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SUSAN NARAMORE MAHER
As the visionary behind the Women’s Archive Project (WAP) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), Dr. Susan Naramore Maher’s contributions to the campus and her profession are innumerable. I...
AREAS OF INTREST: Education, Women's Rights, Writing
Josie Metal-Corbin
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son! – from “If”...
AREAS OF INTREST: Arts, Education
Marian Nelson
1939
There is no question that there have been many exceptional women throughout the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s (UNO) history. We have names and numbers that can be used to tell the story of our u...
AREAS OF INTREST: Activism, Education
Karen Falconer Al-Hindi
From an early age, Dr. Karen Falconer Al-Hindi has negotiated her own space. Intrigued by the relationships between people and places, Falconer Al-Hindi’s natural interest in geography has allowed...
AREAS OF INTREST: Education
Deborah Smith-Howell
Dr. Deborah Smith-Howell knew from an early age that she would one day earn a PhD. Starting college at an age when most of her peers were still midway through their high school educations, Smith-How...
AREAS OF INTREST: Education
Mary Alice Hurlbert
Graduating in the 1960s with a master’s degree in Education, Mary Alice Hurlbert embarked on teaching children throughout the world. She also participated in the first Head Start Program in Omaha. A...
AREAS OF INTREST: Education
Mary Mudd
Mary Mudd has inarguably been one of the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s (UNO) strongest leaders. Beginning her career here in 1969, Mary developed a passion for the University and its students. S...
AREAS OF INTREST: Education
Mary Waugh Taylor
1956-2010
Mary Waugh Taylor was born on October 13, 1956 in Okoboji, Iowa, a young girl in love with ballet. In many ways, Mary exemplifies the qualities of a true feminist hero by “doing it all,” and fight...
AREAS OF INTREST: Arts, Education
Ruth Diamond
Ruth Diamond danced her way into Omaha in 1931, knocking down barriers and disrupting gender norms as she pioneered, introduced, and established modern dance as an art form and area of study at the Un...
AREAS OF INTREST: Arts, Education
Sheila Runyon
When she came to the United States in 1963, Sheila Runyon was still Sheila McCrae, a farmer’s daughter from southwest Scotland with big dreams and an impressive academic history. She did not know wh...
AREAS OF INTREST: Education, Technology