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Doctoral student Jim Benes and UCARE students Jasmine Pham and Joe Stalder pose with charcoal samples from the Nebraska Sandhills.

114 Husker undergrads receive stipends for summer research projects

June 19, 2025

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Color portrait of journalist and author Rebecca Nagle on a color campus background.

Nagle wins Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

June 18, 2025

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Nebraska U remains among world's best for earning patents

June 17, 2025

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oe Lake (red shirt) and Ryne Callahan watch as Rachel Rose, coordinator of engineering outreach, places heavy metal washers into a cup to see how much weight their straw-and-tape bridge can hold. The two, both high school juniors, participated in the engineering camp offered as one of Nebraska 4-H's Big Red Summer Academic Camps.

140 high schoolers get 'beyond ready' through Big Red Summer Camps

June 17, 2025

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Stephen Morin, associate professor of chemistry, and Brennan Watts, a fourth-year doctoral student in chemistry, hold two colorful hydrogel skins that can act similarly to the color-changing skin of cephalopods such as octopi and cuttlefish.

Husker researchers developing cephalopod-inspired synthetic skins

June 17, 2025

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Weather camp sparks Aurit's passion, path to campus

June 17, 2025

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Gordon Stotz's career journey spans from drafting tables to Hollywood blockbusters

June 16, 2025

Exterior photo of the south side of Howard L. Hawks Hall on a partly cloudy day.

44 first-year students join Nebraska Business Honors Academy

June 16, 2025

Jen Krueger, senior coordinator for injury prevention and care, stands in front of the large windows into the Injury Prevention and Care office on the second floor of the Campus Recreation Center. Krueger and her team treat injuries for rec center visitors and athletes, but also for dancers, members of the marching band and even campus guests.

Krueger's care guides Campus Recreation visitors through recovery

June 13, 2025

A Thayer County mural is painted on a brick wall in downtown Deshler, Nebraska. An American flag flies in the background.

New website connects communities with data, tools to thrive

June 12, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

Twelve people gather around a solar-powered water pump at the Don Bosco Solar and Renewable Energy Center in Ghana.

Huskers tackle global irrigation challenges through immersive trip to Ghana

June 11, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska's Annie von Kampen said working on the New Student Enrollment team has provided valuable experience that translates directly into her future career as a music teacher. She will begin her new career at Wahoo Public Schools in the fall.

Summers supporting Huskers shape von Kampen’s future as a music teacher

June 10, 2025

Logs are piled in a forest clearing.

Allen chairs international panel outlining forest resilience strategies

June 10, 2025

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Ciera Kirkpatrick, assistant professor in the College of Journalism and Communications, is photographed by the granite walls outside Andersen Hall.

Women more receptive to knowledge-based health messaging, study finds

June 9, 2025

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Kelly Whitney and Dusty Stevens prepare baking sheets of whitefish fillets coated with a blackened seasoning for a cooking class in Leverton Hall on June 4 during the Child Nutrition Training Academy. Whitney cooks for Lawrence-Nelson Public Schools and Stevens is the food service director for Superior Public Schools. To the right, Elaine Rouse, kitchen manager for St. Margaret Mary School in Omaha, returns spatulas to a drawer.

Training academy brings more nutritious meals to Nebraska's students

June 6, 2025

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Three young women and a young man hold oversized checks in front of the letters "NVC" and red and white balloons.

Journal Star highlights Husker entrepreneurs

June 6, 2025

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Schaffert named editor of Prairie Schooner

June 5, 2025

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Dani Gibson is a New Student Enrollment orientation leader.

Gibson helping new Huskers feel at home through orientation, tradition

June 3, 2025

Tom Powers (left), professor of plant pathology, and David Sirengo, a doctoral student in plant pathology, recover a mud sample as part of the nematode research project in the Nebraska Sandhills.

Nebraska-led NSF project sheds light on microscopic life in Sandhills

June 3, 2025

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Kevin Lievano, a doctoral student in the School of Biological Sciences, peers into a microscope at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Harlod W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology. Lievano’s research and career has been highlighted in the journal Nature.

Nebraska in the national news: May 2025

June 3, 2025

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