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Nine faculty earn named professorships

March 31, 2025

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln undergraduates (from left) Avery Marquis, Vanessa Hubing and Chanasei Ziemann pose in lab coats for a photo in Luwen Zhang’s campus lab. The students are first co-authors on two research papers published recently in the Journal of Medicine Virology. Their work explores how key immune systems have adapted over time.

Nebraska undergrads uncover ancient secrets of human immunity

March 26, 2025

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Brandi Pessman (left), postdoctoral research associate in the School of Biological Sciences, and Eileen Hebets, George Holmes Professor of biological sciences.

Novel spider research featured in New York Times

March 25, 2025

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Brandi Pessman (left), postdoctoral research associate in the School of Biological Sciences, and Eileen Hebets, George Holmes Professor of biological sciences.

Spider Sense: Study tracks how web-building arachnids adapt to noise

March 17, 2025

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Alan Christensen (center-left) and Rebecca Varney (center-right) operate a new GelDoc Go machine with students to view the results of an experiment. The machine was purchased through a gift from Dr. Dane Todd, UNL alumnus and former Husker football player.

Alumnus' donation powers genetics lab update

March 12, 2025

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Lexi Thomas, undergraduate support specialist in the School of Biological Sciences, stands among cornstalks. She is among the female office/service staff who are being featured in March in a Q&A series organized by the Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women.

Thomas brings passion for learning, service to Biological Sciences

March 10, 2025

Nicole Fiore (front), lecturer and former graduate student in biological sciences, and Karrie Weber, professor of biological sciences and Earth and atmospheric sciences, look at a culture of microorganisms in a laboratory.

Husker team’s discovery could be key to sustainable bioenergy

February 13, 2025

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Dr. Nicole Buan sits on the left side of the frame in a red sweater, in front of a lab.

Buan's research pursues future fuel sources

January 13, 2025

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Nebraska’s Naim Bautista and Jay Storz are part of an international research team that studied how localized genetic adaptations can help a single species thrive across diverse environments.

Nebraska-led study of mountaineering mice sheds light on evolutionary adaptation

November 7, 2024

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Cressler to give third CAS Inquire talk on Nov. 12

November 6, 2024

Several stories above the ground, Josh Caster, Archives Manager for University Libraries, retrieves a book stored in the Library Depository Retrieval Facility on East Campus.

Archives and Special Collections preserves Nebraska's stories

October 31, 2024

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Qingsheng Li, Willa Cather Professor of biological sciences and a member of the Nebraska Center for Virology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, appears in his lab.

Li advances work on HIV vaccine

October 29, 2024

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