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Scott Gardner looks at a flea sample from an Oklahoma prairie dog colony.

Gardner digitizing parasite samples for scientists everywhere

January 22, 2024

Science & Technology

Bronze woolly mammoth statue with front entrance of Morrill Hall in background

NU State Museum earns reaccreditation from American Alliance of Museums

November 30, 2023

A wildflower grows amid the grass at the Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center southwest of Lincoln.

Husker team partnering with communities to enhance biodiversity education

November 1, 2023

Science & Technology

Color photo of Ashley Poust on red campus background

NU State Museum names inaugural Voorhies Endowed Curator

November 1, 2023

Science & Technology

Color photo of Joy Harjo on a color campus background

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Harjo to give First Peoples of the Plains Lecture

October 23, 2023

Brett Ratcliffe in San Ramon, Peru, 2012.

Ratcliffe retires after 55 years at Nebraska

September 29, 2023

Bronze woolly mammoth statue with front entrance of Morrill Hall in background

Morrill Hall to close for three months for renovations

September 6, 2023

Nadija Logans works with specimens in the visual lab.

Lincoln museums benefit from summer student internships

September 1, 2023

Society & Culture

Campus museums join Field Trip Across Lincoln and Beyond

May 31, 2023

Bronze woolly mammoth statue with front entrance of Morrill Hall in background

Morrill Hall renovations begin May 1

April 26, 2023

A half-panel of C'Rona Comix shows how a virus enters a host.

Number of sources matters for youths' COVID-19 knowledge

February 22, 2023

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Children work with modeling clay during a previous Dinosaurs and Disasters event at Morrill Hall. The 2023 event is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 4. (NU State Museum)

Dinosaurs and Disasters to feature activity stations, live music, storytime

January 27, 2023