University of Nebraska at Omaha

Campaign for Nebraska seeks to raise $1.2 billion by the end of 2014. This funding would enable the university to meet high-priority opportunities and needs at UNO and the University’s other three campuses.

The Foundation has raised more than $667 million toward its goal — the most ambitious in the organization’s 73-year history — since fundraising for the campaign began in 2005.

The campaign’s top priority is to provide students across the state affordable access to the university through scholarships and financial aid provided by private support. At UNO, for example, more than 75 percent of the campus’ 15,300 students currently apply for financial assistance.

A first generation student and Iraqi war veteran, Nickeya Chaney is a UNO senior majoring in social work. When she returned from Iraq a social worker had a profound affect on her life. And she wants to return the favor for others.

Scholars around the world meet in November at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to discuss and present their research on the archaeological explorations at Bethsaida, an ancient city near the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The conference is funded by the Clifton B. Batchelder Biblical Archeology Conference Fund, a permanent endowment at the University of Nebraska Foundation created in 2006 by Anne Batchelder of Omaha.

A Dallas businessman is helping the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) make higher education more affordable for students in Nebraska and western Iowa who otherwise could not attend college. Edward Pechar, a 1963 graduate of UNO (then Omaha University) and an Omaha native, made a $1 million gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation to create full tuition scholarships.

Nearly 600 guests joined the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) to celebrate the university’s 100th anniversary and its future of opportunities. Proceeds from the Centennial Gala, hosted by the University of Nebraska Foundation and the UNO Alumni Association on Feb. 21, will help fund two community fellowships at UNO.

The University of Nebraska Foundation and the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Alumni Association will host a gala celebration in recognition of UNO's 100th Anniversary on Feb. 21.  The gala starts at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 21 at the Qwest Center in downtown Omaha and features noted Harvard economist Roland Fryer.

Louis Pol, dean of the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) College of Business Administration (CBA), announced today that Carl and Joyce Mammel of Omaha have made the lead gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation to establish the new CBA facility on UNO’s Pacific Street campus. The Mammels’ commitment is the largest single philanthropic gift to benefit UNO in the campus’ 100-year history.

The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) announced a second significant gift supporting the new College of Business Administration (CBA) building project at a groundbreaking ceremony today. The commitment by Omahans Ruth and Bill Scott to the University of Nebraska Foundation, along with the lead gift by Carl and Joyce Mammel, enables the University to begin construction on the $31 million project this summer.

A new fund created in memory of Nebraska Congressman Peter J. Hoagland will bring high profile political speakers to both the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the first being Ted Sorensen, one of President John F. Kennedy’s advisors. Hoagland’s friend and former Chief of Staff, Jim Crounse, made a gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation to create the Peter J. Hoagland Integrity in Public Service Lecture Series.

Although Brittany Williams’ life was tragically cut short, her dream of pursuing a higher education will live on through a memorial scholarship established to benefit students attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). The Brittany Williams Memorial Scholarship commemorates the life and spirit of a young woman who was the first in her family to attend college. Williams was a student at UNO, studying pre-nursing, at the time of her death.