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This week SM论坛 biology students are practicing their diving skills in the campus swimming pool. Next week they鈥檒l put those skills to the test on the northwest coast of Roatan, Honduras where they will experience 30 miles of fringing barrier reefs, seagrass beds, mangroves and shoreline.

Whether they鈥檙e writing publications from the four walls of their home, visiting parks and forests along the Pacific Northwest, tracing the footsteps of the apostle Paul in Greece and Turkey, or collecting family stories in South Korea, several Nebraska Wesleyan University faculty are looking forward to upcoming sabbaticals that will inevitably re-energize them as professors.

Seniors Terrin Wurdeman and Jessica States remember rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty the very first weekend of their college careers.

Congratulations to the following students who have been elected to the 2010-2011 Student Affairs Senate:

Five students from Austria and Germany will study at Nebraska Wesleyan University next fall.

Their enrollment is a result of the many campus visits made by Travis and Karla Jensen.

Over the past year, the psychology department has increasingly been filled with students wearing lab coats and surgical masks. They're busy studying the behavioral traits of mice. They're conducting more animal research than any other time in recent history.

Psychology faculty and students say the increased interest can be traced to psychology professor Frank Ferraro.

Two long-time employees of the Physics Department are preparing to say goodbye after a combined 86 years of service to Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Dave Goss, professor of physics, and Beth Haring, staff assistant to the physics, mathematics and computer science departments, will retire this month.

Abby Tranel learned of Nebraska Wesleyan University鈥檚 study abroad program through her liberal arts seminar taken as a first year student.

鈥淲hen I heard about it I immediately knew I had to do it,鈥� said the senior political science major from Aurora, Neb.