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Clementine Ewomsan, a member of the STEM-POWER Research Program’s 2022 summer cohort, works with Yuguo Yang, a graduate student in biological sciences, during her summer research appointment.

NSF grant expands efforts to retain underrepresented STEM students

October 12, 2022

Science & Technology

Letters from Willa Cather

Publication of Cather’s correspondence nearly complete

October 12, 2022

Food for Health Center scientists from the labs of James C. Schnable and Andy Benson examine sorghum plants at the Greenhouse Innovation Center at Nebraska Innovation Campus. The Husker scientists (from left) are Chenyong Miao, Qinnan “Bob” Yang, Zhikai Liang and Mallory Van Haute.

IANR tech boosts understanding of food crop traits, gut microbiome

October 12, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

This aerial photo shows where rainforest has been converted to farm land in the Cerrado region of Brazil

Husker study: Brazil can grow more soybeans without deforesting Amazon

October 10, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Shane Tucker (right), highway paleontologist with the University of Nebraska State Museum, shows visitors how microfossils are sorted during a previous Fossil Night event.

Fossil Day at Morrill Hall will feature ID station, storytime, scavenger hunt

October 7, 2022

A color portrait of Dr. Ali S. Khan on a color campus background

Khan to deliver Thompson Forum lecture on public health

October 6, 2022

Travis Hencey stands in front of “Beating the Deadline,” a mural he designed for Chadron’s Art Alley. The mural features a man at a desk working on a computer.

Murals showcase community culture across Nebraska

October 5, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Color portrait of Derek McLean on color campus background

McLean selected as next dean of Agricultural Research Division

October 4, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Rural Fellows Alicia Pannell (left), Tori Pedersen (second from left) and Janet Kabetesi (fifth from left) and community fellows Andrea McClintic (fourth from left) and Stephanie Novoa (right) are pictured with Lt. Gov. Mike Foley (third from left) at the Fox Theater ribbon cutting in Cozad.

Applications for Rural Fellowship program now open

October 3, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Newly crowned homecoming royalty Jacob Drake (third from left) and Emily Hatterman (fourth from left) are joined by 2021 royalty Bobby Martin (left), Chancellor Ronnie Green (second from left), Jane Green (fifth from left) and Nebraska Alumni Association Executive Director Shelley Zaborowski (right).

Drake, Hatterman crowned homecoming royalty at Nebraska

September 30, 2022

Color portrait of Greg Stejskal on color campus background

Former special agent to discuss FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago

September 30, 2022

Students in the Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy participate in a recent mixer at the AKRS Champions Club. Forty first-year students in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s College of Engineering have been chosen for the academy’s inaugural cohort.

Inaugural cohort of Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy announced

September 30, 2022

Science & Technology

(From left) Sherri Jones, dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences; Rick Edwards, administrator and professor emeritus and Carolyn Pope Edwards’ widower; and Chancellor Ronnie Green cut the ribbon during the opening of Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall on Sept. 29.

University celebrates opening of Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall

September 29, 2022

Society & Culture

Sierra Conway uses a punch to collect samples from the leaves of several corn plants in each plot at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s research fields at 84th and Havelock in July 2020. Nebraska is one of three universities taking lead roles in the multi-institutional Agriculture Genome to Phenome Initiative, which recently received a third round of funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

USDA funds $1.9M of next stage in genome-to-phenome collaboration

September 29, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Eric Knoll stands next to several students, with everyone wearing safety glasses

Knoll’s innovations have strengthened instruction, built key partnerships

September 22, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Color portrait of Candice Millard on top of color background of City Campus

Governor's Lecture to feature bestselling author

September 22, 2022

Eight people work in The Combine Incubator.

Nebraska U joining NSF Great Lakes Innovation Corps Hub

September 21, 2022

Science & Technology

The 2022 homecoming royalty finalists are: (back row, from left) Ray Nierman, Harrison Lloyd, Jimmy Wheebe, Jacob Drake, Bennett Perlinger, Mitchell Manning, William Wilton, Sam Wilkins, Seth Caines and Michael Ilg; (front row, from left) Tessa Yackley, Maria Heyen, Bekka Hitz, Aleksandra Glowik, Emily Hatterman, Christine Trinh, Bhagya Pushkaran, Regan Vaccaro, Kate Johnson and Jessica Stump.

20 Huskers named 2022 homecoming royalty finalists

September 21, 2022

The city of Lincoln is seen in an aerial view from the state capitol building.

Public Policy Center releases latest Lincoln Vital Signs report

September 21, 2022

Society & Culture

Inside of house being constructed, with frame and exterior walls completed

Little change in Nebraska’s leading economic indicator

September 21, 2022