Neal H. Schnoor, Ph.D., returned to UNK to serve as chancellor July 1, bringing more than 30 years of experience in higher education leadership. Schnoor shared his vision for UNK in a Q&A with Pride of Place.

When Riley Dinslage started playing golf, he never thought it would lead to a passion for, of all things, grass. Now, as a senior turfgrass science major at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dinslage has tended to the turf of PGA tournaments and Husker stadiums.

For most of his nine years, Theo Brewer couldn’t walk without falling or tripping due to an unbalanced gait. Then a team of researchers at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Clinical Gait Analysis Lab wired him up with sensors, watched how he moved and gave his doctors something no one else could: answers.

Multiple sclerosis has given Julie Wichman a lot to handle since she was diagnosed in 2002. She’s survived a severe brain infection, lost her ability to work, drive her car and live on her own. Today, Julie uses a wheelchair and lives in a long-term care facility. Thanks to the MS at Home Access (MAHA) […]

For Jenna Heinz, being a journalist is important and fulfilling. It is a title that she will never take for granted. As the inaugural recipient of the Penny Wright Wika Endowed Scholarship in Journalism at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Heinz proud to serve and editor-in-chief at the school newspaper, The Antelope. The Dewees, Nebraska, native had the opportunity to meet with Wika this summer in Kearney.

Recent graduate Lucas Timm developed strategies for teaching students to read as a tutor in the Kit and Dick Schmoker Reading Center at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. This fall, he’s taking those lessons into the classroom as a first-year teacher in the Mead Public Schools.