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 […]
UNL’s 36 percent return rate ranks second nationwide A study has shown money invested in the Agricultural Research Division is offering an internal rate of return of 36 percent. The UNL study found that for every $1 invested in ARD, the major research arm of the university’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Nebraska’s […]
Rural Nebraskans generally are less positive about their communities this year than in the past, according to the 2009 Nebraska Rural Poll. The 14th annual UNL poll was taken last March and April, a time of great economic uncertainty, poll organizers noted. That uncertainty is reflected in this year’s poll results. For example, the percentage […]
Rural Nebraskans are much more optimistic about their lives than they have been in previous years, according to the Nebraska Rural Poll. But that finding comes with one giant caveat: The poll was taken last spring, before recent economic upheaval that has some drawing comparisons to the Great Depression. “I would think if we did […]
Deb Hamernik and David Jackson have been appointed new associate deans in UNL’s Agricultural Research Division. Hamernik, who will arrive at UNL in March, is national program leader in the animal systems division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service. She also served as USDA’s program director for the […]
The Agricultural Research Division will host a retirement reception for Z B Mayo from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 22 at the East Union. Mayo, associate dean of the Agricultural Research Division, is retiring after 35 years with the Department of Entomology and the Agricultural Research Division. To contribute to a memory book, send letters […]
