Nebraska ranked a best value by Princeton Review
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln continues to be featured in The Princeton Review as one of the nation’s top colleges for delivering a return on investment to students.
Inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Princeton Review’s “Best Value Colleges” is based on the university’s challenging academics, affordability and strong career prospects available to graduates. Reviewers considered 651 institutions for the list, with Nebraska joining 199 others to earn the affordability honor.
Munezero soaks up water-centric experience at Nebraska
Sarah Munezero, a Rwanda native, hopes to return to “the land of a thousand hills” to help agriculture flourish while ensuring the sustainability of water resources.
Munezero, a May 2021 University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate in integrated science and mechanized systems management and a minor in water science, is a self-proclaimed water enthusiast. She dove head-first into a water-focused experience in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Nebraska, but her interest in water resources began her senior year at the Gashora Girls Academy of Science and Technology in Kilagi, Rwanda.
NU receives $20 million grant to advance quantum research, education
The University of Nebraska has received a five-year, $20 million award from the National Science Foundation’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to create a research and education cluster aimed at enhancing the state’s competitiveness in the field of emergent quantum materials and technologies, and boosting the participating institutions’ research and education capacity.
Research institute aims to bring diverse ‘new storytellers’ to digital scholarship
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is preparing to welcome 23 emerging scholars from minority-serving institutions for an intensive, interdisciplinary institute that will explore the platforms, tools, designs and ethical questions surrounding digital humanities projects in ethnic studies.
Nguyen helps students embrace heritage, acts as a catalyst for change
Meet Chau Nguyen, a May 2021 graduate with a degree in accounting and from Lincoln. Through her leadership on campus and through the Asian Student Union, she helped students embrace their cultural identity and acted as a catalyst for change.
Omaha native Molly Sambol earns Fulbright to teach in South Korea
Molly Sambol, a recent graduate of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to teach English in South Korea. An Omaha native, she was a secondary education major specializing in English language arts.
NDMC’s Mwape working with Nebraskans on Republican River Basin drought project
Andrew Mwape, a National Drought Mitigation Center research assistant and Ph.D. student in the School of Natural Resources, is working with the state of Nebraska and four of its Natural Resources districts on drought planning for the Republican River Basin.
Partnership creates biodefense lab focused on food security
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska will begin a five-year partnership to help safeguard the U.S. food supply.
Karki works to make positive impacts through involvement
Meet Sandhya Karki. She’s a nutrition and health sciences major, from Kathmandu, Nepal. She’s working to positively impact others and the greater university community through campus through her multiple involvements
Nepal to Nebraska: Earthquake tragedy driving Shrestha to engineer safer future
7.8-magnitude earthquake had brought Kathmandu, Nepal to its knees, but the city, after mourning the loss of so many lives and destruction of so many cultural touchstones, eventually regained its feet. Yajyoo Shrestha, graduating senior in civil engineering did, too, salvaging inspiration from the trauma and the tragedy.
“Up to that point, I was unsure about what I was going to do,” Shrestha said. “I had an idea that maybe I wanted to do civil engineering. But after the earthquake, and after so many people lost their lives, and after I saw so many houses tumble down, I was like, ‘Yeah, this is something that I do want.’