Increasing Profitability $30.9 Million
Adding $3 to Every Acre
Boosting Ranch Profitability by $9,800
Saving 2 Inches of Water on Crops
Cutting Irrigation Costs $9.8 Million
No-Till Knowledge Worth $9.6 Million
$4.8 Million for Green Jobs Training
Annual Impact: $267 million
$9.3M To Improve Math Achievement
70 Student-Developed Solutions
Making 500 Nebraska Workers Safer
Saving Seniors Over $3 Million
Saving Water, Saving $12 Million
Increasing Wheat Yields
Feeding 3 million More People
Investing in Disease Prevention
Engaging 135,000 Nebraska Youth
Saving Teens $1,500 A Year
Improving Water Education
Saving $2,566 Per Pesticide Application
Saving $2.6 Million on Termite Control
1000s of Hours in Community Design
Increasing Profitability $30.9 Million
The economic impact in 2008 of the Crop Management & Diagnostic Clinics that helped 527 crop production industry professionals and growers increase profitability and enhance soil/water resources was $30.9 million. more...
Adding $3 to Every Acre
2011 Crop Production Clinics reached more than 1,600 ag professionals and farmers, who reported that the clinics would contribute an average of $3 per acre on the land they manage. more...
Boosting Ranch Profitability by $9,800
A 2011 survey of cow/calf producers who participated in all UNL Extension beef programs in the past year reported making changes that improved their profitability by $18 per head or $9800 per operation. more...
Saving 2 Inches of Water on Crops
Participants in the Nebraska Ag Water Management Demonstration Network reported a savings of approximately 2.6 inches of water savings per acre on corn and 2.1 inches for soybeans. more...
Cutting Irrigation Costs $9.8 Million
In 2010, programs on irrigation water management reached more than 1,700 producers and consultants. Those surveyed estimate a $9.8 million reduction in costs for the practices they plan to implement. more...
No-Till Knowledge Worth $9.6 Million
The 2010 Nebraska No-Till Conference in Holdrege reached 434 participants. Since attending their first conference, participants report saving an average of $14 per acre and a total of $9.6 million. more...
$4.8 Million for Green Jobs Training
UNL is using a $4.8 million grant funded by the US Department of Labor through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to provide green jobs training in Nebraska. According to the proposal, UNL faculty and staff will "train the trainers," including counselors and specialists at 17 career centers targeting Nebraska's western, northeast and metro areas. more...
Annual Impact: $267 million
Nebraska Innovation Campus, according to the consultants' estimates, could bring an annual new payroll to the local and state economy of $267 million, including $149 million in direct annual payroll and $118 million in indirect payroll from new spin-off jobs. more...
$9.3 Million To Improve Math Achievement
UNL is using a $9.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund NebraskaMATH, which seeks to improve achievement in mathematics for all Nebraska students and to narrow achievement gaps of at-risk populations. more...
70 Student-Developed Business Solutions
32 businesses and 12 eight public entities in Nebraska that benefitted from the collaboration of students in UNL's Raikes School of Computer Science and Management as part of the program's Design Studio. In Design Studio, student teams develop real-world, software-based solutions meeting their client's needs. more...
Making 500 Nebraska City Workers Safer
Industrial and management systems engineering professor David Cochran assisted in developing an ergonomics plan for Cargill's Nebraska City plant, part of the world's second largest privately-owned company, according to Forbes magazine. more...
Saving Seniors Over $3 Million
UNL extension saved Nebraskans $646,000 through the Medicare Education Program in 2008-09 and $2,844,879 since 2004. more...
Saving Water, Saving $12 Million
661 farmers saved $12.2 million from 2005-08 after learning water-saving techniques at Republican River Basin field days in each of those four years. more...
Increasing Wheat Yields
IANR-developed wheat varieties that perform well in Nebraska fields are worth roughly $60 million annually to Nebraska producers, based on increased yield and 2008 prices. more...
Feeding 3 million More People
Yield improvement in wheat varieties means Nebraska wheat growers can feed 3.3 million more people a year on fewer acres than were in production in the 1960s. more...
Investing in Disease Prevention
For every $1 spent on the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), a potential health savings of $2-$8 may result from the prevention or delayed onset of nutrition-related chronic diseases. more...
Engaging 135,000 Nebraska Youth
About 135,000 Nebraska youth (one-in-three age-eligible) take part in 4-H programming each year. more...
Saving Teens $1,500 A Year
Extension Educators have taught "Preventing Credit Card Blues at 22" to over 11,000 high school seniors. Learning to manage credit card use early in life can save an average of $1,500 annually in interest and fees. more...
Improving Water Education
Extension reached 2,343 Nebraskans with 8,330 contact hours of research-based drinking water and wastewater educational programs in 2009. more...
Saving $2,566 Per Pesticide Application
In three years of providing the Pesticide Safety Education Program, UNL Extension has helped more than half of the state's licensed commercial/noncommercial applicators save an average of $2,566 per application. more...
Saving $2.6 Million on Termite Control
661 farmers saved $12.2 million from 2005-08 after learning water-saving techniques at Republican River Basin field days in each of those four years. more....
Thousands of Hours in Community Design
Each year, UNL's College of Architecture students and faculty deliver thousands of hours of architectural, landscape and interior design and community planning expertise to Nebraska communities. more....
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln serves the people of Nebraska by...
- Educating Nebraska's Workforce
- Empowering Nebraska's Citizens
- Revitalizing Nebraska's Economy
- Enhancing Nebraska's Quality of Life
- Creating Opportunities Through Research
We are Nebraska.
79,922 alumni in the state
14,821 undergraduate students from Nebraska
5,847 employees
For 140 years, the University of Nebraska has been making Nebraska values real.
The University of Nebraska was founded in Lincoln in 1869 with the goal of the institution, as written in its charter, to "afford the inhabitants of the state the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science and the arts." UNL celebrated the 140th anniversary of its founding on Feb. 15, 2009.
UNL HISTORY
Better to Best
In Fall 2010, for the seventh-straight year, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has made U.S. News and World Report's annual evaluation of America's Best Colleges' Top 50 list of Public National Universities. UNL is ranked near the top third of all national universities both public and private, (tied with six others at 104th), and is tied with four other universities as 47th in the "Top 50" list for public national universities. This places UNL among the top one-fourth of all public universities.
In the past five years, UNL has moved from 107th to 89th in the "Best National Universities" list and from 52nd to 40th in the "Public National" universities.
