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Archways Magazine Archives

Archways Fall-Winter 2024 Cover

From high school teams to pro sports—º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ athletic trainers are protecting health and improving performance.

Why do cold cases grab our attention?

Look inside º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½â€™s annual homecoming celebrations.

Archways Summer 2024 Cover

Don’t overlook the undersized.

International recruiting is reshaping º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ swimming.

University Place is officially on the map for Lincoln’s First Friday art gallery walkers.

Archways Spring 2024 Cover

Can a great education lengthen your life?

Follow a young ICU nurse who started her career at the pandemic’s peak.

An alumnus is reshaping how º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ prepares innovators and entrepreneurs.

Archways Fall-Winter 2023 Cover

Track & field and cross country alumni reflect on Ted Bulling’s coaching legacy.

Can this friendly minister spark a new flame between the UMC and Methodist colleges?

An º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ psychology professor uses principles of gameplay to help her students set high scores.

Archways Summer 2023 Cover

A historic Lincoln neighborhood is experiencing new life.

Does AI mark a breakthrough—or a breakdown for higher ed?

A retired ophthalmologist refocuses on Vietnam, 1969.

Archways Spring 2023 Cover

º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ experts predict the future in their fields.

º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ runners take the A-R-C’s top all-sport honor for a fourth straight year.

Ten years later, Archways reconnects with improv comic Clair (Meyer) Linic (’11).

Archways Fall 2022 Cover

A new home for º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ baseball and softball is coming into view.

Can a colorful conservationist bring America’s butterfly back from the brink?

Major renovations at Elder Theatre Center enter Act II.

Archways Summer 2022 Cover

As Ukraine fights for independence, Prof. Viktor Khanzhyn analyzes the impact of economic firepower.

You might not want to know how bad it hurts to run an elite 800 meters. But there’s plenty to learn from Reagan Janzen’s (’22) record-breaking burn.

The NCAA transfer portal is bringing new attention to student-athletes on the move. But º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ has a long history of Hall of Fame-caliber transfer student-athletes.

Archways Spring 2022 Cover

The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska makes a moral case for a better handling of American history.

As a hospital administrator, a nurse and a parent, Jenny (Lum) Stachura (BSN ’08, MSN ’13) has one question: How do we make this better?

º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½â€™s Kayla Hepler (’24) swims for her country at the FINA World Championships.

Archways Winter 2021-22 Cover

A homegrown mural project brings world artists to University Place.

A combat-wounded alumnus leaves a fascinating liberal-arts legacy in medicine, archeology and music.

When the effects of time shifted º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½â€™s historic archways, the university shifted into action.

Archways Fall 2021 Cover

On º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½â€™s commencement day, tradition carries a sound. And that sound is carried by Graeme Dodworth (’01).

Fact, fiction and the news crisscross in the work of an FBI agent and a communication professor.

A special library exhibition explores Americans’ perspectives of the Holocaust. What did we know? How did we respond?

Archways Summer 2021 Cover

Kanoa Greene (’01) is modeling a more welcoming way forward for the outdoor industry—and inspiring thousands to get onboard.

Prof. David Mickey (’39) authored the first three volumes of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½â€™s history. Filling his shoes for volume four is Prof. Jim Schaffer.

Dr. Michael (Black) Geci (’83) put a black-market drug under a pharmaceutical microscope. Then things got a little weird.

Archways Spring 2021 Cover

As statues fall, art preservationist Stephen Grunnet (’96) sifts through America’s complicated rubble.

A horticulturist and historian, Ryan Dostal (’13) tends to the strange fruit of American enslavement.

Hospice nurse Erin (Benham) Pommeranz (’05) turns to poetry to process death in the time of COVID-19.

Archways Winter 2020-21 Cover

Students spark a transformation in school spirit.

º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½â€™s artists and performers show us what it means to adapt to new circumstances.

A tornado flung Lynda Leopold (’71) into a lifetime of physical rehab. Her gung-ho grit spun her into a masters athlete.

Archways Fall 2020 Cover

º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ is a 13th child—and a sole survivor.

º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University’s 266th semester looks very different.

Three Phi Kappa Tau brothers pull magical transformations from a paper bag.

Archways Summer 2020 Cover

What do we see when we examine the pandemic through an interdisciplinary lens?

Nate Schimonitz (’20) started his senior year stovetop-hot. Then he turned up the gas.

One alumnus sets out to engineer happier hospitals.

Archways Spring 2020 Cover

When lives hang in the balance, you better know exactly where you’re going.

An unlikely action hero brings Shakespeare to the Kenyan stage.

Who’s the greatest? In sports, statistics speak louder than words.

Archways Winter 2019-20 Cover

Criminal justice reform isn't a math problem. But it may solve like one.

See what's next for º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ theatre facilities.

Here comes 2020. Let's make it kinder and gentler.

Archways Fall 2019 Cover

Ed Williams (’64) has forever moved the way the world measures mass.

Emeriti professors have much to teach in (and about) retirement.

For Dr. Paul Craig (’74), lifting up a friend involved sinking into the Alaska mud.

Archways Summer 2019 Cover

º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University has a new president. And he’s excited to meet you.

What’s it like to defend an NCAA III national championship? Two coaches speak from experience.

Artist Micheal Two Bulls painted Nebraska’s flood before it happened.