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Thatcher and Shannon Davis

Arts and Sciences receives $1M gift to expand student success

June 7, 2022

Society & Culture

Food scientist Robert Hutkins stands in his lab.

Team makes first large-scale estimate of Americans' consumption of live microbes

June 6, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Swan supercomputer in the Holland Computing Center.

Swan to expand, accelerate computing resources for NU researchers, students

June 3, 2022

A crowd of people walks by vendor tents during an East Campus Discovery Days farmers market in Lincoln in summer 2021.

East Campus Discovery Days back with more vendors, ‘Backyard Farmer’ party

June 3, 2022

Georgina Bingham holds a ZeroFly bag in a dark room with photos in the background

Bingham’s global work promotes food security, health protections

June 2, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Paul and Mary Ann Koehler pose near a staircase in Howard L. Hawks Hall.

Nebraska Business receives $1M endowment for building enhancements

June 2, 2022

Rachel Hruza

Lincoln teacher wins 2022 Freda Battey Distinguished Educator Award

May 31, 2022

Wolf spider

Mixed signals: Male wolf spiders get luckier following complex courtships

May 27, 2022

Science & Technology

A crowd of people walks by vendor tents during an East Campus Discovery Days farmers market in Lincoln in summer 2021.

Kearney, Seward farmers markets become SNAP certified

May 27, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Aisle of an airplane from behind, with passengers reading

Nebraska’s leading economic indicator continues to rise

May 25, 2022

The Clifton Strengths Institute at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln recently recognized five students for their achievements. Those students are (from left) Tori Pedersen, Jordan Seitz, Erika Casarin, Sidney Therkelsen and Adam Folsom.

Five students receive Clifton Strengths Institute awards

May 25, 2022

Protestors walk past the south entrance of the Nebraska Union during a march to the Nebraska State Capitol on June 13, 2020. A new course offered in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications is exploring what it's like being Black and living in Lincoln.

‘Being Black in Lincoln’ receives Kennedy journalism award

May 24, 2022

Society & Culture

Helen Fagan, Rural Fellows coordinator, meets with student fellows Brianna Gable, Benjamin Niyodusenga and Lillian Uwanjye; Susan Norris, director of Pierce County Economic Development; and Wanda Backus, owner of J’s Place.

26 students begin Rural Fellows experiences

May 24, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska’s Caleb Fangmeier, a farm kid from Hebron, stayed up until 2 a.m. as an undergraduate to hear the announcement about the discovery of the Higgs boson. He now holds a doctorate in physics and works as a detector lab manager in Jorgensen Hall. His group is building nearly 2,500 particle detectors that will be used when the Large Hadron Collider restarts sometime between 2024 and 2026.

Husker's career shaped by the Large Hadron Collider

May 23, 2022

Science & Technology

Husker researchers Arthur "Trey" Andrews, Tierney Lorenz and Sara Reyes pose in a patient room.

Nebraska team studying how social ties may boost health outcomes of Latinos facing discrimination

May 23, 2022

Science & Technology

Group of young men walking down street with colorful umbrellas hanging overhead

Record 35 Huskers earn Gilman Scholarship for global experiences

May 19, 2022

Eddie Dominguez, professor of art, works with UCARE student Kinga Aletto in August 2020. Aletto created a life-size clay model of the Javan blue-banded kingfisher.

175 Husker undergrads receive stipends for summer research projects

May 19, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Male ballet dancer supporting female ballet dancer in white dress

Lied’s 2022-23 season features mix of music, theater, dance, illusion

May 18, 2022

Portrait of Alaina E. Roberts in front of UNL City Campus background

Roberts wins 2022 Stubbendieck book prize

May 18, 2022

Society & Culture

Lt. Isabel Welch recites the Oath of Office as directed by Air Force Major Nicole Beebe on May 16. The university’s Air Force ROTC detachment held a commissioning for May graduates at the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum in Ashland. Welch will begin her service as a logistics readiness officer at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha. In the background is a C-47 from World War II.

29 ROTC members receive military commissions

May 17, 2022