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Students relax in the shade and hammocks on the Nebraska Union Plaza during spring 2019.

Achievements | Honors, awards, publications for May 17

May 17, 2019

Graduate student Alex Erwin drills a pipe that will hold an instrument cluster on Nebraska's newest storm chase vehicle. Starting this spring, 13 Huskers will be part of TORUS, a national study designed to collect data about how severe storms and tornadoes are formed.

Huskers begin chase to collect severe storm data

May 14, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences celebrates computing lab

April 30, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s 19th annual Family Weatherfest and Science Spectacular, April 6 at the Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center, will include exhibits, demonstrations and talks.

Weatherfest returns to Nebraska Innovation Campus

March 28, 2019

Science & Technology

A drone used by the TORUS team maneuvers toward a supercell thunderstorm during the 2018 storm season.

Drones to soar in search of tornado triggers

March 25, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

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Visitors interact with real museum specimens during a previous Dinosaurs and Disasters event. The 2019 event is 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 2 at Morrill Hall.

Morrill Hall to host Dinosaurs and Disasters Feb. 2

February 1, 2019

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Nickel and died: Earth’s largest extinction likely took plants first

January 31, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

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Louise Pound Hall is framed by snow covered branches following a storm on the weekend of Jan. 12-13. Learn more about how the university distributes weather-related closure announcements at http://bit.ly/2CyLSXO.

Five big Husker stories | Jan. 21-27

January 21, 2019

Nebraska’s David Harwood answers a question from Jackson Belva during a Geology 125: Frontiers in Antarctic Geosciences course. The class is based on Harwood’s experience in Antarctica. He returns this season as a principal investigator in the National Science Foundation-funded SALSA project.

Harwood’s Antarctica discovery surfaces in Nature

January 18, 2019

MSID Students

Achievements | Honors, awards, publications for Dec. 14

December 14, 2018

Nebraska's David Harwood

Nebraska team to help tap ecosystems beneath Antarctic ice sheet

December 10, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

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Study: Earth’s earliest animals formed semi-complex ecosystems

October 22, 2018

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