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A vendors sells produce at the Fallbrook Farmers Market in northwest Lincoln on July 23. A new $1 million, three-year grant will allow Nebraska Extension to expand the Double Up Food Bucks program to more grocery stores and farmers markets across the state.

Grant expands Nebraska SNAP recipients’ access to fresh produce

December 1, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska’s leading economic indicator bounces back

November 25, 2020

Though forced into an online environment to evaluate nonprofit grant applicants due to COVID-19, business students doubled down on their engagement efforts to award $10,000 to recipients in a virtual award ceremony.

The HUB, Lighthouse earn Strive to Thrive grants

November 24, 2020

Outreach workers for the Nebraska Strong Recovery Project distribute resources to help Nebraskans dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nebraska Strong Recovery Project finds creative ways to help amid pandemic

November 23, 2020

Society & Culture

Ashley McMurchie, a junior microbiology and Spanish major from Omaha, cheers on her leadership mentee, Lily, a 16-year-old high school student from Lincoln, in this photo taken before the COVID-19 pandemic.

NHRI mentorship built on globally recognized program

November 19, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Rural Fellows is accepting 200 students for the 2021 program

$100,000 in grants available for Rural Fellows host communities

November 17, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Seniors Cooper Grabenstein and Lauren Kubat were crowned homecoming royalty during halftime of the Nebraska-Penn State football game Nov. 14.

Grabenstein, Kubat crowned homecoming royalty

November 13, 2020

Report: Nebraska lags in professional and technical services sector

November 11, 2020

Over four decades, craft brewers gained a 20% share of the U.S. beer market by collaborating to gain customers and market share. Husker marketing professor Andre Maciel recently co-authored a study analyzing how they did it and what lessons other entrepreneurs can gain from craft brewers' success.

Craft beer industry shows power of collaboration

November 6, 2020

Society & Culture

Cutline: Nebraska’s Asit Pattnaik (pictured) and UNMC’s Tom Petro are developing a vaccine framework that exploits the properties of a naturally occurring nanoparticle in an effort to produce a stronger, longer-lasting immune response than other COVID-19 vaccine candidates. They’re also taking a closer look at how SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, inhibits the immune system.

Researchers aim to use protein to ramp up COVID-19 antigens’ impact

November 5, 2020

Science & Technology

Each Monday, National Drought Mitigation Center assistant director Kelly Helm Smith emails a map of the past week’s #drought tweets to a listserv of drought experts and state climatologists.

Pilot system monitors tweets for drought early warning

November 5, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

With support from the Office of Research and Economic Development’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant Program, Shi-Hua Xiang is in the early stages of developing a bacterial delivery system for a COVID-19 vaccine that would be delivered directly to the respiratory tract as a nasal spray.

Nasal spray could mean needle-free COVID-19 vaccine

November 4, 2020

Science & Technology