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Rose Wehrman of Kenesaw is photographed by Sarah Schilling of Omaha. The two graduates borrowed a cap and gown from a friend who graduated last year to take photos of each other on campus April 30. Wehrman earned a Bachelor of Arts with distinction, and Schilling earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with high distinction.

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Jeff Witkowski, greenhouse manager for Agricultural Research Division, holds a couple of his favorite specimens in the East Campus “jungle.” The greenhouse, which is filled with tropical plants, a banana tree and succulents, is used as a teaching classroom. The facility, which is among greenhouses maintained by a team led by Witkowski, has been featured in remote teaching lessons through the end of the spring semester.

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Brandi Sigmon operates a homemade cob scanner in a shed at her rural Gage County home. Sigmon and her husband, Benny Mote, built the scanner to help further a maize study during the university’s facility shutdown. Sigmon, an assistant professor or practice in plant pathology, is being assisted here by her son, Wyatt.

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Kane Wellnitz, a senior agribusiness major at Nebraska, is doing his schoolwork from the driver’s seat of his pickup on a bluff on his family’s ranch.

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Ayana Robbins, a sophomore graphic design major from Omaha, works on her tablet near the Meier Commons greenspace on May 8.

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Middle school students learn about water science during a STEM camp, sponsored by the northeast Nebraska education compact, at Northeast Community College.

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Kelly Coleman stands in her office in Louise Pound Hall, where she works in Services for Students with Disabilities.

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Cattle take a dip in a pond south of Gothenburg, Nebraska

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