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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.

Team keeps research greenhouses growing through closure

May 7, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

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.

Home-built scanner keeps maize study spinning forward

May 4, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

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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.

Over hill, over dale, Wellnitz finds remote learning connections

April 29, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Timelapse project showcases swan's return to Sandhills

April 24, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln has launched the CASNR Change-Maker Quick Pitch Competition. Two current CASNR students and eight incoming freshmen and transfer students will be awarded full-tuition scholarships for the 2020-21 academic year based on their submitted videos.

CASNR launches Change-Maker scholarship competition

April 23, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska research aims to boost milk as infection fighter

April 22, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Pockets of southwestern Nebraska and the Panhandle saw minor groundwater level declines, but the latest Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report shows a wealth of increases in groundwater supply across the rest of the state from spring 2018 to spring 2019. On average, wells measured in spring 2019 saw a 2.63-foot increase in groundwater levels statewide.

Nebraska groundwater levels rise following wet year

April 21, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska Extension is working to provide resources for rural Nebraskans struggling with mental health issues.

Extension works to provide mental health resources to rural Nebraskans

April 15, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

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

High angle view of the Nebraska Union stairwell during a Red Letter Day.

Nebraska Union food court renovation enters next phase

December 12, 2025

Husker engineer builds valuable experience in Game Dev Club

December 12, 2025

Donation drive connects community to university's 'Little Huskers'

December 12, 2025

Two people sit on the floor and wrap gifts.

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