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Nebraska in the national news: June 2024

July 2, 2024

Trenton Franz with a neutron monitor. The sensors are housed in the box surrounded by lead bricks which is surrounded by plastic. The monitor sits in an unused lunchroom inside an old munitions building at the Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center (ENREEC) near Mead, Nebraska. Franz, associate professor Assoc Professor in the School of Natural Resources, is using neutron and cosmic ray detectors to see how solar radiation and solar energy such as those that caused Nebraksa t

Husker projects advance study of soil moisture, hydrology

July 2, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Dan Nova will serve as technical advisor for Ocean Discovery League's next-generation deep ocean sensor system as part of a $1.2 million NOAA grant project. Courtesy photo.

Novy aids development of next-generation ocean sensor system

July 2, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Christine Wittich, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering, explains why the pointed top of the building designed by Moe McCall, center, and Bella Thomas did better than the building without a top.

Leadership Academy brings STEM concepts to life

June 28, 2024

Science & Technology

Feedlot Innovation Center at the Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center (ENREEC) near Mead, Nebraska.

Nebraska celebrates new feedlot research, teaching, extension center

June 28, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Students walk on the second floor of Kiewit Hall.

Only in Nebraska features Kiewit Hall

June 27, 2024

Science & Technology

Concentration shows on Nick Restau’s face as he tries to pilot a small UAV through an obstacle course at Nebraska Innovation Studio. Restau, from Milford Public Schools, is one of several teachers training to get their drone license in a class taught by Travis Ray from NIS.

Nebraska Innovation Studio pilots drone course with educators

June 24, 2024

Science & Technology

A lot has changed in the 150 years since the Nebraska Alumni Association’s founding, but the one constant that remains is the passion that our alumni have for Dear Old Nebraska U.

Nebraska Alumni Association celebrates 150 years

June 24, 2024

Eight students sit in a study area in Kiewit Hall.

6,600-plus Huskers named to spring Deans' List

June 21, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Grace Panther stands in the atrium of Kiewit Hall.

Panther earns CAREER Award to improve engineering education

June 20, 2024

Science & Technology

Zoe Williams, a Howard University student, works with Katrina Jagodinsky, associate professor of history, to help decipher writing on an old legal document.

Undergrads expand stories behind historic slavery lawsuits

June 18, 2024

Society & Culture

Sun shines over Howard L. Hawks Hall

38 first-year students join Nebraska Business Honors Academy

June 18, 2024

Courtesy photo

Mason carves out community through campus involvements

June 18, 2024

Members of an excavation team work in Assam State in northeastern India.

Belcher earns Fulbright to train new forensic anthropologists

June 17, 2024

Society & Culture

For the first week of the trip, students stayed at Kobe University, where they learned about research in the agricultural sciences.

Three Huskers focused on summer research in Japan

June 14, 2024

Science & Technology

Timothy Thielen, arms full of plants, talks with a youth.

Website creates online market for Indigenous entrepreneurs

June 12, 2024

Society & Culture

Physicist Martin Centurion poses in a lab.

Husker physicist part of team that captures groundbreaking ‘molecular movie’

June 11, 2024

Science & Technology

Pierce Ekstrom, an assistant professor of political science, has studied since 2013 how politicians lie and deny when they are caught up in political scandal.

Study shows politicians deny misdeeds because we want to believe them

June 11, 2024

Society & Culture

Stephen Wegulo and Katherine Frels stand in a wheat field.

Nebraska-developed wheat variety to address new fungal threat

June 11, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Photo by Kristen Labadie // Cece Villa, Husker soccer goalkeeper, smiles for a photo through the net of the goal.

Villa serves as a role model on and off the field

June 11, 2024

Society & Culture