News Archive

"Green Energy at UNO" project a finalist for OPPD's Greener Together program

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) awarded mini grants in early 2023 to CAS faculty who are advisors to existing or emerging clubs and organizations to help fund new activities and support growth efforts.

Thanks to additional support from the Mammel Family Foundation, this academic year (2023 – 2024), OLLAS has been able to award this scholarship to 19 UNO students, the biggest cohort since the inception of the Next Generation Leadership Scholarship.

On Oct. 6, 2023, NATO Allied Command Transformation facilitated a NATO Model Event, hosted by the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Participants from the university each represented a NATO member nation during a simulated North Atlantic Council session regarding challenges in the High North, a pertinent and growing topic within geopolitics.

Mark your calendar for the Wear Black, Give Back 24-hour giving event, from Noon on Nov. 8 to Noon on Nov. 9.

Senior physics major Jaidyn Spoon participated in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supported by the National Science Foundation.

Researchers and defense practitioners from the U.S., Europe, and Scandinavia—including Michelle Black, Ph.D., associate professor of political science at UNO—congregated in Norway in early September to discuss trends and challenges in regional security in the High North.

Last year a new study provided hope for a cure for HIV, and now the researchers behind it have released a larger, international study that seem to bring us even closer. The key may lie in experimental medicine, which in both studies has been shown to enhance the immune system's own ability to suppress the virus.

Laura Alexander, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Religious Studies, has been named Executive Director of the Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Center for Human Rights at UNO. Ramazan Kılınç, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Director of Islamic Studies at UNO, was selected to serve as the new Community Chair.

UNO will welcome 37 youth leaders from the Balkans region for the BOLD Civic Engagement Fellowship from Aug. 12 to Sept. 15, 2023.

The College of Arts and Sciences congratulates graduating students on their achievements.

Wildlife photographs donated by CAS alumnus Dr. Larry Boersma now grace two UNO campus buildings, Allwine Hall and Mammel Hall.

Brianna Larson, the 2022/2023 Outstanding Major Award winner for the Department of Philosophy finds path and purpose at UNO.

An innovative research project by graduating student Amiey Elsasser draws on medical humanities and studio art.

UNO Religious Studies will partner on Religious Renewal in Times of Crisis conference to be hosted in Israel, April 23-28.

Senior Connor Eastman earned the Outstanding Major Award in both Biology and Chemistry.

Eight teams of high school students competed Jan. 28 in the 5th Annual Nebraska Regionals of the National High School Ethics Bowl, hosted at UNO by the Department of Philosophy.

Four faculty members from UNO’s College of Arts and Sciences will highlight the role of the literary imagination in making and remaking worlds and societies with the support of a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

Metropolitan Community College students have a new transfer pathway to guide them to completion of a bachelor’s degree at the University of Nebraska Omaha.

Agents from the FBI joined the Nebraska Deterrence Lab to run an experiment analyzing potential threats to the Nebraska and Iowa agricultural economy.