By Susan Houston Klaus University of Nebraska at Kearney student Andrew Rentschler knows what it’s like to juggle. Growing up in Atkinson, Nebraska, on a third-generation family farm that raised beans, corn and a little bit of popcorn, he pitched in with “pretty much everything you can imagine,” he said. Rentschler’s skills were put to the test during every harvest season, when he would help with farm work between doing his homework and competing on

By Tyler Ellyson, UNK Communications Avery Lowther’s path to medicine began long before she arrived at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. It took shape in Ogallala, where personal experiences with health care showed her the impact physicians can have in rural communities. Now a freshman pre-medical student at UNK, her interest in the profession first started developing when she entered high school and quickly became something deeper. “I think of it as a calling,”