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Doctoral student Molly Franz (left), pictured here with adviser psychology professor David DiLillo and senior research associate Jessica Calvi, has been awarded an National Institutes of Health grant that allows her to use saliva samples to measure how stress affects some mothers’ interactions with their children. Jessica Calvi, a senior research associate with Nebraska’s Salivary Bioscience Lab, will test the samples for the presence of the stress hormone cortisol.

Saliva gives researchers new tools to understand behavior

January 26, 2017

Science & Technology

A musical tops Oscar noms? No surprise, film scholar says

January 24, 2017

Society & Culture

Kristi Montooth, an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences, displays a bottle containing fruit flies that are the subject of her research. She is a co-author of a new scientific paper investigating the evolutionary causes of fruit flies' tolerance for alcohol.

Study refutes how fruit flies developed alcohol tolerance

January 13, 2017

Science & Technology

Kenda Jackson examines blood agar plates in studies that tested the effect of certain antibiotics on detection of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli bacteria in cattle. Jackson recently graduated from Tuskegee University in Alabama. She was an intern in the Nebraska laboratory of Rodney A. Moxley as part of a USDA Coordinated Agricultural Project grant investigating harmful E. coli strains.

E. coli project generates new detection, control methods

January 5, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

500+ national news mentions at Nebraska in '16

January 3, 2017

After bouncing up and down in 2017 and 2018, net farm income should rebound to about $4.3 billion in 2019, a 6 percent increase compared to the 2016 levels, according to the state's long-term economic forecast by the Bureau of Business Research at Nebraska.

Labor market, farm prices to limit state growth through 2019

December 9, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska in the National News: November 2016

December 5, 2016

Tyler White, teaches while illuminated by a large satellite image of an Iranian oil refinery. Part of the University Honors Seminar is learning how information is obtained by such imagery.

Nukes or no nukes? Iran simulation teaches high-stakes lessons

November 29, 2016

Society & Culture

Andre Maciel, assistant professor of marketing in the College of Business Administration, is researching how people change their tastes and preferences.

Maciel taps craft beer to research consumer tastes

November 17, 2016

Woman holding an American flag during a 2016 presidential election rally

Nebraska experts available to comment on 2016 election

November 7, 2016

Society & Culture

Nebraska in the National News: October 2016

November 4, 2016

Slicing and dicing the sociology of slasher movies

October 31, 2016

Society & Culture