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Success

Success at Nebraska means not only completing your degree program, but leaving the university as a well-prepared professional in your discipline.

Campus leadership positions, serving on a departmental committee, and assistantship and internship positions provide real-world experiences and opportunities that refine networking skills and business competencies needed for any career path. Through free grant writing workshops, Preparing Future Faculty, teaching documentation, and other programs, students prepare for careers specifically in academia.

The achievements of our students and continued success of our alumni are a testament to the quality of graduate education offered at Nebraska. This is a campus where opportunities are readily available and faculty reach out to students and provide encouragement to take on new challenges.

  • Eileen Hebets and Holly Prendeville, doctoral student in biological sciences, awarded the prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from NSF
  • Leonardo Lebas, doctoral student in music, received a prestigious UNESCO-Aschberg fellowship, taking him to Mexico where he composed original pieces based on a collection of Mexican poems
  • Chemical engineering doctoral student Vivek Maheshwari and adviser Ravi Saraf featured in Discover magazine's "Top 100 Science Stories of the Year" for their touch sensor
  • Mike Kistler, M.B.A. student, elected as the 2008-09 national president of Phi Beta Lambda, the world's largest business career student organization.
  • Jonathan Rathsam, graduate student in architectural engineering, named one of 35 postdoctoral fellows for 2008-09 with the NSF's International Research Fellowship Program
  • Tanya Razzhavaikina, graduate student in educational psychology, received an APA dissertation award acknowledging her research in the promotion of psychotherapy science.
  • Andrew McFeaters, anthropology master's student, discovered artifacts dating to 1864-65 during a summer excavation in western Nebraska, which he plans to use for his master's thesis on battlefield-related research.
  • David Eichelberger, M.F.A. student in ceramics, featured on the cover of the April 2008 issue of Ceramics Monthly.
  • Psychology graduate student Nancy Liu received a Fulbright Fellowship supporting her study on suicide risk and prevention in China and named NIH's Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholar.
  • Amy Lehman, mechanical engineering graduate student, awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recognizing her work in the development of miniature robots for natural orifice surgery.
  • Biofibers from agricultural byproducts developed by textile, chemical and biological engineer Yiqi Yang and doctoral student Narendra Reddy featured by Science and as the cover story by Green Chemistry.
  • English doctoral student Liz Lorang and adviser Susan Belasco collaborated on "Whitman's Poems in Periodicals" for the award-winning Walt Whitman Archive.
  • Amber Epp, business doctoral student and assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison published in the Journal of Consumer Research, the top journal in the field of marketing.
  • Mathematics and computer science doctoral student Brian Bockelman led in the development of the Open Science Grid, a world-wide computation network that will handle data from the Large Hadron Collider, the world's premier particle accelerator.