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<p>After a year of planning and another 16 months of construction, Bowlin Stadium and Hawks Field at Haymarket Park were completed during the fall of 2001, ushering in an exciting era in Husker athletics.</p><p>Set up on 32 acres one-half mile west of the UNL campus, the complex combines private and public entities to give NU and the City of Lincoln a one-of-a-kind facility for the Husker baseball and softball teams and the Lincoln Saltdogs, a Northern League team that recently completed a highly successful inaugural season.</p><p>On July 31, 1999, NU, the City of Lincoln and Nebco Inc., announced plans to construct new two stadiums, a 6,000-seat stadium for the Husker baseball program and the Saltdogs - marking professional baseball's return to the Star City for the first time in 40 years - and a 2,500-seat softball stadium located next to the baseball field.</p>
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<p>The Hawks Championship Center features 81,200 square feet, including a full-length field identical to Memorial Stadium's game field. The field is available to all 23 of Nebraska's varsity teams and provides a controlled environment with excellent lighting.</p><p>The Championship Wing includes an Olympic-sized (8x16 meters) sand volleyball court for use in training by Nebraska's two-time national champion volleyball team. The special sand has been washed and polished to prevent dust, similar to the sand used during Olympic beach competition.</p>
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<p>The Home Economics Building is home to the College of Education and Human Sciences. The three-level, 32,500 square foot building houses the departments of textiles, clothing and design and textile science.</p><p>The lower level of the building is equipped with a 200-seat auditorium as well as a demonstration laboratory and small seminar and classrooms. The first level of the building houses adminstrative offices, computer labs, and a student organization meeting room.</p><p>The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery is located on the third floor of the Home Economics Building along with faculty offices and the temporary home of the International Quilt Study Center.</p>
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<p>Hewit Place building, named in honor of UNL almuni Bill and Betty Ruth Hewit, is on Lincoln's 12th Street Arts Corridor and conveniently located next to a city parking garage. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Great Plains Studies has offices in the tower wing, the Great Plains Art Museum is on the main floor off the entrance lobby, and the Lentz Center for Asian Culture is located on the lower level.</p><p>Veryl Goodnight's sculpture of a young pioneer woman, \No Turning Back
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<p>Harper, Schramm, and Smith residence halls are home to about 1,500 students. They're all coed halls, with double and super double rooms available.</p>
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<p>One of the benefits of choosing to live at Husker Hall is the option of preparing your own meals in the Husker Hall kitchen. Because of this option, contracts are \room only\" and are less expensive than the traditional residence halls.</p>"
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<p>The insectary was built in 1953 and since that time has housed the entomology research laboratory offered students a controlled environment to study insects , their effects on plant life, and pesticides.</p><p>The lab consists of three main parts: a 0 by 26-foot main floor and laboratory and a basement (which includes a cold storage room), an 88 by 25 greenhouse, and a laboratory where toxicological studies on insects can be made. The main floor also houses a bee keeping laboratory.</p><p>The greenhouse is divided into six compartments, which facilitates the control of temperatures in each. The screenhouse is used in the summer for caging insects under investigation, while a machine shop allows for construction of insect cages and other repairs.</p>
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<p>The three-story, 80,770 square foot Esther L. Kauffman Academic Residential Center combines, in one building, student living quarters and academic space for the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. The upper floors house 58 residential suites with room for 116 students; the ground floor has a great hall, visiting faculty apartments, faculty offices, five high-tech classrooms, computer labs and spaces for planning, meeting and presenting. The Kauffman Center opened in 2001 and is designed to enhance the team approach to problem solving by bringing frequent interaction and collaboration among the school's students, faculty, and industry leaders.</p><p>The building was made possible by a gift from Colorado software development pioneer, C. Edward McVaney and his wife Carole, both NU alumni. The building is named for Carole's mother, Esther Kauffman of Omaha.</p>
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<p>Kimball Recital Hall, on the University’s City Campus at 11th & R Streets, serves as the home for UNL School of Music’s Concerts and Recitals by faculty, students and guest artists. Kimball Recital Hall is acoustically outstanding, and with only 850 seats, is one of the finest concert halls in the Midwest.</p><p>To provide the best possible physical setting for concerts and recitals, the building has an elliptical roof and a round ceiling with an irregular surface. The theatre-style chairs are arranged in a continental - long rows, not separated by dividing aisles - seating pattern on the main floor and in divided blocks on the balcony. There is also an orchestra pit capable of accommodating a 40-member ensemble.</p> <p>The recital hall is located adjacent to Westbrook Music Building, home of the UNL School of Music. Performances include the Faculty Recital Series, and other faculty performances, including recitals and chamber music ensembles. Student performances include the UNL Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, University Singers and Jazz Ensemble among others. The School of Music’s Opera Program offers a repertoire of operas. Kimball Recital Hall also hosts several performances each year sponsored by the Lied Center for Performing Arts including chamber music concerts and performances especially suited to Kimball’s size.</p>
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<p>The Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences occupies Ruth Leverton Hall on the East Campus of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The building is named after Dr. Leverton, who was professor of human nutrition at the University of Nebraska from 1937 to 1954, and later assistant director of the Human Nutrition Research Division of the USDA in Washington, DC. The three-story Ruth Leverton Hall houses classrooms, a student lounge, faculty offices, and research laboratories.</p>
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<p>Completed in 1989, the Lied Center for Performing Arts is a state-of-the-art performing arts facility. The Lied serves students and residents of the entire region by bringing the world's finest arts and entertainment to its stage. It offers major regional, national and international events. It also provides opportunities for Nebraska artists to perform and a teaching/training laboratory for performing arts departments at UNL.</p><p>The entire building covers 150,000 square-feet, with seating for 2,278. The auditorium is an instrument itself. There are no parallel walls and the seats were specially designed to absorb the same amount of sound whether people are sitting in them or not. This means the acoustics in the hall are perfect. A performance will sound as good with an audience of 200 or a full house. The front of the main stage is only 150 ft. from the very back of the balcony, creating a feeling of intimacy.</p><p>Lied includes a black box theatre, named The Johnny Carson Theater, that incorporates adjustable acoustics. This means that the acoustics of the main hall can be duplicated in this room. The Johnny Carson Theater has movable seating and can be used as a small theater for public performances as well as for dance and music rehearsals. Lied also houses a conference room, teaching spaces, and other facilities.</p>
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<p>The Don L. Love Memorial Library is the main library in the UNL library system. It is the largest library in Nebraska and the state's only comprehensive research library.</p><p>Love Library provides a comfortable, secure environment for individuals and groups to study and do research. A wireless network, as well as some standard wired ports, provides users with access to the Internet via personal laptop computers or those that can be checked out at the Circulation Desk.</p><p>The collections located in the Love Library North & Link building include all levels of the social sciences and humanities, including art, business, education, geography, history, journalism, language, literature, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion and sociology.</p><p>Library users have access to the IRIS Catalog, including a wide variety of databases and full-text resources, as well as general use computers. Individual study rooms are available for check out and the Reference desk, Integrated Computer Area, and workstations with access to a wide-range of CD-ROM databases are located in the Link area.</p><p>Among Love's many features you'll find:</p><ul><li>More than 2.2 million volumes</li><li>More than 12,700 active serials, both American and international</li><li>Current periodicals</li><li>Newspapers, primarily large metropolitan American and international</li><li>More than 2 million microform pieces.</li><li>A collection of videotapes</li></ul>
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<p>The Don L. Love Memorial Library is the main library in the UNL library system. It is the largest library in Nebraska and the state's only comprehensive research library.</p><p>Love Library provides a comfortable, secure environment for individuals and groups to study and do research. A wireless network, as well as some standard wired ports, provides users with access to the Internet via personal laptop computers or those that can be checked out at the Circulation Desk.</p><p>Love South holds collections for all levels of the sciences, including biology, chemistry, physics and astronomy. Also located in the Love South building are government documents, microforms, newspapers, current periodicals, videotapes and DVDs.</p><p>Individual study rooms, as well as a large reading room for quiet study, are available.</p><p>Among Love's many features you'll find:</p><ul><li>More than 2.2 million volumes</li><li>More than 12,700 active serials, both American and international</li><li>Stand-alone workstations with access to a wide-range of CD-ROM databases, from general reference sources to more specialized research tools</li><li>The Integrated Computer Area, an expanded student computer lab area, with word processing, e-mail and Internet access.</li></ul>
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<p>Love Memorial Cooperative Residence Hall is an all-female, all class years residence hall located on East Campus. LMH is a self-governed cooperative advised by trained UNL Housing staff.</p><p>As a cooperative, residents contribute 4-6 hours of household tasks per week, a savings of $3200 per year compared to other University Housing options. In addition to the financial benefit, residents form a close-knit community where teamwork and personal development beyond the classroom is valued. Leadership. Learning. Love. Contact the current LMH secretary for more information or to set up a tour.</p>
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<p>Love Memorial Cooperative Residence Hall is an all-female, all class years residence hall located on East Campus. LMH is a self-governed cooperative advised by trained UNL Housing staff.</p><p>As a cooperative, residents contribute 4-6 hours of household tasks per week, a savings of $3200 per year compared to other University Housing options. In addition to the financial benefit, residents form a close-knit community where teamwork and personal development beyond the classroom is valued. Leadership. Learning. Love. Contact the current LMH secretary for more information or to set up a tour.</p>
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<p>The new Library Storage Facility on holds more 420,000 aged books, government documents and theses moved last summer from Love Library, three branch libraries and an off-campus storage facility. The climate controlled East Campus building will be used for cleaning, sizing, sorting and long-term storage of the many volumes.</p><p>All items in the facility are organized in acid-free storage devices, lined two-deep on each shelf. The climate controlled storage area is kept at 50 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit with a constant humidity level of 35 percent. Conditions will help preserve materials for up to 150 years.</p><p>The $2.9 million UNL facility joins about 40 other academic and research libraries with similar facilities to house and preserve materials.</p>
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<p>The Larsen Tractor Museum displays over 40 historic tractors (inside and outside) that trace the developments in power, safety, and innovation of the machine over the course of the 20th century. Descriptions for each tractor aid the visitor on self-guided tours.</p><p>In addition to the collection of tractors, the Museum features the L.W. Chase, Chauncey W. Smith and E.A. Olsen Collections of pioneer tools and historical tractor performance testing equipment.</p><p>The museum also houses a rare Auto Wagon Model A, manufactured by International Harvester Company, Chicago, USA, in 1910. The “new” vehicle is an excellent addition to the Larsen Museum collection of early tractors, agricultural machinery and hand tools.</p>
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<p>Inside the Pershing Military and Naval Science Building you will find the offices and classrooms for Army, Navy, and Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). The lower level of the M&N building is where the UNL Rifle Team is located.</p>
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<p>Manter Hall is one of three buildings housing the School of Biological Sciences (the others are the Beadle Center and the Morrison Life Sciences Research Center). Manter Hall contains the school's administrative office, advising center, classrooms, teaching labs, animal care facility, the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, and many of the school's faculty offices and research labs.</p>
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<p>The home of the Huskers since 1923 and the location of a continuing NCAA-record sellout streak that reached 282 games at the conclusion of 2006, Memorial Stadium has undergone some dramatic changes recently.</p><p>More than 6,500 seats were added in the North Stadium as part of the Memorial Stadium Expansion Project, which brought the historic stadium's capacity to 81,067 in 2006. The impressive changes, include one of the largest in-stadium replay screens in the nation.</p><p>Inscribed on the four corners of the stadium are the following words, written by former UNL professor of philosophy Hartley Burr Alexander:</p><p><strong>Southeast:</strong> \In Commemoration of the men of Nebraska who served and fell in the Nations Wars.\"</p><p><strong>Southwest:</strong> \"Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game; In the deed the glory.\"</p><p><strong>Northwest:</strong> \"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport.\"</p><p><strong>Northeast:</strong> \"Their Lives they held their countrys trust; They kept its faith; They died its heroes.\"</p>"
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