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Senior feature: Nyanbay Puok
Nyanbay Puok, a senior biomedical science major, didn’t always see herself staying in Lincoln. Born and raised in Nebraska to a South Sudanese family, and a proud graduate of College View Academy, she once planned to leave…
Senior feature: Gideon Logan
As a graduating International Rescue and Relief and Biomedical Science double major, Gideon Logan’s time at Union offered him countless adventures. When first starting college, Logan planned on becoming an ecologist. Around the time he…
Senior feature: Kylie Wehling
In seventh grade, Nebraska native Kylie Wehling sat with her dad at Union’s Friday night vespers. The chords of the song “Oceans” drifted across the sanctuary as the pianist’s hands glided along the piano keys.…
Senior feature: Yann Birasa
From his confident walk across campus, there is no indication in Yann Birasa’s relaxed stride that he hasn’t lived in the Midwest his whole life. Having grown up in Belgium and Rwanda, Nebraska wasn’t a…
Bermeo wins Union’s first pitch competition
Picture this: you’re front and center on the Wood’s Auditorium stage with spotlights glaring in your face. With a microphone in hand, you’re presenting your business idea to not just the five judges in front…
More than paper: Peyton Ohnoutka’s winding road to a degree
Peyton Ohnoutka’s education took a few detours before she graduated from Union in December 2025. As a star volleyball player at Lincoln East High School, she had ended her college search early when McPherson College…
One class, three publications
Sami Hoffer took Feature Writing class last spring, and now she is seeing her class assignments appear in print in three different magazines. The sophomore biomedical science major has added writing classes to her schedule…
Finding belonging: how small groups are shaping campus life
Three years ago, Union Adventist University’s Campus Ministries and Residential Life launched a new emphasis on small groups to provide students with meaningful worship and social opportunities against a cultural backdrop of increasing loneliness. Today, small group…
Phonathon: conversations that connect
You may have recently received a phone call from Union, and if you haven’t, you probably will soon. The annual Phonathon is well underway raising money for The Union Fund to support the university’s continuing mission. We asked…
Anh Tran: a public health plan with teeth in it
Anh Tran’s path to Union Adventist University’s Master of Public Health Program was far from a straight line. It started with trips up and down treacherous mountain roads in Vietnam. Her mother works in the pharmaceutical industry;…
Touching history in Khirbet Safra
This summer, three theology majors traveled halfway around the world and a few thousand years into the past. Payton Arnett, Albany Santeliz Diaz and Marcus McConaghy joined Dr. Trisha Broy, assistant professor of religion, on…
Senior feature: Quinn Gillespie
Quinn Gillespie joined the International Rescue and Relief Outdoors Club (IRROC) for the hiking. An elementary education major from Medford, Oregon, she grew up surrounded by the mountains and forests of the Pacific Northwest. Coming to Lincoln,…