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Crandall Blake helps a kindergartener during her student teaching experience at Lincoln's Lakeview Elementary School in December 2023.

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3 cadets receive military commissions

December 14, 2016

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Michelle Graef, research associate professor in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center on Families, Children and the Law, is leading a major research effort to strengthen the nation's child welfare agency workforce and improve children's lives.

$15M project aims to improve child welfare workforce

December 13, 2016

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5 earn Gilman scholarships

December 7, 2016

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A new study from Dawn Braithwaite, Willa Cather Professor of Communication Studies, demonstrates the nuances of relationships among people who maintain relationships with both their legal family and their fictive kin, or chosen family.

Study defines nuance between actual, 'chosen' family

December 5, 2016

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Tyler White, teaches while illuminated by a large satellite image of an Iranian oil refinery. Part of the University Honors Seminar is learning how information is obtained by such imagery.

Nukes or no nukes? Iran simulation teaches high-stakes lessons

November 29, 2016

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Lisa Kort-Butler, a Nebraska sociologist who studies how different factors may affect views of capital punishment, has culled 40 years of state social-attitudes survey data about Nebraska respondents' views of the death penalty.

Amid historic vote, research shows death penalty attitudes shifting

November 21, 2016

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Whitmer Scholarship aims to help early childhood educators

November 17, 2016

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Researchers push software to work more like human eye

November 15, 2016

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Crandall Blake helps a kindergartener during her student teaching experience at Lincoln's Lakeview Elementary School in December 2023.

UNL expands teacher apprenticeships with $896K state grant

August 29, 2025

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McDowell helps Huskers grow community, embrace support

August 29, 2025

Aerial photo of campus with students walking on sidewalks.

University of Nebraska receives record philanthropic support

August 28, 2025

Grant provides critical support for university's materials science research

August 29, 2025

Christian Binek (second from right) is principal investigator of a new National Science Foundation-funded program exploring novel two-dimensional materials. Team members on the project are (from left) Xia Hong, professor of physics and astronomy; Abdelghani Laraoui, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering; Peter Dowben, Charles Bessey Professor of physics and astronomy; and Kirill Belashchenko, professor of physics and astronomy.

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