![Photo Credit: Alumni Spotlight Barbara Hendricks](images/news/hendricks-960x540.jpg)
Barbara Hendricks, today one of the world's leading lyric sopranos, came to Lincoln in 1968 as an ambitious young woman from Stephens, Arkansas, and a likely future research chemist. That fall, she transferred to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to finish her degree in chemistry and mathematics. What she found here was the path that would take her to some of the great concert halls of the world.