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A new study from Dawn Braithwaite, Willa Cather Professor of Communication Studies, demonstrates the nuances of relationships among people who maintain relationships with both their legal family and their fictive kin, or chosen family.

Study defines nuance between actual, 'chosen' family

December 5, 2016

Society & Culture

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

Lisa Kort-Butler, a Nebraska sociologist who studies how different factors may affect views of capital punishment, has culled 40 years of state social-attitudes survey data about Nebraska respondents' views of the death penalty.

Amid historic vote, research shows death penalty attitudes shifting

November 21, 2016

Society & Culture

Whitmer Scholarship aims to help early childhood educators

November 17, 2016

Society & Culture

Researchers push software to work more like human eye

November 15, 2016

Society & Culture

Science & Technology

Slam poet Neil Hilborn to hold workshop, perform

November 11, 2016

Society & Culture

Visiting scholar John Cooper talks to Nebraska students on Nov. 7. The Tudor historian is visiting campus from the United Kingdom's University of York.

British historian visits Nebraska

November 8, 2016

Society & Culture

Woman holding an American flag during a 2016 presidential election rally

Nebraska experts available to comment on 2016 election

November 7, 2016

Society & Culture

Two young men and two young women in uniform hold their right hands up to recite an oath during the undergraduate commencement ceremony Dec. 20 at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Five ROTC members receive military commissions

December 22, 2025

Collaboration continues to strengthen relationships for transfer students

December 22, 2025

Leah Cemper, standing among fellow graduates, gives a thumbs-up to people in the crowd during the undergraduate commencement ceremony Dec. 20 at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Graduates found community, opportunity at Nebraska U

December 20, 2025

University celebrates 1,175 graduates in December commencement

December 22, 2025

Gautham Takoo, a research technologist in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, snaps a photo of Sunhyoung Lee and her adviser, James Boviard, professor of educational psychology. Lee graduated with her doctorate in educational psychology.

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