Dr. Fred Ohles, President of Nebraska Wesleyan University, awarded degrees to approximately 500 undergraduate and graduate students during Nebraska Wesleyan University’s 124th annual commencement held Saturday, May 18.
Three years ago a group of Nebraska Wesleyan University students traveled to Guatemala where they helped the organization Constru Casa build a house for an impoverished family.
It took Nebraska Wesleyan University senior art major Jaime Crist approximately 12 hours to poke them all into a four-foot by 16-foot corkboard that would hang on the Elder Gallery wall, showcasing her artistic talents at the Senior Art Exhibit.
The political science major from Lincoln will go to Georgia thanks to a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. He is one of over 700 undergraduates from across the country selected to receive the prestigious award sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
Four years ago this month Caty Reed sat at her high school graduation and listened to a speaker tell her and her fellow classmates that they could change the world.
The psychology major will spend the next year there where he will teach English to Japanese students as part of the Japanese Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. Snyder was selected from a pool of international applicants.