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The university will hold August 2021 commencement exercises in Pinnacle Bank Arena, shown here during the graduate ceremony on May 7. The event will include summer 2021 graduates and 2020 alumni who, due to COVID-19 restrictions, were unable to participate in an in-person commencement.

August commencement dates, times finalized

June 10, 2021

Elder and teacher Delberta Frazier sows traditional plants with students in the Umonhon Nation Public School garden.

University works with Native Americans to improve nutrition, fight disease

June 10, 2021

Society & Culture

Rendering of nanoparticles

Mag-neato: Team advances understanding, control of magnetic droplets

June 9, 2021

Science & Technology

Jody Koenig Kellas, professor and chair of communication studies, is shown in her lab.

Stories form identity, relationships and impact health

June 9, 2021

Society & Culture

Emily Cheramie

Cheramie advocates for LGBTQ+ acceptance within athletics

June 9, 2021

Rubi Quiñones (right), National Research Traineeship doctoral student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is developing algorithms to couple co-segmentation and plant phenotyping to identify phenotypes more accurately. She is seen here with her husband, Ashraful Islam, and Katharine Hogan, a fellow NRT doctoral student whom she collaborated with to develop a 2-D multiagent simulation model for root water uptake.

Quiñones puts coding expertise, global perspectives to use

June 9, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

With the assistance of a grant from the Cabela’s Apprenticeship Research Project, Husker student Abigail Schoup (left) is working with a research team looking at how wastewater contamination linked to the AltEn ethanol plant near Mead has impacted frogs. She is pictured here with her adviser, Liz VanWormer, assistant professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Nebraska.

Cabela’s funding helps Husker undergrads pursue research interests

June 8, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Sky is the limit for Stelling, her students

June 8, 2021

Science & Technology

Nebraska's Margaret Huettl (right) is one of three experts selected to help Gameloft with an update to the Oregon Trail video game.

Huettl helps curtail Native stereotypes in Oregon Trail update

June 7, 2021

Society & Culture

Maddie Huppert, a student worker in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, wraps a green band on an available seat in a Louise Pound Hall lecture space. The bands are flexible so they do not need to be removed when the student sits down.

Transition to full-capacity classrooms, labs begins

June 4, 2021

Maneo Mohale

Mohale wins Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry

June 4, 2021

Pink blooms adorn the campus in April.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for June 4

June 4, 2021

Brenna Lash, a graduate student, loads the Telehealth platform on her laptop computer, as seen from an observation room, where clinic faculty supervisors monitor sessions.

Psychological Consultation Center embraces, finds success in telehealth

June 2, 2021

Society & Culture

Nick Harp

Harp talks being ‘out’ in STEM, expanding LGBTQA+ resources

June 2, 2021

Society & Culture

Nebraska in the national news: May 2021

June 2, 2021

Barkley Clinic celebrates 40th year of hearing aid collaboration

June 2, 2021

Society & Culture

Paul Johnsgard

Johnsgard, renowned ornithologist, remembered for prolific career

June 1, 2021

An ongoing study is examining how internal school controls, such as guidelines implemented by a school’s administrators and teachers, can mediate the impact of external controls from the federal, state and city level.

Project probes how schools' external, internal controls impact student learning opportunities

June 1, 2021

Society & Culture

The new Yeutter Student Scholar Award will provide a stipend to Husker students who are awarded valuable, highly competitive trade internships, which are often located in expensive cities.

Yeutter Institute award will add heartland voices to trade policy

June 1, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Surin Kim

Entrepreneurship professor building bridges between cultures

May 31, 2021

Society & Culture