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Surprised facial expressions

Study indicates mindfulness training promotes positivity

March 29, 2022

Society & Culture

Excerpt of “Gentleness is a Strength” by Sarah Rowe

Great Plains Art Museum opening two exhibitions of Indigenous art

March 29, 2022

Andrew (Andy) Belser has been named the next dean of Fine and Performing Arts. He begins in the new role, pending NU Regents approval, on July 11.

Belser named dean of fine and performing arts

March 28, 2022

Walter Echo-Hawk

Attorney, author and scholar Echo-Hawk to deliver E.N. Thompson Lecture

March 28, 2022

Society & Culture

Felicity Sierra, freshman mechanical engineering major, listens to a career panel in the Kiewit Scholars Program.

Sierra engineers her future through Kiewit Scholars Program

March 24, 2022

Science & Technology

A Lynch resident buys groceries at Valley Foods Cooperative.

A community of cooperation: Lynch opens cooperative grocery store

March 23, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Joseph Yesselman, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, which he will use to develop the first computational model that can reliably predict RNA’s capacity to form tertiary contacts.

Yesselman creating model to study RNA, gamify scientific learning

March 21, 2022

Science & Technology

Aerial shot of farmland

Nebraska ag land values up 16%, according to university-led survey

March 16, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Exterior of Lied Center for Performing Arts

High school students encouraged to apply for Lied’s summer camps

March 16, 2022

.From Hailey Haar's essay "Echoes of a Matriarch": Paul Haar is hit by a wave of grief while sitting in his mother’s lift chair at his Lincoln home on March 4. Her belongings spilled into his garage when he began the process of combining two households' worth of possessions into one. “Some days you’re not going to feel like you’re actually grieving anything,” Haar said. “Other days, it hits you like a tidal wave.”

Haar wins Perry Photojournalism Challenge with ‘Echoes of a Matriarch’

March 15, 2022

Society & Culture

Katarzyna Glowacka, assistant professor of biochemistry, is using a five-year, nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to study how a process called non-photochemical quenching, or NPQ — a plant’s first-line defense against damage to its photosynthetic machinery — plays a role in enabling miscanthus to fend off cold-induced damage.

Glowacka’s research aims to enhance crops’ tolerance to the cold

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Rajib Saha, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and graduate student Niaz Bahar Chowdhury have created a genome-scale metabolic model for the corn root to study its nitrogen-use efficiency under nitrogen stress conditions.

Researchers study corn root growth under nitrogen-poor conditions

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

(From left) Batool Ibrahim, Nasia Olson-Whitefeather, Meena Pannirselvam and Zein Saleh

Youth panel set for March 22 at The Bay

March 10, 2022

The national tour of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” is coming to the Lied Center for Performing Arts for a 16-show engagement, Aug. 2-13, 2023.

National tour of ‘Hamilton’ coming to Lied Center

March 9, 2022

Patricio Grassini

Grassini is partner in project to optimize crop placement in sub-Saharan Africa

March 9, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

A research paper by Trenton Franz, associate professor of hydrogeophysics at Nebraska, and co-authors points to an innovative irrigation approach that could decrease water use while increasing producer profitability.

Husker researchers develop tool to make irrigation more efficient

March 8, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

The traveling exhibition “Real People, Real Climate, Real Changes” will be on view from March 14 through May 13 on the second floor of Love Library North.

Love Library to host traveling climate exhibition

March 8, 2022

s the victim awaits the investigator’s attention, Reed Knutson points out evidence in the murder scene for Sam Thomas to photograph.

New crime scene house offers Huskers an immersive forensic experience

March 7, 2022

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Student prepares taxes for community member as part of Lincoln's Volunteer Tax Assistance Program

Honors students support free tax preparation

March 7, 2022

Society & Culture

Field Trip Across Lincoln and Beyond encourages families to explore art, nature and history by visiting local museums and outdoor spaces.

Museums, centers partner on Field Trip Across Lincoln and Beyond

March 7, 2022