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Color photo of Brian Beach on a red campus background

Beach places 18th in Hearst explanatory writing competition

February 7, 2024

Society & Culture

Three young women hold up a framed award next to a man, in front of a screen that says "Invent2Prevent."

Husker team takes third in national Invent2Prevent competition

February 7, 2024

Society & Culture

Nebraska's Kwame Dawes reads poetry in Sheldon Museum of Art. Dawes published a book, "Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius," that breaks down the multi-layered verse of the Reggae icon.

Dawes' deep dive into Marley lyrics spurred by lifelong love, Jamaican connections

February 6, 2024

A boutique and coffee shop with tables for customers.

Rural Prosperity Nebraska helps Ord business expand

February 6, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Luke Farritor superimposed with Greek text from a scroll that his machine-learning model has helped decipher

Farritor named co-winner of $700,000 prize for ID’ing scroll passages

February 5, 2024

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Three men work in a rice field in Africa.

Study points to Africa’s opportunities to boost rice production

February 5, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

The Bureau of Sociological Research is in Oldfather Hall.

BOSR offering data snapshots of Nebraskan perspectives

February 1, 2024

Society & Culture

Nebraska experts weigh highway safety and electric vehicles

January 31, 2024

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Exterior shot of Nebraska State Penitentiary

Department of Justice grant will support new Innocence Clinic

January 31, 2024

The Nebraska-built surgical robot is among a number of scientific experiments being delivered to the International Space Station after the successful liftoff of NASA’s NG-20 cargo mission on Jan. 30. The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, shown here at liftoff atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is expected to arrive at the station on Feb. 1. The surgical robot will be tested in the coming weeks.

Surgical robot developed at Nebraska launches into space

January 30, 2024

Science & Technology

Sean Crimmins, Erika Smith and Rachael Wagner adjust the robotic arm on a stand in a chamber for electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic interference testing.

Nebraska students engineer robot's space adventure

January 30, 2024

Science & Technology

Aerial shot of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's City Campus, covered in snow

6,800-plus Huskers named to fall Deans' List

January 30, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Rajib Saha (left) and Niaz Bahar Chowdhury

Husker researchers using metabolic model to study temperature stress on corn

January 30, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

James Schnable, Rebecca Roston and Toshihiro Obata hold young sorghum plants outside of the Bioscience Greenhouses on City Campus.

Husker researchers aim to help crops survive cold snaps

January 26, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Passengers on an airplane

Nebraska’s leading economic indicator rises 1% in December

January 24, 2024

Color drawing of Attwater's prairie chicken by Sarah Kaizar

Great Plains Art Museum exhibition to feature endangered flighted species

January 23, 2024

Photo showing Kiewit Hall's central staircase rising nearly 100 feet from the basement to the sixth floor. Five stories of the staircase hang from the roof rather than being supported in a more traditional manner on the ground.

Kiewit Hall opens, optimized to prepare generations of engineers

January 22, 2024

Science & Technology

Robots made from Lego bricks sit on a FIRST LEGO League game board.

Lego League helps robotics, programming click for Nebraska youth

January 19, 2024

MLK Statue with Crossed Arms

MLK Week to feature keynote by civil rights leader, broadcast pioneer

January 18, 2024

Nate Thorson, research manager for NFarms, stands next to a monitor.

NFarms research will bring precision ag innovations to producers

January 17, 2024

Agriculture & Environment