Flags from around the world.
Nebraska ranked among best for student Fulbrights

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is again ranked among the nation’s best for total Fulbright awards earned by students.


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Nebraska unveils first institutional global strategy

Building on the bold vision outlined in the N2025 Strategic Plan, “Forward Together: A Global Strategy for UNL” serves as a comprehensive roadmap to strengthen and expand global education, engagement and impact at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the years to come.

Introduced by Chancellor Ronnie Green during the State of Our University address on Feb. 15, Forward Together was created through an intensive, year-long process that gathered feedback from across campus. The effort was led by a Global Strategy Committee of faculty and staff from colleges and key service units. 

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Pole vaulter Monica Aldrighetti is competing.
Italian pole vaulter Monica Aldrighetti looking forward to rest of freshman year

It can be hard being away from home sometimes and not being able to see family in person.

However, Husker freshman pole vaulter Monica Aldrighetti has formed a second family and a second home in Lincoln, Nebraska. She said she has taken everything in stride and is excited to see what’s to come.

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Chancellor Ronnie Green delivered the 2021 State of Our University address in the Lied Center for Performing Arts on Feb. 15.
Green builds on momentum, sets course on Grand Challenges

With a nod toward successes realized in a turbulent year, Chancellor Ronnie Green’s 2021 State of Our University address built upon the N2025 strategic plan, outlining seven “Grand Challenges” that will help direct Huskers’ ongoing research and creative activity.

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2020 annual report highlights virtual innovation in global engagement

Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln created new virtual and hands-on learning and engagement opportunities to support the Forward Together global strategy and expand global education.

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Nearly 500 Huskers helped shape university’s Grand Challenges

When called by Chancellor Ronnie Green to help focus the future of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln research and creative activity, nearly 500 faculty, staff and students from 195 campus units came together in summer 2020.

Their task — to identify a set of major societal issues to be solved through interdisciplinary collaboration. Their priorities were narrowed to seven Grand Challenges, which Chancellor Ronnie Green announced in his Feb. 15 State of Our University address.

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‘Learn International Nebraska’ webinar is Feb. 22, 23

As a transformative, world-leading institution, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln plays an active role in engaging with international partners overseas and locally, as well as providing students global learning experiences. On Feb. 22 at 4 p.m., the University’s Office of Global Strategies and Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance will highlight some of this work at the Nebraska Department of Economic Development’s “Learn International Nebraska” webinar.

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Juan Jiménez, a master's student in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, plays with snow for the first time. Jiménez arrived at Nebraska from Colombia Jan. 22.
Grad student gets snowy introduction to Nebraska

The day after arriving in Lincoln to start his master’s degree in agronomy and horticulture at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Juan Jiménez woke up Jan. 23 and thought it seemed exceptionally sunny.

Not quite.

He looked outside and was greeted by something he’d never seen before — snow. About 1.5 inches had coated the ground.

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Left: Dipti Dev and Santosh Pitla, surrounded by family in India, celebrate their marriage in December 2015. Right, inset: The sign Dev spotted on a fateful July day in 2013.
‘I saw the sign’: Three little words led Dev to Lincoln, love

Love Academically, a Nebraska Today series that snuggles up with the stories of Husker couples, tells a story of how faculty members Dipti Dev and Santosh Pitla met, how they wound up at Nebraska U, how they balance relationships with careers at the university. Because love may be patient, kind and blind, but at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, it’s also academic.

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MLK award honors Fagan’s commitment to diversity, inclusion

Helen Fagan was presented with the Chancellor's 2021 Fulfilling the Dream award on Jan. 28. The award honors a member of the campus or Lincoln community whose work reflects the values of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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