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UNL landscape services employees Michael Tomjack (left) and Fred Thorne use a vibrating plow to install new irrigation pipe by the Van Brunt Visitors Center. UNL has started a campuswide upgrade of its irrigation system. When complete, it is projected to decrease campus water usage by at least 20 percent annually.

Irrigation upgrade to cut UNL's water use, expense

March 30, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

A stack of pavers rests alongside the Centennial Mall sidewalk outside UNL's Andersen Hall. The project, which has limited access to the College of Journalism and Mass Communications for two years, is scheduled for completion this spring.

Centennial Mall project nears completion

March 18, 2016

Zhenghong Tang

Tang taps mobile tech, aids access to environmental data

March 2, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

University of Nebraska graduate Mark Hargrave carved his name into the unfinished wood inside the Love Library cupola on Feb. 27, 1943, the same year the building opened for campus use. Hargrave was president of the university's Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

Library lighting project to preserve cupola carvings

February 29, 2016

Carrie Herbel, chief preparator for the University of Nebraska State Museum's vertebrate paleontology collection, examines a resin copy of a fossil humerus on Feb. 8. The duplicate fossil will replace one used in an exhibit at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument.

Museum preparators dig into history of fossil finds

February 9, 2016

Science & Technology

Breslow Ice Hockey Center dedication draws 200+

February 4, 2016

Kayla Felix (from left) and Alli Hauger smile as Emily Hames takes a selfie while they walked to class as snow fell on Jan. 25.

Technology, more data sources improve forecasting

February 2, 2016

Science & Technology

The weather disturbance that is predicted to impact the central plains on Feb. 2 is shown here east of Japan (near the "A") on Jan. 27. Some forecasting models predict the weather system will deliver 12-plus inches of snow in the region (Lincoln is near the "B"). However, UNL's Ken Dewey said it is simply too early to accurately predict the storm path or how much — if any — precipitation it will bring.

Dewey: Storm could bring heavy snow, rain or nothing at all

January 29, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Scene from "The Revenant," a new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The subject of the film, Hugh Glass, is also featured in the University of Nebraska Press book "Lord Grizzly."

'Revenant' helps spur sales of NU Press book

January 26, 2016

Society & Culture

Eleanor Avery, a freshman supply chain manaagement major, studies in Love Library's new Adele Coryell Hall Learning Commons on its Jan. 11 opening day. The space offers a variety of study and collaboration options to UNL students and is open 24 hours every day.

Learning Commons draws 1,130+ on opening day

January 12, 2016

A renovation of the south entrance to UNL's Nebraska Union has started. The first phase of the project, which will continue into the first two weeks of the spring semester, upgrades drainage to direct rainwater away from the building.

Project to enhance original Nebraska Union entrance

January 8, 2016

Workers continue the install of equipment in the Dunkin' Donuts café inside the Learning Commons at Love Library on Jan. 5. The Learning Commons and Dunkin' Donuts location are scheduled to open on Jan. 11.

Learning Commons to include Dunkin' Donuts location

January 5, 2016