The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often called UNL, but also known as Nebraska or NU, is referred to as the flagship institution of the University of Nebraska system. UNL was founded in 1869 as a land-grant university under the provisions of the Morrill Act. Its main campus is located in Lincoln a few blocks north of the Nebraska State Capitol. The university is a Carnegie Research (very high) institution and a member of the Association of Amer...
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The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often called UNL, but also known as Nebraska or NU, is referred to as the flagship institution of the University of Nebraska system. UNL was founded in 1869 as a land-grant university under the provisions of the Morrill Act. Its main campus is located in Lincoln a few blocks north of the Nebraska State Capitol. The university is a Carnegie Research (very high) institution and a member of the Association of American Universities since 1909. Nebraska was the first to establish an undergraduate psychology lab and the discipline of ecology was born at the university. Its scholarly press, the University of Nebraska Press, is the second-largest state university press in the United States, and one of the largest university presses in the world. Its campus art gallery, the Sheldon Museum of Art, has one of the world's foremost collection of 20th century North American art.
The University of Nebraska was created by an act of the Nebraska State Legislature in...
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