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Andy Benson, director of the Nebraska Food for Health Center, discusses the medical benefits of food to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue during a tour of Nebraska Innovation Campus on Sept. 4.

Perdue says innovation, collaboration key to agriculture’s future

September 4, 2020

Greek care bags

Care bags distributed to quarantined students

September 4, 2020

As part of budget reductions related to the global pandemic, university leaders have opted to close the Confucius Institute. Launched in 2007, the institute was intended as a way to expand understanding of China language and culture, while also developing connections between Nebraska and the people of China.

Budget shifts include Confucius Institute closure

September 4, 2020

Nebraska’s Tim Nelson has received a new five-year grant to extend research into obesity. One component of it is to test subjects at the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior by having the test subject in an MRI receiving sips of milkshakes.

Nebraska researchers continue obesity intervention study

September 4, 2020

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Business expectations remain positive in Nebraska

September 4, 2020

Christine Asuoha, an August graduate, recently won Best in Show in the 2020 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Student Showcase. Shown here is her artwork, “The Heads of Asuoha,” a digital collage.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for Sept. 4

September 4, 2020

Chancellor outlines $22.56M in Phase 2 budget reductions

September 3, 2020

Nebraska’s Yufeng Ge has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to lead a team of researchers from three universities in expanding and standardizing plant phenotyping.

Husker-led project to advance, standardize field of phenotyping

September 3, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

The university will launch a new pilot program designed to make recycling processes universal in all campus buildings. It will be tested in eight buildings before being offered university-wide.

Pilot program aims at realigning recycling university-wide

September 3, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Society & Culture

Medical workers remove a swab for a COVID-19 screening at the TestNebraska site at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The university providing daily updates on numbers of tests and positive cases in its COVID-19 dashboard.

COVID-19 reporting shifts to provide clearer daily case totals

September 2, 2020

Nebraska in the national news: August 2020

September 2, 2020

Engineering expansion marked with ceremony, signatures

September 2, 2020

Science & Technology

Faculty 101, Tannenbaum talk economics of evictions

September 1, 2020

Society & Culture

Military STEM

Military veterans step more into STEM

September 1, 2020

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Diego Jarquin

Jarquin receives Early Career Scientist Award

September 1, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

The fall semester begins on an asynchronous, remote learning basis next Monday, August 17.

Chancellor announces $16.38M in budget reductions

August 31, 2020

To the choir: Forward-thinking faculty sharing innovations mostly among themselves

August 31, 2020

Science & Technology

Bird scooters

Scooter pilot program begins Sept. 1

August 31, 2020

Survey finds remote learning gaps in U.S. elementary schools

August 31, 2020

Society & Culture

Fifty-six percent of respondents to the 2019 Nebraska Rural Poll believe they are better off than they were five years ago, up from 52% last year.

Rural Poll: Nebraskans remain optimistic despite challenges

August 31, 2020

Agriculture & Environment