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Rajib Saha, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Nebraska, has received a $747,855 National Science Foundation CAREER award to study how an unusually versatile bacterium can be harnessed to more efficiently break down plant waste.

Saha studying versatile bacterium’s role in breaking down plant waste

May 4, 2020

Science & Technology

The goal of Marathon Kids is for participants to be physically active for the distance of a marathon, or 26.2 miles, by tracking one mile at a time.

Nebraska Extension creates new program to help families stay active

April 30, 2020

Society & Culture

Love Library shines for the NU Foundation's Glow Big Red event on Feb. 13-14. The project features a giving campaign that reaches out to university supporters around the globe. It coincides with the university's Charter Day of Feb. 15.

$7.6M in federal stimulus to be distributed to students

April 29, 2020

Kane Wellnitz, a senior agribusiness major at Nebraska, is doing his schoolwork from the driver’s seat of his pickup on a bluff on his family’s ranch.

Over hill, over dale, Wellnitz finds remote learning connections

April 29, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Ray Hames, professor of anthropology, is the fourth Nebraska faculty to earn membership in the National Academy of Sciences. He is one of 120 U.S.-based researchers to earn the distinction this year. Current active membership — which includes Nebraska’s James Van Etten — is 2,403 U.S. researchers. That total includes around 100 anthropologists.

Hames named to National Academy of Sciences

April 29, 2020

Society & Culture

Nebraska indicator: Sharp drop in economic outlook for state

April 29, 2020

University of Nebraska - Lincoln seal and columns

46 students named Chancellor's Scholars

April 29, 2020

Lied Center summer camps to be offered remotely

April 29, 2020

Cody Hollist

Fulbright project seeks answers to Brazil’s suicide epidemic

April 28, 2020

Society & Culture

University to grant nearly 3,500 degrees

April 27, 2020

(From left) Cameron Azimi, Skylar Lowe and Andrew Neill

3 Husker undergraduates earn Boren Awards

April 23, 2020

Students have until Friday, May 29, 2020 to switch a graduate course from a letter grade to P/NP.

Innocents Society, Mortar Board members inducted for 2020-21

April 23, 2020

The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln has launched the CASNR Change-Maker Quick Pitch Competition. Two current CASNR students and eight incoming freshmen and transfer students will be awarded full-tuition scholarships for the 2020-21 academic year based on their submitted videos.

CASNR launches Change-Maker scholarship competition

April 23, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Andrea von Kampen

Lied Live Online offers 5 shows in May

April 23, 2020

Annie Mumgaard, virtual learning coordinator for the University of Nebraska State Museum, gives a virtual tour to more than 120 young students April 14. She discussed various types of rocks.

Morrill Hall expands online content to meet pandemic challenge

April 22, 2020

Science & Technology

Nebraska research aims to boost milk as infection fighter

April 22, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Statisticians advise lab, release app to optimize coronavirus testing

April 21, 2020

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Detweiler, Houston contribute to new NASA project

April 21, 2020

Science & Technology

Pockets of southwestern Nebraska and the Panhandle saw minor groundwater level declines, but the latest Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report shows a wealth of increases in groundwater supply across the rest of the state from spring 2018 to spring 2019. On average, wells measured in spring 2019 saw a 2.63-foot increase in groundwater levels statewide.

Nebraska groundwater levels rise following wet year

April 21, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

University offers 5,500-plus scholarships to Nebraska seniors

April 20, 2020