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UNL crewmen George Pagano (right) and Brett Shald practice rowing at the Boathouse at 16th and X streets. Pagano and Caitlin Miller (not pictured), a fellow Nebraska Crew Club member, are raising money to compete in a cross-Atlantic rowing challenge next year.
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wo members of the Nebraska Crew Club are seeking sponsors to help them row across the Atlantic Ocean in 2015. Caitlin Miller, a junior environmental restoration science major, and George Pagano, a junior business administration major, will be the first people from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to row 3,000 miles from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean as part of the 2015 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. But first, they’ll have to raise at least $50,000.
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Miller and Pagano haven’t started physically preparing for the challenge because they are racing for the Nebraska Crew Club. Training for a regular rowing race, which is what the Nebraska Crew Club does, is different than training for a long trip across an ocean, Pagano said. A regular race is usually at a lake or river at another city or university where individuals row for a shorter amount of time, and the boats are smaller. To row across the Atlantic, the pair will have to change their sleeping
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patterns, their diets and physically and mentally train their bodies to row constantly for months. “There is a lot of mental stress because your sleeping pattern is off,” Pagano said. Both members will take two-hour shifts while rowing for 50 to 90 days, depending on how long their trip takes. “The fastest pair (finished in) 53 days,” Pagano said. Some people have rowed for more than 90 days. The boat will have enough space for two
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Students wear pink for professor Music educator’s son organized a T-shirt sale after she was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer Mara Klecker DN Wednesday was filled with hugs and tears for Gretchen Foley, an associate music professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The biggest hug went to her son Mike Foley, wearing a fluorescent pink “Team Gretchen” shirt with “On Wednesdays we wear Pink” scrawled across the back. But the 155 shirts Mike sold were more than a Mean Girls reference. They were an expression of support for the senior music education major’s mom, who now wears a gray cotton cap to hide the telltale sign of chemotherapy, the treatment that will keep her from teaching for rest of the semester. Detected at Stage 2, the tumor in her breast and the few free-floating cancer cells around it are likely beatable. But that doesn’t make the long hours sitting under dripping fluid bags and the months reading and sleeping at home any shorter any less lonely. Her treatment and surgery are scheduled to be completed by June and Gretchen plans to be back in her second-floor office in the Glenn Korff School of Music by August. It was during winter break when Gretchen broke the diagnosis to her son. “It was never, ‘Oh God, what’s
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The recently announced Digital Lab for Manufacturing, a Chicagobased national research collaboration, will include the work of UNL engineering staff.
UNL to participate in U.S. flagship research program courtesy photo
Mike Foley, a senior music education major, sold 155 “Team Gretchen” shirts in support of his mother, Gretchen Foley, an associate music professor who has breast cancer. going to happen?’ but just, ‘How are we going to get through this together?’” Mike said. With that attitude, Mike had an idea. As a student in the Glenn Korff School of Music, he knew his mom was a well-loved professor. He wanted to find a way to show her, have her come to work and be able to see the support she had
within the walls of Westbrook. He designed the shirts, found a website to sell them through and started spreading the word. Within 24 hours, he had 88 T-shirt orders. By the sixth and final day of the campaign, he had 155 orders and had raised $2,100. And he hadn’t even intended to take donations. For his broke college friends,
Mike thought charging $17 for the shirt would be asking too much. But the support was overwhelming, he said. He got orders from friends and family all over the world – Virginia, Texas, Canada, Australia. “Originally, it was just sup-
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staff report DN University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers will take part in the new Digital Lab for Manufacturing, a $320 million advanced manufacturing collaboration that President Barack Obama announced Wednesday. Twenty-three universities, including UNL, will work together with industry, government, state and community partners in 17 states to revitalize American man-
ufacturing, according to a university press release. The lab will be based in Chicago at UI Labs, a University of Illinois-affiliated research and commercialization collaboration, but a network of manufacturing research entities nationwide will participate. It “will be the nation’s flagship research institute in digital manufacturing and design innovation,” according to a lab fact sheet.
manufacturing: see page 3