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The Biggest Grower participant Shauna Radant of Team Kohlrabi shows off her competition garden near Valentine, Nebraska, this summer.

Gardening competition brings Nebraska students together virtually

September 21, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Governor’s Lecture to feature historian, author Doris Kearns Goodwin

September 18, 2020

Essential workers

Nebraska researchers studying COVID-19 impacts on older minority adults

September 16, 2020

Society & Culture

New mineral, ‘priscillagrewite,’ named in honor of renowned Husker geologist

September 16, 2020

Science & Technology

University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers are using collars fitted with GPS and accelerometers to track the movements and behavioral patterns of beef cattle and how they link to efficient beef production systems.

Husker researchers linking cattle behavior to efficient beef production

September 16, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Go Big Grad: A Husker Graduation Celebration will begin streaming at 9 a.m. Aug. 15 at https://commencement.unl.edu.

Online celebration to cap December commencement

September 10, 2020

Eight Husker journalism students receive Pinnacle Awards

September 10, 2020

Society & Culture

University Communications

Greek houses placed on temporary suspension

September 8, 2020

Sarah Brady, a chemistry lab teaching assistant (center, in blue), answers questions during a lesson in Hamilton Hall.

Despite pandemic, enrollment holds steady, grows in key areas

September 8, 2020

Kooser Dawes

Kooser stepping away from ‘American Life in Poetry,’ names Dawes as successor

September 8, 2020

Ron Himes, producing director of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company, directed the play “Dutchman” — featuring Emily Raine Blythe and Eugene H. Russell IV (pictured) — at the Nebraska Repertory Theatre in February 2019. Himes will serve as consultant for the new two-year collaboration between Nebraska Rep and The Black Rep.

Nebraska Rep, Black Rep to collaborate for #realchange

September 8, 2020

Kelsey Eihausen (from left), a sophomore from Bennington, and Molly Sambol, a junior from Omaha, study outside of the Phi Mu sorority on April 27.

Three-week session to kick off spring semester

September 7, 2020

Andy Benson, director of the Nebraska Food for Health Center, discusses the medical benefits of food to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue during a tour of Nebraska Innovation Campus on Sept. 4.

Perdue says innovation, collaboration key to agriculture’s future

September 4, 2020

Nebraska’s Tim Nelson has received a new five-year grant to extend research into obesity. One component of it is to test subjects at the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior by having the test subject in an MRI receiving sips of milkshakes.

Nebraska researchers continue obesity intervention study

September 4, 2020

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Business expectations remain positive in Nebraska

September 4, 2020

Nebraska’s Yufeng Ge has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to lead a team of researchers from three universities in expanding and standardizing plant phenotyping.

Husker-led project to advance, standardize field of phenotyping

September 3, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

The university will launch a new pilot program designed to make recycling processes universal in all campus buildings. It will be tested in eight buildings before being offered university-wide.

Pilot program aims at realigning recycling university-wide

September 3, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Society & Culture

Sonny Perdue

U.S. agriculture secretary to visit campus Sept. 4

September 1, 2020

Survey finds remote learning gaps in U.S. elementary schools

August 31, 2020

Society & Culture

Fifty-six percent of respondents to the 2019 Nebraska Rural Poll believe they are better off than they were five years ago, up from 52% last year.

Rural Poll: Nebraskans remain optimistic despite challenges

August 31, 2020

Agriculture & Environment