Academics

The fall semester at Nebraska Wesleyan University officially began Monday, August 26. But first year students in Karla Jensen’s liberal arts seminar, “The Liberal Arts of Yoga,” started their academic year early learning the historical, psychological, economical, and political aspects of yoga.

They started on Sunday, August 18 with a class on basic breathing techniques.

A first-year biology student has been selected as a Fulbright summer institute participant.

The musical talents of two Nebraska Wesleyan University students are featured in a new NET Television documentary, "Devil Clouds: Tornadoes Strike Nebraska."

Nebraska Wesleyan University has announced its Academic Honors List for the fall semester of the 2012-2013 academic year.

A student must have a minimum grade point average of 3.75 (on a 4.00 scale) for 12 or more hours of coursework to qualify for the list.

Chances are good the names “Edgar Sheffield Brightman” and “L. Harold DeWolf” mean very little to you.

But the names of these two Nebraska Wesleyan men meant a tremendous amount to one person whose name means as much to America’s history as any in the last 150 years: Martin Luther King, Jr.

About 98 percent of the inmates currently incarcerated in Nebraska's 10 prisons will be released and will return to our communities and neighborhoods.

Rev. Ruth Karlsson, executive director of Released and Restored, will address this topic when she delivers the annual Swan Lecture on Thursday, January 31.

Members of Global Service Learning won’t just be traveling to grandma’s house over the holiday.

Fifteen members of the student organization are headed to Chicago January 5-12 to participate in a variety of service activities. They are one of three student organizations and Nebraska Wesleyan classes traveling over the semester break.

Last spring Sheryl Rinkol boarded the Azamara Journey, a memorial ship that traveled from New York City to the site of the Titanic’s sinking in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the marine disaster.