Dear Alumni and Friends,
Next week, we'll welcome Dr. Thomas Horky to campus as this year's Lynn and Dana Roper Visiting Professor in Sports Journalism. Join us for his lecture on Monday, March 3, at 2:30 p.m. in the Regency Suite at the Nebraska Union.
On Thursday, March 6, the Nebraska Women's Leadership Network and the Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women will kick off Women's History Month with the "Power of Husker Women: A Night of Celebration" at 5:30 p.m. in the Wick Alumni Center. I'm excited to be one of the featured panelists and hope to see you there.
We are excited to sponsor the upcoming E.N. Thompson Forum with 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong. A longtime science reporter for The Atlantic, his work has also appeared in National Geographic, Nature and Scientific American. His talk, "The Amazing Nature of Animal Senses," will be at 6:30 p.m. on March 25 in the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Join us for the Pre-Talk Reception and order your free tickets here.
Thanks to ongoing support from the Seline family, we'll host CNN Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny ('96) and Nebraska Examiner Editor-in-Chief Aaron Sanderford ('24) for the Seline Lecture. Their free public talk, "A memo from Washington: Why all politics are local," is on March 27 from 11 a.m. to noon in the Nebraska Union's Swanson Auditorium. We hope to see you there!
Congratulations to Dale Johnson and Mike McKnight ('77), who will be inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame, to Civic Nebraska's new executive director Nancy Petitto ('06), to Natalia Wiita ('05), who was recently named president of the Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools and to all our Huskers on the Move. Also, check out this feature from Omaha Central's The Register on Alec Rome ('22), who returned to his high school to help their broadcasting program continue to grow.
Thank you for your generous support during this year's Glow Big Red giving event. Your gifts prepare the next generation of storytellers, journalists and communicators. Missed out on giving during Glow Big Red? Choose how you can make an impact on the college here.
Congratulations to assistant professor of journalism Jessica Walsh, who recently launched the Nebraska News Map to help Nebraskans see where local news is thriving and where it's dying and see this feature on lecturer Bill Doleman, who's covered 35 different sports across his broadcasting career. Interested in working with these fabulous faculty members? We're hiring an assistant professor of practice in advertising and public relations to join us starting in August 2025.
This newsletter also features the 365 students named to the fall 2024 Dean's List and Dean's Commendation List, the students who won seven national awards at the Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts, the 20 Huskers named to the National Student Advertising Competition team, the six advertising and public relations students selected for the Bateman Case Study Competition team and senior Linda Kuku who was one of 12 students chosen to be a CBC-UNC News Media Multiplatform Fellow.
We also say goodbye to dear friends of the college in this newsletter. Professor Emeritus Richard "Rick" Lombardo passed away on Feb. 6 and Dave Bundy, who spent 13 years as the Journal Star's editor, passed away on Feb. 23. A Celebration of Life for Husker broadcasting legend Greg Sharpe will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27. His funeral is set for 1 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28.
As always, thank you for your ongoing support and encouragement. We could not do what we do without you.
Go Big Red!
Shari
