Skip to main content

natural resources

Students work on a biology lab assignment in UNL's Brace Hall. UNL faculty Tomas Helikar and Joseph Dauer have received funding from the National Science Foundation to reshape life sciences teaching to meet modern day needs.

$2.3M NSF grant to transform life sciences teaching

October 6, 2014

Climate change report release kicks off Heuermann Lectures season

August 29, 2014

Danielle Haak is one of three UNL students named University of Nebraska Presidential Graduate Fellows for the 2014-2015 academic year. Other UNL winners are Jonathon Sikorski and Trisha Spanbauer.

Three named NU Presidential Graduate Fellows

August 18, 2014

Grant to help fund ranch management study

August 11, 2014

Cory Forbes is leading a project that uses model-centric science learning environments in elementary school classrooms to support – and ideally enhance – student learning on the topic of water systems. (Mekita Rivas | Natural Resources)

Forbes explores the science of learning about science

July 1, 2014

UNL's Steve Comfort worked with current students and an alumnus to craft a new candle that may help remove contamination from groundwater near Grand Island.

UNL partners with private firm to clean contaminated water

June 27, 2014

Shane Tucker, NU State Museum highway paleontologist, with the burrow image reconstructed as it would be exposed in the wall of the Happy Jack Chalk Mine.

Ancient rodent burrows illuminate evolutionary roadmap of Great Plains

June 4, 2014

Franz engages students with new cosmic-ray sensor

May 29, 2014

The third edition of the "Groundwater Atlas of Nebraska" has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 John C. Frye Memorial Award.

'Groundwater Atlas' named best environmental geology publication

May 6, 2014

Ayse Kilic, associate professor, is part of a national initiative that will use Google resources to gauge water use by vegetation.

Kilic partners with Google on climate initiative

April 18, 2014

Professor of plant and ecosystem ecology Dave Wedin (left) and David Murphy, senior research architect at the Nebraska State Historical Society, with the sod wall. (Mekita Rivas | Natural Resources)

Century-old sod wall unites researchers across disciplines

April 2, 2014

Weatherfest and Severe Weather Symposium is April 5

April 2, 2014