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Student Development Programs and Initiatives

For graduate students

Graduate Student Academic and Professional Development
This program focuses on helping UNL graduate students in all disciplines become competent and confident professionals. The goal is to provide UNL graduate students a wider range of academic and professional development activities as they prepare to be future scholars and professionals.

Preparing Future Faculty
The UNL PFF program provides doctoral students with opportunities to observe and experience faculty responsibilities at a variety of academic institutions with varying missions, diverse student bodies, and different expectations for faculty.

For undergraduate students

Ronald E. McNair Program
Named for a Challenger astronaut, this honors program provides support and preparation for first generation and low income or underrepresented undergraduates who intend to seek a Ph.D.

Undergraduate Summer Research Program
This program offers outstanding undergraduates the chance to work closely with faculty on intensive research projects, giving them first-hand exposure to the experiences of graduate school and faculty life.