2013 News

Ann Fruhling, Ph.D., has considerable experience as an instructor and in the corporate world, and she has applied both in her nine years at UNO.

When Ann Fruhling, Ph.D., assistant professor of information systems at the College of IS&T, initially envisioned the project, she saw it as a means to better address urgent health care issues in rural Nebraska, like the area near Kearney where she grew up.

The dream of a young boy in India to become an engineer and scholar has led Deepak Khazanchi to UNO's College of Information Science&Technology, where he has been named to succeed Hesham Ali as associate dean.

Not only is distance education a valuable option for students who are unwilling or unable to attend regular classes on campus, it has become an equally valuable tool for faculty members.

Associate Professor Peter Wolcott teaches classes that are a very real reflection of his own personality.

Farida Majid, academic advisor at UNO's College of Information Science&Technology (IS&T), knows that higher education can lead to more than a successful career.

Tony Valenti is the founder and chief architect of four technology companies, one of which employs 15 permanent contractors stretching from Canada to Australia.

Dr. Hesham Ali, new dean of UNO's College of Information Science & Technology (IS&T), says he will continue to welcome visitors to his office, as did his predecessor, retiring Dean David Hinton.

Reaching out each year to shake the hands of hundreds of young students, including many women and minority youths, Judy Monarrez Diaz-Kelsey sometimes has a problem.

Describing it as an opportunity of a lifetime, 50 MBA students and 10 faculty members and administrators from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur visited UNO in May for the International Marketing & Strategy Workshop.

Back when Victor Winter was a college student playing piano in a rock band in Albuquerque, N.M., his fellow band members urged him to drop out and join their quest for a recording contract.

In his workshop at the Peter Kiewit Institute, computer science graduate Christopher Williams taps away at the keyboard of his laptop, its screen displaying a blueprint of rooms, walls and hallways. Behind him, "Yellow" makes a sort of whirring sound as it begins rolling. Williams glances back and shakes his head.

Halbana Tarmizi says he didn't want either/or. He wanted both.

Imagine a free, secure, city-wide wireless infrastructure that would allow you to use your PDA to send and receive emails while your children play at an Omaha park. Or check from your laptop the arrival of a friend's flight at Eppley Airfield as you run last-minute errands around town.

Company A suspects Company B of hacking its computers and spying on its internal activities. Accordingly, Company A hires specialists in "Information Assurance" to verify that its security has been breached-and to help plug the holes.

Tu Nguyen faced a unique problem that required an innovative solution. His parents own the Saigon restaurant in west Omaha, where they and the other chefs speak only Vietnamese. The help out front, however, speaks English.