Timothy Schaffert will deliver the William C. Kloefkorn Nebraska Writers Series lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 29 in Olin B Lecture Hall.

Each homecoming celebration, NWU pays special tribute to outstanding alumni for life and career accomplishments. The tribute takes place at the annual Legends and Legacies banquet. The 2022 honorees include:

When Bill and Tami Wyman retired in the spring of 2019, NWU alumni and friends came together to establish an endowment in their honor. Bill and Tami asked that the endowment go to establish two annual awards: one award to be presented to a custodian, grounds or maintenance employee and the other to be presented to an administrative assistant.

Sa'javeane Wright was selected as a recipient of a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad.

Wright, a business and modern languages-Japanese major, will study Japanese at Nazan University in Nagoya, Japan for the next nine months. She is among nearly 3,000 undergraduate students from across the U.S. selected for the 2022 scholarship.