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Gabi Kirilloff, a UNL PhD alumni and now an assistant professor of Englishat Washingon University in St. Louis, leads a workshop session on digitally examining patterns in literature.

NEH institute puts scholars on Cather's literary path

August 2, 2023

Society & Culture

John Wunder in portrait

Obituary | John Wunder

July 3, 2023

Lilacs frame the Love Library cupola in spring 2023.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for May 12

May 12, 2023

Students place rocks on the Holocasut Memorial. In Jewish cemeteries the tradition is to place rocks on the grave rather than flowers. History of the Holocaust course students visit the Holocaust memorial in Lincoln’s Wyuka Cemetery.

Nebraska team explores ways to expand Holocaust education

May 10, 2023

Society & Culture

Bedross Der Mattossian is photographed in his office, among many volumes written about genocides spanning centuries.

Der Matossian's 'Denial of Genocides' book launch is May 10

May 5, 2023

Bedross Der Mattossian is photographed in his office, among many volumes written about genocides spanning centuries.

Der Matossian explores genocide denialism in the 21st century

April 10, 2023

Society & Culture

Nine University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors have been awarded professorships from the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor.

Nine faculty earn named professorships

April 5, 2023

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History and director of the Center for Great Plains Studies, has been awarded an Outstanding Research and Creativity Award from the University of Nebraska.

Jacobs to deliver Feb. 21 Inquire lecture

February 15, 2023

Photos of Jeannette Jones and Alex Vazansky

Doctors without borders: Ocean not wide enough to keep Jones, Vazansky apart

February 14, 2023

Ice and snow cover campus. January 19, 2023.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for Feb. 10

February 10, 2023

With a four-year, $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Nebraska historians (from left) Katrina Jagodinsky, William Thomas and Jeannette Eileen Jones, with collaborators from the College of Law Genesis Agosto, Jessica Shoemaker, Eric Berger, Danielle Jefferis and (not pictured) Catherine Wilson, will establish an academic program that enables undergraduate and graduate students to study how various marginalized groups in American history used the law to contest and advance their

Team earns $1M grant to bridge connections between history, civil rights

February 1, 2023

Society & Culture

Graduate Marissa Heimes hugs a friend after the undergraduate commencement ceremony Dec. 17 at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Heimes earned a bachelor’s degree in nutritional science and dietetics.

Fischer urges grads to be ambitious, stay humble, say ‘yes’

December 16, 2022