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Aemal Khattak, director of the Mid-America Transportation Center, poses amid orange traffic barrels and cones.

Mid-America Transportation Center receives $15 million grant

September 7, 2023

Science & Technology

Brooklynn Hunke, a freshman from Gretna, Nebraska, talks with Misora Okuoka, a sophomore from Japan. The university’s latest census shows a 3.6% increase in first-time freshmen from Nebraska.

Student body grows in total Nebraskans, first-time Huskers, diversity

September 6, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Bronze woolly mammoth statue with front entrance of Morrill Hall in background

Morrill Hall to close for three months for renovations

September 6, 2023

Color portraits of Parag Khanna, Lynsey Addario and Leilani Farha on a color campus background

Thompson Forum, with theme ‘Uprooted,’ opens Sept. 18

September 6, 2023

A metal sign reads "Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts."

41 students selected for new Carson Center cohort

August 30, 2023

Cody Lawson works on his computer at 1to1 Technologies in Central City, Nebraska. He credits mentorship from Doris Lux, an eCoach with Rural Prosperity Nebraska’s eCommunities entrepreneurship program, as a key contributor to his startup’s growth.

eCommunities program helps Central City entrepreneur thrive

August 30, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Exterior shot of McCollum Hall, College of Law Building,

New law clinic at Nebraska will defend First Amendment rights

August 29, 2023

A grain truck crosses the dry Platte River near Chapman, Nebraska, on Oct. 13. At the time, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported that the area around Chapman was in severe/extreme drought.

Rural Prosperity Nebraska, Oklahoma State team up to study rural resilience

August 29, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Matt Price, senior in political science, spent his summer working with Volunteer Income Tax Assistance to develop a curriculum to help train high school students to do tax returns.

Husker's summer internship aims to bring tax education to Nebraska schools

August 28, 2023

Abdallah Abdallah, an incoming UNL freshman from Lincoln, documents a spider’s activity while working in Eileen Hebets lab.

STEM-POWER program breaks barriers for underrepresented students

August 23, 2023

Science & Technology

Help wanted sign in window

Economic growth to continue in Nebraska through early 2024, indicator suggests

August 23, 2023

Kimberly Tyler

App could deliver 'just in time' messaging to help youth experiencing homelessness 

August 22, 2023

Society & Culture

Four Husker students — two young men and two young women — present an urban forestry plan for Hickman, Nebraska. From left are Jake Fleischer, Susana Moyer, Sunny Mellick and Josiah Nolting.

Urban forestry project helps Hickman, boosts students’ tree awareness

August 17, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Husker scientists Hiep Vu and Sarah Sillman stand in a shadowy room, with a microscope in the foreground.

Husker scientists’ research project aims to crack code of major swine virus

August 16, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Joshua M. Preister (left) was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army on Aug. 12.

Joshua Preister of Omaha receives Army commission

August 14, 2023

A young woman in graduation regalia excitedly displays her newly earned degree.

583 Huskers receive degrees in August ceremony

August 12, 2023

Nick Angelos stands in his classroom at Liberty Elementary School in Omaha.

Partnership helps master's graduate move into new teaching career

August 11, 2023

Society & Culture

A red Husker N adorns a graduate's mortar board as the graduates watch the December 2022 commencement ceremony at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Nebraska to grant 588 degrees in August ceremony

August 10, 2023

Vann Price, associate superintendent for human resources at Lincoln Public Schools, speaks to the first cohort of the Para Pathway to Teaching pilot program Aug. 10 at the Barkley Center on East Campus.

UNL, LPS partner to build special education teacher pipeline

August 10, 2023

Society & Culture

Surface lot permit parking

Parking and Transit offering event reserve parking through ParkMobile

August 10, 2023