News Archive

Holding the second biennial NEHC Consortium at UNO this December 5-7 was a tremendous opportunity for faculty and administrators of UNO programs to learn from and to share ideas with top scholars from across the country.

Working with the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska, Michelle Black, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, was recently awarded a research grant from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. UNO students will assist Dr. Black in her research.

“In the art of Samuel Bak, worlds contrast, coincide, collide: the profane shadows the sacred, the strange echoes the familiar, life exists alongside death, while presence is ever haunted by absence. The artist’s vivid imagination, the breadth of his knowledge and skill as a painter offers us profound questions about human nature.”

“I have seen how young people whether Caucasion, African American, or Asian, identify with the Warsaw Boy.For them he isn’t an exclusively Jewish emblem, rather a signal of a timely warning on a universal scale. I believe that this boy’s grandeur comes from and belongs to eternity and the reason is that human history is a cruel enterprise. For endless centuries children have been savagely sacrificed and have fallen victims to unimaginable genocides, to brutal wars and to tribal feuds. Such horrors happened before the time of the Warsaw Boy, after his time, and they go on happening now all over the world.” --Samuel Bak

CAS Honored Five Outstanding Alumni in a ceremony on Oct. 11, 2019.

The Department of Political Science invites you to attend a panel discussion on the life and thought of Alexander Hamilton. This panel will take place Friday, Nov. 8 from 10 A.M. - 11 A.M. in 302/302A MBSC (Dodge Rooms).

The TRPP is seeking proposals from UNO Science faculty who are interested in serving as research mentors to OPS teacher-researchers during summer 2020; deadline is Jan. 10.

Physics alum and internationally known physicist and astronomer Penny Sackett presents “Living as if we have a future on this Earth."

University of Nebraska Interim President Susan Fritz has announced the six recipients of 2019-20 Presidential Graduate Fellowships.

Medical Humanities, a popular minor at UNO, is now also available as an academic major, the first of its kind in the region. Having just launched in fall 2019, it already boasts around twenty majors working toward either a BS or BA degree.

Renowned artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak will visit UNO this September in tandem with a showing of 70 of his creations.

Whether you are a first-year student wanting to explore all of your options for a college major or an experienced student of higher learning wanting to design your own unique plan of study, the major in Interdisciplinary Studies has a program to meet your needs.

UNO Psychology major earns NASP Minority Scholarship

UNO Psychology major earns NASP Minority Scholarship

Students interested in Interdisciplinary Studies will have the opportunity for the first time this fall to explore concepts and practices of interdisciplinary inquiry, writing, critical thinking and problem solving.

Due to the remodeling of Arts & Sciences Hall (ASH), all programs regularly located in ASH will be relocated to other buildings on campus. The Dean's Office will be located in CPACS 124.

Rami Arav, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Bethsaida Excavation Project, has once again made international headlines with the remarkable discovery of a city gate at Bethsaida that dates from the time of King David.

Each year faculty nominate the most outstanding students by major and those students are honored at the campus-wide Student Honors Convocation. Outstanding majors are generally not only strong academically but also practiced researchers, mentors, leaders among their peers, and community volunteers. From among each year’s outstanding majors, the Dean selects one student as the Dean’s Award winner to represent the College. This year’s Dean’s Award winner is Deena Keilany.

The STEM TRAIL Center

Maxwell Virus, Natalie Mostek, and Bradley Carlson are recognized at campus Student Honors Convocation.

NoyceSCIENCE Scholarships and Internships Available.

The first Chuck Hagel Global Leadership Forum, featuring former Vice President Joe Biden, was held on February 28 at UNO's Strauss Center. Working closely with former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, the forum was organized by a team of administrators, faculty and staff from the Political Science Department and the College of Arts & Sciences.

Each year our faculty publish books in a wide variety of fields.

Chris Moore, Associate Professor of Physics and George Haddix Community Chair of Science, recently published his second book Teaching Science Thinking: Using Scientific Reasoning in the Classroom.

Chelsi Marolf, biology grad student, is featured in The Gateway for her research on pregnancies of African elephants.