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Front-row families celebrate Husker graduates

May 15, 2026

A woman cleans the door to a dorm room.

Husker hospitality: Campus prepares for thousands of summer visitors

May 15, 2026

Berlyn Schutz, a white woman with brown hair sits in a blue track and field sweater and shorts, on a red bench on a red track.

Hometown Husker races toward record-setting season

May 15, 2026

Society & Culture

A white man with short brown hair and a purple button-up, white bald man in a blue button-up, white man with long dark hair, beard, and glasses in a turquoise button-up, and asian man with short brown hair in an orange button-up all stand together.

Holland’s new NSF-funded resource to boost AI, machine learning research

May 15, 2026

Science & Technology

Purple spring blooms pop up in the frame of Oldfather Hall and the Old Glory sculpture.

Achievements | Honors, appointments and publications for May 15

May 15, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Three-panel graphic that reads "A record 3,885 degrees awarded to 3,762 graduates from 61 counties" with the view from an airplane seat; "203 Honors Program graduates" with a graduate celebrating; and "739 first-generation students" with a mortarboard and rolled-up diploma.

A closer look at a record-setting commencement

May 15, 2026

Richard Leiter, an older man with greying hair and a beard, stands in a brown button-down with glasses, in front of a bookcase.

Leiter honored with top law libraries association award

May 14, 2026

Color portrait of journalist and author Caleb Gayle on a color campus background.

Gayle wins Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

May 13, 2026

Society & Culture

A power line is seen running through a scorched field on a cloudy day.

Workshops help western Nebraska producers manage drought conditions

May 13, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Edgar Cahoon stands inside his laboratory in Beadle Hall at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Scientific equipment and research materials are visible in the lab around him.

Cahoon elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 12, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

2026 DH Summer Fellows: (left to right) Lexus Root, Brianna Rose DeValk, Dana Hanley, and Henrique Cassol Leal

Summer 2026 digital humanities fellows announced

May 12, 2026

Science & Technology

Sixteen attorneys in formal attire pose for a group photo in front of a brick wall.

Children's Justice Attorney Education Program selects 2026 cohort

May 12, 2026

Jennifer Mize Nelson (from left), vice chancellor for research and innovation, moderates a panel discussion that included, Alan Dostal, associate director of research at Nebraska Public Power District; Dan Hoffman, chief executive officer of Invest Nebraska; Jeff Raikes, co-founder of the Raikes Foundation; Kei Koizumi, a science and technology adviser to the Obama and Biden administrations; and Kim Morrow, chief sustainability officer for the city of Lincoln.

Convening spurs conversation, excitement about university's future

May 11, 2026

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Students in Introduction to Landscape Construction work as a team, fitting flagstone pieces together like a puzzle as they build a patio.

Plant and landscape systems students take design to reality

May 11, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

The UNL Soil Judging Team and coaches (from left) are Liz Eroshenko, Becky Young, Sydney Honacker, Promise “PJ” Smeal, Anna Newcome, Adrian Cox, Diego Sanchez, Lara Arnold, Judy Turk and Adam Subora.

Soil Judging Team takes runner-up at national contest

May 11, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Seven ROTC members in uniform stand onstage at Pinnacle Bank Arena as the audience and their fellow graduates applaud.

29 ROTC members receive military commissions

May 11, 2026

A female graduate, seated among other graduates on the floor of Pinnacle Bank Arena, smiles as she holds up her newly earned degree for family in the crowd to see.

Husker graduates encouraged to lead with purpose, uplift others

May 9, 2026

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Eva Bachman, director of graduate student support and associate registrar, stands in Pinnacle Bank Arena as crews set up for the graduate commencement ceremony on May 7. For 20 years, Bachman has worked behind the scenes to get graduate students successfully across the stage. She is wearing a brooch from her grandmother, who bought Bachman's textbooks and supported her academic journey.

Bachman to cap 43-year career with a final commencement

May 8, 2026

Adam Algahimi stands on a walkway in Kiewit Hall wearing blue button down shirt, a red graduation stole and black graduation cap. He adjusts the tassel on the cap, exposes the Nebraska 'N' button attached to it.

New experiences help Algahimi graduate a better engineer

May 8, 2026

Science & Technology

Izzi Velinsky, wearing a graduation cap and gown, stands next to a dark brown horse.

Equestrian Team helped Velinsky gallop into career

May 8, 2026

Agriculture & Environment