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Forty first-year students, all members of the 2024-25 cohort of the Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy at Nebraska, pose on a staircase in five rows of eight people each.

40 students named to Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy

September 12, 2024

Science & Technology

The windmill on East Campus, located behind the Animal Science Building, turns in the wind.

Elite 11 scholarship to support veterinary services statewide

March 1, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

On June 23 the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved a tuition rate freeze.

New scholarship to support Nebraska students with top ACT scores

February 5, 2024

A large group of Nebraska Engineering students, wearing red T-shirts, stands outside of the Wick Alumni Center.

2023-24 cohort of Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy announced

September 26, 2023

Science & Technology

Brooklynn Hunke, a freshman from Gretna, Nebraska, talks with Misora Okuoka, a sophomore from Japan. The university’s latest census shows a 3.6% increase in first-time freshmen from Nebraska.

Future of Nebraska scholarship launched for high school seniors

September 21, 2023

Students in the Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy participate in a recent mixer at the AKRS Champions Club. Forty first-year students in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s College of Engineering have been chosen for the academy’s inaugural cohort.

Inaugural cohort of Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy announced

September 30, 2022

Science & Technology

Tom and Candy Henning

Hennings establish scholarship for Crete, Wauneta area students

February 25, 2022

Graduate students Zahra Ahmadi and Mark Anderson work in the Scott Engineering Center in November 2019. Beyond developing students individually, the new Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy in the College of Engineering will increase access and enhance diversity by removing financial barriers to engineering education and encouraging and supporting more Nebraska women to pursue careers in engineering, computing and construction.

Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy aims to increase access, diversity

November 8, 2021

Science & Technology

A $5 million gift from the Johnny Carson Foundation, announced Oct. 22, augments the Johnny Carson Foundation Opportunity Scholarship Fund. Students enrolled in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film and the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts are eligible for the scholarships.

Johnny Carson Foundation gives $5M to support more Huskers

October 22, 2021

The new Yeutter Student Scholar Award will provide a stipend to Husker students who are awarded valuable, highly competitive trade internships, which are often located in expensive cities.

Yeutter Institute award will add heartland voices to trade policy

June 1, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Jared Oney

Glow Big Red impacts felt by students near and far

February 10, 2021

Malik Askar, a Husker graduate who interned with Kiewit Corp. in 2019, now works as a field engineer for Kiewit on a multi-billion-dollar liquified natural gas project.

Kiewit launches full-tuition scholarship, leadership program at Nebraska Engineering

January 28, 2021

Science & Technology