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University of Nebraska graduate Mark Hargrave carved his name into the unfinished wood inside the Love Library cupola on Feb. 27, 1943, the same year the building opened for campus use. Hargrave was president of the university's Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

Library lighting project to preserve cupola carvings

February 29, 2016

Digital humanities group fosters student collaboration

February 19, 2016

Society & Culture

James Le Sueur (at podium) used selected interviews to show the power of intellectual Muslims against radical Islam during a standing-room-only presentation in Andrews Hall on Dec. 8.

Le Sueur emphasizes Muslim struggles against radical Islam

December 9, 2015

Students access resources in the College of Arts and Sciences advising center in Oldfather Hall. The college has recently incorporated career-planning measures to better prepare students for life beyond college.

College's emphasis on career planning opens doors

December 2, 2015

In this screen capture from a 2011 UNL video, James Le Sueur discusses the "Arab Spring."

LeSueur talk will focus on Muslims combatting radical Islam

December 1, 2015

(From left) Carole Levin, chair of the medieval and Renaissance studies program, meets with University of York graduate student Dustin Neighbors and UNL graduate student Andrea Nichols at the University of York. While completing research under a Fulbright award last year, Levin forged an academic partnership between UNL and York’s respective medieval and Renaissance studies programs.

UNL, U. of York partnership benefits students

November 26, 2015

Darlene Clark Hine

African-American women's history scholar to deliver Pauley Lecture

September 25, 2015

Website upgrade provides new tools to study history of slavery

September 11, 2015

Humanities on the Edge series will examine posthumanism

September 11, 2015

Detail from the cover of Carole Levin's "Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens," which is the 36th book in her Queenship and Power series.

New book gives spotlight to Nebraska scholars, writers

August 21, 2015

Jean Kops talks with students in a class during her junior year at UNL. Kops will graduate from UNL during commencement exercises on Aug. 15.

Student, 87, earns UNL degree after 68-year hiatus

August 10, 2015

A research project into campus architecture has led to Kay Logan-Peters becoming an unofficial UNL historian. Her work is featured in the UNL Historical Buildings website.

Logan-Peters plans to expand research into history of UNL architecture

August 7, 2015