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Green: 'Phenomenally important year ahead' for university

August 22, 2016

Mike Dodd (right), associate professor of psychology, and Matt Johnson, assistant professor of psychology, are overseeing Nebraska's part of a $6 million project to enhance cognitive neuroscience research. They join faculty from Delaware and Nevada to form the Lincoln-Reno-Newark Coalition.

$6M grant will build neuroscience brain trust

August 22, 2016

Society & Culture

Dennis Perkey

Perkey vies to protect games, athletes from doping

August 19, 2016

Society & Culture

UNL students build a quarter-scale tractor prototype in this file photo. A recent review of the Nebraska economy, which showed modest drops in manufacturing hours and building permits for single-family homes, indicates a cooling in early 2017.

Indicator: Nebraska's growth to moderate in early 2017

August 19, 2016

Achievements | Honors, awards, publications for Aug. 19

August 19, 2016

Megan Jorgensen, a UNL graduate, discusses a math problem with a student at Park Middle School in this file photo from 2014. UNL will use a $1 million Nebraska Department of Education grant to improve K-12 math and science instruction statewide.

$1M grant to benefit K-12 teaching of math, science

August 18, 2016

Society & Culture

Science & Technology

How advice websites reshape Christians' beliefs about sex

August 17, 2016

Society & Culture

The new Nebraska N is placed on a lamp post along R Street. Starting July 1, the Nebraska N replaced icons used by academic units, Nebraska Athletics and the Nebraska Alumni Association.

What you missed: The university's big summer stories

August 17, 2016

Faculty startup locates at Nebraska Innovation Campus

August 16, 2016

Science & Technology

UNL students Vivian Nguyen (left) and Cale Brodersen examine worms that are turning food waste into compost at Big Red Worms, a new composting operation in west Lincoln. | Troy Fedderson, University Communications

Composting program kicks off in the Nebraska Union

August 15, 2016

Cliff Stains

NIH grant aids probe of cell circuitry and disease

August 15, 2016

Science & Technology

(From left) Julia Storm, Davetta Nelson and Gianna Astorino look over their diplomas in criminal justice during the summer all-university commencement ceremony Aug. 13 at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

UNL awards 792 degrees in August ceremony

August 12, 2016

UNL students run into Memorial Stadium during back-to-school activities in 2015. For the second year, UNL is offering the First Husker program to assist first-generation college students with the transition to university life.

150 to participate in First Husker program

August 12, 2016

Achievements | Honors, awards, publications for Aug. 12

August 12, 2016

UNL professor Susan Swearer, a nationally recognized expert on anti-bullying, returns to Washington, D.C., on Aug. 11 for a White House event highlighting efforts to combat bullying.

White House enlists Swearer for anti-bullying event

August 11, 2016

Society & Culture

Cynthia Willis-Esqueda and Stephane Shepherd

Researchers connect to tackle bias in legal tools

August 10, 2016

Society & Culture

Project to aid cities in planning for extreme weather

August 10, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Thompson earns NSF graduate fellowship

August 8, 2016

Science & Technology

The Rural Poll is the largest annual poll of rural Nebraska perceptions on quality of life and policy issues. Organization of the poll is led by UNL's Department of Agricultural Economics and the Rural Futures Institute at NU.

Rural Poll shows Nebraskans' optimism

August 8, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Society & Culture

The summer all-university commencement ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 13 in Pinnacle Bank Arena.

UNL to grant about 800 degrees in Aug. 13 ceremony

August 8, 2016