Going Big Red
Higher education. Research. Outreach to Nebraska. UNL is an incredible place full of interesting people doing astounding work that impacts the world.
And I get to work here.
Posts tagged nebraska
Actress and Omaha-native Gabrielle Union explains her love for the #Huskers in ESPN’s Fan issue.
Go Big Red!
Andrew Jenks of MTV’s “World of Jenks” is coming to campus Thursday. #UNL
Jenks will be spending time with University of Nebraska-Lincoln students Thursday night in the Nebraska Union. Free to students with NCards. Thanks, University Program Council.
Go Big Red.
Stay in school, kids.
Fantastic chart illustrating the value of higher education.
Nod to City University of Seattle and the Seattle Seahawks.
Go Big Red!
255 notes (via ilovecharts)
#UNL students go to Buffett U. today
UNL business students can take a finance course called Investing the Buffett Way, and a select group of students from that class go to Omaha today to participate in Buffett U.
Each year, Warren Buffett (UNL ‘50) invites students from several universities to come to Omaha and spend a day picking his brain. Buffett, who earlier this week was honored by the White House with a Presidential Medal of Freedom - the nation’s highest civilian honor, always extends the invite to his alma mater.
Donna Dudney teaches the course Investing the Buffett Way, or Finance 463, and she sees students get much more out of their audience with the Oracle of Omaha than stock tips.
“When students go up to visit Buffett the thing that I’m always impressed about is a lot of the questions that students ask Buffett are not questions about investing at all,” said Dudney. “They are questions about life — the mistakes that he’s made, the guidelines that he would make for students as they start their careers, and how he decides to donate his money.
Dudney talks about the types of Buffett thinking covered in the course here.
#UNL research shows: Make big plans to make it big.
You heard from UNL first, folks.
Actually, you may have heard it from your parents. Your school counselor. Countless others. Now you can add “studies show” to the claim that dreaming big is a the first step to achieving big.
A recent UNL study showed that students who dream big and start plans toward their dreams during their high school years tend to reach higher levels of educational attainment. From the news release:
“Adolescents’ expectations about their occupational and educational attainment as adults predict their eventual educational attainment, and these expectations seem to shape and be shaped by extracurricular activities — which, in turn, contribute to young adult educational attainment,” said Sarah Beal, a UNL graduate student in psychology and the study’s lead author. “It may be the case that adolescents learn about their abilities and preferences through the extracurricular activities they engage in, resulting in changes to their expectations for the future.”
So get busy dreaming. It’s the first step to doing. In the words of Daniel Burnham, a leader in developing master plans for a number of cities, including Chicago and downtown Washington DC:
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”
Go Big Red.
Any present or former #UNL physics majors out there?
You physics majors are probably too busy in some nano world on a Monday afternoon to be thinking Go Big Red. But, it’s Physics Week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln so reading or not, we salute you and your dedicated examination of space and time.
We especially salute Jayme and John Cox. They submitted the winning proposal (and self-made YouTube video) of a dynamic ribbon-cutting device worthy enough to be used at the dedication of the new home to UNL physics and astronomy, Jorgensen Hall, on Friday.
Oh, and Go Big Red!
Helping Hoarders on TV
It’s great to see Nebraska alumni getting attention for their great work.
If you’ve watched the A&E television show “Hoarders” or “The OCD Project” on VH1, you may have seen University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumna Dr. Elizabeth Moore helping people to overcome their anxiety.
Moore is a psychologist at the Anxiety Disorders Center at The Institute of Living in Hartford, Conn., and she is profiled in the fall 2010 issue of Nebraska magazine (published by the Nebraska Alumni Association).
Congrats to Elizabeth Moore and to the UNL Psych department. Go Big Red!
Advice for #UNL freshmen
“College is your chance to see what you’ve been missing, both in the outside world and within yourself. Use this time to explore as much as you can.”
“You don’t need a computer to take notes — good note-taking is not transcribing.”
“Remember to take some time away from campus — from the demands of schoolwork and the trappings of the college social life.”
“Universities are places where facts are made…. A curious, competent undergraduate can always find work assisting a researcher.”
“First-years are under an unbelievable pressure not only to succeed, but to excel in college…. [B]e comfortable with the fact that you don’t know anything. Nobody does.”
It’s great to see these gems in the news. And perfect timing - UNL’s Mid-Semester Check started Monday and ends tomorrow night. It’s the best way for new - and upperclass - Huskers to keep their semester on track.
