomy remain barriers to widespread commercial use. Research by UNL computer scientists and engineers Sebastian Elbaum and Carrick Detweiler, co-directors of the Nebraska Intelligent Mo-Bile Unmanned Systems Lab (NIMBUS), addresses those concerns.

Modern UAVs are powered by a sophisticated combi-nation of computer hardware and software systems, includ-ing precise algorithms that guide the aircraft to its destina-tion. Elbaum and Detweiler are developing software and devices that could lengthen flight times, enable UAVs to fly in swarms or travel through obstacle-filled locations, such as forests, cornfields or mines. Reducing flight errors from unreliable signals, which often result in crashes, is key.

“Our goal is to make small UAVs that can, in essence, think for themselves,” Detweiler said.

Greater autonomy would make it possible to use UAVs for field research in remote locations. The lab hosted a mul-tidisciplinary workshop in 2012 to discuss the technology, applications and implications of UAVs. The workshop drew UNL faculty from a range of disciplines including engineer-ing, agriculture and natural resources, journalism, political science and law, who want to incorporate UAVs in their work or study their impact.

NIMBUS already partners with UNL agronomists, who could use UAVs to capture aerial images and gather soil and water samples.

“We are just starting to scratch the surface of the lab’s capabilities for research collaborations,” Elbaum said.

Funding from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation supports the NIMBUS Lab, unique in its capacity to blend research and technology in software and systems engineering, robotics and wireless sensor networks.

Carrick Detweiler and Sebastian Elbaum co-direct UNL’s Nebraska Intelligent MoBile Unmanned Systems (NIMBUS) Lab.

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By Cheryl Alberts, ’86, ’00Alex Peyton is going beyond the regular collegiate

internship in agronomy. True, he helps farmers decide what to plant and how crops can grow better. And he does market assessments of harvested products.

However, the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources sophomore is doing so in Afghanistan as a member of the Nebraska National Guard third Agribusi-ness Development Team (ADT 3). Deployed in April, he hopes to return to Nebraska in March.

Peyton’s first love was animals. Prior to graduating from Gothenburg High School in 2008, he worked for a local veterinarian. After basic training he enrolled in CASNR , a part of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, to study animal science. Deployment to Iraq

interrupted his studies as a freshman. After that deploy-ment, Peyton returned home to work for a crop consultant and at the Monsanto Water Utilization Learning Center.

“That’s what sparked my interest in agronomy,” he said.

In Iraq he “caught wind of ADT 3.” He applied and was selected.

“Nebraska handpicked individuals based on their ex-perience, accomplishments and knowledge,” he explained.

As an agricultural specialist in Afghanistan, Peyton works with people in roles similar to University of Ne-braska-Lincoln Extension educators in delivering research-based knowledge.

By Dan MoserPlant scientists long have known they can alter crops

genetically to improve performance; they’ve been doing it thousands of years. But what if they could dramatically im-prove crops by leaving the genes themselves unchanged but instead change how they’re expressed in a way that would be passed down to future generations?

That question is at the heart of research at the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center for Plant Science Innova-tion, and the results so far are encouraging. The findings, expected to be commercialized in the next couple of years, could play a role in helping meet the world’s dramatically increasing need for food, said Sally Mackenzie, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources plant scientist.

Specifically, scientists focused on a gene called MSH1, short for MUTS Homolog1, which is present in every plant. They discovered that if they “silenced” that gene in some plants, their growth patterns changed dramatically – dwarfed, highly branched and behaving as if they have seen high levels of stress, including cold, heat, sale, drought and high light. Then, after they reintroduced the gene and crossbred it with a plant that wasn’t altered, the crossbred plant showed signs of enhanced growth, vigor, lodge resis-tance, high biomass production and higher yield.

Those changes in some cases were huge: up to a 100

percent increase in above-ground biomass, up to a 70 per-cent increase in yield in sorghum, for example.

“We changed the way the plant is expressing its genes, even though we didn’t change the genes themselves,” Mackenzie said. The process is called epigenetics.

Mackenzie stresses these key points about her lab’s work:

• It’snottransgene-mediatedmodification,whichis controversial in some parts of the world and heavily

regulated, thus slow to reach the market.• It’sworkedinseveralcropssofar–notso-called

model crops, but actual agronomically useful crops, most importantly soybean, sorghum and millet, and also tobacco and tomatoes.

• Thesechangescanoccurinjusttwogenerationsof plants, rather than the 10 or more it can take for genetic modification to take hold. That’s appealing given the sense of urgency in figuring out how to

feed a world whose population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050.The potential of

epigenetics to improve other crops is unknown. It’s possible that most of the potential already has been reached in corn, for exam-ple, because it’s been heavily hybridized. Until now, scien-

tists couldn’t know what percentage of improvements in corn was due to genetic changes and what percentage was due, unwittingly, to epigenetics.

Besides soybean and sorghum, it seems likely there’s great potential for epigenetics to improve crops such as cotton and dry beans.

“And if you could do this in rice and wheat, you could perhaps change the world,” Mackenzie said.

“It’s promising, but I don’t want to overhype this,” Mackenzie said. Yet to be determined is whether these ef-fects will be stable and able to be scaled up as the tech-niques are commercialized and expanded to more fields and more crops.

“It’s important we explore this for every potential it offers for addressing some of the challenges in agriculture,” she added.

The research is funded by the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.

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Far And Away Internship

As part of a vendor assessment, ADT3’s Alex Peyton (with clipboard) documents the origin of produce as well as who shops in a marketplace in Afghanistan.

Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources

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Sally Mackenzie

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Soldiering OnBy Cheryl Alberts, ’86, ’00

Children of deployed military

personnel sacrifice, too – often silently,

often with little fanfare as holidays,

birthdays and everyday life go on with-

out their parent or parents.

Operation Military Kids (OMK), a

nationwide, military-funded effort, sup-

ports children of families affected by all

phases of the deployment cycle. In Ne-

braska, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Extension also provides OMK support.

“Youth experiencing deployment of

a parent are incredibly strong and resil-

ient, but need support and understand-

ing of others,” said Mark Simmons,

extension program director.

OMK supports youth through com-

munity education, care packages, pen

pal programs, mobile technology labs to

help children stay in contact with their

parents, speakers’ bureau, youth camps

and more.

In addition, in Nebraska and

nationally a “Purple Up” event in April

encourages people to wear purple,

symbolizing all branches of the military

and visibly thanking military children for

their strength and sacrifices.

Visit nebraskaomk.org

By Cheryl Alberts, ’86, ’00When Vaughn Hammond traveled more than 7,000 miles and

10 time zones to help farmers in Afghanistan become more self-sustaining, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension educator said nothing could have prepared him for the experience of going back a century in time.

“It was completely what I expected on one hand, and com-pletely what I didn’t expect on the other,” said Hammond. He said he knew there would be a need for education and assistance, but that he had no idea what else to expect.

Hammond works with fruit and vegetable producers across Nebraska and is located at the university’s Kimmel Education and Research Center at Nebraska City.

From July 2011 until mid-April 2012, Hammond was stationed in eastern Paktya Province with the Nebraska National Guard’s second Agribusiness Development Team (ADT2). Prior to departure, extension taught ADT members farming techniques suitable for Afghanistan, such as how to plant corn and other crops in rows, rather than hand sowing as Afghans were doing, which brought unpredictable growth and yield.

Beset by more than two decades of war that destroyed genera-tions of farming knowledge, Afghanistan is the third poorest coun-try in the world, Hammond said. Paktya Province farms of one or two jeribs (one-half to one acre) grow wheat, livestock, fruits, vegetables and bees. Income for a farm family of seven is about $700 a year, a third of what is needed to survive.

Until recently government provisions made up the deficit. Now, there’s an emergency response program run by the U.S. mili-tary. Hammond helped village elders and the DAIL (Director of

Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock), the province’s highest agri-cultural official, learn to apply for funding. He helped identify local needs and taught ways to present funding requests using flipcharts, generator-powered computers and writing on walls.

Projects funded include poultry and livestock training, modern planting methods, beekeeping and more, which helped increase farmer incomes and provide nutrition.

Hours of preparation went into planning Hammond’s and ADT2’s full military missions out of the Forward Operating Base Gardez where he lived. Outside, he and other ADT members had only 60-90 minutes in any location, on business such as follow-up visits, to reduce potential contact with insurgents.

“We were very good relations builders,” Hammond said, add-ing that his beard gained him credibility, as beards are a familiar part of the Afghan culture. “We tried to teach and build capacity to help the farmers fend for themselves.”

Extension now is training ADT4 for its Afghanistan mission.Hammond’s mission was funded by the U.S. Department of

Defense’s agriculture development program in Iraq and Afghani-stan, which is led by Howard Buffett.

See Hammond’s blog at vaughninafghanistan.blogspot.com.

Vaughn Hammond, left, shows the size of hybrid cucumber seeds and explains the benefits of planting in rows to residents in eastern Paktya Province, Afghanistan.

Seeding Afghanistan

“Facts I learned at UNL about how plants grow or what plants need to grow are really what have helped the most for me here in Afghanistan,” Peyton said. For especially challenging situations, he said he relies on guidance from Chief Warrant Officer 2 Waylon Petsche, a 2002 CASNR agronomy graduate from Petersburg.

Peyton is keeping a journal of his day-to-day work. Upon returning home, he plans a presentation to complete his internship requirements, and getting back into CASNR .

“This deployment won’t necessarily put me in front of the curve on terminology or classwork,” Peyton said, “but it will give me experience dealing with farmers who don’t have a good grasp on farming as well as how to get a project started and help the farmer along.”

Bryce Vaughn, an agricultural economics/public policy senior from Alliance, interned with ICM and Orphans Unlimited in the southeast African country of Mozambique. Working with the organization’s agriculture program from May to mid-July, Vaughn helped buy beans, corn and rice from farmers for the 1,700 people in the village of Balama. He also helped build dorms for orphans and a church, and conducted children’s programs.

“Even though they don’t have much, the kids were so happy,” he recalled.

Vaughn is the first recipient of the Keith R. Olsen Agricultural Policy Internship Award, named for the former Nebraska Farm Bureau president, and this past fall he was an intern for U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns.

Zach Cook also interned in the southern hemisphere last sum-mer. The food technology for companion animals sophomore who grew up in Pensacola, Fla., interned at Oceans Research in George, South Africa. He conducted surveys, did tracking, and identified great white sharks and orcas.

“Every day we’d go out on a boat, chum the waters, then would have someone spotting at the top of the boat for the sharks,” he said.

Cook helped take pictures of the sharks, marking on a sheet what he saw.

Oceans Research also had an aquarium in which Cook helped collect marine species. The most exciting activity, he said, was scuba diving and free diving for pyjama jacket sharks.

There is a chance Cook could be on the Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” series next year, as the show “Shark Men” was filmed at Oceans Research while Cook was an intern. After graduation, he hopes to work for an organization such as Discovery or National Geographic.

Closer to home, Melisa Konecky, an animal science and ag leadership senior from Wahoo, is the communications and market-ing intern at the Nebraska Corn Board.

“Growing up on a farm with corn, soybeans, alfalfa and dairy, I thought I knew a lot about corn, but then realized I didn’t know that much,” she said.

Konecky said she had no idea about some of the technology and conservation activities occurring in the corn industry.

“I never realized all the things that corn had a hand in, from livestock feed, ethanol, exports to other countries or producing corn plastic. All these areas have a very delicate balance, and it has been interesting watching them in a year of drought and how they have really affected each other.”

Konecky works with the corn board’s social media, posting on Facebook and Twitter and blogging, as well as taking pictures and job shadowing. Her yearlong internship ends in May.

Another Husker who spent the summer by the sea is Brie

Myre, a fisheries and wildlife senior from Council Bluffs, Iowa. Myre interned at the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabili-tation Center in Topsail Beach, N.C.

Working with sea turtle rehabilitation, Myre helped turtles recover from injuries caused by nature, humans or predators such as sharks. She also got to help out with nesting.

“I got a snapshot of rehabilitation and sea turtle conservation in general,” Myre said. “I thought I knew a lot about sea turtles be-fore, but you can only learn so much from a textbook. Getting this hands-on experience really tells you what it takes to be involved in a program like this.”

Myre said a job such as this would be ideal, though she first plans to attend graduate school for marine-related research.

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completing a degree program in the College of Agricultural Sciences

and Natural Resources. Whether across the globe or at home in the Cornhusker state,

students learn valuable skills to take back to the classroom and after graduation, to their jobs.

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College of Architecture

The FACTsofCarverBankBy Jeffrey L. Day, AIA

“Omaha, Neb., is a segregated city with ex-treme disparities between class and opportunity. Omaha claims the great-est number of millionaires per capita, yet is also home to the highest per-centage of black children living in poverty of any city in the country. These demographic conditions are starkly present in

North Omaha, the poorest and most concentrated African-American community in the city.”

So reads the description of a project initiated by the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts with Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates and his Rebuild Foundation. In response to the neglected environment around the project site, Gates’ Carver Bank is an effort to develop a new cultural space for North Omaha. Students in the UNL College of Architec-ture’s FACT program are helping realize this project.

Located behind the iconic Love’s Jazz, near the corner of 24th and Lake Streets in Omaha, the Carver Bank project (actually a combination of two buildings including the abandoned Carver Bank, the first African American-owned bank in Omaha) will support three primary func-tions: work space for three artists, an exhibition and event space – the center for a series of vibrant public programs, and the new Big Mama’s Sandwich Shop. The project is curated and organized by Hesse McGraw, chief curator at the Bemis Center, with the goal of establishing a “space of public participation and cultural adventure.”

Artists and contemporary art institutions are increas-ingly found directly engaging social, environmental and political issues rather than critiquing them from the pro-tected confines of the gallery. Design students are similarly found working outside the studio on projects that engage

communities and address real problems, whether social, environmental or cultural. Design education has evolved far from its roots in apprenticeship and technical training.

The College of Architecture at UNL has refocused its mission to emphasize just this sort of engagement with the real problems and difficult challenges in the rural and urban communities that it serves. The college faculty believe that design education and the advancement of the design disciplines can and should occur side-by-side with direct engagement and that all communities, especially the underserved, should benefit from the advanced design experimentation that goes on in the college.

FACT is the award-winning Fabrication And Con-struction Team, a design-research initiative started by professor Jeff Day in 2001. Working with Day’s architec-ture firm Min | Day, the team engages creative, non-profit clients in collaborations that span design and construction. FACT is an academic/professional design lab, a “do-tank” in which ideas and new knowledge are developed through action as well as thought. Architecture, landscape architec-ture and interior design students explore the interplay of traditional construction practices and contemporary digital

fabrication tech-niques, and often team with non-con-ventional collabora-tors including state prison inmates on two previous pro-jects and high school students in North Omaha.

Where other academic design

studios tend to focus on ideation, conceptualization and schematic design, FACT students focus on the creative op-portunities embedded in the development and realization of projects. FACT emphasizes helping students develop abilities to interact creatively with clients, fabricators, builders and other partners rather than training them to be part-time builders. Emphasis is also placed on advanced, computer-controlled fabrication systems where students develop computer codes to guide automated machines – the future of the building industry.

At the Carver Bank, FACT is transforming a series of exterior spaces intended to serve artists working in the Carver Bank facility, patrons of Big Mama’s and the general

public. (The spaces are open to the parking lot and street.) Working closely with Carver Bank project coordinator Jessica Scheuerman, students began by holding a series of meetings with Gates and McGraw, Big Mama’s Kitchen staff and other project partners, and then toured the neigh-borhood with local historians. FACT and Min | Day then held a pair of design “charrettes” – intensive creative work sessions – to generate and evaluate ideas for the Carver Bank property.

Parallel with the design phase, students sourced recycled building materials available for the project. One of the hallmarks of Theaster Gate’s art practice is meaningful use of salvaged materials. At Carver, FACT has repurposed used and surplus structural bricks as a paving material but installed them with holes exposed to invite grass and weeds to grow through the openings. Bright white crushed glass from a Council Bluffs recycling center is the sand base and infill for the pavers. Benches and planters built by FACT from charred Cedar decking define the special edges while providing seating and a place for Big Mama’s staff to grow herbs. The ongoing project includes plans for drought-resistant native planting and a series of “light stations” – steel structures with integrated lighting that provide spatial definition and animate the garden at night.

A small cultural institution alone cannot transform a long under-resourced community with serious social challenges, but Gates wants “to create a place and find the group of people who can create solutions for North Omaha internally.” The project is a social sculpture that offers a road to renewal but not all of the answers – a place for dialog and cultural interchange.

For the College of Architecture and FACT, Carver Bank is an example the kind of bottom-up creative part-nership that connects the three missions of the university: teaching, creative production (design-research) and com-munity engagement.

FACT students worked with UNO faculty and Omaha North High School students at the Carver Bank during Three Days of Service in October, 2012. Photo: Jeffrey L. Day

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Artist Theaster Gates performed “Clay in My Veins and Other Thoughts” at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha (March 30, 2011) in the Soft Cube gallery, designed by Min | Day + FACT. Photo: Chris Machian

The Carver Bank project, 24th & Lake Streets in Omaha. Photo: Mike Sinclair

College of Arts and Sciences

Professor Uses Classics to Help People Dealing

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By Jeanne Ortiz JonesAnne Duncan probably can’t count the times she’s read Hom-

er’s “Iliad,” Aeschylus’ “The Oresteia” or other ancient texts central to her work as a classicist. But these days, she’s seeing them through new eyes and helping others find meaning in them, too.

The UNL associate professor of classics and religious studies is invested in a unique outreach project, one that aims to help veter-ans grapple with post-traumatic stress disorder and other challenges of returning from combat. Benefitting, too, are those struggling with other life-altering traumas.

The project is called “Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives” and is one of many across the country – the only one in Nebraska – organized by the New York-based Aquila Theatre Group. Aquila has partnered with classics professors in 100 U.S. cities over three years in its mission to present performances, host workshops and stimulate discussion on this important topic.

Aquila, which specializes in the classics and pursues outreach to traditionally underserved audiences, is supported in this effort with a grant from the National Endow-ment for the Humanities. Duncan, in turn, partnered with Dr. Christine Emler, associate chief of medicine at the Lincoln clinic to bring the events to the VA Nebraska-West-ern Iowa Health Care System. Such activities are part of patient-centered care and focus on the patient as a whole person and not just a disease, Emler said.

They began with a book club in August. Doctors, nurses, psychologists, Vietnam veterans and widows have filled the seats, bringing their life experiences and their eager-ness to discover new insights together. Duncan is discovering, too, in com-paring the Greek warrior returning home from warfare to the experiences of those who’ve served in Afghanistan, Iraq or Vietnam.

“I have always believed that ‘classic’ literature is considered great because it has the ability to speak to people across centuries and cultures, but now I’m seeing it happen in a whole new way,” she said. “I’m seeing people connect to 2,500-year-old books and find things in them that are relevant to their lives here in 21st century America.”

More recently, they welcomed professional actors from Aquila Theatre for a performance workshop where they explored the challenges and rewards of perform-ing Ancient Greek plays to modern audiences. The ac-tors also delivered a staged reading in which they performed selected scenes from Greek tragedies – all having to do with combat

and the warrior’s return home. Duncan also presented a public lecture on combat trauma in Homer’s “Iliad.”

Her goals are simple: one being to help non-academic audi-ences discover that ancient Greek literature actually has a lot to say to them about issues that are important to them, even though it seems so remote. She also hopes it will give veterans and non-veter-ans alike a new forum to speak and to really hear each other when they talk about their experiences, thoughts and reactions.

Duncan is hopeful this new effort’s life won’t be short-lived.“Although I’m not sure what shape it would take, I’d love to

see this evolve into a longer-term community outreach project,” she said. “I feel a certain responsibility to use our unique strengths to play a part in helping solve some major issues facing our country.”

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Anne Duncan

Speech and Debate Grabs Second Big Ten Title

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Speech and Debate became two-time

champions of the Big Ten Conference

this past fall with its victory at the Confer-

ence Challenge Tournament held at

Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

When the team won at the same tourna-

ment in 2011, they earned a place in the

record books as the first organization on

campus to capture a Big Ten title.

This year, UNL led the field with

a two-day point total of 190, ahead of

the University of Illinois, which grabbed

second place with 56 points, and tourna-

ment host Northwestern University with

53 points.

“I am extremely proud of the hard

work and effort our students and coaches

put in to prepare this competition,” said

Aaron Duncan, Speech and Debate di-

rector. “None of the students on our team

receive full-ride scholarships; none of

them will be drafted into the professional

ranks. They compete because of their

love for this university and this activity.”

UNL students captured seven

individual Big Ten titles. Students winning

conference championships included

senior Lauren Schaal of Omaha in per-

suasive speaking; senior Marc Otero of

Lexington in program oral interpretation;

junior Amanda Stoffel of Raymond in

after-dinner speaking; junior Josh Planos

of Omaha in poetry interpretation; junior

Grace Kluck of Lincoln in dramatic inter-

pretation; and sophomore Reece Ristau

of Omaha and sophomore Josiah BeDun-

nah of Lexington in prose interpretation.

BeDunnah and junior Roger Allen of Firth

claimed victory in duo interpretation.

“I have always believed that ‘classic’ literature

is considered great because it has the ability to

speak to people across centuries and cultures, but

now I’m seeing it happen in a whole new way. I’m

seeing people connect to 2,500-year-old books and

find things in them that are relevant to their lives

here in 21st century America.”

– Anne Duncan

UNL Speech and Debate team, 2012 Big Ten Conference Challenge Champions

By Sheri Irwin-GishDean Donde Plowman announced a 25.4 percent

increase in first-time freshman enrollment in the College of Business Administration (CBA) this fall. The numbers buck the trend across the university of a 1.6 percent de-crease in overall enrollment and reverse a 16-year trend.

“These numbers not only show the second largest increase in the last 16 years in CBA, but also reverse a five-year downward trend in new freshmen,” Plowman said. “We have 567 first-time freshmen who are pursuing a major in business.”

First-time transfer students in CBA also increased 15.8 percent. Plowman said new programs, activities and promotional efforts, including an improved and expanded website, and numerous touch points with students and their families were key to providing new students with not only the information they needed, but also a feeling of be-ing part of a greater community when visiting the college.

“One of our most successful efforts in building a com-munity with our freshmen has been our CBA sunglasses,

which new students received at New Student Enrollment if they follow me on Twitter and friend CBA on Facebook. Then they post photos in their sunglasses throughout the year. It’s a great way for them to start to know each other.” Plowman said. “Whether they see each other in the Union or downtown, they know they are CBA related when they see the red and black glasses.”

The sunglasses were just one part of the recruitment and marketing plan for new students. Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs D’vee Buss and Executive Direc-tor of Communications and Marketing Sheri Irwin-Gish worked with their own staffs, admissions, faculty, CBA

staff members and even alumni to build on the CBA com-munity idea.

“We are being much more proactive about asking students to come be a part of the CBA experience,” said Plowman. “D’vee and Sheri and their staffs have worked together to lead this charge. Faculty, staff and students have also helped by e-mailing and calling prospective students, and talking to students and their parents when they are in the building. We believe all these efforts help make them want to be a part of CBA.”

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By Sheri Irwin-GishThe Nebraska Board of Regents approved plans for a

new $84 million College of Business Administration build-ing, making way for one of the most significant events in the history of the college, and largest academic building project in recent history at UNL.

The 240,000 square-foot building will be located at 14th and Vine streets, just north of Kauffman Academic Residential Center. The building will be built through private donations and is scheduled for completion in Janu-ary 2016.

The Regents approval of the building coincided with a 25.4 percent first-time freshmen enrollment increase and 15.8 percent transfer increase at the college this fall. The increase of students, which reversed a 16-year negative trend, supports Dean Donde Plowman’s vision to build a nationally recognized college of business.

“Building a state-of-the-art facility will help us attract world class faculty and students, and will help us establish a major footprint in the Big Ten, home to some of the best public business schools in the world. To continue to achieve our enrollment goals, we need state-of-the-art facilities and more room to teach more students,” Plowman

said. “The new building will provide all of the things that our students need to graduate from CBA best prepared for the modern work force.”

The building will also help meet the goals set by Chancellor Harvey Perlman to increase enrollment at the university by 5,000 students in the next four to five years.

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Dean Donde Plowman with sophomore Sam Meier of Harland, Wis., (left) and senior Elaine Ji of Suzhou, China (right). Photo by Roger Simonsen.

A rendering of the new CBA Building, to be located on the southeast corner of 14th and Vine Streets.

By Michael JamesThis past October, Mary and John Mitchell were

honored by the UNL Department of Textiles, Merchan-dising and Fashion Design (TMFD) and the College of Education and Human Sciences at the dedication of the Mary Mitchell Fashion Studio (MMFS). Mitchell fam-ily members and close friends, department and college faculty and students, and Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery friends and supporters joined Dean Marjorie Kostelnik, NU Foundation Senior Director of Development Jane Heany, and TMFD Chair Michael James in unveiling the MMFS dedicatory panel and in inaugurating the exhibi-tion “Drawn to Fashion,” which surveyed Mary Mitchell’s career as a fashion illustrator. The exhibition, curated by Professors James and Barbara Trout, ran in the Hillestad Gallery through November. Garments from the historic

costume collection, models for select illustrations, were also featured in the exhibition.

Born to Greek immigrant parents in Buffalo, N.Y., Mary Mitchell first showed a penchant for art-making in high school, where her talents were nurtured by the mentorship of her art teacher and encouraged by early suc-cess in national art competitions. An unexpected bequest from Mary’s late mother made it possible for her to attend the Albright Art School, affiliated with the University of Buffalo, from which she graduated with a degree in fashion

illustration. At the Flint & Kent department store in Buf-falo, Mary’s career as a professional fashion illustrator was launched.

After Mary met Kearney, Neb., native and George-town Law School graduate John Mitchell, also of Greek descent, a long-distance courtship ensued and the couple married in 1951, settling in Kearney. Mary took classes at Kearney State Teachers College, now the University of Ne-braska at Kearney, and this association led to her teaching courses in their art department.

In 1968 the Mitchells moved to Omaha and Mary returned to fashion illustration full time, working for the Nebraska Clothing Company for what she described as “four fabulous years.” After striking out on her own as a freelance illustrator, Mary continued to refine her fashion illustration skills with clients including Topp’s, Goldstein Chapman, Herzberg’s, Zoob’s, Parsow’s and Wolf Broth-ers. Her career flourished during a period when fashion illustration’s role was critical to successful commerce in everything from haute couture to ready-to-wear, and when Omaha’s fashion merchants helped to define the meaning of style in the heartland.

In the 1960s and ’70s, pages of the fashion press were filled with drawn images that captured the energy of the industry at its peak. That period of dynamic social and cultural change impacted fashion but was in turn affected by it. This is one of the critical dimensions of fashion in general: it is inseparable from the age that spawns it, and it serves inevitably as a barometer of that age’s tendencies and unique character. In “Drawn to Fashion: the Illustrations of Mary Mitchell,” the post-War period of American afflu-ence and exceptionalism comes convincingly to life.

The Mary Mitchell Fashion Studio in the Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design is dedicated to a fashion illustrator that celebrated designer Oscar de la Renta called “a true artist, elegant and masterful.” It also honors the generosity of both Mary and John Mitchell who, through the University of Nebraska Foundation, en-dowed the Mary Mitchell Fashion Illustration Scholarship Fund and the Mary Mitchell Fashion Excellence Fund, and helped to underwrite the costs of the 2012 renovation of this primary apparel studio. Just as Mary’s mother’s gift contributed to her education and to what Mary describes as a “rich and fulfilling” career, so the Mitchells’ gifts will, for generations of students to come, help them to success-fully pursue and to ultimately realize their professional dreams.

Late last spring works by four student designers were selected by a panel of four jurors in the first round of awards from the Mary Mitchell Fashion Excellence Fund. The jurors included TMFD Professor Emeritus Robert Hillestad, Tomboy Inc. creative director and designer Laura McGrew of Kansas City, former Harper’s Bazaar writer Jenna Gabriel Gallagher of Omaha, and TMFD fashion design alumna Sabrina Jones. Abby George was honored with the Mary Mitchell Fashion Award Best of Show of $1000 for her ensemble “Matisse;” Julia Wang won the Mary Mitchell Fashion Award of Distinction of $500 for “Structured Contours;” Crystal Hobson earned the Mary Mitchell Fashion Award Honorable Mention of $250 for “A Bit Like Clockwork;” and Yang Yu received a second Mary Mitchell Fashion Award Honorable Mention of $250 for “Circles.”

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Students work on projects in TMFD class in newly renovated Mary Mitchell Fashion Studio.

Mary Mitchell congratulates student award winners.

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Department of Textiles,

Merchandising and Fashion Design Celebrates Gift

By Carole WilbeckDon Cox, B.S. ’59 and M.S. ELEC ’60, gets the wheels turn-

ing for students in the UNL class he teaches, ELEC 498/898, Sec. 004 – Electric Vehicles. On Wednesday afternoons, the learning shifts from a Nebraska Hall classroom to a nearby parking lot, where Cox’s sleek, “radiant red” Tesla Roadster awaits.

After initial oohs and ahhs, tours begin at the trunk – where the car’s batteries, power electronics and motor reside. Then, if they wish, students take turns driving the car. After a five-minute loop around campus, drivers return with what Cox calls “the Tesla smile.” EE senior Kathleen Gegner described driving the roadster as “fun and fast,” with a surprisingly quiet operating noise. The sportscar feel continues in the vehicle’s responsiveness: “It just takes off,” said Gegner.

This battery electric vehicle can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 3.9 seconds (quicker than most gasoline-fueled sports cars), Cox said, though its top speed is computer-limited to 125 mph.

Cox happily offers demos of the car and answers questions, feeling that each positive encounter fuels future electric vehicle ownership. His car, number 60 off the production line in 2008, cost $100,000 origi-nally. Tesla Motors discontinued manufacturing of the two-seat roadsters in favor of sedans (its Model S was recently named Motor-Trend magazine’s Car of the Year for 2013), still aimed at the luxury buyer but with wider consumer appeal.

Learning about electric vehicles has become Cox’s new avoca-tion, since he retired in 2012 from an active career in mobile communications, which included work as an executive director and division manager of radio research at Bellcore; as a depart-ment head, supervisor and member of Bell Laboratories’ technical staff; and as a U.S. Air Force R&D officer. Most recently he shared

that expertise to teach engineering courses and supervise graduate research at Stanford University, where he had earned his Ph.D., but it was one of Cox’s sons who showed him the important possibilities of battery electric vehicles.

Transportation accounts for nearly one third of American energy use and greenhouse gas emissions and three-quarters of American oil consumption with crucial impacts on climate, air pollution, resource depletion and national security, said Cox, who advocates battery electric vehicles as a viable way to help address those challenges.

Cox has been a member of the UNL Department of Electri-cal Engineering’s Advisory Board and, when he and his wife moved

back to Nebraska from California’s Bay Area, he met with Prof. Jerry Hudgins, depart-ment chair (who drives a Nissan Leaf electric vehicle), and began shaping this course. The syllabus includes an introduction to past and present electric vehicles and their evolu-tion, plus deeper study of the most promising alterna-

tive: battery electric vehicles. Class sessions delve into BEV issues including electric motors, power electronics, drive trains and battery materials.

To the most common carside query – “How far can it go on a single charge?” – comes Cox’s frequent response: “It depends.” Road surface, vehicle speed and wind conditions – especially in Nebraska – are key factors, but he said when the car is fully-charged (which takes three hours using the 240-volt outlet in Cox’s garage), the car typically goes 200 miles at 65 mph.

EE senior Marques King said he’s enjoying Cox’s course: “It’s interesting and relevant,” and adds to the strength of the power electronics program at Nebraska Engineering.

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College of Engineering

Electrical Engineering Alumnus Drives Sustainability in UNL Course

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Tesla Co-founder Martin Eberhard Visits Nebraska Engineering

A radiant red Tesla Roadster in the

parking lot of Nebraska Hall has earned

admiration for its sleek sportscar lines

and sustainability. The car belongs to

Don Cox (in photo at left, standing,

fourth from right, in gray sportcoat), who

returned to Nebraska after retiring from

an active career in mobile communica-

tions (and most recently, teaching at

Stanford University, where he earned his

Ph.D.).

Last fall, Cox taught a course on

electric vehicles for UNL Electrical Engi-

neering, including field trips for students

to test drive the car. Best of all, Cox

brought Martin Eberhard (fourth from

left), his friend and co-founder of Tesla

Motors, to speak at Nebraska Engineer-

ing. Eberhard, with degrees in computer

and electrical engineering, wowed the

crowd by answering a variety of ques-

tions about engineering and startups.

By Kathe AndersenHannah Potter, a senior art major from Lincoln, spent

six weeks in Nepal last summer with the Tiny Hands Inter-national Summer Vision Team, on a trip that has changed her life.

“It was just a really growing and life-changing experi-ence,” Potter said. “I feel like it has confirmed and shaped what I’ll look for in the future, in terms of how to incorpo-rate the things I’m passionate and excited about.”

Tiny Hands International is a Christian non-profit focused on fighting sex trafficking and work-ing with orphans in South Asia. Potter learned about the organiza-tion after working on a project for them in an advertising class dur-ing her junior year. The organiza-tion estimates that 10,000-15,000 girls are trafficked from Nepal to India every year.

“Once you hear about it, you can’t not do something,” Potter said.

She heard about the organiza-tion’s summer trips and decided to apply. Eighty to 100 people from around the country apply each year, and nine were selected this past summer on her team.

“I just think there’s some-thing intrinsic when someone’s identity is taken away, Potter said. “These are not things that are personal choices. When you see that brokenness or injustice, there’s just a desire for that to be set right.”

Potter arrived in Nepal on July 25. The first three weeks were spent learning about the country and the issues firsthand. Based in Kathmandu, the team visited culturally relevant sites and nine children’s homes and also went to one of the monitoring stations on the Nepal-India border, which included a visit to a safe house. The station had intercepted 73 girls in the previous 30 days.

“When we first got into the taxi, it was like, ‘Oh my goodness,’” Potter said. “It was just pretty chaotic. At first, it was a lot to take in, especially when you have street ven-dors coming up to talk to you or you have street kids who ask for money or beggars on the street. … Everything is so overwhelming …”

Potter spent three weeks working on her own project when participants were prompted to pick an aspect of Tiny Hands’ work in which to immerse themselves. She became interested in learning more about the education system in Nepal, which focuses on rote memorization instead of critical thinking, including in the teaching of art. Potter wanted to incorporate a more creative approach to art in the schools.

“Most of the art they do in the classrooms is just copy-

ing exactly something like a Disney coloring sheet. And they can copy them very well, but for them to come up with something on their own has a lot more potential to stimulate creativity,” she said.

So Potter helped students create a mural at one of the children’s homes in Kathmandu. She purchased two large wooden boards and painted a brightly colored Nepali landscape.

“Then, I did an art activity with the kids where I cut different shapes of birds out of a construction paper card-stock,” Potter said. “And we did a lesson that talked about pattern and different types of pattern.”

The children created patterns to decorate their birds and make them their own. Potter then laminated the birds and hung them from the top of the mural so they floated over the painted landscape.

“I had taken the Art in the Community class [at UNL] before I went, and Professor Sandra Williams and I talked a lot about how a lot of times with kids, their sense of art is a piece of paper that might get thrown away, might get stuck up on the refrigerator for a little bit, but then stuck in a folder somewhere,” Potter said. “But for them to see their work in a more permanent setting that’s going to be on display for anyone who comes to the house, I think that developing that sense of stability was a good step in

that direction. “The kids were just really

enthusiastic and really willing to engage with it,” Potter said. “Probably delivering the mural and getting to work with the kids to each hang their bird on the top of this mural, it was probably one of my top-five life moments. Just to see them engaged with it was even more than I had expected.”

Williams was pleased that Potter received a Hixson-Lied Study Abroad Support Grant to help her make the trip to Nepal.

“Art in the Community students are introduced to grant writing, and we were able to help Hannah support her scholarly and creative research by advising and mentoring her through the

grant writing procedure,” Williams said. “This type of trans-disciplinary research that involves study across the humani-ties showcases the exemplary work that our students do.”

Potter said she learned a lot from this experience.“It was rewarding for me, even just to realize my own

limitations and my own brokenness as well,” she said. “It’s easy to … say, ‘Look at all the things that are wrong with Nepal,’ but to realize there is brokenness in my own life – it might look different but that root is still the same. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have the chance or ability to respond – even if it’s just a mural. That’s not necessarily going to dramatically change the entirety of Nepal, but I do have the ability to do the small things.”

Hannah Potter (back row, left) and the children from One Way Children’s Home in Nepal show off the birds they created for the mural project.

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College of Journalism and Mass Communications

Journalism Students Place in Hearst Competition

By Marilyn Hahn, ’88, ’00Three University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism students are

the latest winners in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program, often called the Pulitzer Prizes of college journalism.

Faiz Siddiqui of Cincinnati placed third in the feature writing-competition. Anna Reed of Omaha placed fourth in the first of two photojournalism competitions. And Lanny Holstein

finished fourth in the radio broadcast news competition.Siddiqui received

a $1,500 award. Reed and Holstein received $1,000 awards. The UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications will receive matching grants.

Siddiqui’s win-ning work, headlined “War-torn veterans, their dreams, and a yoga instructor,” was one of 143 entries in the feature-writing competition. It can be found through this link to the Lincoln Journal Star website, http://go.unl.edu/cxo. Reed’s winning photos, in addition to those on this page, can be viewed on the college’s website, http://journalism.unl.edu/anna-reeds-winning-photos. Holstein’s winning news reports – “Do Political Debates Matter?” and “Where’s the Youth Vote?” – both of which aired on the college’s student-run radio station, 90.3 KRNU, can be heard at http://go.unl.edu/60g and http://go.unl.edu/q9w.

Siddiqui writes political columns for the student-run NextGen Journal (nextgenjournal.com); blogs for Harumph!, the blog of archaic interjections; and articles for Complex Magazine (complex.com). He is completing a yearlong reporting internship with the Lincoln Journal Star. Siddiqui holds one of the college’s Harold and

Marian Andersen Scholarships and expects to graduate in 2015.Reed is a junior photojournalism student. She most recently

worked as an Omaha World-Herald fellow and has held internships with the Northeast Nebraska News Co., the Lincoln Journal Star and the Daily Nebraskan. Reed holds the Susan Buffett Scholar-ship, Peter Kiewit Legacy Scholarship, Dr. and Mrs. J.F. Daly Journalism Memorial Fund Scholarship and Canfield Scholarship. She has worked on in-depth photojournalism projects in western

Nebraska and Kyrgyz-stan. Reed traveled to Brazil in December for her third pho-tojournalism study abroad course.

Holstein, a junior broadcasting major, is a native Nebraskan who grew up in Sid-ney and attended high

school in Omaha (Millard North). At UNL, Holstein is active as a member of the student newspaper, the Daily Nebraskan, and the student radio station, KRNU. He is interested in sports journalism and broadcasting, covering the Huskers for the paper and doing a sports talk radio show during the week. Holstein will add duties as a producer for a local radio station this spring. In his spare time, he enjoys playing the guitar and listening to classic rock.

The Hearst program is in its 53rd year. Students from 106 universities with accredited undergraduate journalism programs are eligible to participate in the Hearst competitions. Sponsored by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, it consists of five monthly writing competitions, two photojournalism competitions, three broadcast news competitions and four multimedia competitions with championship finals in all divisions.

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Anna Reed’s Award-Winning Photos: (Left) Clouds of colored cornstarch covered the crowd during the “final throw” at the Color Me Rad 5K race in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in July. (Right) Nebraska’s Kale Kaiser made a diving catch in the Purdue vs. Nebraska baseball game April 22, 2012, at Haymarket Park. This photo was picked up nationally.

College of Journalism and Mass Communications

Journalism Students Place in Hearst Competition

College Media MattersBlogTagsCoJMC in Top 50

A journalism industry blog places

the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s

College of Journalism and Mass Com-

munications on its 2013 list of the top

50 undergraduate journalism schools or

programs in the United States.

Dan Reimold of College Media

Matters said the list emphasizes digital

programs and practical experience.

“It is strongly biased in favor of

programs exciting me in the digital jour-

nalism realm,” Reimold said, “and in

some way aligned with quality campus

media and professional publishing op-

portunities.”

The UNL J School is the only

journalism program in Nebraska to be

accredited by the Accrediting Council

on Education in Journalism and Mass

Communications (ACEJMC).

Reimold said the programs that

have received ACEJMC accreditation

may be an imperfect but highly valuable

metric for ensuring quality – or they

must be housed within an accredited

school or college.

AEJMC has accredited 109 journal-

ism schools or programs across the

country. Nine standards must be met to

receive accreditation by the ACEJMC:

mission, governance and administra-

tion; curriculum and instruction; diver-

sity and inclusiveness; full-time and

part-time faculty; scholarship: research,

creative and professional activity;

student services; resources, facilities

and equipment; professional and public

service; and assessment of learning

outcomes.

College Media Matters is a web-

based resource for news and commen-

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Students Win National Championship in Client Counseling

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By Jacob Zlomke, ’13Nebraska Law students Audrey Johnson, ’12, and

Christine Baughman, ’12, won the 2012 National Client Counseling Competition and represented the United States at the Brown/Mosten International Client Consultation Competition in Dublin, Ireland. The team was coached by Professors Alan Frank and Craig Lawson.

In the client counseling competition, teams of two law students perform mock interviews with a client, portrayed by an actor, before a panel of three judges from the legal and counseling professions. The client comes to the team with a legal problem relating to the area of law chosen for that specific competition. Usually the given area of law is very broad, like education law or employment law.

Before the client meets with the teams, the teams re-ceive a brief statement of what the client’s concerns might be. “Normally these are very vague,” said Johnson. “They’re coming in to see you because they have a question about their boss or something equally ambiguous.” From there, Johnson said, she and Baughman would try to anticipate what help the client might need.

Once the client enters the interview room, the team is judged on a range of criteria including “establishing an effective relationship with [the] client,” “analyzing the client’s problem,” “working as a team” and “post interview reflection,” a time after the client leaves the room during which the team discusses in front of the judges the client’s problem and possible strategies and solutions.

In the competition, each team does three of these interviews and the top teams move on to the semi-final and final rounds.

The partnership between Johnson and Baughman worked exceedingly well from the start, and their record only improved with time. In the spring 2011 semester, the duo won the school-wide competition and the American Bar Association regional competition, and finished ninth in the ABA national competition during their second year of law school.

The following year as 3Ls, they won the school com-petition again – making them the first team to win the Law College competition two years in a row. They went on to win the ABA regional competition for the second straight year. The Law College’s other regional team of Trevin Preble, ’13, and Andy Hanquist, ’13, finished second in the regional. It was the first time that Law College teams had placed first and second in a regional.

Baughman and Johnson’s regional triumph enabled them to return to the national competition. This time they would emerge with the national title and a trip to Dublin to compete at the international level, where they finished in the top half among teams representing 22 different na-tions.

Competing at any level, Baughman said, begins weeks before the team sits down with its first client. The area of law for each competition is released a few weeks prior to the competition and preparation begins immediately.

For school-winning teams like Johnson and Baugh-man, each level of competition involved about six practice interviews, as well as an hour or so of discussion after each interview during which they and their coaches would analyze the team’s strong and weak points. Johnson said that for each competition Frank and Lawson would bring in attorneys from the community to help them understand the competition’s area of law and to help think through the interview problems.

The hard work certainly paid off, and Baughman said winning the national competition last March might have

been the high point in her experience. “Competing in the final round of the national compe-

tition in North Carolina was incredibly exciting,” she said. “We knew we were one of three teams that could win and go to Ireland. Once we won, it took a little while to sink in, but it was awesome to think that on St. Patrick’s Day we won a trip to Ireland.”

For Johnson, who hadn’t been to Europe before, the Dublin experience stands as the most exciting point of the competitions.

“The best part about the international competition was meeting other law students from around the world,” Johnson said, “I found that to be very valuable – to learn more about how their legal systems work and just to learn more about their countries in general. They have their own styles in terms of what a client interview looks like.”

Johnson and Baughman graduated in May 2012. Johnson now works as an associate attorney for a Lincoln law firm, while Baughman recently began her position as assistant director of admissions for the Law College.

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Spring 2013 Husker Athletics Schedules

* Indicates conference game/meet; home games in RED. Photos courtesy of Nebraska Media Relations. bAsebALLFeb. 17 USC at Los Angeles, Calif., 4 p.m. Feb. 22 Texas at Austin, Texas, 7 p.m. Feb. 23 Texas at Austin, Texas, 1 p.m. Feb. 24 Texas at Austin, Texas, NoonMarch 01 New Mexico, Hawks Field, 2:05 p.m. March 02 New Mexico, Hawks Field, 2:05 p.m.March 03 New Mexico, Hawks Field, 1:05 p.m.March 05 Northern Colorado, Hawks Field, 1:35 p.m. March 06 Northern Colorado, Hawks Field, 1:35 p.m. March 08 Louisiana Tech at Ruston, La., 6 p.m. March 09 Louisiana Tech at Ruston, La., 3 p.m. March 10 Louisiana Tech at Ruston, La., 10 a.m. March 15 UC Irvine at Irvine, Calif., 8:30 p.m. March 16 UC Irvine at Irvine, Calif., 3 p.m. March 17 UC Irvine at Irvine, Calif., 3 p.m. March 19 Cal State Fullerton at Fullerton, Calif., 8 p.m. March 20 Cal State Fullerton at Fullerton, Calif., 8 p.m. March 22 Illinois* at Champaign, Ill., 4:05 p.m. March 23 Illinois* at Champaign, Ill., 3:05 p.m. March 24 Illinois* at Champaign, Ill., 1:05 p.m. March 26 Kansas State at Manhattan, Kan., 6:30 p.m. March 29 Northwestern* Hawks Field, 6:35 p.m. March 30 Northwestern* Hawks Field, 2:05 p.m. March 31 Northwestern* Hawks Field, 1:05 p.m. April 02 Kansas State at Manhattan, Kan., 6:30 p.m.April 05 Iowa* at Iowa City, Iowa, 6:05 p.m. April 06 Iowa* at Iowa City, Iowa, 1:05 p.m.April 07 Iowa* at Iowa City, Iowa, 1:05 p.m.April 09 Creighton, Hawks Field, 6:35 p.m. April 12 Ohio State* Hawks Field, 6:35 p.m.April 13 Ohio State* Hawks Field, 2:05 p.m.April 14 Ohio State* Hawks Field, 1:05 p.m.April 16 Arkansas, Hawks Field, 6:35 p.m. April 17 Arkansas, Hawks Field, 1:35 p.m. April 19 Purdue* at West Lafayette, Ind., 6 p.m.April 20 Purdue* at West Lafayette, Ind., 6 p.m.April 21 Purdue* at West Lafayette, Ind., 11 a.m. April 23 Kansas State, Hawks Field, 6:35 p.m.April 26 Creighton at Omaha, Neb., 6:30 p.m. April 27 Oklahoma State at Omaha, Neb., 11 a.m. April 27 Oklahoma State at Omaha, Neb., 3 p.m. April 28 Rutgers at Omaha, Neb., 1 p.m. May 04 Indiana* Hawks Field, 2:05 p.m. May 05 Indiana* Hawks Field, 1:05 p.m. May 06 Indiana* Hawks Field, 12:05 p.m. May 10 Minnesota* at Minneapolis, Minn., 6:35 p.m. May 11 Minnesota* at Minneapolis, Minn., 2:05 p.m. May 12 Minnesota* at Minneapolis, Minn., 1:05 p.m. May 14 Creighton at Omaha, Neb., 7 p.m. May 16 Michigan* Hawks Field, 6:35 p.m. May 17 Michigan* Hawks Field, 6:35 p.m. May 18 Michigan* Hawks Field, 1:05 p.m. May 22 - 26 Big Ten Tournament at Minneapolis, Minn., TBA May 31 - June 3 NCAA Regionals at Campus Sites, TBA June 7 - 10 NCAA Super Regionals at Campus Sites, TBA June 15 - 26 College World Series at Omaha, Neb., TBA

boWLiNgMarch 01 - 03 Greater Ozark Invitational at Kansas City, Mo., TBA March 15 - 17 Music City Classic at Nashville, Tenn., TBA April 11 - 13 NCAA Championships at Canton, Mich.

FootbALL - spring gameApril 6, Memorial Stadium, TBA

MeN’s goLFFeb. 22 - 24 Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate at Palm Desert, Calif. March 11 - 12 Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate at Aiken, S.C. March 21 - 23 Denver Desert Shootout at Goodyear, Ariz. April 01 - 02 ASU Red Wolf Intercollegiate at Jonesboro, Ark. April 13 - 14 Hawkeye-Great River Entertainment Invitational at Iowa City, IowaApril 26 - 28 Big Ten Championships* at French Lick, Ind. May 16 - 18 NCAA Regionals at TBA May 28 - June 02 NCAA Championships at Atlanta, Ga.

WoMeN’s goLFFeb. 24 - 25 Westbrook Invitational at Peoria, Ariz., 9:30 a.m.March 08 - 10 Clover Cup at Mesa, Ariz., 9:30 a.m.April 05 - 07 SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational at Dallas, Texas, 8:30 a.m.

April 26 - 28 Big Ten Championships at French Lick, Ind., 8 a.m. May 09 - 11 NCAA Regionals at Auburn, Ala.; Norman, Okla.; Stanford, Calif., TBAMay 21 - 24 NCAA Championships at Athens, Ga., 8 a.m.

MeN’s gyMNAstiCsFeb. 23 Iowa* at Iowa City, Iowa, 5 p.m. March 03 Oklahoma, Devaney Center, 1 p.m.March 16 Iowa/Minnesota* Devaney Center, 7 p.m. March 23 Illinois* at Champaign, Ill., 4 p.m.April 05 - 06 Big Ten Championships at Minneapolis, Minn., 7 p.m. April 18 - 19 NCAA Championships at Penn Station, Pa., TBA July 08 USAG National Championship Qualifier, TBA Aug. 14 USAG Visa Championships, TBA

WoMeN’s gyMNAstiCsFeb. 16 Arizona at Tucson, Ariz., 5 p.m. Feb. 22 Boise State, Iowa State, Devaney Center, 6 p.m. March 04 Iowa* Devaney Center, 6 p.m. March 09 Minnesota, Arkansas, Centenary at Minneapolis, Minn., 6 p.m.March 16 California at Berkeley, Calif., 9 p.m.March 23 Big Ten Championships* at East Lansing, Mich., TBA April 06 NCAA Regionals at TBA April 19 Semifinals at Los Angeles, Calif., TBAApril 20 Super Six Team Finals at Los AngelesApril 21 Individual Event Finals at Los Angeles

soFtbALLFeb. 15 Southern Utah at Tucson, Ariz., 1 a.m.Feb. 15 Arizona at Tucson, Ariz., 5 p.m. Feb. 16 Utah State at Tucson, Ariz., 10 a.m.Feb. 16 Drake at Tucson, Ariz., 2 p.m. Feb. 17 Purdue at Tucson, Ariz., Noon Feb. 22 Oklahoma at Cathedral City, Calif. (Fenway), 8 p.m. Feb. 22 Maryland at Cathedral City, Calif. (Fenway), 10:30 p.m. Feb. 23 Oregon at Cathedral City, Calif. (Yankee), 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24 Florida State at Cathedral City, Calif. (Fenway), 11 a.m.Feb. 24 California at Cathedral City, Calif. (Fenway), 1:30 p.m. Mar 01 Oklahoma at Norman, Okla., 6 p.m.March 02 Oklahoma State at Oklahoma City, Okla., 11 a.m.March 02 Oklahoma at Oklahoma City, Okla., 4 p.m.March 03 Oklahoma State at Stillwater, Okla., Noon March 09 Wichita State (Game 1) at Wichita, Kan., 2 p.m. March 09 Wichita State (Game 2) at Wichita, Kan., 4 p.m. March 10 Wichita State at Wichita, Kan., 1 p.m.March 12 UNO at Omaha, Neb., 5 p.m. March 15 New Mexico State, Bowlin Stadium, 6 p.m. March 16 New Mexico State (Game 1) Bowlin Stadium, 1 p.m. March 16 New Mexico State (Game 2) Bowlin Stadium, 3:30 p.m.March 19 UNO, Bowlin Stadium, 5 p.m. March 20 North Dakota State (Game 1) Bowlin Stadium, 2 p.m. March 20 North Dakota State (Game 2) Bowlin Stadium, 4:30 p.m.March 22 Northwestern* Bowlin Stadium, 6 p.m.March 23 Northwestern* Bowlin Stadium, 2 p.m. March 24 Northwestern* Bowlin Stadium, Noon March 29 Illinois* at Urbana, Ill., 6 p.m. March 30 Illinois* at Urbana, Ill., 2 p.m. March 31 Illinois* at Urbana, Ill., Noon April 03 Creighton at Omaha, Neb., 6 p.m. April 05 Iowa* at Iowa City, Iowa, 6:30 p.m. April 06 Iowa* at Iowa City, Iowa, 5 p.m. April 07 Iowa* at Iowa City, Iowa, 1 p.m. April 10 Minnesota (Game 1)* Bowlin Stadium, 4 p.m. April 10 Minnesota (Game 2)* Bowlin Stadium, 6 p.m. April 12 Wisconsin* Bowlin Stadium, 6 p.m. April 13 Wisconsin* Bowlin Stadium, 1 p.m. April 14 Wisconsin* Bowlin Stadium, Noon April 17 Kansas, Bowlin Stadium, 6 p.m. April 19 Purdue* at West Lafayette, Ind., 3 p.m. April 20 Purdue* at West Lafayette, Ind., Noon April 21 Purdue* at West Lafayette, Ind., 10 a.m. April 24 Creighton, Bowlin Stadium, 6 p.m. April 26 Michigan* Bowlin Stadium, 6 p.m.April 27 Michigan* Bowlin Stadium, 1 p.m.April 28 Michigan* Bowlin Stadium, NoonMay 04 Penn State* at State College, Pa., 1 p.m.May 05 Penn State* at State College, Pa., NoonMay 06 Penn State* at State College, Pa., NoonMay 09 - 12 Big Ten Tournament, Bowlin Stadium

tRACk ANd FieLdFeb. 22 - 23 Big Ten Indoor Championships at Geneva, OhioMarch 02 Iowa State NCAA Qualifier at Ames, Iowa, 10 a.m.March 08 - 09 NCAA Indoor Championships at Fayetteville, Ark., TBAMarch 22 - 23 Arizona State Invitational at Tempe, Ariz.March 30 Arkansas Spring Invitational at Fayetteville, Ark.April 06 Crimson Tide Invite at Tuscaloosa, Ala. April 13 Nebraska Quad, Ed Weir StadiumApril 17 - 20 Kansas Relays at Lawrence, Kan.April 17 - 20 Mt. SAC Relays at Walnut, Calif.April 24 Pre-Drake, Ed Weir StadiumApril 25 - 27 Drake Relays at Des Moines, IowaApril 25 - 27 Penn Relays at Philadelphia, Pa.April 25 - 27 Triton Invitational at San Diego, Calif.May 04 Nebraska Invitational, Ed Weir StadiumMay 10 - 12 Big Ten Outdoor Championships at Columbus, OhioMay 23 - 25 NCAA Championships Preliminary Round at Austin, TexasJune 05 - 08 NCAA Championships Final Round at Eugene, Ore.

MeN’s teNNisFeb. 16 East Tennessee State at Johnson City, Tenn., 10 a.m. Feb. 16 Georgia State at Johnson City, Tenn., 3 p.m. Feb. 25 Wichita State, Nebraska Tennis Center, 2:30 p.m. March 02 Denver at Denver, Colo., Noon March 09 Northwestern* at Evanston, Ill., Noon March 15 - 17 Blue-Gray National Tennis Classic at Montgomery, Ala., TBAMarch 23 Illinois* at Champaign, Ill., 3 p.m.March 29 Ohio State* Lincoln, Neb., 3 p.m.March 31 Penn State* Lincoln, Neb., NoonApril 03 Iowa* Lincoln, Neb., 2:30 p.m. April 06 Purdue* at West Lafayette, Ind., 2 p.m.April 07 Indiana* at Bloomington, Ind., NoonApril 12 Michigan* Lincoln, Neb., 4 p.m. April 14 Michigan State* Lincoln, Neb., NoonApril 19 Minnesota* Lincoln, Neb., 3 p.m.April 21 Wisconsin* at Madison, Noon April 25 - 28 Big Ten Tournament* at Columbus, OhioMay 12 NCAA at TBA

WoMeN’s teNNisFeb. 16 Illinois State vs. Colorado State, Nebraska Tennis Center, 11 a.m.Feb. 17 Colorado State, Nebraska Tennis Center, 11 a.m. Feb. 22 UALR, Nebraska Tennis Center, 4 p.m. Feb. 23 UALR vs. Wyoming at Nebraska Tennis Center, 11 a.m.Feb. 24 Wyoming, Nebraska Tennis Center, 11 a.m. March 02 Kansas State, Nebraska Tennis Center, 1 p.m. March 05 Iowa* at Iowa City, Iowa, 3:30 p.m. March 08 Illinois* Nebraska Tennis Center, 5 p.m. March 10 Northwestern* Nebraska Tennis Center, Noon March 17 San Diego at San Diego, Calif., Noon March 21 Oklahoma State at San Diego, Calif., 5 p.m.March 31 Penn State* at State College, Pa., 11 a.m. April 05 Purdue* Vine Street Courts, 3 p.m. April 07 Indiana* Vine Street Courts, 11 a.m. April 13 Michigan* at Ann Arbor, Mich., 11 a.m. April 14 Michigan State* at East Lansing, Mich., NoonApril 19 Minnesota* at Minneapolis, Minn., 2 p.m.April 21 Wisconsin* Vine Street Courts (weather permitting), 11 a.m.April 25 - 28 Big Ten Championships at Bloomington, Ind., TBAMay 10 - 12 NCAA Tournament First & Second Rounds at 16 Campus Sites (TBA)May 17 - 27 NCAA Championships at Champaign-Urbana, Ill., TBA

sANd VoLLeybALLNebraska is also competing in sand volleyball — our 24th and newest intercollegiate sport — this spring.March 14 Florida State at Chula Vista, Calif.March 15 Chula Vista Tournament at Chula Vista, Calif.March 16 Chula Vista Tournament at Chula Vista, Calif.March 17 Grand Canyon at Chula Vista, Calif.March 19 Long Beach State at Long Beach, Calif.March 21 UCLA at Santa Monica, Calif.March 22 USC at Los Angeles, Calif.

sPRiNg VoLLeybALLMarch 30 South DakotaApril 6 Iowa StateApril 12 CreightonApril 20 at Wichita State

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between academics and athletics – an idea that was buried deep in his heart when he returned to Nebraska to teach a leadership class in UNL’s College of Business Administration. Nearly six years later, Osborne is nurturing an idea whose time has come, an idea in which he’s invested heavily to see it through.

“Tom Osborne has been such a great leader for all of us – in athletics and academics,” Paul said. “He listens to our faculty and has brought them on board with objectives and goals they all believe in. We’ve already learned so much from him collectively, and we’re excited to continue working with him and Shawn Eichorst col-laboratively. Like Tom, Shawn listens and learns and leads. They’re both interested in the same thing – getting things done and getting them done right. It’s going to be a great partnership.”

After spending a considerable amount of time in the athletic department in the last year, Molfese gets pumped just thinking about the challenge facing him and his entire team. “We’re all ready to go out and kick some serious neuro-butt,” he said.

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