Skip to main content

Agriculture & Environment

Nelson, Riley named finalists in research and innovation vice chancellor search

Read more

Announced by Interim Chancellor Katherine S. Ankerson on April 15, finalists are Jennifer Mize Nelson, interim vice chancellor for research and innovation, and research associate professor in the Department of Psychology; and Mark R. Riley, associate dean for research and a professor in the College of Engineering.

Recent News

Aerial photo of redcedar trees on prairie

Researchers: Focus policy to better control red cedar invasion

April 2, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Study: Climate effects on ag yields vary by location, crop

March 22, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Devon Vancura, a senior agricultural engineering major, checks a connection for a testing monitor in the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory. The facility is the designated tractor testing station for the entire United States.

Husker research to advance tractor testing techniques

March 21, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Weatherfest returns to Innovation Campus April 7

March 21, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Nebraska ag land values decline for fourth-straight year

March 15, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Andrea Durkin (left), editor-in-chief of TradeVistas; Darci Vetter (center), diplomat in residence at Nebraska; and Brian Kuehl, executive director of Farmers for Free Trade, discuss how international trade affects rural America during the final Heuermann Lecture of the 2017-18 season March 13 at Nebraska Innovation Campus. (Craig Chandler/University Communication)

Heuermann Lecture highlights impact of trade on daily life

March 14, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

This map from the 2017 Nebraska Statewide Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report shows groundwater-level changes in Nebraska from spring 2016 to spring 2017.

Report: Nebraska continues to see modest groundwater decline

March 14, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

The Freeman's dog-faced bat (Cynomops freeman) was found in Soberania National Park, near the Panama Canal.

'Wicked cool': Bat species named after SNR professor, museum curator

March 13, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Employees from Stephens & Smith Construction pour wheelbarrows of cement around a 3D printed replica of an incomplete Menoceras arikarense fossil – a small, extinct rhinoceros found in Nebraska fossil beds. The replica was printed by Frontier Tech Lab at the Nebraska Innovation Studios and will be part of a new fossil dig in the redesigned Marx Science Discovery Center in Morrill Hall.

Frontier Tech Lab helps bring hands‑on fossil dig to Morrill Hall

April 15, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Color portrait of Scott Hutchins, chief scientist and undersecretary for research, education and economics with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on a color campus background.

USDA chief scientist to deliver Heuermann Lecture on April 28

April 15, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Kierstin Blomberg is photographed on a concrete bench near a lake.

Blomberg earns spot at Science Policy Colloquium in D.C.

April 15, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Nelson, Riley named finalists in research and innovation vice chancellor search

April 15, 2026

Announced by Interim Chancellor Katherine S. Ankerson on April 15, finalists are Jennifer Mize Nelson, interim vice chancellor for research and innovation, and research associate professor in the Department of Psychology; and Mark R. Riley, associate dean for research and a professor in the College of Engineering.