The University of Nebraska State Museum and the International Quilt Study Center and Museum are participating in the Blue Star Museums program. Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense and more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free museum admission to […]

A type of stem cell that morphs into fat cells may hold secrets to reducing obesity, a major public health problem. A UNL engineer’s research to understand that process may one day lead to therapies to control obesity. Jung Yul Lim, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has earned a five-year, $430,554 Faculty Early […]

UNL granted promotion and/or tenure to 81 faculty during an April 29 ceremony at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum. Faculty receiving honors are listed below. The 2014 Promotion and Tenure Brochure is available at http://go.unl.edu/pt_2014. A PDF version is available for download at http://www.unl.edu/svcaa/home. Promoted to Full Professor Karen Becker, Music Joy Castro, […]

The African Poetry Book Fund in partnership with Prairie Schooner, the quarterly literary journal at UNL, is offering a new prize through the generosity of poet and literary philanthropist Glenna Luschei. Starting this year, the Glenna Luschei Prize will be awarded to a collection by an African poet published in the previous year, thus making […]

In many rural communities hard hit by decades of population declines, young men increasingly outnumber young women, a new study of Kansas and Nebraska census data shows. In places with 800 or fewer residents, the proportion of young men increased by an average of nearly 40 percent as people went from their teens to their […]

Views from UNL sidewalks and pathways are on the way to being displayed in more detail on Google Maps. On April 30 and May 1, Google contractor Lucas Marshall walked both City and East campuses wearing a specialized Google Trekker backpack. The device, which weighs about 40 pounds, contains 15 cameras that take a series […]

Research collaborations begin with conversations. That was the message at UNL’s 2014 Interdisciplinary Faculty Retreat on May 15-16, which also served as the kickoff event at Nebraska Innovation Campus’ new conference center. Researchers from across campus met their faculty colleagues and learned about research going on at the university. The retreat provided faculty the opportunity […]

UNL sociologist Les Whitbeck has co-authored a new book designed to inform Native tribes and mental health service providers of the historical framework surrounding Native adolescents’ mental health and substance abuse issues. The book, “Indigenous Adolescent Development: Psychological, Social and Historical Contexts,” is based on a longitudinal study that Whitbeck began in 2001. The research […]

An Agricultural Research Division’s “Big Idea Seminars” event will be offered June 9 as the sixth annual Nebraska Gateway to Nutrigenomics Spring Retreat, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the East Union. The event was originally scheduled for April 14. Registration is free, but required and available at http://nutrigenomics.unl.edu. The seminar theme is “Computational Science […]

EDITOR’S NOTE — Chancellor Harvey Perlman issued this message about the proposed $4.65 million budget reductions for fiscal year 2014-2015 in a May 6 email to campus. For more information about the budget reductions, go to http://go.unl.edu/bh62. As you recall we are facing a budget deficit of $4.65 million that has accumulated over the last […]