University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Seal of the University of Nebraska
Motto	Literis Dedicata et Omnibus Artibus (Latin:Dedicated to Letters and All the Arts)
Type	Public Land Grant University
Established	1869
Endowment	US $1.15 billion (systemwide)
Chancellor	Harvey Perlman, J.D.
Academic staff	1,452
Students	21,792
Undergraduates	17,137
Postgraduates	4,655
Location	Lincoln , Nebraska , USA
Campus	Urban 613 acres (2.5 km²) main campuses 42,562 acres (172.2 km²) total throughout state
Colors	Scarlet and Cream
Nickname	File:University-of-Nebraska-Lincoln-logo.png Cornhuskers
Affiliations	Big 12, AAU
Mascot	Herbie Husker and Lil' Red
Website	www.unl.edu
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The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often called UNL, but also known as Nebraska or NU, is the flagship institution of the University of Nebraska system. UNL was founded in 1869 as a land-grant university under the provisions of the Morrill Act. It is located in Lincoln a few blocks north of the Nebraska State Capitol. The University has two campuses: City Campus, which is the university's main campus, and East Campus, which was originally purchased for use as the university farm. The University is a founding member of the Association of American Universities and is listed as a Carnegie Research I institution.

Academics

The J.D. Edwards Honors Program is an honors program at UNL that focuses on students specializing in the integration of both computer science and business management. The goal is to train the next generation of business leaders.

Academic divisions

The university offers over 140 undergraduate majors and 275 programs of study through ten colleges:

• College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
• College of Architecture
• College of Arts and Sciences
• College of Business Administration
• College of Education and Human Sciences
• College of Engineering and Technology
• Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts
• Graduate Studies
• College of Journalism and Mass Communications
• College of Law

UNL also offers programs at its campus from other University of Nebraska institutions, including the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Public Affairs and Community Service, the University of Nebraska Medical Center colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, and the Peter Kiewit Institute managed in partnership with the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Campus

Hamilton Hall

In 1869, the original University of Nebraska campus was laid out on four city blocks and comprised one building called University Hall. Currently, the university has two campuses, totaling 613 acres: City Campus, which is just north of downtown Lincoln, and south of the Nebraska State Fair grounds, and East Campus, which is approximately two miles northeast of City Campus.

Unions

Nebraska City Union is the student union located on the southern part of City Campus. Many services are offered to the students including dining, computer labs, and other recreational activities, while the lower level of the union houses the University Bookstore. The City Union also provides space for student organizations as well as holding offices for the Daily Nebraskan and the student government. The Rotunda Gallery showcases various student artwork. In spring 2006, the student body voted to finance an expansion to the City Union including adding new space for the university Culture Center (formerly in a different building).

Nebraska East Union is located on East Campus and offers similar student services as the City Union. The Loft Gallery provides space for community and student artwork.

• Nebraska Unions

University libraries

The UNL University Libraries are the only set of comprehensive research libraries in Nebraska. 2.6 million volumes reside in UNL's two main libraries. The Don L. Love Memorial Library is the main library on campus and houses collections on social sciences and humanities. Other academic disciplines are housed in six branch locations on campus:

• Architecture Library
• C.Y. Thompson Library
• Engineering Library
• Geology Library
• Mathematics Library
• Music Library

The Marvin and Virginia Schmid Law Library serves the UNL College of Law.

• UNL Libraries

Museums

• The University of Nebraska State Museum is located on campus in Morrill Hall. The museum holds several collections and exhibits particularly featuring natural history and famously houses mastadon bone fossils. Because of these fossils, and a large bronze mastadon statue located in front of the building, it is popularly known as "Elephant Hall". UNL State Museum
• The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden is home to more than 12,000 works of art in all media and is a comprehensive collection of American art with prominent holdings in 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, pop, minimalism, and contemporary art. The gallery contains works by such well known artists as Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Mary Cassatt, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Sheldon Gallery
• The Great Plains Art Museum is home to the Chistlieb Collection which features American western art and Americana. Great Plains Art Museum

Performing arts venues

• The Lied Center for Performing Arts is a performing arts venue used primarily for orchestra concerts and theatre performances.
• The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center is a two screen theater located on the UNL City Campus. It features primarily arthouse and independent films, and documentaries.
• The Howell Theatre and Studio Theatre are home to the performances of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film.

Other points of interest

• University of Nebraska Press has a strong program for publishing original works and reprints of significant works about the West. The "Bison Books" imprint is a series of high quality trade paperback editions of significant titles.
• The International Quilt Study Center is on East Campus.
• The Maxwell Arboretum located on East Campus is part of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum.

Athletics

Memorial Stadium

Main article: Nebraska Cornhuskers

The school's sports teams are named the Nebraska Cornhuskers (or simply the Huskers). They compete in NCAA Division I (I-A for football) as members of the northern division of the Big 12 Conference. The Huskers have 21 varsity teams that compete in 14 different sports and claim all or part of 23 National Championships across 5 sports, most notably Volleyball, Football, and Gymnastics.

Student life

About 78% of UNL students are from Nebraska. The rest are from all fifty states and 114 foreign countries. Approximately 40% of the student body lives on-campus in 14 traditional residence halls, and two on-campus apartment style halls. On-campus students are also members of the UNL Residence Hall Association, which serves as the governing body for the residence halls. UNL also has a significant Greek population, with about 5,200 students living in 17 fraternity houses, and 14 sorority houses. Select senior honoraries include the Nebraska-only Society of Innocents and the Black Masque chapter of Mortar Board.

• University Housing
• Greek Affairs

Media

The Daily Nebraskan, known to students as the DN, is UNL's student newspaper. It was established in 1901 and is published every weekday during the fall and spring semesters and weekly during the summer.

• Daily Nebraskan

UNL operates a Class A FM radio station, KRNU, which broadcasts on 90.3 FM and has a range of approximately 20 miles. The station plays mostly alternative and modern rock as well as running sportscasts of Nebraska's home events, news, live public affairs broadcasts of campus speakers and forums.

• KRNU

Student government

The governing body for UNL students is the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, or ASUN. Every year students vote for a president, two vice presidents, and a senate that is composed of representatives from each college. The president also acts as the student regent to the NU Board of Regents.

• ASUN

Notable people

• Edith Abbott, social worker, educator, and author.
• Grace Abbott, pioneering American social worker, attended the university in the early 1900s.
• Hazel Abel, former US Senator from Nebraska.
• George W. Beadle, winner of the 1958 Nobel prize in physiology and medicine received his bachelor of science and master of science degrees from the College of Agriculture in the 1920s. The George W. Beadle Center for Genetics and Biomaterials Research at UNL is named for Dr. Beadle.
• Douglas A. Block, US Navy Captain, commanded and served on combat war ship USS Simpson (FFG-56), the second frigate ship in US Navy history to sink an enemy ship.
• John Robert Brown, former US judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, one of the "Fifth Circuit Four" crucial to civil rights decisions.
• Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
• Warren Buffett, the "Oracle of Omaha" and second-richest man of the world (net worth of $43 billion).
• Johnny Carson, longtime host of The Tonight Show, who, before his death, donated 5.3 million dollars to the College of Fine and Performing Arts.
• Willa Cather, distinguished novelist, studied at the university in the 1890s. Her novels include O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and One of Ours, for which she won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. The Willa Cather Archive is available from UNL.
• Aaron Douglas, distinguished painter and leader of the Harlem Renaissance, received his B.F.A. from the university in 1922.
• Rollins A. Emerson, American geneticist.
• David Fellman, political scientist.
• Rulon Gardner, amateur wrestler and mixed martial arts competitor; won the 2000 Summer Olympics gold medal for wrestling, defeating the previously undefeated champion of 13 years, Alexander Karelin.
• Kip Gross, retired Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League.
• Stanley K. Hathaway-Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and former Wyoming Governor
• Galen B. Jackman, US Army Major General, Nancy Reagan's escort throughout the death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan, and first commanding officer of the Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region.
• Weldon Kees, notable poet.
• Bob Kerrey, a Medal of Honor recipient in Vietnam, Democrat, former governor of Nebraska, former senator from Nebraska, and a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (known as the 9/11 Commission).
• J. Martin Klotsche, first chancellor of the 23,000-student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
• Ted Kooser, who was named Poet Laureate of the United States in 2004, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, took a master's degree at the University of Nebraska in 1968 and was a visiting professor in the English department.
• Ben Nelson, senator from Nebraska and former governor of Nebraska.
• John J. Pershing, first general officer to be named General of the Armies (only George Washington outranks him in American military history), commander of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War I; took a law degree at the University of Nebraska while serving as the Professor of Military Science in the 1890s.
• Emily Poeschl, Miss Nebraska USA 2006.
• Louise Pound, longtime English professor at UNL & president of the Modern Language Association, 1954-55.
• Roscoe Pound, distinguished legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School.
• James G. Roudebush, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General and doctor of medicine, currently serving as Surgeon General of the United States Air Force.
• Virginia Smith, Republican U.S. representative from Nebraska, 1975-1991; last woman to represent Nebraska in Congress.
• Adam Stern, baseball player.
• Kārlis Ulmanis, Prime Minister and later President of Latvia.
• Alex Gordon, Major League Baseball Player

Trivia

• UNL was the first academic institution west of the Missouri River to grant the Ph.D. degree.
• The world's first undergraduate psychology lab was established at UNL.
• For a few weeks in the 2004 fall semester, rocker Tommy Lee attended several classes at the university for the NBC television show Tommy Lee Goes to College.
• UNL is also home of the Pershing Rifles National Headquarters. This is in recognition of General John J. Pershing (an 1893 NU law school graduate and former professor of Military Science and Tactics) who created "Company A," a competitive drill team, for the University of Nebraska's Cadet Corps in 1891. The drill team won the National Competitive Drills in 1892, changed its name to the "Varsity Rifles" when it became a recognized fraternal organization in 1893, and finally changed its name again to the "Pershing Rifles" in 1894. UNL rededicated the Military and Naval Science Building as the John J. Pershing Military and Naval Science Building on April 20, 2006.

External links

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletic Department