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Kooser Dawes

Kooser stepping away from ‘American Life in Poetry,’ names Dawes as successor

September 8, 2020

Ron Himes, producing director of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company, directed the play “Dutchman” — featuring Emily Raine Blythe and Eugene H. Russell IV (pictured) — at the Nebraska Repertory Theatre in February 2019. Himes will serve as consultant for the new two-year collaboration between Nebraska Rep and The Black Rep.

Nebraska Rep, Black Rep to collaborate for #realchange

September 8, 2020

Kelsey Eihausen (from left), a sophomore from Bennington, and Molly Sambol, a junior from Omaha, study outside of the Phi Mu sorority on April 27.

Three-week session to kick off spring semester

September 7, 2020

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

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

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

Sonny Perdue

U.S. agriculture secretary to visit campus Sept. 4

September 1, 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

Mary Pipher

Author and psychologist Pipher to open E.N. Thompson series

August 28, 2020

The Nebraska Nanoscale Facility — housed mostly in the Voelte-Keegan Nanoscience Research Center — has received a $3.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to ensure its continuation through at least 2025.

Nebraska Nanoscale Facility gets five-year renewal

August 28, 2020

Science & Technology

Campus from above

Student support program earns $2.95M in federal funding

August 27, 2020

The Lied Center will offer a free screening of the film "STONO," presented by Step Afrika!, on Sept. 9.

Lied Center announces additions, changes to 2020-21 season

August 27, 2020

Nebraska’s leading indicator points to steady economic recovery

August 26, 2020

The composer and lyricist team of Thomas Mizer (left) and Curtis Moore, who recently received an Emmy nomination for their work on the Amazon Prime series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” will be the featured guests on the Lied Center’s Lunch and Learn live video podcast Sept. 1.

Lied series to feature ‘marvelous’ vidcast, virtual trip to the farm

August 26, 2020

Anna Henson teaches her Principles of Interactivity course Aug. 24 in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. Thirty-six students have been selected to join the second Carson Center cohort.

36 students selected for new Carson Center cohort

August 25, 2020

LPS first day

Public Policy Center guiding K-12 schools in disaster preparedness

August 24, 2020

Society & Culture

Hostile Terrain 94 Virtual Sessions

Participants sought for Hostile Terrain 94 workshops

August 21, 2020