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Nebraska in the national news: May 2022

June 2, 2022

Wini Waters

Grad student finds teaching career amid research program

May 31, 2022

Science & Technology

Multiple generations of the Bell family.

'Bell Affair' making its premiere in D.C. June 2

May 27, 2022

Society & Culture

Wolf spider

Mixed signals: Male wolf spiders get luckier following complex courtships

May 27, 2022

Science & Technology

Students gain nonprofit experience through honors, foundry collaboration

May 27, 2022

AJ Lincoln

Lincoln wins big at National Bass Championship

May 27, 2022

Mackenzie Savaiano, associate professor of practice in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders, is leading a project to recruit and train new teachers to meet the needs of students with visual impairments. (Kyleigh Skaggs, CYFS)

Interdisciplinary program takes long-range view of visual impairment instruction

May 27, 2022

Kishore

Kishore endeavors to leave a footprint

May 25, 2022

team spreetail university of nebraska raikes school design studio

Raikes School student projects solve real-world problems, aid clients

May 25, 2022

Science & Technology

Aisle of an airplane from behind, with passengers reading

Nebraska’s leading economic indicator continues to rise

May 25, 2022

Matthias Fuchs, associate professor of physics and astronomy

Fuchs named Kavli Fellow

May 25, 2022

Science & Technology

The Clifton Strengths Institute at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln recently recognized five students for their achievements. Those students are (from left) Tori Pedersen, Jordan Seitz, Erika Casarin, Sidney Therkelsen and Adam Folsom.

Five students receive Clifton Strengths Institute awards

May 25, 2022

Protestors walk past the south entrance of the Nebraska Union during a march to the Nebraska State Capitol on June 13, 2020. A new course offered in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications is exploring what it's like being Black and living in Lincoln.

‘Being Black in Lincoln’ receives Kennedy journalism award

May 24, 2022

Society & Culture

Helen Fagan, Rural Fellows coordinator, meets with student fellows Brianna Gable, Benjamin Niyodusenga and Lillian Uwanjye; Susan Norris, director of Pierce County Economic Development; and Wanda Backus, owner of J’s Place.

26 students begin Rural Fellows experiences

May 24, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska’s Caleb Fangmeier, a farm kid from Hebron, stayed up until 2 a.m. as an undergraduate to hear the announcement about the discovery of the Higgs boson. He now holds a doctorate in physics and works as a detector lab manager in Jorgensen Hall. His group is building nearly 2,500 particle detectors that will be used when the Large Hadron Collider restarts sometime between 2024 and 2026.

Husker's career shaped by the Large Hadron Collider

May 23, 2022

Science & Technology

Husker researchers Arthur "Trey" Andrews, Tierney Lorenz and Sara Reyes pose in a patient room.

Nebraska team studying how social ties may boost health outcomes of Latinos facing discrimination

May 23, 2022

Science & Technology

Tomas Helikar, Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of biochemistry, will use a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award program to advance his work on a virtual immune system aimed at increasing the understanding of immune-related diseases and ramping up the speed and efficiency of drug development.

Virtual immune system roadmap unveiled

May 20, 2022

Science & Technology

With funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, researchers from three states are examining the impacts of sex trafficking on Native Americans and their communities.

Research assessing impacts, solutions to sex trafficking of Native Americans

May 20, 2022

The Husker spirit squad leads the Huskers onto the field in Memorial Stadium on Oct. 5, 2019.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for May 20

May 20, 2022

European destroying angel mushroom

Study: Deadly mushrooms got toxin-specific genes directly from ancient source

May 19, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology