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When Bill and Tami Wyman retired in the spring of 2019, ¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ alumni and friends came together to establish an endowment in their honor. Bill and Tami asked that the endowment go to establish two annual awards: one award to be presented to a custodian, grounds or maintenance employee and the other to be presented to an administrative assistant.

Sa'javeane Wright was selected as a recipient of a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad.

Wright, a business and modern languages-Japanese major, will study Japanese at Nazan University in Nagoya, Japan for the next nine months. She is among nearly 3,000 undergraduate students from across the U.S. selected for the 2022 scholarship.

Nebraska Wesleyan's Elder Gallery presents Backloop: Curve Continuity, highlighting sustainable and affordable alternatives to common building materials.

In the Fall of 2012, The Nebraska Community Blood Bank contacted Professor of Communication Karla Jensen for help with their communication strategies. Specifically, the organization was seeking to understand how they could improve their internal communications within the large and diverse organization.

Danielle (Reab) Bayer is this year’s recipient of the Kenneth R. Holder Award. This award honors the legacy of Dr. Kenneth R. Holder who served as an ¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ faculty member and subsequently as provost from 1972 until his death in 1991. The award is given each year to a graduating student who has overcome significant challenges in achieving their degree.

On June 19, 1863, Union Army general Gordon Granger proclaimed freedom for enslaved people in Texas under President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, General Order No. 3.  Texas was the last Confederate state with institutional slavery. Today, we celebrate the 157th anniversary of the last African American slaves being freed.