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A kiva, or round room, is shown at Pueblo Bonito inside Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico.

Nebraska, NASA team up to chart evidence of indigenous landscapes

September 14, 2016

Science & Technology

Matthew Jockers, an English professor at Nebraska who uses computers to study literature, and his colleague enlisted university supercomputer Tusker in their quest to identify the secret to making the New York Times Bestseller List.

What makes a bestselling book? Ask Tusker

September 12, 2016

Society & Culture

Members of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's freshman class line up in the shape of an "N" during the New Student Tunnel Walk on Aug. 27. For the second year, enrollment at the university has surged to an all-time high.

Record freshman class pushes enrollment to all-time high

September 7, 2016

Tbourida, a Moroccan equestrian tradition, will be discussed by Nebraska alumna Gwyneth Talley in a Sept. 8 presentation.

Alumna to discuss Moroccan equestrian tradition

September 6, 2016

Adolf Storms during World War II. A member of the Nazi SS, Storms was accused of assisting with a massacre of 60 Jews at the end of the war.

Post-WWII massacre is topic for Sept. 6 talk

September 6, 2016

Dignitaries attending the Aug. 29 installation of the new sculpture at the Kawasaki Reading Room include (from row, from left) Joseph Francisco, Matt Kurushima and Harriet Turner, (back row) Kaye Jesske, Thomas Farrell, Mike Boyle, Jason Hellbusch and Badha Balasubramanian.

Turner donates sculpture to Kawasaki Reading Room

August 31, 2016

James Takacs (left) and Concetta DiRusso.

University earns $11.3M NIH grant to study biomolecular communication

August 30, 2016

Science & Technology

Thomas Leo Thompson

Obituary | Thomas Leo Thompson

August 26, 2016

NSF grant to support next-gen underground sensors

August 26, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

An original 1855 copy of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."

Project to catalog Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' revisions

August 24, 2016

Society & Culture

Mike Dodd (right), associate professor of psychology, and Matt Johnson, assistant professor of psychology, are overseeing Nebraska's part of a $6 million project to enhance cognitive neuroscience research. They join faculty from Delaware and Nevada to form the Lincoln-Reno-Newark Coalition.

$6M grant will build neuroscience brain trust

August 22, 2016

Society & Culture

Megan Jorgensen, a UNL graduate, discusses a math problem with a student at Park Middle School in this file photo from 2014. UNL will use a $1 million Nebraska Department of Education grant to improve K-12 math and science instruction statewide.

$1M grant to benefit K-12 teaching of math, science

August 18, 2016

Society & Culture

Science & Technology