IRR students in Malawi

Union students provide medical relief to cyclone victims in Malawi

The team from Union’s international rescue and relief program are joining the disaster response in southern Malawi, one of four countries in southeastern Africa ravaged by Cyclone Idai last week.

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Red Cross Club

Union faculty and students managing flood donation warehouse

The Union College Red Cross Club was called into action to manage a multi-agency warehouse in Omaha for donations coming in from around the country for victim’s of the March flooding across Nebraska. Union College Red…

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Union senior named Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholar

Jonathan Deemer has a very clear goal to impact foreign policy and peacemaking efforts by practicing law in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence. The senior international…

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Students pack food for hungry kids on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

While Union College was closed today observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a group of Union students honored Dr. King’s legacy with a service project in partnership with a Lincoln-based charity. Chapter 25 Lincoln sends non-perishable…

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IRR team headed for Malawi.

Expedition Malawi 2019—update #11 (March 25)

During their last week in Malawi, the international rescue and relief team was asked to provide medical care to displaced victims of Cyclone Idai in the southern part of the country. Read the updates here.…

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Red Cross Club provides emergency relief in southeast Nebraska

The American Red Cross is often a first responder to emergencies, with volunteers handing out food and necessities, finding lodging, and taking care of immediate needs of survivors. When disasters like house fires or tornadoes…

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Calling means changing the world—one kid at a time

“My calling,” said Drew Mekelburg, “is to make this world a better place.” So, after graduating in 2016 from Union College with a degree in physical education, Drew took a job teaching P.E. at Belmont Elementary…

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Calling is contributing to something bigger than yourself

The path to finding a calling isn’t always a four-lane highway; sometimes it’s meandering and boulder-strewn. At least that’s how Spencer Curtis describes his journey. “My first year of college I was directionless,” he confessed,…

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Union student wins international film contest

Caleb Haakenson did not produce a video until he arrived at Union College, but his growing creativity with a camera and passion for evangelism helped him develop the winning entry in Adventist Mission’s recent My Story,…

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Religion professor presents at Biblical Research Institute conference

For Union College Religion Professor Ben Holdsworth, climate science is nothing new. He believes it impacted the world of the early Christian church, and it will again influence Adventists as the time of Christ’s coming…

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A college course disguised as a vacation with friends

It’s one thing to learn important lessons from history. But for Union students Kayla Miller and Natasha McWilliams-Nasser, seeing history firsthand means those lessons will last a lifetime. This summer, 10 Union Scholars students took…

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Smoothie baristas lead a rebranding campaign

Lincoln summers are pretty hot. And Nicholas Morrison thinks a nuVibe smoothie could save your life. The senior business and graphic design major is a little biased, though, because he started working as a barista…

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