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‘My Ántonia’ 100 years later: Events to explore themes of novel in today’s culture

January 24, 2018

Society & Culture

Genealogy at Lunch

Genealogy group to discuss family legends

January 12, 2018

Students walk in the woods during a Seminar Botanical Club event in the early 1920s. Student groups like this club will be examined in the first Archives Afternoons presentation on Jan. 18.

Archives Afternoons to delve into university history

January 10, 2018

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Plagiarism, copyright infringement software pilot open to faculty

January 10, 2018

Charles E. Cather, an heir to his aunt Willa Cather, left an estate gift to the University of Nebraska in 2011 that included manuscripts, letters, medals and inscribed first editions of her work.

Cather's handwritten musings become part of the internet age

January 8, 2018

Science & Technology

Reserves

Spring semester course reserves available

December 4, 2017

University Libraries faculty (from left) Kiyomi Deards and Jennifer Thoegersen.

Achievements | Honors, awards, publications for Nov. 10

November 10, 2017

Volunteers from across the country typed the text from scanned yearbook pages using Transcribe Our Past, a crowdsourcing website created by the University Libraries.

Digitized yearbooks offer 37,000 pages of Husker history

November 7, 2017

Society & Culture

Memorial reception for Giesecke is Nov. 10

November 3, 2017

Carrie Belle Raymond (standing, at right) directs the university chorus in April 1922 in what is today the Architecture Hall library reading room. Raymond was hired in 1894 to direct the university chorus and orchestra. She also taught music until her death in 1927. The first women's dormitory, Raymond Hall, was named for her in 1931. This image is included in Kay Logan-Peters' new book, "University of Nebraska–Lincoln."

Logan-Peters to sign copies of book on university's history

November 1, 2017

A reflection of the Green Point sculpture, Mueller Tower and Coliseum are distorted by the windows on the north side of the Adele Hall Learning Commons.

Achievements | Honors, awards, publications for Oct. 27

October 27, 2017

Students participate in the parking riot of 1948. The riot started due to a lack of on-campus parking spaces. The riot started after student veterans, recently returned from World War II, confronted police who were ticketing cars that were double parked on streets. The police responded with tear gas. The students ended up marching around campus before parading down O Street in their cars.

New book traces history of Dear Old Nebraska U

October 13, 2017