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Vehicles line North Lincoln Avenue in downtown York, Nebraska, on a sunny summer day.

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UNL researchers have identified a target of disease-causing plant pathogens. From left, Panya Kim, Ming Guo, Christian Elowsky, Guangdong Li and Jim Alfano.

Researchers ID target of disease-causing plant pathogens

January 27, 2016

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Conservation book explores history, current state of Nebraska fishes

January 21, 2016

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Students and families participate in a Sunday with a Scientist event at the University of Nebraska State Museum. UNL's Science Literacy Initiative served as a guest presenter to help educate young people on topics relating to science, technology, engineering and math.

FCSAmerica gives $100K for science, ag literacy

January 19, 2016

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(From left) Darci Vetter, chief agricultural negotiator for the Office of the United States Trade Representative; moderator Ronnie Green, Harlan Vice Chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at UNL; and Clayton Yeutter, former U.S. trade representative and U.S. secretary of agriculture, converse during a Heuermann Lecture Jan. 12 at Nebraska Innovation Campus.

Experts discuss international trade during Heuermann Lecture

January 13, 2016

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Tool uses climate forecasts, crop models to supply data to farmers

January 8, 2016

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Cover illustration features Fuchs' research

January 8, 2016

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A custom combine crew harvests a wheat field west of Grant, Neb. UNL's School of Natural Resources is the home to a new Nebraska State Climate Office that will serve as the primary source of climate information for the Cornhusker State.

IANR establishes Nebraska State Climate Office

January 6, 2016

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Sherilyn Fritz, pictured here at Aconcagua in South America, will will co-direct an international organization that helps study Earth’s past to inform the management of its future.

Fritz named co-chair of climate change body

January 4, 2016

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The quilt block made in memoriam for Jennifer Dorsey Howley, a Nebraskan who worked in World Trade Center Tower Two and died on September 11, 2001. The block is on panel 50 of 143 total panels in the United in Memory quilt collection, acquired by the International Quilt Museum in 2015.

Thousands stitched grief into 9/11 memorial now housed at quilt museum

September 11, 2026

Society & Culture

Sixty Husker students — many wearing red shirts — pose for a group photo in the Kauffman Academic Residential Center greenspace on a sunny day.

Raikes School welcomes record cohort of 60 students

September 11, 2026

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Jayda Turner, a child, youth and family studies major from Bellevue, shows off her baton skills outside Memorial Stadium. A feature twirler for the Cornhusker Marching Band, Turner returned to Nebraska after twirling for another Big Ten university during her first year of college.

World champion twirler makes Husker debut

September 11, 2026

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More than 400 climb Memorial Stadium steps to remember 9/11

September 11, 2026

University of Nebraska-Lincoln students descend down the west stadium stairs. 9/11 stair climb in Memorial Stadium to commemorate Sept. 11, 2001.

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