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A team of Husker biochemists led by Alex Vecchio has earned a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institute of General Medical Sciences to understand how the structure and assembly of membrane proteins influence the function and dysfunction of tight junctions.

Husker biochemists earn $1.8M grant to study tight junctions

October 7, 2020

Science & Technology

Susan Fritz

Fritz to retire, capping 32-year Nebraska U career

October 7, 2020

A Yazidi woman shows off a large batch of naan, a round, flat, leavened bread. In keeping with cultural traditions, many women share freshly prepared naan with their neighbors, including Americans. (Photo courtesy of Zozan Bashar)

Project gives voice to refugee population

October 7, 2020

Students in a modern dance class led by Susan Ourada practice on the green space south of Love Library on Sept. 17. Support from donors has helped remove the university’s dance program from a list of proposed budget reductions.

Donor commitments preserve dance program

October 6, 2020

Jeff Culbertson, assistant director of operations for Landscape Services, places a traffic cone near the tents being used for randomized testing for COVID-19. The testing site is for students, faculty and staff who receive an email request.

Randomized testing expands understanding of COVID-19 trends

October 6, 2020

Health Center offers flu shot options to students, employees

October 6, 2020

Jon Haag

New campus group supports students recovering from substance use

October 5, 2020

Tipping point: After 20 years, Gay solves conundrum of football physics

October 5, 2020

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Nebraska in the national news: September 2020

October 5, 2020

CALMIT hyper spectral CRISP

Team innovates to bring full-spectrum experience to students

October 2, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Kinga Aletto, a junior in College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, holds her life-sized clay model of the Javan blue-banded kingfisher. Creating the model of the critically-endangered bird is part of her UCARE research project.

Husker’s artwork draws attention to kingfisher struggles

October 2, 2020

Course planning will be streamlined for spring semester.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for Oct. 2

October 2, 2020

tax institute

Nebraska expands access to tax education seminars

October 2, 2020

Custodial Services

Custodial staff flexes its muscle against COVID-19

October 1, 2020

EAP

Employee Assistance Program supports faculty, staff during pandemic

October 1, 2020

Human trafficking conference goes virtual, expands reach

October 1, 2020

Society & Culture

Ranchers ride on horseback to round up cattle for rotational grazing in June on the Diamond Bar Ranch north of Stapleton. Agriculture remains a critical component of Nebraska’s economy and is a resilient industry, according to a new report by University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers.

Report: Agriculture critical to Nebraska economy, state’s resilience

October 1, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Learn more about My Husker Action at https://diversity.unl.edu/my-husker-action.

My Husker Action celebrates measures addressing racism, unjust practices

September 30, 2020

Cheryl Dunn explains the structures of crested wheatgrass to her Wildland Plants students during class on Zoom.

Dunn teaches grass identification in virtual hands-on lab

September 30, 2020

2020 Service Awards to honor nearly 1,000 faculty, staff

September 29, 2020