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Youth from more than 200 locations across Nebraska and four other states participated in the first Living Room Learning livestream March 17. The Nebraska 4-H series will stream each Tuesday and Thursday at 2 p.m. Central Time for as long as schools remain closed to slow the spread of COVID-19.

4-H educators reach youth with two new live video programs

March 24, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Children learning

Combatting cabin fever: Extension builds out educational content

March 23, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Center for Transformative Teaching focused on aiding instructors

March 23, 2020

59 students chosen as Nebraska Young Artist Award winners

March 20, 2020

Campus

10 Huskers honored with Student Luminary Awards

March 17, 2020

Jenny Dauer, assistant professor in science literacy in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s School of Natural Resources, has earned a National Science Foundation grant to study how human factors such as emotion, motivation and metacognition come into play in science classrooms.

Project will explore how emotions factor into science literacy

March 17, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Jesse Korus, Matt Joeckel and Shane Tucker have worked to document and describe, via drone footage and computer modeling, the Haystack Mountain conglomerate in the Wildcat Ridge in Western Nebraska.

Ancient flooding formed, left behind boulders in Wildcat Ridge

March 12, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Nebraska ag land values increase for first time since 2014

March 11, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

The 2020 Mary Mitchell Design Award-winning garments are included in “A Night on the Runway: Looks from the UNL Student Showcase,” on view through April 3 at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery. The winning looks are (from left) “Canamortis” by Son Nguyen (first), “Space Stewardess” by Audrey Foster (second) and “Warrior” by Heather Striebel (third).

Hillestad exhibition features student-designed garments

March 11, 2020

Kirsten Furlong

Furlong is Great Plains Art Museum’s 2020 artist in residence

March 11, 2020

Michael Gerhardt

Impeachment scholar Gerhardt to deliver College of Law lecture

March 10, 2020

Great expectations? Falling short of status no laughing matter for hyenas

March 9, 2020

Science & Technology

Melissa Villaseñor

Comedian Melissa Villaseñor to perform March 18

March 9, 2020

Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld to perform at Lied Center on May 8

March 6, 2020

Priscilla Grew

Grew looks back on impactful, intercontinental career

March 6, 2020

Science & Technology

Consumer, business confidence solid before COVID-19 concerns

March 6, 2020

Ken Dewey

March Olson Lecture to feature tales of extreme weather

March 6, 2020

Nebraska’s Harkamal Walia and colleagues have described a novel form of a gene obtained from wild wheat that has the potential to improve drought tolerance in cultivated wheat.

Nebraska team links wild wheat gene to drought tolerance in cultivated wheat

March 5, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

University of Nebraska–Lincoln students have saved an estimated $1.6 million in textbook costs using inclusive access and open education resource programs.

University marks Open Education Week with $1.6 million in savings for students

March 5, 2020

Nebraska to celebrate writing, leadership of Dawes

March 4, 2020

Society & Culture