University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska- Lincoln ( UNL short ) in Lincoln, Nebraska is next to Omaha and Kearney is the largest of the three sites of the State University of Nebraska.

With around 22,000 students it is the largest university in the state of Nebraska, it offers a wide range of subjects. She was until 2011 a member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities.

Main focus of the University is regionally limited to agricultural science; so there is, inter alia, the refreshing shower Kool -Aid was invented and manufacturing processes for form meat was developed as it is, for example, in McDonalds product " McRib " to find.

The large grounds of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln is centrally located in downtown Lincoln on the Cornhuskers Avenue. Flanked the area with the giant Midwest ratios Memorial Stadium.

Sports

In high school sports Nebraska of the Big Ten Conference connected and especially in American football is very successful. Thus, the Nebraska Cornhuskers five times won the National Championship in college football. The Cornhuskers, whose mascot is a man with red dungarees and big "N", are one of the most common points of identity Nebraskianer ( from the Red Garden Gnome, via car flags up to the obligatory T -shirts can have everything ). The former coach of the Cornhuskers, Tom Osborne, now sits as a representative of the 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Famous people

Nobel Laureate

  • George Wells Beadle - Nobel Prize in Physiology / Medicine 1958

Other graduates

  • Bob Brown - American football player
  • Warren Buffett - CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, according to Forbes Magazine one of the richest people in the world
  • Johnny Carson - Former host of the Tonight Show
  • Willa Cather - writer
  • Bob Kerrey - a former governor of Nebraska
  • Ted Kooser - poet
  • John J. Pershing - General of the U.S. Army in World War 1
  • Karlis Ulmanis - Former Prime Minister and Minister of Latvia
  • Emmy Rossum - American singer and actress
  • Bernie Scherer - American football player
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