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UNL landscape services employees Michael Tomjack (left) and Fred Thorne use a vibrating plow to install new irrigation pipe by the Van Brunt Visitors Center. UNL has started a campuswide upgrade of its irrigation system. When complete, it is projected to decrease campus water usage by at least 20 percent annually.

Irrigation upgrade to cut UNL's water use, expense

March 30, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

An experiment led by UNL's Timothy Gay (right) and Joan Dreiling has signaled the need for a more complete model of electron-molecule scattering.

Physicists get surprising results from electron-molecule collisions

March 30, 2016

Science & Technology

The UNL Faculty Senate will consider a motion concerning guns on campus and a proposed professional ethics statement in a 2:30 p.m. Dec. 1 meeting in the East Union, Arbor Suite.

Lai, Louis earn junior faculty honors

March 30, 2016

'Blue Echoes' artist to speak at quilt museum

March 30, 2016

UNL business and engineering students spent spring break in Uganda. The students planned, designed and built a machine that flattens used drinking straws mechanically, streamlining a process formerly done by hand. Workers at Kinawataka Women Initiatives, the organization receiving the machine, then weave the flattened straws into bags, mats, jewelry and other retail items.

Students return after spring break work in Uganda

March 29, 2016

Children play at the UNL Children's Center. A survey developed by Gallup and the University of Nebraska system’s Buffett Early Childhood Institute, showed that the majority of Nebraskans value and support early care and education for young children.

Survey: Nebraskans support early childhood programs

March 29, 2016

Society & Culture

University administrators and project donors cut the ribbon during the March 28 dedication of UNL's Adele Coryell Hall Learning Commons. The 24-hour learning and study space opened for student use in January.

University celebrates opening of Adele Hall Learning Commons

March 29, 2016

A new study by UNL sociologists Tara Warner and Courtney Thrash shows that rural Nebraska youths are more likely to use alcohol than urban peers.

Study examines rural, urban youths' substance use

March 28, 2016

Society & Culture

Nuclear weapons scholars closely watching North Korea, Iran

March 28, 2016

Society & Culture

CEHS advances in rankings column.

Series seeks diversity input from students, faculty, staff

March 28, 2016

University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds invites members of the university community, external stakeholders and all Nebraskans to share their thoughts on the search for the next chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Seven faculty earn professorships

March 28, 2016

The 2015 December commencement ceremonies begin at Pinnacle Bank Arena. UNL is one of the nation’s best four-year institutions in substantially improving graduation rates for African-American students, a newly released national report shows.

University is national leader in improving black student grad rates

March 25, 2016

'Final Perl' celebration is April 1

March 25, 2016

UNL landscape architecture students explore Fairmount Park in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The park is being rehabilitated and UNL students are among a group of partners assisting the Council Bluffs Parks and Recreation department with the project.

Students gain real-world experience through park project

March 24, 2016

Exhibit, events to mark 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death

March 24, 2016

UNL experts examine roots of Brussels attacks

March 23, 2016

Society & Culture

Students work in a lab at the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis, Nebraska. A new agreement will allow Curtis students who finish a specific two-year track to transfer to UNL and earn a bachelor's degree from the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.

UNL agriculture college, NCTA sign transfer agreement

March 23, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Menzel to perform as part of new Lied Center series

March 23, 2016

UNL will hold a History Harvest seeking items that reflect Czech American Culture in Nebraska on April 9 in Wilber.

History Harvest to tap state's vast Czech American community

March 22, 2016

Society & Culture

UNL engineer Jinsong Huang holds a crystal that can detect significantly smaller doses of X-rays than materials used in leading commercial detectors, as reported in a new study published by the journal Nature Photonics.

New crystal is four times more sensitive to X-rays

March 22, 2016

Science & Technology