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Visitors interact with real museum specimens during a previous Dinosaurs and Disasters event. The 2019 event is 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 2 at Morrill Hall.

Morrill Hall to host Dinosaurs and Disasters Feb. 2

February 1, 2019

Science & Technology

Morrill Hall expansion to help visitors ‘Cherish Nebraska’

January 25, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

The Nebraska Lectures will expand to a year-long series in celebration of the university's 150th anniversary in 2019. The first lecture, on Jan. 23, will examine the history of the Nebraska Unicameral. Pictured is the charter that officially created the university on Feb. 15, 1869.

Charter Week at Nebraska to feature music, lectures, illumination

January 22, 2019

Nebraska's Brett Ratcliffe examines a beetle during a 1998 research trip to Ecuador. Ratcliffe has identified more than 200 new species of insects in his 50-year career at Nebraska.

Ratcliffe's scarab passion leads to discovery of 8 new species

November 1, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska's iconic Archie the mammoth sculpture has been in place welcoming NU State Museum visitors for 20 years. Designed by Nebraska artist Fred Hoppe, the sculpture is based on the museum's record-setting fossil mount of a Columbian mammoth.

Archie strides into 20th year

October 24, 2018

Shudipto Dishari (center), assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, will present "The Magic of Chemistry" Oct. 21 at Morrill Hall.

Sunday with a Scientist to feature chemistry, lasers, junior-scientist projects

October 10, 2018

Science & Technology

Mary Kathryn Nagle

Hubbard Lecture to focus on safety of Native women, tribal sovereignty

September 26, 2018

Society & Culture

The University of Nebraska State Museum at Morrill Hall will offer free admission Sept. 22 to visitors presenting a Museum Day Live! ticket.

Morrill Hall to offer free admission Sept. 22

September 14, 2018

Science & Technology

Sharks once roamed Nebraska's ancient seas

July 22, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Jeffrey Stevens (pictured) and Elise Thayer of the university's Adaptive Decision Making Lab will speak July 22 during Sunday with a Scientist at Morrill Hall.

Sunday with a Scientist to focus on animal behavior, archaeology

July 11, 2018

Science & Technology

The University of Nebraska State Museum at Morrill Hall will offer a free Pop In Storytime from 4 to 4:30 p.m. July 5. The museum will offer free admission from 4:30 to 8 p.m. July 5, 12, 19 and 26.

Morrill Hall to offer free admission Thursday nights in July

June 28, 2018

Science & Technology

An image from the B612 Sentinel program.

Asteroid Day event will feature talk, fulldome show

June 26, 2018

Science & Technology