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Spring 2024

The Longevity Issue

Can a great education lengthen your life?

Intensive Caring

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

Break the Mold

An alumnus is reshaping how Nebraska Wesleyan prepares innovators and entrepreneurs.

Fall-Winter 2023

An Absolute Masterclass in Leadership

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

The Methodist Matchmaker

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

Mind Craft

An NWU psychology professor uses principles of gameplay to help her students set high scores.

Summer 2023

University Place’s New Faces

A historic Lincoln neighborhood is experiencing new life.

Cheat Code

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

War’s Fog

A retired ophthalmologist refocuses on Vietnam, 1969.

Spring 2023

Forward Thinkers

NWU experts predict the future in their fields.

Four Years Running

NWU runners take the A-R-C’s top all-sport honor for a fourth straight year.

Where Are They Now?

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

Fall 2022

Field of Vision

A new home for NWU baseball and softball is coming into view.

The Many Metamorphoses of Jeanne (Williams) Megel (’74)

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

The Next Stage

Major renovations at Elder Theatre Center enter Act II.

Summer 2022

The Economy of Hope

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

Full-throttle Physiology

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.

Portal Immortals

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

Spring 2022

How to Handle a Tomahawk

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

The Strategy from Here

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?

International Waters

NWU’s Kayla Hepler (’24) swims for her country at the FINA World Championships.

Winter 2021-22

Paint the Town

A homegrown mural project brings world artists to University Place.

The Kunkel Violin

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

In Support of Abbie S. Hodgetts

When the effects of time shifted NWU’s historic archways, the university shifted into action.

Fall 2021

An Awakening Sound

On Nebraska Wesleyan’s commencement day, tradition carries a sound. And that sound is carried by Graeme Dodworth (’01).

The Real Story

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

Americans and the Holocaust

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

Summer 2021

Fit for Hard Things

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

Voluminous Shoes

Prof. David Mickey (’39) authored the first three volumes of NWU’s history. Filling his shoes for volume four is Prof. Jim Schaffer.

Prairie Wolves in Print: Pot Doc

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

Spring 2021

Monumental Shifts

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

The Historiculturist

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

Honoring the Grief

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

Winter 2020-21

Prairie Wolf Nation Turns 20

Students spark a transformation in school spirit.

The Art of Improvisation

NWU’s artists and performers show us what it means to adapt to new circumstances.

Unflappable

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

Fall 2020

Lone Wolf Unpacked

Nebraska Wesleyan is a 13th child—and a sole survivor.

A Semester Unlike Any Other

Nebraska Wesleyan University’s 266th semester looks very different.

Prairie Wolves in Print: Roy

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

Summer 2020

Under the Microscope

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

Club 2,000

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

Can Robots Deliver a More Human Health Care System?

One alumnus sets out to engineer happier hospitals.

Spring 2020

Let Me Draw You a Map

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

All the World’s a Stage

An unlikely action hero brings Shakespeare to the Kenyan stage.

GOATs in Wolves’ Uniforms

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

Winter 2019-20

Solve for X

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

The Next Stage

See what's next for NWU theatre facilities.

For the Love of All Things Civil

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

Fall 2019

Massive Change

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

Retiring Right

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

Sinking into the Climb

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

Summer 2019

Caretaker in Chief

Nebraska Wesleyan University has a new president. And he’s excited to meet you.

In Defense of Title Defenses

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

A Flood of Uneasy Questions

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

Spring 2019

Unswayed

You won’t believe how good we are at disbelieving evidence.

Seeing Shaka Taylor

The greatest running back in NWU history didn’t always see himself playing college football.

The Great Givers-back

Meet the ferociously caring woman behind NWU nursing.

Winter 2018-19

Translate to Success

President Fred Ohles gives the entire Nebraska Wesleyan community a common language.

Meet Hamlet

A most remarkable woman plays theatre’s most remarkable leading man.

Growing up American

In migrant children, we read an important chapter of America’s story.