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Marco Barker talks with members of the campus community in the Nebraska Union in the days after he started in April as the university's first vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion. | Craig Chandler, University Communication

Barker named to NCAA’s cultural diversity, equity committee

November 10, 2020

Steve Spomer, a research technician with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Entomology, will retire in December after 40 years with the university.

Spomer nets 40-year butterfly and beetle legacy

November 10, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Patti and Joel Meier

Colorado couple commits $2M for outdoor activities, arts at Nebraska

November 10, 2020

Society & Culture

Cornhusker Marching Band presses on amid pandemic

November 10, 2020

Course planning will be streamlined for spring semester.

Nebraska hosts inaugural symposium for faculty of color

November 9, 2020

Susan Weller

Weller, researcher of several firsts, named ESA fellow

November 9, 2020

Some Nebraska winemakers are optimistic about the state’s 2020 vintage even though grape harvest final tonnage estimates are roughly half of last year’s crop.

Nebraska winemakers optimistic despite low grape yields

November 9, 2020

Vaccine shows promise against herpes virus

November 6, 2020

Science & Technology

Over four decades, craft brewers gained a 20% share of the U.S. beer market by collaborating to gain customers and market share. Husker marketing professor Andre Maciel recently co-authored a study analyzing how they did it and what lessons other entrepreneurs can gain from craft brewers' success.

Craft beer industry shows power of collaboration

November 6, 2020

Society & Culture

Students with coffee cups on East Campus

Styrofoam-free policy reinforces Nebraska’s sustainability efforts

November 6, 2020

Slam poetry participants from the 2020 Research Days event.

Dalla, Maciel share faculty slam honors

November 6, 2020

Fall campus

Code of conduct helps regulate student life

November 5, 2020

Students talking at Union Plaza

University examines, expands bias reporting resources

November 5, 2020

Bevins part of team receiving $10.3M to study chemical, biological threats

November 5, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Auschwitz

'Never again:' Research helps raise impact of Holocaust education

November 5, 2020

Society & Culture

Model could inform predictions of West Nile risk

November 5, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Each Monday, National Drought Mitigation Center assistant director Kelly Helm Smith emails a map of the past week’s #drought tweets to a listserv of drought experts and state climatologists.

Pilot system monitors tweets for drought early warning

November 5, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Cutline: Nebraska’s Asit Pattnaik (pictured) and UNMC’s Tom Petro are developing a vaccine framework that exploits the properties of a naturally occurring nanoparticle in an effort to produce a stronger, longer-lasting immune response than other COVID-19 vaccine candidates. They’re also taking a closer look at how SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, inhibits the immune system.

Researchers aim to use protein to ramp up COVID-19 antigens’ impact

November 5, 2020

Science & Technology

Election research

Nebraska researcher working to shorten voter waits

November 4, 2020

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

The Nebraska Union served as a polling station for the 2020 presidential election. To help students in COVID-19 isolation housing vote in the election, University Housing worked with the Lancaster County Election Commissioner's office.

Housing staff help students get votes counted

November 4, 2020