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His father Manley Jefferson Evans (1878–1970) and mother Alice Jennie Turner (1882–1965) married in August 1905 in O'Neill, Nebraska. Manley J. Evans was a professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Robley D. Evans was their only child. He is named in honor of Admiral Robley D. Evans, but there is no immediate family connection.
Powell was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and was reared in Ottumwa, Iowa. [2] He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1962 and took his commission in the U.S. Air Force because the Air Force offered immediate support for study in a Ph.D. program. [2] At Arizona State University he earned an M.S.; he completed a Ph.D. in physics there in 1967. [2]
Nebraska Wesleyan University (NWU) is a private Methodist-affiliated university in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was founded in 1887 by Nebraska Methodists. As of 2017, it had approximately 2,100 students, including 1,500 full-time students [6] and 300 faculty and staff. The university has 119 undergraduate majors, minors, and pre-professional programs ...
Normal Blvd. in Lincoln, Nebraska is named for the former university. [22] Lincoln School of Commerce: 1884 1997 Lincoln: In 1884, Prof. F. F. Roose founded Lincoln Business College, which later merged with the Nebraska School of Business in 1925 to become the Lincoln School of Commerce.
This is a list of science centers in the United States. American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) member centers are granted institutional benefits and may offer benefits to individuals through purchased or granted individual memberships as well.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln Kenneth Arthur Bloom is an American particle physicist. He is a full professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society .
The Nebraska Tractor Test Law, passed in 1919 and administered by the university, requires performance testing on every tractor with forty horsepower or more sold in the state. The facility, initially established as the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory , was renamed for longtime chief engineer Lester F. Larsen when it was converted into a ...
John Ray Dunning was born in Shelby, Nebraska, on September 24, 1907, the son of Albert Chester Dunning, a grain dealer, and his wife Josephine Dunning née Thelen.He graduated from Shelby High School in 1925, and entered Nebraska Wesleyan University where he became a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, and received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in 1929.