Management professor Fred Luthans has been awarded a 2011 Emerald Management Citations of Excellence Award. Luthans’ article, with former UNL Ph.D. student Carolyn Youssef, “Emerging positive organizational behavior” (Journal of Management, 2007) was one of the top 50 articles with the most citations and impact among all business journals since its publication date. Luthans, who […]

The University of Nebraska State Museum and the Nebraska Department of Roads are celebrating 50 years of life in the past lane. A special exhibit opens Sept. 29 at Morrill Hall showcasing fossil finds salvaged over the last five decades through Nebraska’s Highway Paleontology Program, a collaborative effort between the two state agencies. “Highway Paleontology: […]

With $3.8 million in new funding from the Mintaka Foundation of Medical Research supported by the Wellcome Trust, UNL’s Biological Process Development Facility is developing a process to manufacture a stable and affordable microbicide to protect women from contracting and spreading HIV. The contract is one of the largest and the latest to the university’s […]

Some UNL faculty will be eligible to take early retirement under a pilot project described Sept. 10 to the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. The Voluntary Separation Incentive Program will offer one-year salary buyouts to tenured faculty members who are age 62 or older and have 10 or more years of service. The proposal […]

After an extensive restoration, the Whittier Research Center has opened its doors and invites the public to an open house and dedication from 5-7 p.m., Sept. 28. The former Whittier Junior High School at 19th and Vine streets is now home to several UNL research teams as well as the University Children’s Center. UNL Chancellor […]

UNL’s fall 2010 estimated enrollment reached a 15-year high of 24,610, including an increase of 113 first-time freshmen over fall 2009. The census estimates were reported Sept. 3 to the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. The figures show 19,383 undergraduates (an increase of 2.3 percent); 4,620 graduate students (an increase of 0.6 percent) and […]

Helping students decide what to study and where they will devote their time and talents is a challenging job in its own right, but doing that for the College of Arts and Sciences’ most popular major and doing it well and it just might attract attention. In just over two years as the psychology department’s […]

When it rained, it poured — and hailed and blew. Then Agricultural Research and Development Center Director Mark Schroeder and his staff spent all night and the next day surveying the damage. On Sept. 13 a storm hit the research center near Mead about 5 p.m.: wind, then rain, then hail. Schroeder said the center […]

The network maps tell the story of social marginalization in some academic departments. Red, black and blue dots are connected by stark straight lines. Some dots have more lines than others. And mostly, those are the dots representing white males. White females and minority males tend to have fewer connecting lines. The maps support interview […]

The University of Nebraska State Museum’s historic collection of plant specimens reached a milestone recently. On July 15, staff of the Bessey Herbarium entered data about the 100,000th plant specimen into its computerized database system. The specimen is Ribes odoratum, commonly known as a clove currant or buffalo currant. It was collected May 27, 1990, […]