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Sorensen scholarship gives students opportunity to study in Scandinavian countries

Holdrege native Marjorie Mattson Sorensen wants to help students have a better understanding of different cultures and has established the Robert C. Sorensen and Marjorie Mattson Sorensen Scandinavian Scholarship for students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

The $300,000 gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation creates a permanently endowed fund that will provide up to three scholarship awards a year to cover half the costs for students to study abroad for a semester in a Scandinavian country, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden.

Posted by: Ethan Hamilton in UNL, Media on July 30th, 2010 Comments: 0 Read More

National Semiconductor honors UNL alumnus with named fellowship fund

National Semiconductor Corp. has honored University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumnus Brian L. Halla with a named student fellowship fund for the College of Engineering. Halla serves as executive chairman of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company and was chief executive officer for 14 years before retiring from that position in 2009.

Posted by: Robb Crouch in Campaign Update, Front Page, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Media on May 4th, 2010 Comments: 0 Read More

$1 Million Gift Has Supported Relevant Issues Facing the Omaha Community

John MorganA $1 million donation by Minneapolis resident and Omaha native John Morgan to the University of Nebraska Foundation has funded a new re-entry initiative at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) to address community needs, including inmates in the Nebraska prison system.

Posted by: Chris Cooper in UNO, Media on April 29th, 2010 Comments: 1 Read More

Music program at UNK receives $2 million in private gifts

Ronald J. CrockerThe University of Nebraska at Kearney Department of Music and Performing Arts has received private gifts totaling $2 million from an anonymous donor, including $500,000 to permanently endow a chair in the music department.

Posted by: Chris Cooper in Campaign Update, Front Page, UNK, Media on April 28th, 2010 Comments: 2 Read More

Scholarship to encourage future educators

Blanche Berns often spoke to her children about the importance of an education. The lessons struck a chord, because her son Henry D. Berns and his wife Marilyn recently established a scholarship in Blanche’s memory to help future teachers attend the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Blanche taught at rural country schools in Webster County, Neb., after graduating from what was then Kearney State Teacher’s College. After seven years, she stopped teaching when she married Henry P. F. Berns. They were rural farmers in Webster County where they raised five children, but she never stopped taking an interest in education.

Posted by: Chris Cooper in UNK, Media on March 8th, 2010 Comments: 0 Read More

Updated: Alumnus gives $20 million to support agriculture at UNL

Paul EnglerUniversity of Nebraska alumnus and cattleman Paul F. Engler of Amarillo, Texas, announced today a $20 million gift to support programs in agribusiness at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

“I think about myself and my age, and I still have fire in my belly,” Engler said. “We need to identify these boys and girls who have that fire in the belly when they are young and then when they come to the university, expose them to a curriculum that teaches risk—how to evaluate it and how to manage it—because if you do not take risk as an entrepreneur, you are not going to make it.”

Posted by: Chris Cooper in Campaign Update, Front Page, UNL, Media on March 1st, 2010 Comments: 2 Read More

Donor profiles - Ruth and Bill Scott & Dr. George Haddix

Ruth and Bill Scott are deeply rooted and invested in the Omaha community where they have lived for nearly 55 years. The Scotts have contributed greatly to the city’s progress, health and vitality in a quiet but exceptional way.

Their lead gift supporting the redevelopment of Roskens Hall into the new home of the College of Education is significant to the University of Nebraska at Omaha where the majority of teachers in the metropolitan area are educated. The Scotts’ investment will benefit generations of future educators and those whose professions are fundamental to the success of the community’s citizens.

Posted by: Chris Cooper in Media on August 19th, 2010 Comments: 0 Read More

Company honors fallen soldier

Justin DuffyA $10,000 gift from Justin Duffy’s friends and former co-workers at the Eaton Corporation is pushing a scholarship in his memory closer to its goal.

Duffy was killed on June 2, 2009, when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee while his Army unit provided security escort for military leadership in Baghdad. A fund in his memory was established last year at the University of Nebraska Foundation to help students attend the University of Nebraska at Kearney where Duffy graduated in 2000.

Duffy’s former Kearney, Neb., employer, Eaton, donated more than $10,000 in memory of its former employee. Duffy worked at the plant as a production supervisor for about five years.

Posted by: Chris Cooper in UNK, Media on February 12th, 2010 Comments: 0 Read More

Join us today on Facebook and YouTube

All who want to know the latest about how giving is advancing the University of Nebraska in remarkable ways now have the option to learn more with Facebook and YouTube.

Posted by: Lindsey Horner in University of Nebraska Foundation, Media on December 4th, 2009 Comments: 0 Read More

James E. Ryan Professor of Film Studies discusses why people are drawn to films like 2012

Film expert and professor Wheeler Winston Dixon, the James E. Ryan Professor of Film Studies, discusses why people are drawn to films like the new blockbuster film "2012." His endowed professorship was a gift from the estate of Mr. James E. Ryan, who lived in Lincoln.

Posted by: Lindsey Horner in UNL, Media on December 4th, 2009 Comments: 0 Read More