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A tractor pulls the test car (yellow) and an additional tractor for weight as it rounds the test track on east campus. The University of Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory (NTTL) is the officially designated tractor testing station for the United States. It has operated for more than 100 years. East Campus.

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Brandi Sigmon operates a homemade cob scanner in a shed at her rural Gage County home. Sigmon and her husband, Benny Mote, built the scanner to help further a maize study during the university’s facility shutdown. Sigmon, an assistant professor or practice in plant pathology, is being assisted here by her son, Wyatt.

Home-built scanner keeps maize study spinning forward

May 4, 2020

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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

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Timelapse project showcases swan's return to Sandhills

April 24, 2020

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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

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Nebraska research aims to boost milk as infection fighter

April 22, 2020

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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

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Nebraska Extension is working to provide resources for rural Nebraskans struggling with mental health issues.

Extension works to provide mental health resources to rural Nebraskans

April 15, 2020

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A mint variety trial plot at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center.

Research examining viability of mint as new Panhandle crop

April 13, 2020

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A person sets a trap in the trees.

Metcalf uncovers passion (and mice) via research at Cedar Point

June 30, 2026

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A recent study examined the association between intergenerational co-parenting and child social-emotional development.

Study finds intergenerational co-parenting benefits children

June 29, 2026

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Zach Eden, a member of the Love Library collections maintenance and delivery team, weights a volume of Laurus so it lays open underneath a scanner. Eden is one of the staff members working on digitizing the library's archive of Laurus, a student-produced literature and art journal.

Eden's work behind the scenes facilitates student learning, savings

June 26, 2026

Nebraska U ranks in top 9% worldwide for agriculture, natural resources

June 30, 2026

A tractor pulls the test car (yellow) and an additional tractor for weight as it rounds the test track on east campus. The University of Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory (NTTL) is the officially designated tractor testing station for the United States. It has operated for more than 100 years. East Campus.

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