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Lawrence’s research proves crucial in safeguarding Nebraska sugar beet sector

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Jeff Witkowski, greenhouse manager for Agricultural Research Division, holds a couple of his favorite specimens in the East Campus “jungle.” The greenhouse, which is filled with tropical plants, a banana tree and succulents, is used as a teaching classroom. The facility, which is among greenhouses maintained by a team led by Witkowski, has been featured in remote teaching lessons through the end of the spring semester.

Team keeps research greenhouses growing through closure

May 7, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Brandi Sigmon operates a homemade cob scanner in a shed at her rural Gage County home. Sigmon and her husband, Benny Mote, built the scanner to help further a maize study during the university’s facility shutdown. Sigmon, an assistant professor or practice in plant pathology, is being assisted here by her son, Wyatt.

Home-built scanner keeps maize study spinning forward

May 4, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Kane Wellnitz, a senior agribusiness major at Nebraska, is doing his schoolwork from the driver’s seat of his pickup on a bluff on his family’s ranch.

Over hill, over dale, Wellnitz finds remote learning connections

April 29, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Timelapse project showcases swan's return to Sandhills

April 24, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln has launched the CASNR Change-Maker Quick Pitch Competition. Two current CASNR students and eight incoming freshmen and transfer students will be awarded full-tuition scholarships for the 2020-21 academic year based on their submitted videos.

CASNR launches Change-Maker scholarship competition

April 23, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska research aims to boost milk as infection fighter

April 22, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Pockets of southwestern Nebraska and the Panhandle saw minor groundwater level declines, but the latest Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report shows a wealth of increases in groundwater supply across the rest of the state from spring 2018 to spring 2019. On average, wells measured in spring 2019 saw a 2.63-foot increase in groundwater levels statewide.

Nebraska groundwater levels rise following wet year

April 21, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska Extension is working to provide resources for rural Nebraskans struggling with mental health issues.

Extension works to provide mental health resources to rural Nebraskans

April 15, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Archives provide inspiration for new student-composed concert music

April 17, 2026

MJ Jabbar in front of a sculpture at the main entrance of Saitama University in Saitama, Japan.

Jabbar embarks on semester abroad in Japan in new program

April 17, 2026

Society & Culture

Lillian Bittle, a freshman Journalism major, studies art history while relaxing under the “Birth of Venus” sculpture on a warm February day.

Achievements | Honors, appointments and publications for April 17

April 17, 2026

Science & Technology

Lu's Nebraska story is one of research, resilience and a return to art

April 17, 2026

A man stands with his arms crossed in front of paintings.

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