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A Lynch resident buys groceries at Valley Foods Cooperative.

A community of cooperation: Lynch opens cooperative grocery store

March 23, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Joseph Yesselman, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, which he will use to develop the first computational model that can reliably predict RNA’s capacity to form tertiary contacts.

Yesselman creating model to study RNA, gamify scientific learning

March 21, 2022

Science & Technology

Aerial shot of farmland

Nebraska ag land values up 16%, according to university-led survey

March 16, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Exterior of Lied Center for Performing Arts

High school students encouraged to apply for Lied’s summer camps

March 16, 2022

.From Hailey Haar's essay "Echoes of a Matriarch": Paul Haar is hit by a wave of grief while sitting in his mother’s lift chair at his Lincoln home on March 4. Her belongings spilled into his garage when he began the process of combining two households' worth of possessions into one. “Some days you’re not going to feel like you’re actually grieving anything,” Haar said. “Other days, it hits you like a tidal wave.”

Haar wins Perry Photojournalism Challenge with ‘Echoes of a Matriarch’

March 15, 2022

Society & Culture

Katarzyna Glowacka, assistant professor of biochemistry, is using a five-year, nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to study how a process called non-photochemical quenching, or NPQ — a plant’s first-line defense against damage to its photosynthetic machinery — plays a role in enabling miscanthus to fend off cold-induced damage.

Glowacka’s research aims to enhance crops’ tolerance to the cold

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Rajib Saha, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and graduate student Niaz Bahar Chowdhury have created a genome-scale metabolic model for the corn root to study its nitrogen-use efficiency under nitrogen stress conditions.

Researchers study corn root growth under nitrogen-poor conditions

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

(From left) Batool Ibrahim, Nasia Olson-Whitefeather, Meena Pannirselvam and Zein Saleh

Youth panel set for March 22 at The Bay

March 10, 2022

The national tour of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” is coming to the Lied Center for Performing Arts for a 16-show engagement, Aug. 2-13, 2023.

National tour of ‘Hamilton’ coming to Lied Center

March 9, 2022

Patricio Grassini

Grassini is partner in project to optimize crop placement in sub-Saharan Africa

March 9, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

A research paper by Trenton Franz, associate professor of hydrogeophysics at Nebraska, and co-authors points to an innovative irrigation approach that could decrease water use while increasing producer profitability.

Husker researchers develop tool to make irrigation more efficient

March 8, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

The traveling exhibition “Real People, Real Climate, Real Changes” will be on view from March 14 through May 13 on the second floor of Love Library North.

Love Library to host traveling climate exhibition

March 8, 2022

s the victim awaits the investigator’s attention, Reed Knutson points out evidence in the murder scene for Sam Thomas to photograph.

New crime scene house offers Huskers an immersive forensic experience

March 7, 2022

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Student prepares taxes for community member as part of Lincoln's Volunteer Tax Assistance Program

Honors students support free tax preparation

March 7, 2022

Society & Culture

Field Trip Across Lincoln and Beyond encourages families to explore art, nature and history by visiting local museums and outdoor spaces.

Museums, centers partner on Field Trip Across Lincoln and Beyond

March 7, 2022

Andre Nguyen sits at the Tea Time Friday table at the Kawasaki Reading Room in the Gaughan Multicultural Center on Feb. 25.

Tea Time Friday offers Huskers chance to relax, enjoy Japanese culture

March 4, 2022

Sixty-five Husker students have been accepted into the Jacht Agency for spring 2022.

65 Huskers named to Jacht’s spring crew

March 2, 2022

Society & Culture

Sandhills

Nebraska Sandhills rated as world’s most intact prairie

February 28, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Members of the Husker Venture Fund awarded the first investment of $25,000 to Jackson Stansell, a biological systems engineering doctoral student at Nebraska. The HVF is a student-led venture capital fund that invests in Nebraska-owned early-stage startups. Pictured from left are students and managing directors of the fund Keith Nordling, Adam Folsom and Emily Kist, alongside Stansell.

Student's fertigation startup awarded first Husker Venture Fund investment

February 25, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Tom and Candy Henning

Hennings establish scholarship for Crete, Wauneta area students

February 25, 2022