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Crews on scaffolding replace brick around Mueller Tower.

Stone by stone, Mueller Tower reclaims its glory

January 21, 2026

Three banners featuring people hang over the east windows of Sheldon Museum of Art.

Sheldon exhibition explores American identities

January 15, 2026

People surround a table at the Barkley Speech Language and Hearing Clinic.

Book club empowers young adults with intellectual disabilities

January 14, 2026

Society & Culture

A robotic welder at Nebraska Innovation Studio welds a Nebraska N to a cutout in the shape of Nebraska.

Nebraska Innovation Studio names 2026 fellows

January 13, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

“Drive-In Church” by Steve C. LaRance (Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians) — a 2022 oil painting of a young man and young woman standing on either side of a brown car with a prairie and mountains in the background.

Great Plains Art Museum opens three exhibitions to kick off anniversaries

January 12, 2026

A closeup of a screen with social media app icons.

Rural Nebraskans aware of, concerned about impact of online algorithms

January 12, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Musician, sound engineer and University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumnus J. E. Van Horne Jr. sits at a table. He is wearing a black-and-white plaid dress shirt, black tie, brown jacket and glasses.

Musician J. E. Van Horne Jr. creates Husker scholarship for South Dakota students

January 8, 2026

Two young men and two young women in uniform hold their right hands up to recite an oath during the undergraduate commencement ceremony Dec. 20 at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Five ROTC members receive military commissions

December 22, 2025

Heydi Calderon Ambelis Han, seated among fellow graduates, waves to family members in the crowd during the graduate and professional degree ceremony Dec. 19 at Pinnacle Bank Arena. She earned a doctoral degree in biological engineering.

Nebraska granting 1,197 degrees Dec. 19-20

December 19, 2025

Richard Wilson, Charles Bessey Professor of plant pathology, looks through a microscope.

Major NSF grant supports innovative Husker plant pathology project

December 18, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

The "Old Glory" sculpture stands east of Hamilton Hall on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's City Campus.

14 students to graduate from University Honors Program

December 16, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

The "Greenpoint" sculpture is seen north of the Love Library cupola on a fall afternoon, as two squirrels scurry about in the grass.

17 students named Chancellor's Scholars

December 15, 2025

Six young men in suits pose with a poster that reads "Business Battle Winner" in the Howard L. Hawks Hall atrium.

First-year Huskers boost MotoAmerica through inaugural Business Battle

December 12, 2025

Kathleen Ousey, executive director of Linked2Literacy, talks with graduate student Ben Bentzinger about the nonprofit's programs, which provide diverse books at no cost to children and families. Linked2Literacy is based in Lincoln, but works with organizations across Nebraska to increase access to books.

Students give back, gain experience through Volunteer Ambassadors program

December 8, 2025

shley Poust, Curator- Vertebrate Paleontology for the University of Nebraska State Museum, stands behind a cast of the upper jaw of a Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the largest specimens known.

Poust's expertise helps confirm Nanotyrannus was distinct species from T. rex

December 8, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Fifteen rural Nebraska attorneys recently completed the University of Nebraska College of Law’s Children’s Justice Attorney Education Fellowship program. The attorneys include (back row, from left): Mark Moore, Jacob Meyer, Remington Slama, Timothy Matas and Jason Sanford; (second row, from left) Bethany Allen, Kali Pearson, Kaitlyn Oeltjen, Alyssa Slama, Emilee Higgins, Tonia Soukup and Rhonda Flower; (front) James Drake. Not pictured are Kasey Hahn and Andrew Hanquist.

15 rural attorneys complete child welfare, juvenile justice training program

December 8, 2025

Ozan Ciftci, Kenneth E. Morrison Distinguished Professor of food engineering, operates an integrated supercritical carbon dioxide extractor-bioreactor, using green technology to extract lycopene — a high-value health and wellness-promoting bioactive compound — from tomato waste while simultaneously producing biodiesel.

Poll: Rural Nebraskans concerned about biosecurity, hopeful for bioeconomy

December 4, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

Kyle Dougherty and John Benson stand among trees in winter gear.

Roads, development disrupt movement of young mountain lions in California

December 3, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

A close-up of a person's hands editing a video on a laptop.

Applications sought for 2026 Nebraska Young Artist Awards

December 1, 2025

A male horn player plays, with other members of the Cornhusker Marching Band reflected in the bell of his instrument.

Cornhusker Marching Band Highlights Concert is Dec. 2

November 20, 2025