A University of Nebraska–Lincoln occurs as state-supported institution of higher learning located in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. Typically known as just Nebraska or even UNL, these are a flagship & big campus of the University of Nebraska system. UNL was founded inside 1869 was a land-grant university under the provisions of the Morrill Act. A university has deuce Lincoln campuses: City Campus (directly northward of & adjacent to downtown Lincoln) & East Campus (deuce miles northeast of City Campus). East Campus wwhen originally purchased for utilise as a university domestic.

A school's sports teams come a Cornhuskers (or just "Huskers"). UNL is an NCAA Division I-A school & occurs as member of the Big Twelve Conference. After a Cornhuskers play football home withinside Memorial Sports arena, a stadium itself becomes a third big city in Nebraska.

A student newspaper, a Daily Nebraskan, has the 5th-greatest circulation of any newspaper in the state.

Colleges
A university offers concluded 140 undergrad majors & 275 computer software of survey across 10 colleges: Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Architecture Arts and Sciences Business Administration Education and Human Sciences Engineering and Technology Hixon-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Graduate Studies Journalism and Mass Communications Law

Points of interest
City Campus
Great Plains Art Collection: 1155 Q Street; in the Christlieb Gallery. Howell & Studio Theatres: Twelfth & R Streets; in the Temple Building. At home to the performances of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film. J.D. Edwards Honors Program: 630 N 14th Street. A honors program develops next-generation leaders within business & technology. Lied Center for Performing Arts: 12th & R Streets. Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater: 313 N 13th Street. Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: 12th & R Streets. University of Nebraska State Museum: 14th & U Streets; in Morrill Hall. These are popularly referred to as "Elephant Hall". University of Nebraska Press has a hard program for publishing original works & reprints of important works all about a West. A "Bison Books" imprint occurs as series of high quality trade paperbacked editions of signififcant titles.

East Campus
International Quilt Study Center: 234 Home Economics Building. Maxwell Arboretum: part of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. UNL Dairy Store: offers a wide choice of premium dairy farm products.

Other
For two or three weeks in the 2004 fall semester, rocker Tommy Lee attended several classes at a university for the NBC television show Tommy Lee Goes to College.

Distinguished alumni & persons associated with UNL
Grace Abbott, a pioneering U.s. welfare worker, attended a university in the early 1900s. George W. Beadle, winner of the 1958 Nobel prize in physiology and medicine received his bachelor of science and master of science degrees from the College of Agriculture in the 1920s. A George W. Beadle Center for Genetics & Biomaterials Search at UNL is known as for Dr. Beadle. Warren Buffett, the "Oracle of Omaha" & 2nd-richest human of the globe (nett worth of $43 billion) Johnny Carson, longtime host of The Tonight Show, who, prior to his dying, donated V.Three million dollars to the College of Fine & Performing Arts. Willa Cather, A distinguished novelist, exposed at a university in the Nineties. Her novels include O Pioneers, a Antonia, & One of Ours, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize inside 1923. The [http://cather.unl.edu Willa Cather Electronic Library] is available from either a University. Aaron Douglas, a distinguished painter & leader of the Harlem Renaissance, standard his B.F.The.from either a university inside 1922. Bob Kerrey, a Medal of Honor recipient in Vietnam, the previous governor of Nebraskthe, a previous senator from either Nebraska, & a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (known as a "9/11 Commission"). Ted Kooser, who was known as Poet Laureate of a United States around 2004, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, took an expert's degree at the University of Nebraska around 1968 & was a camping professor in the English department. Ben Nelson, senator from Nebraska & previous governor of Nebraska. John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War I, took a law degree at the University of Nebraska while serving as the Professor of Military Science in the 1890s. Louise Pound, longtime English professor at UNL & president of the Modern Language Association, 1954-55. Roscoe Pound, a distinguished legal scholar & dean of Harvard Law School. Kārlis Ulmanis, Prime Minister and later President of Latvia, studied and lectured at the university.