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Homecoming plans announced

September 19, 2016

Society & Culture

Directed by Andrew Benson (pictured), the Nebraska Food for Health Center will bring together strengths in agriculture and medicine from throughout the university system, and will help develop hybrid crops and foods to improve the quality of life of those affected by critical diseases.

Nebraska Food for Health Center to unite strengths in agriculture, medicine

September 16, 2016

Science & Technology

"Primary Color Batiks with Blue Swirl" by James Wetovick of Nance County, age 15

'Celebration of Youth XXIII' to open Sept. 26 at Hillestad Gallery

September 16, 2016

David Wishart

New book series kicks off with 'Great Plains Indians'

September 16, 2016

Society & Culture

Eric Thompson (second from right), associate professor of economics, works with student research assistants in the College of Business Administration’s Bureau of Business Research. The bureau is designed to assist with Nebraska’s economic development efforts.

Indicator shows more signs of slow growth in early 2017

September 16, 2016

University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Firdavskhon Nasimov prepares to place the university’s student experiment into the RockSat-X payload at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Students launch NASA design project

September 15, 2016

Science & Technology

College of Architecture students work on their PARK(ing) Day installation on campus. The exhibits will be on display from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 16.

Architecture students to transform parking stalls

September 15, 2016

Hernan Garcia-Ruiz, assistant professor of plant pathology, has earned a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how plants identify viral RNAs that allow a virus to replicate.

$1.3M NIH grant to aid study of plants’ viral defense

September 14, 2016

Science & Technology

A kiva, or round room, is shown at Pueblo Bonito inside Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico.

Nebraska, NASA team up to chart evidence of indigenous landscapes

September 14, 2016

Science & Technology

Paula Poundstone

Poundstone, Cavett coming to the Lied

September 14, 2016

Thompson Square

Homecoming concert to feature Thompson Square, Adam Sanders

September 13, 2016

CBA leads university’s U.S. News & World Report ranks

September 13, 2016

Matthew Jockers, an English professor at Nebraska who uses computers to study literature, and his colleague enlisted university supercomputer Tusker in their quest to identify the secret to making the New York Times Bestseller List.

What makes a bestselling book? Ask Tusker

September 12, 2016

Society & Culture

Sunday with a Scientist to celebrate Archaeology Month

September 12, 2016

Science & Technology

Judy Wu-Smart, an entomologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-authored new research suggesting that a popular class of nicotine-based insecticides have substantial effects on honey bee colonies.

That stings: Study finds insecticide hurts queen bees' egg-laying abilities

September 9, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research team has earned a grant to create an online tool to help policymakers in making drought-related decisions.

Web tool will help officials make drought-related decisions

September 9, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Chimpanzees interact in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. A recent study by University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers suggests that humans and chimps exhibit nearly identical patterns in how they interact socially and remember things in their environment.

Study: Humans, chimps share cognitive connection

September 8, 2016

Society & Culture

Poll finds rural Nebraskans value their local schools

September 8, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Members of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's freshman class line up in the shape of an "N" during the New Student Tunnel Walk on Aug. 27. For the second year, enrollment at the university has surged to an all-time high.

Record freshman class pushes enrollment to all-time high

September 7, 2016

'Vox Stellarum' continues at Hillestad Gallery

September 6, 2016